Servant of the Lake
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Welcome to the Vanderboom house, home to the infamous Vanderboom family! Visitors are arriving soon, and you are meant to start your housekeeping duties immediately!
Solve the puzzles needed to fulfil your daily tasks, look after the household, welcome the visitor and ensure their comfort while helping the family achieve their alchemical ambitions!
Servant of the Lake is the new premium point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series from the creators of the Cube Escape series, The Past Within and Underground Blossom.
Features:
- Going back to our Roots - Servant of the Lake is a classic single-player Rusty Lake point-and-click adventure set in the infamous Vanderboom house during the era of Aldous and William Vanderboom.
- Solve surreal puzzles โ Expect to go from simple tasks such as straightening the family portraits and doing the laundry to assisting in complex experiments and cleaning up the aftermath.
- Unravel a dark narrative โ Live through events set decades before Rusty Lake: Roots! As the servant of the Vanderboom estate, you can explore each room of The House while making sure the family is looked after. Do you think you can survive the weekend?
- Immersive soundtrack - Haunting melodies composed and performed by Victor Butzelaar to keep you company while puzzling your way through your daily, usual and unusual tasks.
A 15โ30 minute demo is now available to download for Windows and Mac (links below). The full premium experience is scheduled to launch in Spring 2026.
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I need this on mobile ๐๐ฅน
good story, I liked the game, I will play it when the full version comes out
Looks very interesting, but the installer looks for space forever. Couldnยดt install it.
Not sure if I'm just.. stupid but I couldn't find my way inside...
Congratulations, I think it's a very interesting game, the graphics are fantastic.
Adore the demo so far, but i do rly hope the puzzles in the full game are a bit harder!! โฅ
Loved the demo, nice work!
You're my favourite developer!! I know it's just the demo, but the puzzles are far too easy..
Its a wonderful game.. i especially like the sound effects, their very pleasing to the ear! ๐
That was wonderful. I was so pleasantly surprised to see a Rusty Lake game show up when I opened Itch.io and I can't wait for the full release.
wonderful game!
so very charming and nostalgic, cant wait to see more :))
Loved this!
love it great game i had fun
Looking forward to the full game
love this but wish it was browser playable!
I can't wait for actual game this is so fun!!
Happy to hear! Enjoyed watching :)
amazing ! looking forward to it
Thanks for your awesome playthrough :)
good game
Absolutely love puzzle games like this and it gives me weird vibes (in a good way). Makes me wanna figure out what's going on in the Vanderboom house.
10/10
I'll play this demo shortly. But first, some exercise!
I can't get into the house, is there something I need to trigger/do?
what do you have in your inventory? If its a metal pipe then use it to get to the key from the left side of the house (its beneath the wooden floor)
Just the carrot, and a tin cup i found in the carriage. I'm at the beginning of the game and clicked on everything interactable. How do I find this metal pipe?
keep in mind that if you're stuck, chances are you haven't actually found everything interactable. have you checked the windows? both? what about the rest of the carriage?
I checked both windows and the carriage too. I've clicked on the door and that garden box too
is the tin cup still in your inventory? if so, have you found anything that looks similar to it? have you tried talking to the carriage driver?
Show post...
amazing game
DO NOT CILCK THE LINK IN VOID CUTE'S COMMENT BELOW. IT IS NOT AN UPDATED VERSION. HE PUTS THIS IN MANY COMMENT SECTIONS. IT IS MOST LIKEY SOME KIND OF MALWARE OF VIRUS.
Thanks we removed it!
I love Rusty Lake! I have all the games. And I do periodically try to play them all in "order". I am sooo looking forward to another one! <3
Charming music, nice mood and enjoyable, again. I very much enjoyed The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show and Underground Blossom. I was missing more clever puzzles instead of just clicking my way through, but I guess that's fine for an introduction.
I'm looking forward to it.
very good
Still amazing! Its setting up for a good game and I cant wait ๐ค๐คฉ
Thank you!
i am not able to play this on mac - getting a warning that the file can't be verified?
me too
go to System Settings > Privacy and Security, scroll all the way down until you see something about Servant of the Lake couldn't be opened etc etc, and press Open Anyway. This should work any time Mac says something can't be verified/opened.
go to System Settings > Privacy and Security, scroll all the way down until you see something about Servant of the Lake couldn't be opened etc etc, and press Open Anyway. This should work any time Mac says something can't be verified/opened.
Love Rustylake!!
I enjoyed the demo and I lowkey dread how events will unfold.
Also the horse deserves more carrots.
Usual graphic style with logical (if you pay attention) puzzles. VERY enjoyable demo.
Amazing demo so far! Can't wait to play the whole game!!!