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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
Rewinding back to our Roots 🌳
🎂 Celebrate 9 years of Rusty Lake: Roots with us by going down memory lane to relieve some iconic moments from our second premium game in the Rusty Lake saga! 🕞
We hope you’re excited to go back to the Vanderboom house next year in Servant of the Lake! 👀
In Roots you play as the Corrupted Soul of William Vanderboom guiding the Vanderboom family into misery, tragedy, death and eventually, for William, rebirth.
William was the brother of Aldous Vanderboom. Together, they eventually discover the elixir, turning Aldous into Mr. Crow and causing William to die. You’ll be able to learn more about their lives leading up to the discovery of the elixir when Servant of the Lake releases!
Share your favourite memories 🟨 from Rusty Lake Roots in the comments for a chance to win a Rusty Lake Roots Steam Key! 👇✨️
- Harvey
- October 20, 2025
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9 years already! October 20th, 2016, huh…
In any case, my favourite part of Roots is probably the ending, where they revealed the reincarnation of William that the whole game was about was actually the mysterious Woman from Seasons! I like how it was very subtle, it just showed the baby using the iconic dress as a blanket, but it’s clear enough: that’s The Woman! Followed shortly by The Cave, which was much more clear about this and even revealed her name was Laura, referencing Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks!
Omg 9 years!
As for my favorite part, I loved Rose and Ida, so probably my favorite parts are their parts, specially the part when Rose talked to corrupted soul with that board and decided to help them and she sacrificed her family for that
Also can’t forget about that iconic part when Albert, Emma and Samuel were playing and Mr. Crow appeared and was like “poor children”
I just can’t wait for the new game, to find out more about our cool Mr. Crow!
You know what to do~
Hello, dear developers! I love your games-a mix of nostalgia, something strange and something ancient… It reminded me of Twin Peaks in terms of atmosphere (and more))). I’m looking forward to the release of Servant of the lake and more. However, it’s a little unclear to me where the mammoth has gone… Well okay. Congratulations on the last anniversary. As for your favorite place in roots… It’s probably the murder scene of Samuel and Ida, it’s very addictive. Thank you very much!
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THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD!!!!
Yes haha, they keep teasing the mammoth regularly, it has been happening since 2018! Do they even have anything developed for this game besides the mammoth sprite??
My favorite memory of Rusty Lake: Roots is the fullscreen capability it had when it first came out, but which was lost when Steam achievements were added. What better way to celebrate the game’s ninth anniversary than to finally restore that feature after eight years of absence? Please?