![]() ![]() Paradise is probably unpleasant at the best of times but the name is doubly ironic at the moment, as in the wake of Jakob’s mother’s death the island has been beset by the Biblical ten plagues of Egypt-frogs, flies, diseased livestock, and so on. “Home” in this case is the titular Paradise, a small and barely habitable island in the middle of a lake. The setup this time: Jakob Eilander, eldest son, returns home after his mother’s death. The rabbit hole is now a dozen games deep though, each a piece of a larger and far more unsettling story, spanning a hundred years of Victorian Gothic macabre.Īnd Rusty Lake Paradise digs the hole even deeper. Taken alone, each is a perfectly competent adventure game in the escape room mold. It’s in pulling at those interwoven threads we find the real puzzle of Rusty Lake. Three games into its run on Steam, following 2016’s Rusty Lake Hotel and Rusty Lake Roots double-feature, the Rusty Lake series has already built up an extensive layered mythos-one that’s even more convoluted when you add in the nine (shorter, free, and related) Cube Escape games from the same developer. ![]() Rusty Lake Paradise is a puzzle game where the puzzles are the least puzzling aspect.
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