The Isle Tide Hotel

About

The Isle Tide Hotel casts you as a father racing to save his daughter from a cult holed up in a remote hotel. Your choices drive the story through motion-captured scenes where you gather clues, solve puzzles, and uncover hidden paths. Each decision ripples across three nights of eerie events, with characters harboring secrets and a mysterious founder demanding a girl’s sacrifice. The hotel itself feels like a character, its flickering lights and creaking halls amplifying tension as you piece together why Eleanor is there and how to get her out. What sticks is the emotional weight of the dad’s desperation, paired with the cult’s surreal logic. Wales Interactive polishes the FMV format with tight writing and branching narratives, letting curiosity shape the outcome. With over a dozen endings and puzzles tied to character backstories, it rewards close attention. Released on September 12, 2023, it’s a compact but twisty pick for fans of narrative-driven choices, available on nearly every platform from Switch to iOS. The cult’s motives may not make total sense, but the urgency of the rescue sure does.

Storyline

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.