Often the scary sounds or flickering shadows turn out to be nothing but the swaying trees outside, but it feels genuinely frightening. Even in the calm moments, you’re half-expecting something to jump out at you. The environments are heavy with the tension that comes from being alone in a place you’re not supposed to be.Īnd this is true of The Suicide of Rachel Foster. That’s why I loved my favourite walking sim, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. There’s something haunting about walking around, completely alone, in a well-designed world that feels authentically abandoned.
Luckily, walking simulators exist to fill that gap. Unfortunately I am a wimp, so as far as hobbies are concerned, it’s not really working out. I love the idea of wandering around an abandoned hotel, mansion, or mall. Nicole’s bedroom is excellently nostalgic and felt comforting to be in – I found myself wandering back there during scary moments to take a breath. I particularly liked nosing around the master suite. This is a small thing, but it gives you the motivation to thoroughly investigate. For example, trophies in Nicole’s old bedroom are labelled ‘self-esteem’, and an intense painting of a wolf is named ‘murderous eyes’. Some items are labelled, and although you can’t interact with them, they reveal something about Nicole’s personality.
The Timberland Hotel is incredibly well-designed, and although it lies dusty and abandoned, the memories are almost palpable.
You’ll find some items along the way, but other than that, your main job is to observe. You can run, which makes things a bit more bearable, as the walking pace is pretty slow. It’s a walking sim, which means your main job is (obviously) walking around. A story of love and death, where melancholy and nostalgia melt into a thrilling ghost tale.A snowstorm prevents Nicole from leaving, and so you’re stuck there in a rotting, creaky hotel, surrounded by memories, with only a FEMA agent on the end of the phone for company. With his help, Nicole starts to investigate a mystery far deeper than what people in the valley thought. As the weather unexpectedly turns for the worst, Nicole has no way to leave the large mountain lodge, and finds support in Irving, a young FEMA agent, using one of the first radio telephones ever built. With the will and determination to put that chapter behind her, she returns to the hotel with the family's lawyer to audit the decaying structure. Now that both of her parents have passed, Nicole hopes to fulfill her mother's last will to sell the hotel and make amends to Rachel's relatives.
1993 - LEWIS & CLARK COUNTY, MONTANA, US Ten years ago, teenager Nicole and her mother left the family hotel after discovering her father Leonard's affair with, and pregnancy of Rachel, a girl her own age who eventually committed suicide. Ten years ago, teenager Nicole and her mother left the family Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.
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