
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.
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About
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.

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Languages: English
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странная, музыка кайфовая, меланхолия ммм...инглиш бэд коз нот андерстуд
nice
This game is strange It freaked me out multiple times and I never felt like I was making the right choice because I never seemed to get a "good ending" but I feel like thats the point
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Hours played at review time, across 25 reviews with recorded playtime.
Interesting story. Very eerie for sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omIzwhMH5r0&t=430s
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.
Игра 'Lake of Darkness' - это мрачная и атмосферная текстовая адвенчура, увлекающая в мир древних тайн и оккультных ритуалов. Сюжет разворачивается вокруг зловещего озера и загадочных событий, происходящих в его окрестностях. Игроку предстоит исследовать локации, решать головоломки и взаимодействовать с не менее загадочными персонажами, чтобы раскрыть правду. Что мне понравилось: атмосфера передана просто великолепно! Описания жуткие и детализированные, заставляющие почувствовать леденящий холод и тревогу. Головоломки достаточно сложные, но логичные, а процесс их решения доставляет истинное удовольствие. Особенно понравилась нелинейность сюжета и возможность влиять на концовку своими решениями. Что можно было бы улучшить: местами встречаются грамматические ошибки, немного портящие впечатление. Также хотелось бы больше вариантов взаимодействия с персонажами. В целом, это отличная игра для любителей классических текстовых адвенчур и хоррор-тематики. Рекомендую!
absoluter peak, gutes writing und crazy guter soundtrack
better than my first game
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.
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!
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