A narrative game about a small town in Oregon in 1986. Developed by
@Gamious
, published by
@WhitethornGames
. Out now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC!
Ho ho ho, Season's Greetings everyone! 🎄🎁✉️
The DLC for Lake is finally here, for PC, Xbox and PlayStation! 🖥️🎮
Return to a snow-covered Providence Oaks and play as Thomas Weiss, Meredith's dad. Enjoy!
Lake is available on Xbox!
And Steam!
And Epic Games Store!
On behalf of everyone at
@Gamious
and
@WhiteThornGames
: thank you for all your support everyone! Enjoy delivering mail in a town... by a lake!
Thank you all so much for the unbelievable support during E3 so far!
The Xbox demo will be available tomorrow, Tuesday June 15.
And the PC demo on Steam on Wednesday June 16!
Please feel free to share your playthroughs and screenshots. 🙂
Thanks again everyone, and have fun!
Can't get enough of driving around your favorite lake? Try the new Endless Mode!
No people or cats to distract you - just your trusty mail van and a randomized delivery list.
Available now as a free update in Lake Classic and Season's Greetings! (Only on Steam at the moment.)
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks? And what will she do next? It's up to you.
Wishlist:
Trailer:
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks? And what will she do next? It's up to you.
Wishlist:
Trailer:
It's almost September 1 1986 / 2021! 🎉
Thanks so much for all of your wonderful support in the past few months everyone. ❤️ And welcome to all of our new followers!
In other happy news - you can now pre-order Lake for Xbox:
Lake lovers, listen up! We're super excited to finally bring our game to
@PlayStation
this Friday, April 8th!
Thanks for your patience, everyone. Granted, it needed a little time in the oven, but now that it's (almost) here, we hope you'll enjoy it. Who wants coffee and pie?☕️🥧
What are your plans for the weekend?
How about a trip to the cozy little town of Providence Oaks?
Take a break from your busy city job and deliver mail in the relaxing countryside when
@Lake_The_Game
launches on
@PlayStation
this Friday, April 8th!🚚
Happy anniversary everyone - Lake came out exactly one year ago! 🥳
We couldn't be more grateful for the game's reception. If you played it, what's your favorite Lake memory?
And if you haven't played it yet, grab this Daily Deal on Steam, 50% off! 👀
The Lake demo for PC is finally available as part of
#SteamNextFest
!
Drive around, deliver mail, talk to people and just... relax for a bit. 🙂
👉
Have fun, and please feel free to stream and share your playthrough!
Can you pet the cats in Lake? Yes, you can! With today's update on International Cat Day, you can now head over to Mildred and find out which cats in her front yard are down for that ever-elusive belly rub!
Lake will be out next week... but you can play the DEMO right now!
Go to Steam and hit the green "download" button:
Play the first couple of in-game days and see if you like the experience.
Special thanks to
@IndieArenaBooth
for having us!
We're excited to include subtitles in all these languages:
English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Turkish!
We would have loved to add even more, but as could be expected: localization is a whole project on its own! 😅
Lake is now available on Switch (with a 25% launch discount)!
Thanks again for your patience, and we hope you'll enjoy spending time in a town... by a lake!
Lake is finally out for
@PlayStation
4 and 5! 🎉
Store link:
If you're in Europe, check out the amazing boxed edition from
@PerpGames
:
We wish you a wonderful time delivering mail in a town... by a lake! 🚚
Tadaaaaa! This is what the Lake plushies look like, and here's a chance to win a Meredith or mail truck plushie! 🥳
How to enter the giveaway?
1. Follow
@Makeship
and
@lake_the_game
2. Retweet this post
3. 🤞
Happy anniversary to our favorite postal delivery service simulator,
@Lake_The_Game
! Two years ago today, Meredith Weiss first took to the streets of Providence Oaks as their temporary postal worker. Help us celebrate by sharing your favorite Lake moments in the comments below!
Thank you much everyone for your amazing support during the game's launch!
As a token of our appreciation, and by popular demand, we added Jack Reynolds's playlist on Spotify:
Now you can be like Meredith and listen to the Lake tunes on the road! 🚚🎶
With great sadness we heard about Brad Venable's passing.
@bradvenable
was one of the first voices cast for Lake. He gave grumpy fisherman Burt Mackey the perfect voice, which helped us to find the right vibe for the rest of the game, for which we are very thankful.
We're... more than a little speechless after reading this review. So happy with this in-depth look at the game!
Thank you very much Tom and Game Crater, that's high praise!
(Spoiler warning! The article reveals / hints at a few plotlines and character developments!)
The Lake playtest will close Monday April 5, so you still have a few days to try it out!
Many of you already joined Meredith delivering mail in a town by a lake. Thank you all so much for your amazing support and feedback. We greatly appreciate all the love for the game!
