I have played enough games on Mac to know that a game looking simple does not necessarily mean it will run perfectly. That was my first thought with Servant of the Lake. On paper, this is about as far from a demanding modern AAA game as you can get. It is a hand-drawn psychological horror…
Servant of the Lake is the kind of game that reminds me why I keep coming back to the Rusty Lake series. It doesn’t need explosions, huge environments, or some massive cinematic budget to get under your skin. Give me a strange old mansion, a handful of suspicious family members, a pile of impossible puzzles,…
There are games that I play to relax, games I play to win, and then there are Rusty Lake games, which usually leave me staring at a strange object for five minutes wondering what kind of person thought this puzzle made sense. Servant of the Lake falls firmly into that third category. Released on August…
If you have spent any real time with Servant of the Lake, you already know this is not the kind of adventure game that lets you casually click around until something works. The Vanderboom estate is packed with tiny visual clues, deliberately strange interactions, and puzzles that can make you question whether you missed an…
