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Work three days as a servant at the strange Vanderboom estate, completing household tasks and solving puzzles amid alchemical secrets.
Released 13 Aug 2026
Serve the Vanderbooms
Solve Chore-Based Puzzles
Assist Alchemical Experiments
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.
Developed by Rusty Lake · Published by Rusty Lake
At the Vanderboom estate, you take the role of a newly hired servant responsible for the household over three days. As family members arrive, routine duties bring you into contact with the estate’s unusual activities and hidden history.
Explore rooms in a point-and-click adventure, inspect objects, gather clues, interact with the family, and use items to solve puzzles. Tasks range from everyday chores such as cleaning and preparing food to assisting with alchemical experiments.
The days are divided into chapters and assigned tasks. A notebook tracks those tasks and found documents, and lets you record clues or drawings. After the main story, you can revisit chapters to look for missed achievements and follow additional puzzle clues.
Reviewers often enjoy the varied puzzles, the contrast between ordinary household duties and the estate’s unsettling events, and the added context for the Rusty Lake story. The atmosphere, music, and notebook also draw praise. Some players find the puzzles and narrative more straightforward than in earlier series entries, while others appreciate that clarity.
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.
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 – 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 – 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.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 49 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| Metacritic | 79/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
