Servant of the Lake

Point-and-click mystery mixing household chores with a family's alchemical experiments

Rusty Lake · Released Aug 13, 2026

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 98% of 7,762
Recent reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 97% of 471 in 30 days
Players: 130; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Last update on Steam: 1 month ago; Sep 1, 2026
Minimum PC: 4 GB RAM · 1 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Servant of the Lake?

A single-player point-and-click adventure set in the Vanderboom house, decades before Rusty Lake: Roots. As the family's servant, you explore rooms and solve puzzles as part of your daily duties, from straightening portraits and doing laundry to caring for visitors and assisting with experiments.

For you if...

+you enjoy psychological horror in a domestic setting

Not for you if...

−you want cooperative puzzles instead of a solo game
−you prefer action to solving point-and-click puzzles

What players say

98% of 7,762 reviews are positive · 97% of 471 in the last 30 days

Players praise the balanced puzzle difficulty and additions to the series' lore. Some report inventory or clicking problems, while a recent critical review finds the story formulaic and its grotesque scenarios repetitive.

Screenshots and trailer

Servant of the Lake system requirements

Minimum: 4 GB RAM, 1 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

Can my PC run Servant of the Lake?

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Minimum

OS: Microsoft® Windows® 10 or later
Processor: 2.4GHz Dual Core
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

Does Servant of the Lake have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Servant of the Lake run on Steam Deck?

Verified Yes, Verified by Valve: it works on Steam Deck out of the box.

All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Shows Steam Deck controller icons
In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS
Achievements: 49
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages: Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America.

Does Servant of the Lake use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam