Is Lake of Voices free?

Yes — Lake of Voices is free to play, so you can install and play it without buying anything.

Is Lake of Voices Steam Deck compatible?

Mostly. Valve rates Lake of Voices Playable on Steam Deck: it runs, but may need some manual tweaking — a community controller layout, or zooming in on small text.

Can I play Lake of Voices on Mac?

Yes. Lake of Voices has a native macOS version on Steam.

Is Lake of Voices multiplayer?

No — Steam lists Lake of Voices as single-player only.

Is Lake of Voices on PC Game Pass?

No — Lake of Voices is not on PC Game Pass right now.

Lake of Voices

Name: Lake of Voices
Brand: GB Patch Games
Availability: InStock

GB Patch Games · August 28, 2018 · Free to Play, Visual Novel, Indie, Casual, Female Protagonist

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About Lake of Voices

✦ AI summary

Navigate a cursed lake filled with drowning creatures while making brutal triage decisions about who in your group survives the crossing. Every choice matters in this fully voiced story where sacrifice is inevitable and there's no right answer, only the consequences of your decisions.

A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where gruesome monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.

Lake of Voices — game info

Platforms: Windows, macOS
Steam Deck: Playable
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.

Not recommended Oct 3, 2026

The voice acting is good minus the main protagonist and the story is wack, if a neighboring village needs guards to help deal with marauders you send... two? From the looks of what I've played in the VN they don't use their swords either so that makes sense.

Recommended Sep 23, 2026

One of the best visual novels I've played in a while. All the characters are very well written and things are not like what it seems on the surface at all [spoiler]literally and figuratively lol.[/spoiler] It's not a horror game per se but it does have that creepy and haunting aesthetic to it which I LOVE, and I also adore the artstyle so much. Overall 11/10, the plot twist is also really good and makes you question everything you'd seen up until that point.

Recommended Aug 7, 2026

[h2] Lake of Voices [/h2] It’s a decent Free Visual Novel, that being said I wasn’t personally hooked by the story. I still decided to try every single routes + Bonus, some paths are better than others. I’m not a big fan of timed choices mostly because I like reading VN’s to relax. I personally like VN without voice acting, I felt that most voices didn’t really fit the characters a part from Margret and Lu. I ended up playing with the sound off. The art and background are amazing! If you want to 100% this VN it would take around 7h of reading.

Recommended Aug 3, 2026

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Recommended Jul 19, 2026

Pretty impressive VN for being free. I'm not sure I would call it a "horror". It has a bit of a creepy atmosphere and can be a bit creepy at times but overall I wasn't particularly phased. The writing is mostly good. Each individual run is fairly short but there's a lot of branching paths. Most of the wider lore comes from one specific path and if you think about it too hard it loses some of its coherence but overall still enjoyable. This game has full voice acting which is pretty unusual for a free title. The voice acting is certainly not perfect but it does the job well enough. If this game was paid I'd keep my rating as "Recommended" probably up to about £10.

Recommended Jun 25, 2026

Really like the art alot, fascinated by nixi and I'm glad to have found this gem!

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