It doesn’t matter how liberally I try to apply the developer’s supposed learnings. It doesn’t matter which alternate lens I try to adopt here. Suggesting we seek alternative perspectives beyond tabloid headlines is perfectly reasonable, yes, but the actions of Nicole’s father weren’t idle town gossip, were they? They weren’t just an unkind rumour. And yet I still don’t understand what that statement’s supposed to mean. I’ve played it through twice now – my first attempt seemingly tried to save myself from the horror of the conclusion as I was thwarted by a game-breaking bug about 15 minutes from the end. The game maker, One-O-One Games, says The Suicide Of Rachel Foster was made to “stimulate the players to change their point of view about mainstream stories, buzz and rumours” and at the same time “inspire them to do their own research to discover the real truths”. Turns out it’s that special kind of white-hot, incandescent rage that sits and burns for days in the pit of your guts. Credit: ONE-O-ONE GAMESīeyond the fact I’m struggling to believe that the arsey, obnoxious but undeniably feisty woman I’ve just spent two and a half hours getting to know would do this, I’m furious. I don’t need to see it to know the other end of it is attached to the car’s exhaust. A distant warning bell starts to chime in the back of my mind – she’s now talking to people who aren’t there that’s rarely a good sign, is it? – and I swivel the camera to properly survey my surroundings to discover a hose poking through the driver’s side window, its nose taped haphazardly to the glass. Nicole’s voice is calm but stilted, as though she’s a little dazed. Two and a half hours into the game and I’m sitting in the driver’s seat of my character’s car, talking to a lawyer on her hilariously over-sized ’90s mobile phone.
You don’t need to face your troubles alone.”įive seconds later, it’s gone, and – for a brief while, anyway – I forget it was ever there.
“If you are struggling with personal issues, our dev team strongly recommends you refrain from playing without supervision, and heartily urges you to reach out to a friend, or call a local helpline. This sombre message sits in the centre of the screen, its careful white text contrasted against a plain, dark backdrop. A story of love and death, where melancholy and nostalgia melt into a thrilling ghost tale.T he Suicide Of Rachel Foster is a fictional game containing sensitive subjects,” a disclaimer warns when you boot up the game for the first time. With his help, Nicole starts to investigate a mystery far deeper than what people in the valley thought.
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.Īs 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. 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, 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.