Will you take a look at that beautiful boxed edition of Lake for
@PlayStation
?! 👀
Limited to Europe for now, but we hope to bring it to other regions in the future as well.
Thanks so much for your wonderful work,
@PerpGames
! ❤️
The
#PS4
and
#PS5
physical edition of the much loved and peaceful adventure,
#Lake
, releases on April 8th 📦
The box has an A3 Map of Providence Oaks inside 🗺️
Find out more here about
#LakeGame
:
🎮
Thanks so much for the amazing support during E3 everyone! We have a bazillion new followers, and so many of you played the demo on Xbox or PC. 🎮
Super grateful for all the attention and kind words. Can't wait for you to play the full game in September!
We're hosting a modest playtest on Steam very soon! If you're interested in Lake, sign up for a chance to be part of it. Of course we are looking for feedback, so please keep that in mind when registering. Thank you!
We're happy to report the first Xbox patch finally went live! 🎉
In the posts below we'll share the most important fixes since v1.0.
However, sadly this patch does not include a fix yet for the most pressing issue - the 'cannot end workday' bug. 😐
We're working on it!
We received a few questions about streaming Lake including the in-game radio music. Here's our answer:
1) If you're licensed to use music from Epidemic Music (either directly or through your MCN), you can play all music in the game.
cont.
Starting June 15 and running through June 21, you can try over 40 demos of upcoming unreleased games for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S! Learn more:
#SummerGameFest
Sometimes, an interview with a game developer just hits the mark perfectly. This is one such interview.
Thank you,
@USgamernet
, for your interest in Lake, for chatting with our creative director, and for the resulting article!
Hello everyone! If you received your invitation to playtest Lake, welcome on board!
We'll explain a few things in the tweets below. Thank you and enjoy!
Today at 11:00am PDT / 8:00pm CEST, Lake will be featured in
@IGN
's
#gamescom2021
broadcast!
Join game director Dylan Nagel on a ride-along with Meredith during one of her workdays, delivering mail and talking to townsfolk.
How to watch:
See you then!
The Steam Awards 2021 have kicked off!
May we humbly suggest Lake for the 'Sit Back and Relax' Award?
If you think those are a good match, vote here:
Thank you much!
The Steam version of the game just got an update!
* Italian and Hungarian localization! 🇮🇹 🇭🇺
* Controls rebinding! 🎮 ⌨️
* Dozens of bug fixes and improvements! 🪲 📈
Maybe time to try the game out for the first time?
Maybe time for a replay?
Have a great weekend everyone!
Happy Holidays everyone! 🎄🎁
Just in case you missed it: the winter DLC for Lake launched a few weeks ago. 🚀❄️
If you're interested in the first few days of "Season's Greetings", the wonderful
@kimchica25
is playing them on our Steam store page!
In our never-ending quest to bring our game to more and more players, Lake will be coming soon to
@GoogleStadia
!
Thanks so much for having us, and a special shout-out to fellow Whitethorn game Calico!🐈⬛
Another week, another patch! Live on both Xbox and PC.
* Pictures should now be in full color, instead of only black! (If you still find one, Nancy's gonna hear about it!)
* The infamous 'teleport to Robert on day 12' bug is gone! No more lonely walks back to the post office!
The second Xbox patch went live today!
Below are the most important updates:
* Fixed the 'cannot end workday' bug on day 6! 🥳 Just load your most recent save game and everything should work out of the box. Phew!
@Lake_The_Game
Hooray!
I hope everyone playing it has as incredible an experience as we did making it! I'm totally in love with this game, and all the characters.
Xbox players stuck on for Saturday September 6, please try these steps:
* Deliver all of the mail.
* Park the truck anywhere away from the post office parking lot.
* Make a manual save.
* Exit the game from the Xbox menu.
* Restart and load the save you made.
* End the work day!
Whitethorn Digital is proud to present Lake, an original IP from
@Gamious
, creators of the hit game Turmoil
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown
Check out the trailer📝📬
@Lake_The_Game
A disappointing update on the Lake plushies: although we extended both campaigns by a week, the goals were not met. 🙁
Hopefully we can give it another go in the future!
PSA: Playtest 2 has started!
Everyone with Playtest 1 access may continue the story for a few extra days. If you have a bit of free time, just play the game and if you find anything strange, please send us a quick note using the in-game form.
1/2
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds".
It might not be the official motto... but the quote still hits the mark. Just like our technical artist
@_staggart_
adding even more magic to our game.
Extended Lake's lighting framework to support weather effects! Reworked the clouds to have visible density, next to them influencing lighting.
#gamedev
#unity3d
#indiedev
#vfx
I finally got up the courage to post my
@Lake_The_Game
fanart.
I really loved the game, the whole atmosphere is amazing, the soundtrack is perfect and this is the couple of the year.
#fanart
Important notice for Xbox players:
There is a Day One Patch on its way! So if you happen to run into an issue, please be patient, and it will most likely be solved within 24 hours.
