Hollow Pines Motel

You work the night desk at a motel on an empty highway. Guests arrive one at a time. You check their IDs, ask a few questions and decide whether to give them a room. Some are tired truckers. Some are not quite what they appear to be, and the rules taped to the desk were written by the last clerk, who left in a hurry.

The motel glows in pink neon and sickly yellow, with rain on the windows and a buzzing vending machine. A playthrough takes about 4 hours, with several endings. Great for fans of document-checking games and atmospheric horror. The caveat: some of the clues are very subtle, and it is easy to fail a night without knowing why.