On one hand, this is done in occasionally clever ways. Instead, you simply explore and get some environmental storytelling from the world. There are no puzzles or anything you need to hide from or fight. They're cute time kills, but there's nothing major about them. Sometimes it's dark and you can use a few different tools to light your way, like a polaroid camera's flash or a little hand-charged flashlight where you need to keep hitting the mouse button to use. A lot of the time you just need to get from point A to point B without getting lost. You'll get a map of the hotel pretty early in, and a lot of the game is just finding ways to go where you need to.
There isn't too much gameplay involved between this. With little else to do, Nicole begins to look into her family's past, what really happened to Rachel, and if there's a chance she's still alive. Unfortunately, Nicole finds herself trapped in the hotel for over a week when a horrible snowstorm prevents her from leaving. As such, there's nothing but bad memories of the place. The problem? The hotel belonged to her dad, who seduced a mentally challenged 16-year-old girl that chose to commit suicide after she became pregnant with her kid. Because of such, she finds herself inheriting an old hotel. Taking place in 1993, you play as Nicole, a young woman who lost both of her parents.
Despite this, The Suicide of Rachel Foster is choosing to tackle the subject seriously and openly, leading to an interesting little narrative adventure game. There are obvious reasons for this, but it's a subject matter that has quite a few negative correlations with it. There are many subjects that games don't usually touch, and suicide tends to be a bigger one.
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