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The Isle Tide Hotel

Wales Interactive · Sep 12, 2023

PC · PS5 · Series X|S · PS4 · Xbox One · Switch · Android · iOS

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An absent father must rescue his teenage daughter from an eclectic cult before their final night at the Isle Tide Hotel. Players investigate the strange events that unfold to save Eleanor Malone in this live-action interactive mystery game, where every decision affects the story. 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.

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PC

No critic reviews yet · Gamer 7.6

PlayStation 5

No critic reviews yet · Gamer 6.4

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PlayStation 4

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Android

No critic reviews yet · Gamer 8.4

iOS

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Critic reviews

  • Adventure Gamers

    Dean Waxman · Oct 27, 2023

    10
    Wales Interactive has crafted a cleverly told tale within The Isle Tide Hotel. The mystery and choice-based scenarios blend deftly and promote multiple playthroughs, with the full-motion cinematography and performances adding to the experience.
  • 148Apps

    Campbell Bird · Sep 20, 2023

    5.0
    The Isle Tide Hotel is an FMV game that is just trying to do too much beyond what FMV games are good at. It adds more video gamey elements that clash with having human actors performing them, doesn't allow its actors to act like humans, and seems designed solely around the idea of someone playing it repeatedly to see everything that is in it. To all that I say "no thanks."
  • GameSpew

    Kim Snaith · Sep 12, 2023

    5.0
    It has some interesting moments, sure, but the overall storytelling just isn’t good enough to ever truly capture your attention. This certainly isn’t Wales Interactive’s worst game – there’s still a lot to like – but with its premise of a mysterious cult holding so much potential, it’s perhaps one of the most disappointing.
  • Push Square

    John Cal McCormick · Sep 12, 2023

    3.0
    Despite the interesting premise, the mystery never takes off because we're not given enough meat on the bone to sink our teeth into, and by the time the secrets start to be revealed, we'd just lost interest. The story is little more than a series of bizarre interactions culminating in an atrocious section in which you must navigate a sort of maze of identical rooms — or at least, it did for us in both of our runs. It's a frustrating end to a frustrating game.
  • Xbox Tavern

    AJ Small · Sep 12, 2023

    8.4
    One of the best thought out FMV games by Wales Interactive, a must play for fans of the genre and good entry point for newcomers.
  • TheGamer

    Ryan Thomas Bamsey · Sep 12, 2023

    6.0
    The Isle Tide Hotel is an uneven game. It delivers in its goal to tell some compelling stories about very interesting people and a cult that’s up to some incredibly odd behaviour, but the inarticulate efforts to gamify the experience may prove too frustrating for those not already enamored with the concept or the genre.

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