Lake of Darkness
Steeze Games · 2025 · Psychological Horror, Visual Novel, Choose Your Own Adventure, Exploration, Puzzle
PC
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About Lake of Darkness
Lake of Darkness is an atmospheric visual novel psychological thriller inspired by games such as Milk Inside a Bag of Milk, Omori, And the Don't Escape trilogy.As your small town is coming to grips with multiple mysterious disappearances you get a premonition in a dream that you are destined to die in three days. The game reacts to the choices you make. Will you hide from your fate? Spend your last few days with loved ones? Try to break the cycle? Or rediscover the secrets of your past?Developed in Renpy, this game is the first major project from a solo developer. In Lake of Darkness you follow a teenager as they try to understand the strange town they live in and defeat an inescapable ominous pursuer. Taking place over 3 days you have limited time to prepare for their arrival and to understand the mysteries surrounding these strange creatures.Features include:
- Over 12 collectable items
- 35+ unique endings
- Soundtrack with 30 atmospheric songs
- Branching story with a dialogue script over 8000 lines long
- 3 Repeatable minigames
- Interactive 2D pixel art environments
- & many horrific fates to discover.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h3] I streamed this game on Twitch with a small live audience and they all agreed we need more of this game. [/h3] Video here: https://youtu.be/vi-r2jVVYy4 First thing I would like to say: I don't really care for visual novels. It's not my cup of tea, but I gave an exception to Doki Doki Literature Club because I love games that deal with manipulating real world files. Now I'm glad I made an exception with this game too. I will admit that I was slightly put off by the style at first, but this is a great example of proof why good games don't need great graphics. The storytelling was great, the world building and character building were both really well done. The horror throughout this game was spectacular. The tiny things on later days that insinuate that things might not be so peachy after all really helped in setting the tension. The different creatures and deaths that you can encounter are gruesome, and the glitches you can get through multiple loops were an astounding addition. The amount of detail that was put into descriptions of actions and sounds, especially with when [spoiler] you encounter Casey and choose to leave her behind [/spoiler], dear God that really hit m…2 found this helpful
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better than my first game
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!
Interesting game. I quite like the ambience tracks.
I've gotten most endings by this point, and I absolutely loved piecing together the story through what we're given. Great music and atmosphere. Lots of random creepy things that can happen too. Would love to see more :)
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