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Rental

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

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Quick resume

Rental is a short and spooky adventure game about the dangers of renting a house in an unknown place.

Global score

93/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Free To Play

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    Pros

    • Cute and charming art style
    • Atmospheric and nostalgic horror vibe
    • Short and accessible gameplay
    • Free to play
    • Multiple endings and achievements

    Cons

    • Very short length
    • Maze section can cause nausea and confusion
    • Lack of depth and replay variety
    • No settings or pause menu
    • Some clunky controls and camera angles

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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      "Players freely explore vast maze-like levels with minimal hand-holding or forced direction, allowing personal navigation and decision-making."

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    • Competence

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      "The game offers simple maze navigation with minimal challenge; some players find controls imprecise, but overall skill demands are low."

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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      "Short game encourages replay for multiple endings, but limited content and length reduce long-term habitual play."

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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      "Players can explore the environment and choose dialogue options, but no creation or modification mechanics."

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily for fun and curiosity, with no obligation or external pressure."

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    • Experimenting

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      "Some exploration and puzzle solving encourages trying different interactions, though within a simple framework."

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    • Exploration

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      "Core gameplay involves discovering items and navigating surreal, often confusing environments and mazes."

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    • Expression

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      "Dialogue choices allow some expression of player personality, but character customization or environment modification is absent."

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    • Fantasy

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      "Imaginative horror setting with exaggerated characters and surreal elements."

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    • Fellowship

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      "No social or community features; experience is solitary."

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    • Growth

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      1

      "Some learning curve in maze solving, but overall limited personal development due to simplicity."

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    • Health

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      "Sedentary gameplay with no physical activity."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention to navigate maze and solve puzzles; no idle or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "No social or emotional relationship building; minimal character interaction."

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    • Leadership

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      "No leadership or group management elements."

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    • Progression

      Game with the same Progression vibe

      2

      "Progression through story completion, unlocking achievements, and collecting items, though limited in scope."

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      "Progression through collecting items and unlocking endings, though limited in scope."

    • Relaxation

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      "Atmosphere is tense and eerie but lacks jump scares; some players find it immersive and calming."

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      "Atmosphere is eerie but not stressful; some players find it relaxing and nostalgic."

    • Sensation

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      "Visual style and audio create an eerie and stimulating sensory experience."

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    • Status

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    • Story

      Game with the same Story vibe

      3

      "Narrative is simple but enriched by multiple endings, character interactions, and hidden lore."

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    • Strategy

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      0

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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      "No threat or failure states; enemies do not harm the player."

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Value. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Strategy.

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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
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    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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