Thank you in advance for understanding! ❤️
🏆Meet the nominees of
#DevGAMM
Awards!
30 games are nominated in 9 categories. They will split the $40,000 prize fund brought by
@tinyBuild
,
@Xsolla
, Green Grey, and GEM Capital.
⏩All nominees:
Watch the ceremony on November 19!
Do you have any questions about Lake?
Reply to this message to ask!
Our creative director and lead writer Jos will be hosting a Q&A / AMA on Monday. He'll try to answer as many of your questions as possible, without spoiling anything!
#LudoNarraCon
The PlayStation 5 boxed edition of Lake is now available in North America!
Includes a printed map of Providence Oaks and its surroundings. 🗺 👀
We wish you a wonderful time delivering mail in a town... by a lake!
Tired of your busy city job? Why not take a relaxing, two week break delivering mail in the beautiful town of Providence Oaks, Oregon?
We've teamed up with
@PerpGames
to bring
@Lake_The_Game
to a retailer near you!
The Lake PS5 Physical Edition launches today in North America💌
Woohoo, that's amazing! 😍
Thanks so much
#AdventureGameFanFair
, this means a lot to us!
And congratulations to the writing team at
@Gamious
, and the amazing voice actors bringing these wonderful characters to life!
Last week's Steam update is now live on Xbox as well!
* The Fast Travel feature would sometimes explode when the mail truck was already on Auto Pilot. Added extra checks resulting in much safer journeys.
Looks like the cat's out of the bag!
Did she not tell you she auditioned a while ago, and got the part? 💰😁
Thank you so much for playing, Tim! We love your games (Full Throttle is timeless), and obviously the adventure genre as a whole is close to our hearts. ❤️
Check out these LEGO minifig versions of Meredith and Robert, created a while ago by Lake's game director.
We'd love to see a brick-built mail truck to go with these! Maybe an official set,
@LEGO_Group
? 🙏
The third Xbox patch is now live, which finally brings it up to date with the PC version. Even a little ahead! 🙂
This is a smaller one, but still worthwhile:
Let's end Lake's biggest debate! Which is the finest spoof in the Flick Shack?
Help us decide: 16 spoofs, 4 days of first round voting, and the final vote this Friday!
Really excited for the game Lake
@Lake_The_Game
, had fun with the demo, made some fan-art of Mo's Dinner. The game looks beautiful, and the game feel very relaxing. Good luck with the Launch!
Lake was nominated for the 'Best LGBTQ Indie Game' award!
And protagonist Meredith Weiss for the 'Best LGBTQ Character' award!
Check out all awards and nominations here:
We're grateful and excited, thanks for the recognition,
@gaymingmag
! ❤️
Last week, Oregon Public Broadcasting talked to our game director about Lake. Listen to the 18 minute interview here:
They also published an article:
Thank you for your time and interest, OPB! 📻
"Lake's atmosphere is sublime throughout, helped by strong voice acting with Meredith being one of the more memorable, fully-fleshed out video game characters to arrive this year."
Thanks so much for your wonderful review, Emad! 🙏
i had the chance to review lake, a game set in the 80s with your character as a postal worker in a small quiet oregon town. it looks amazing, has interesting characters and contains catchy pop songs playing on the radio
Wow, so happy your experience with the game was pretty much exactly how we hoped it will be for everyone!
Thanks for playing, Samantha!
(Minor spoilers in this short review!)
What?! Even more Lake news today? You bet!
Tune into Wholesome Direct tomorrow to find out Lake's 👉release date👈 on Xbox and PC!
Saturday, June 12 at 10am PT / 7pm CET
More info:
Lake has genuine human interactions, a bright visual art style that is like a balm for the soul, and a no-stress approach to story-telling. You’re guaranteed to come out of it a more relaxed human.
Check the full review here:
Recently,
@GameRant
spoke to our Creative Director about player choice and dramatic tension in Lake.
(Warning: spoiler alert!)
Thanks for your time and interest, Game Rant!
Friendly reminder that these two adorable Lake plushies are almost a reality!
But... only if there's enough interest. Check them out if you like the look of them!
Both the Meredith and Goose
@Makeship
x
@Lake_The_Game
plushy campaigns have already reached 25% funding! Be sure to secure your very own little slice of Providence Oaks while you can!!
Our lead environment and technical artist
@_staggart_
is at it again! If you enjoy learning about how games are made, check out this article on
@80Level
.
"Hmf. Probably another gift from my son."
Preorder your Lake plushie today!
Choose Meredith, or the mail truck, or both!
They are so cute! Only 3 days left on the clock! ⏰
We're thrilled and grateful to be part of the amazing Indie Arena Booth 2021!
Can you spot Lake in the trailer? 😎
If you haven't played the demo yet or want to play it again, you can - just one week before the game's launch!
Thanks so much for having us,
@IndieArenaBooth
! ❤️