Lake of Darkness

Lake of Darkness

Steeze Games · July 10, 2025 · Psychological Horror, Visual Novel, Choose Your Own Adventure, Exploration, Puzzle

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Lake of Darkness price

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About Lake of Darkness

Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.

Lake of Darkness — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Lake of Darkness is a surprisingly substantial free visual novel that delivers a compelling psychological horror experience with multiple endings based on player choices and well-developed characters. Players consistently praise the depth of content, atmospheric storytelling, and replayability for unlocking different endings, though they note that spelling and dialogue errors detract from the polish, with some specific achievements remaining broken. Despite these minor issues, players feel the game is absolutely worth playing given that it's free.

Recommended Aug 23, 2026
Went in expecting a 2 hours MAX game, got out with one of the better visual novel experiences. The amount of content this game has makes the fact that it's completely free kind of strange. Trying to get all the endings and even deaths without looking things up was highly enjoyable whilst getting all the achievements. The only errors this game has are some misspelled dialogue and the "awake" achievement STILL not working even on the latest update. i hope that gets fixed soon because having all the achievements except one is kind of annoying. But despite that it's a solid visual novel and i would definitely recommend giving it a shot.
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Recommended Oct 11, 2026
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Recommended Aug 6, 2026
The abundant typos are the only thing that make this feel like a free game. Otherwise, it's very in-depth, with clearly a lot of time and effort put in. The story is good, with a nice psychological horror feel all throughout and a ton of different endings based on different choices. Getting all the endings takes some time. There are also weird dreams you can randomly get during the nights. Overall excellent, this is one hell of a free game.
Recommended May 7, 2026
better than my first game
Recommended May 3, 2026
Cool scary game! With emotions and scary stuff. The characters are well written. Descriptions can get a bit wordy at times, but you can skim through it, and then actually read it when something interesting/different happens. You can also use the scroll wheel or page up/down to go backwards. At one point, I needed a guide. But yeah cool game!
Recommended May 2, 2026
Interesting game. I quite like the ambience tracks.

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