The Isle Tide Hotel
Wales Interactive · 2023 · FMV, Exploration, Lore-Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction
PC
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About The Isle Tide Hotel
Explore a mysterious hotel and infiltrate a cult in this FMV detective game, featuring an award-winning cast from Game of Thrones, The Witcher, and more. Every decision counts as you gather clues and question guests. Can you unearth the ominous secrets at The Isle Tide Hotel before it's too late to save your missing daughter?
Open every three years for three nights, a strange mix of colourful characters hiding personal traumas gather to uncover the one thread binding them. Their search for the meaning of life. But tonight, this mysterious organisation must decide whether to break their own etiquettes and hand over a teenage girl to their elusive founder, Dr. Aniston, who promises her sacrifice will conclude their purpose.
How do you infiltrate the hotel? Will you coax your way into the cult? Do you discover the hidden lore, side quests and their dedicated endings or fail at any one of the ruthless narrative puzzles? Navigate a branching narrative with numerous ways to help rescue the daughter you’ve never met.
Main Features
A live action game which responds to your choices
7 main endings available with 14 different outcomes
Side quests which have dedicated endings
Real-time personality and cult association tracker
In-game chapter skip menu - but you have to earn it first
Narrative Features
A unique cult with its own rich history and rules
Paths blocked behind information
Cryptic notes to hidden endings
Hidden lore and ‘Easter eggs’ to discover
Sprawling dialogue options that make you see the same character in a different light
Cast
Michael D. Xavier (“Gentleman Jack”, “The Blacklist”) Jemima Rooper (“Flowers in the Attic: The Origin” (2022), “Matriarch” (2022-Hulu), Amit Shah (“Happy Valley", “The Witcher”) Richard Brake (“Game of Thrones”) Georgie Glen (“Call the Midwife”) Tristram Wymark (“Pennyworth”) Jessica Ellerby (“Pennyworth”, “Lovesick”) Joni Ayton-Kent (“The Watch")
Open every three years for three nights, a strange mix of colourful characters hiding personal traumas gather to uncover the one thread binding them. Their search for the meaning of life. But tonight, this mysterious organisation must decide whether to break their own etiquettes and hand over a teenage girl to their elusive founder, Dr. Aniston, who promises her sacrifice will conclude their purpose.
How do you infiltrate the hotel? Will you coax your way into the cult? Do you discover the hidden lore, side quests and their dedicated endings or fail at any one of the ruthless narrative puzzles? Navigate a branching narrative with numerous ways to help rescue the daughter you’ve never met.
Main Features
A live action game which responds to your choices
7 main endings available with 14 different outcomes
Side quests which have dedicated endings
Real-time personality and cult association tracker
In-game chapter skip menu - but you have to earn it first
Narrative Features
A unique cult with its own rich history and rules
Paths blocked behind information
Cryptic notes to hidden endings
Hidden lore and ‘Easter eggs’ to discover
Sprawling dialogue options that make you see the same character in a different light
Cast
Michael D. Xavier (“Gentleman Jack”, “The Blacklist”) Jemima Rooper (“Flowers in the Attic: The Origin” (2022), “Matriarch” (2022-Hulu), Amit Shah (“Happy Valley", “The Witcher”) Richard Brake (“Game of Thrones”) Georgie Glen (“Call the Midwife”) Tristram Wymark (“Pennyworth”) Jessica Ellerby (“Pennyworth”, “Lovesick”) Joni Ayton-Kent (“The Watch")
DLC & expansions
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate the compelling story with an intriguing premise and decent acting, though some find it becomes predictable and wish for deeper world-building and character development. Common frustrations include slow, non-skippable dialogue, limited meaningful choice consequences despite multiple endings, and technical issues like crashes on Steam Deck, with several noting that the experience improves on replay but may not justify a full-price purchase.
The conversations are excruciatingly slow, and there's no way to speed them up. Also, your speech options don't seem to matter most of the time, possibly at all, or what I call "Tell-tale syndrome".1 found this helpful
Boring game and it has no meaning
Excruciatingly slow and boring. In the time I did play, nothing made me feel invested in the story, at all.
I can't for the life of me understand how this is steamdeck verified, it freezes every couple minutes near the end.
It starts off strong but becomes predictable as it goes on. The game is short, which can be a positive if you're trying to see all the endings, on the other hand I didn't feel any connection to the characters, as the game doesn't explore its world enough. I wish they had done more with the world-building, because the characters ended up meaning nothing to me. I didn't feel like my choices had much consequence—maybe only two or three decisions actually determine which branch the story takes. There are better FMV games out there, so unless you have nothing else to play, I'd only recommend getting this one on sale.
This is a pretty good classic in the FMV series, where people actually live in a simulation . The hotel is the simulation. Sometimes this makes one wonder what if we are the labrats in someone else's simulation (the matrix) . This game shows the power of sci-fi (if you are nerdy enough) and real life simulationism. The four doors part was my favourite part as its a very well defined maze. I used my notebook. A hint is to use arrows and squares for each room. I am glad i didnt give up in the maze and found my precious. Good work devs. This is worth it . Totally.
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