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Creators of the praised Cube Escape series and the premium point-and-click adventures Rusty Lake Hotel and award-winning Rusty Lake: Roots.
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Welcome to Rusty Lake, a surreal place where anything can happen. We offer you the most mysterious game series you'll ever play.
Why not try out our praised Cube Escape series first? Let the cubes guide you the eerie and atmospheric point-and-click adventures with an "escape room" feeling. Currently we have ten Cube Escape games taking place in the Rusty Lake universe. Cube Escape: Paradox is our latest installment which is combined with a short film! Download them for ten on iOS, Android or play on Desktop.
Next to our Cube Escape series we created three premium adventure games with unique story lines taking place in Rusty Lake as well. Serve deadly dinners to five animal-headed guests in Rusty Lake Hotel, expand the bloodline of the Vanderbooms in our award-winning adventure Rusty Lake: Roots or stop the ten plagues on a small island in Rusty Lake Paradise.
On the right, you can find a list of all our games sorted by release date.
On our game portal you can play our free games but also find other adventure, room escape and puzzle games. We selected games with a fascinating story, ambiance or unique game-play made by more forward-looking developers.
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We wish you a pleasant stay in Rusty Lake!
Indie Prize, Best Narrative Award ‘16- Top 10 Google Play Indie Games Contest ‘17
- Premiere Paradox - A Rusty Lake Film @ LIFF '18
- "Most Inventive" App nomination Google Play Awards ‘18
- Finalist Google Play Indie Games Contest ‘20
Indie Prize, Best Narrative Award ‘16
Love is in the air on the Rusty Lake Discord💌 EDIT: Happy Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day is approaching…and things are getting steamy on our Discord! 🔥💘
It’s time for our annual card contest! Create a Rusty Lake-inspired “Bad” Valentine’s card and share it in our Discord server. 💌
5 ✨lucky✨ winners will receive a special prize.😏
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Nothing says romance like some Rusty Lake rizz!❣️🦐
🎉Congrats to our winners: Oxxenfree, Kurainvillager, Black and white cat, Markuria, Jacky
Want to send one of these cards to a lover? Find the HD versions on our Discord! 🔗
- Harvey
- January 30, 2026
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oh yeah, i entered last year
There will be blood.
You open the card, and the paper cuts your fingertip.
A bead of blood wells up. You wipe it across the white of the inner page, and it soaks in—a small red stain. Like the lake.
Only one line there:
“The past always comes back.”
Then you realize it’s not white paper. It’s cream, very pale, very old. Something pressed into the pulp, close to the fibers. A feather. Black. Curled. Edges singed.
You turn back a page.
Laura’s handwriting.
“Dear—”
No name. A large inkblot, like water spilled. Or tears.
“I saw him in the lake again today. He was standing in the reeds, wearing the deer skull mask, just watching me. I should be afraid, but I’m not. The water of Rusty Lake is always cold, but his eyes are warm. Do you know that deer shed their antlers every year? The old ones fall off, and new ones grow. I want to forget you, like a deer forgets its horns.”
“But I can’t.”
The next sentence is scratched out, the paper torn. You hold it up to the light. A few words surface:
“Stay.”
“Sacrifice.”
“Forgive me.”
The last page holds one sentence only. Typewritten, the letters pressed deep into the grain:
“Some people have to sink to the bottom of the lake, so that others can rise to breathe.”
You remember those sacrificed in the game. They sank into Rusty Lake, their memories turning into black cubes, their bodies becoming silt at the bottom. You thought it was fiction.
But this card—it smells like lake water. Not ink, not old paper. Real lake water. Cold, heavy with rotting weeds.
You close the card.
Your fingertip still bleeds.
You remember this day last year. Someone gave you a white-striped calathea. You said you’d kill it. She said it didn’t matter.
The calathea is dead now. In the pot, buried in dry soil, a rusted key.
You walk to the window.
There is no lake outside.
But you hear the water.
brilliant and hilarious as always!
“you must be a nut driver because i’ve been driven nuts, for you”… maybe next year
of course, i only come up with this 4 days after the end of the contest. im guessing itll be held again tho 🤞
please please you know i want a new game
well servant of the lake is coming soon in any case