Finding Lake Chewaucan

Finding Lake Chewaucan

Meaghan Wetherell · June 27, 2026 · Exploration, Science, Education, Sci-fi, Immersive Sim

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About Finding Lake Chewaucan

You're a temporal forensics specialist - or, more informally, a time-travelling detective. Between your analytical talent and your ability to visit the past, there aren't many mysteries you can't unravel. But this new client's job might be the coldest case you've ever come across. You’ve been hired to find the story behind a broken fossil bone from the vast sagebrush deserts of Oregon. Hunt for clues, play minigames to solve puzzles and travel through time to learn as much about this ancient animal as you can – where it came from, how it lived, and when and how it died. Because if you can’t figure those things out... well, not only will you not get paid, but a little girl's birthday party is going to be straight up ruined. Explore the mysteries of Oregon's Great Basin Desert and its ancient past in this educational game focused on over 50 years of scientific research in the Fort Rock Basin. The bones and clues are real – see how they unlock the past for modern scientists and travel there yourself. You’ll play science-informed minigames like the 3D platformer game where you sample tufa rocks for radiocarbon, or the Match 3 game used to identify fossil animals. This free educational game is supported by NSF Award  #2228632.

Finding Lake Chewaucan — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Finding Lake Chewaucan has an engaging educational concept centered on time travel and scientific discovery that players appreciate, but the game suffers from significant technical and design issues that severely hamper the experience. Common complaints include invisible barriers, confusing UI elements, performance problems, lack of customization options, and incomplete or broken gameplay mechanics like the rock dating mini-game.

Recommended Jun 30, 2026
The idea behind this game is great! It is wonderful to see scholars sharing science and knowledge in this way. While the game does have some bugs and issues, it is fully playable. I highly recommend that the creators consult with an experienced game developer to fix these technical problems. Otherwise, it's a great project, and I see no reason not to give it a positive review!
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 15, 2026
the invisible barriers are weird, the UI with the map didn't make sense at first, i didn't know how to activate the astrolabe until i randomly clicked everywhere because i don't know what an astrolabe is. i stopped playing after trying the rock dating game because literally not enough rocks spawn to complete it. it seems like a really great and fun idea but it is SO rough around the edges.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 8, 2026
TL;DR Cool idea, terrible game. You need to be willing to put up with a lot of issues, or the game won't be for you I love the idea of time travel to find clues. Learning about types of bones. And i love educational games in general. So I really wanted to like this game but sadly it feels like a prototype, not a finished game. It needs a lot more polish in basically every area: UI, performance, gameplay, ... The issues start with the main menu - there is no "New Game", only "Load Game" where you can then also create a new game. Also, the quit button in the main menu doesn't work! Yikes. And it only gets worse. You get thrown into a scene with a) possibly the worst screenshake i've ever encountered in any game (no settings to disable it, generally few settings). Audio is just as much a mess with volume level of music jumping around wildly when voices start or stop, which is incredibly jarring (at least you can disable music altogether as a workaround). Voicelines get cut off when others get triggered so you have no idea what they were going to say; there is no logic to prevent issues like this. The gameplay confused me as well. To be clear, i know nothing about fossils or bones, …
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 29, 2026
Interesting idea, terrible implementation.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 6, 2026
Overall quite a fun experience but I feel like it can be a bit rough around the edges I mostly had problems with the map being laggy and the minimap being largely useless because it's too zoomed in. At some point in the game I had to restart cause I fell into the small lake and couldn't get out. But on the other hand the game was really fun, exploring the same place but in a different time was very cool. Big fan of the aesthetic whether it was meant to look like that or not, made me feel nostalgic for some older unity games. A sequel would be really cool too but maybe exploring a period that's much more different compared to the modern day, like the devonian or carboniferous, it doesn't even need to be about the detective time travelling work, (even though that was really fun too) just casually exploring a larger area in this artstyle could be fun. And for sure more interactions with the world would be cool too. Like I want to look at every plant, animal, rock or otherwise and know everything there is to know about it. The music was really cool too although a bit repetitive after a while, reminded me a bit of dino synth which I find to be a really cool music genre. Also cool th…
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 21, 2026
No. Terrible narrator, terrible graphics, invisible walls. Don`t.

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