I did happen across a few bugs which will hopefully be fixed with future patches. Is Rachel's ghost haunting the hotel? The books that Nicole's father was reading seem to indicate that he was looking into the possibility of life existing after death. There's a sci-fi element here which mixes mild horror with supernatural elements. Also Nicole seemed to be contacting Irving for every little thing, which seemed a little unbelievable. But, eventually I got the lie of the land, which made everything much smoother.

I seemed to spend most of the time trying to navigate the map as I headed from one side of the hotel to the other, and back again.

It's an intriguing creepy mystery adventure and in the early stages I was unsure what to make of the game. The first FEMA operator that talks to her, Irving, ends up being her only contact with the organisation, as he too starts to get wrapped up in the mystery of Rachel's death. Given the recent weather, the solicitor has passed his radio telephone over to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) so that they can contact Nicole and advise her on whether it's safe to travel. The solicitor has left all the paperwork for Nicole in the hotel, along with a radio telephone (the phone lines have long since been cut off at the hotel and mobile phones didn't exist yet). Looking through her father's belongings, Nicole happens across newspaper articles and scientific papers that allude to the possibility that Rachel is somehow still alive. The scandal was made worse when it was discovered she was pregnant when she took her own life. Rachel committed suicide when their relationship became public knowledge. Nicole's parents split up many years ago when it was discovered that her father was having an affair with a 16 year old classmate of Nicole's, called Rachel Foster. However, she's now unable to make it back to civilisation until the snow thaws. Luckily Nicole just makes it to the hotel before she is completely cut off by the snow. Unfortunately she picks the wrong time to visit, as the hotel is in the middle of a huge national park, and a heavy snow storm has just started. Nicole has fond memories from her childhood and wants to make one final visit there before putting it up for sale. Both her mother and father have recently died and her mother has included a note with her will that advises her to sell the long derelict hotel. You play as Nicole, a young woman who has just inherited the family hotel. The Suicide of Rachel Foster is a fairly short game, which you'll be able to complete in an afternoon, but the unraveling story is engaging enough that once you start you'll find it almost impossible to put down until you've completed it. A story of love and death, where melancholy and nostalgia melt into a thrilling ghost tale. 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. Ten years ago Nicole and her mother left the family hotel after discovering her father Leonard's affair with, and pregnancy of Rachel, a girl the same age as Rachel, who eventually committed suicide. Set in 1993, The Suicide of Rachel Foster opens with Nicole returning to the family hotel, which has been derelict for almost five years.

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