- July 9, 2025
- Steeze Games
Lake of Darkness
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About Lake of Darkness
Lake of Darkness is a single player puzzle game with horror, thriller and post-apocalyptic themes. It was developed by Steeze Games and was released on July 9, 2025. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.
Lake of Darkness is an atmospheric visual novel psychological thriller inspired by games such as Milk Inside a Bag of Milk, Omori, And the Don't Escape trilogy. As your small town is coming to grips with multiple mysterious disappearances you get a premonition in a dream that you are destined to die in three days. The game reacts to the choices you make. Will you hide from your fate? Spend your …
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Reviews
- Exceptional storytelling with well-developed characters and a haunting, atmospheric vibe.
- Engaging horror elements that include creepy sound design, unsettling random events, and gruesome encounters.
- Rich world and character building with meaningful exploration and multiple endings that encourage replayability.
- Several bugs and glitches reported, including event image loading issues, progression blocks, and inventory display problems.
- Some players find the repetitive 'groundhog day' style of gameplay and need to exhaustively explore all options overwhelming or tedious.
- Certain late game story progressions felt railroading and contrived, limiting player choice inconsistently.
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10 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe story is highly praised for its compelling storytelling, strong world and character building, and engaging tone, captivating players throughout multiple endings. While some users noted occasional railroading in later parts, the narrative is regarded as emotionally impactful and uniquely atmospheric. Suggestions for improvement include adding a story branching overview to enhance player understanding.
“I've gotten most endings by this point, and I absolutely loved piecing together the story through what we're given.”
“The storytelling was great, the world building and character building were both really well done.”
“It's a tragically beautiful story about finding what bad events mean in one's life all in a uniquely horrifying style.”
“I really want to see this story to fruition, so I would love if the progress bug could get patched (maybe it's something on my end, I'm not sure honestly, I have no experience with Ren'Py).”
“I know it's probably beyond the scope of the project, but you might also want to maybe have some kind of story web or tree that people can see so they maybe have a better idea of when paths can branch.”
“The only other thing I'd say is sometimes the railroading happening late story came across a bit contrived to me.”
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Lake of Darkness is a puzzle game with horror, thriller and post-apocalyptic themes. Common tags for Lake of Darkness include indie, surreal, psychological, exploration, pixel graphics and others.
Lake of Darkness is available on PC and Windows.
Lake of Darkness was released on July 9, 2025.
Lake of Darkness was developed by Steeze Games.
Lake of Darkness has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Lake of Darkness for its story but disliked it for its stability.
Lake of Darkness is a single player game.
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