Engler beautifully acts Nicole's descent from bitter anger to aberrant fear throughout the course of the story while Ragland does an incredible job as the charmingly innocent Irving, with his full acting ability on display in the last half hour of the game. But Kosha Engler and Christopher Ragland shine as Nicole and Irving, respectively. In a game with only two characters whose faces are never shown, it can be a daunting task to make these fictional people feel real. It's clear that an insane amount of time was spent on rendering the hotel and with multiple floors and a variety of rooms (such as Nicole's old bedroom, the kitchen, the hotel lobby, and other secret passages and rooms) to explore, players could easily spend the majority of their time exploring the Timberline and all its intricate details.įinally, the voice acting. If that premise wasn't creepy enough, just wait until you see the Timberline Hotel, the setting of the game. The naming of the hotel, a not-so-subtle reference to the real-life Timberline Lodge where The Shining was filmed, feels a little on the nose (as well as other small references, like one objective to visit "Room 217," but fits Rachel Foster's genuinely creepy aesthetic. Guided only by the reassurance of a FEMA agent named Irving - who's strangely obsessed and knowledgeable about the scandal and trauma Nicole's family has gone through - by means of a radio phone, Nicole begins to unravel the mysteries surrounding Rachel's suicide, soon discovering that everything is never as it seems. Though Nicole hopes to make her return home a quick one, a violent snowstorm has other plans for the 26-year-old. After the death of both her father and mother, Nicole is urged in a posthumous letter from her mother to return to their hotel to sell it. The Suicide of Rachel Foster tells the story of Nicole, a young woman in her mid-twenties who finds herself back at the hotel she grew up in ten years after she and her mother packed their bags and ran away from Nicole's father, Leonard. The two women left upon discovering Leonard had been having an affair with the eponymous 16-year-old Rachel Foster, a young girl the same age as Nicole who Leonard had been tutoring.
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