Eurogamer praises Servant of the Lake, the latest entry in Rusty Lake’s long-running surreal puzzle-adventure series, as another strong release. Set in 1839 at the Vanderboom estate, it casts the player as newly hired household help amid a grim, strange family conspiracy, and matters because it offers an accessible standalone route into a series the writer considers overlooked.

Rusty Lake has produced 18 games over roughly a decade, combining point-and-click adventuring, escape-room puzzles and a fragmented saga involving murder, dark magic and the Vanderboom family. Servant of the Lake unfolds over three increasingly bizarre days, divided into morning, afternoon, evening and night, and lasts around five hours. Although it is less structurally experimental than recent instalments such as The Past Within, The White Door and Underground Blossom, the review highlights its dense, varied puzzles and distinctive, deliberately counterintuitive ‘moon logic’.