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51 Great Games Like Hotel Dusk

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Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a point-and-click adventure game about detective Kyle Hyde staying in a Twin-Peaks-like, rundown motel near 1979 Los Angeles. You move around the hotel to find clues, talk to other guests and ultimately solve what happened to his former partner Brian Bradley. It stands out for how un-game-like it feels and its hard-boiled detective vibe.

Unfortunately, Hotel Dusk is not available on Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Hotel Dusk

Game Details

Release Date: 22/01/2007

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and DS

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Narrative, Point-and-Click (Adventure, Brain Game and Communication)

Accessibility: 0 features Documented

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Costs: Purchase cost

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Release Date: 19/06/2010, updated in 2023

Out Now: DS, PC, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Coming Soon: PS4

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

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Release Date: 24/04/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks and Open World

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Release Date: 15/10/2019, updated in 2021

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Release Date: 06/10/2010, updated in 2019

Out Now: PC, PS3 and PS4

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Weather

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Tangle Tower

Release Date: 19/09/2019

Out Now: PC, Switch and iPhone, iPad

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and its intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder. You are given the events of the murder, each...

Tick Tock: A Tale For Two

Release Date: 07/03/2019

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

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Rusty Lake Hotel

Release Date: 14/12/2015, updated in 2016

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Rusty Lake Hotel is a surreal point-and-click adventure with a tangential horror narrative. While set in the same universe as the other games in the Rusty Lake series, it tells its own standalone story that only shares loose connections with the other...

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Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Unheard

Release Date: 29/03/2019

Out Now: Mac and PC

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Text

Unheard is a murder mystery puzzle game. A crime has been committed and you most solve the case by exploring the area and listening to people. It's unusual in that you need to deduce the culprit by only having access to audio files.

Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I.

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person

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Components: 3D Third-Person

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Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

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Release Date: 12/12/2014, updated in 2019

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, GBA, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

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Out Now: Switch

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

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Life Is Strange (Series)

Release Date: 19/01/2016

Out Now: Android, PC, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

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Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Components: 2D Overhead

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