Servant of the Lake

Begin your new job as a servant at the mysterious Vanderboom estate. Solve puzzles, serve the family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets in Servant of the Lake, a new upcoming single-player point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series.

Developer: Rusty Lake
Publisher: Rusty Lake
Franchise: —
Release date: Aug 13, 2026
Store page updated: Aug 19, 2026
Price: $7.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

88.2/ 100

Based on 456 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 2,566

All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 7,394

“game is awesome and reviewer is a die hard fan”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

+0.83

Difficulty +0.41

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Story & World

+3.13

Story +3.16

“surreal puzzles and dark narrative with compelling character identity reveal” (102)

[h1]世界上再也没有人像我们Vanderboom家族一样这么相侵相碍了[/h1] *游戏目前有恶性坏档bug，建议修复稳定了再入手* 一如既往的超现实谜题和黑暗叙事[strike]和一家人找不出一个正常人[/strike]，《湖之仆从》对比前作在内容量上增加了相当多，但游戏难度降低了许多，也有相当多致敬前作（游戏时间线上的续作）的彩蛋，几乎没怎么卡关就完成了正常流程。此外在《湖之仆从》这部中可以见到诸如《寻找伪人》《巴别塔圣歌》[strike]以及经常出现在广告里的倒水瓶颜色排序小游戏[/strike]等熟悉的游戏影子。 [h2]某种意义上我并不是很推荐新手先玩这一部[/h2] 虽然谜题难度相比系列前作大幅度下降，剧情理应也是前作时间线之前，但游戏尾声为我们揭露玩家扮演的角色身份——[spoiler]鹦鹉Harvey[/spoiler]，如果没有前作的游玩经历，我相信看到这里恍然大悟的惊讶感会大打折扣。 [h2]系列作中差强人意的一部[/h2] 打完本作后心痒痒又去打了三部系列前作，事实就是《湖之仆从》在制作和内容量上的升级没办法掩盖它谜题趣味的退步以及剧情的直白浅显，除了玩家角色身份以外大部分剧情走向很容易猜到，悬疑感和神秘感不复从前，比较中规中矩但也没太多惊喜的一作。可能是我期待拉得太高了，有种“看r18g片做好有心理创伤的准备，结果端上来的是拿a4纸割拇指”的既视感，鉴

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Content Volume

+1.49

Volume +0.87

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Visuals & Sound

+3.78

Visuals +3.76

“graphics and animations are more polished” (32)

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Multiplayer

+3.50

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +4.00

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Fairness

+1.88

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +1.88

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Tech & Ops

+0.29

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Stability -2.27

“save bug causes items to disappear after exiting and re-entering” (16)

很好玩但是有一个bug 保存退出后再进游戏物品会消失望修复：( A really fun game, but there’s a bug. After saving and exiting, the items disappear when you re-enter the game. Hope it gets fixed.

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