It’s the first #SteamNextFest of the year and you know what that means! We have another batch of fantastic Demos to share with you. Check out the games #TheMazeSuggests 👇

Happy Twin Peaks Day 🗻 Thanks for the inspiration and the damn fine coffee ☕️🥧

Come visit our exclusive Rusty Lake Exhibition, open for one day only @indieshowcasenl.bsky.social 👁️◼️

The Laketober 2025 prize has arrived! I’m sooooooooo excited X3 Thank you so much for such a wonderful gift! The pop-up card is amazing! My room is about overflow with Rusty Lake goodies (∗˃̶ ᵕ ˂̶∗) #ServantOfTheLake #RustyLake

🔥Happy year of the horse!🐎 Celebrate with 34% OFF on all premium Rusty Lake & @Second_maze titles! Additionally, prepare for your new role as Servant of the Lake with a trip to Rusty Lake: Roots, which is 66% OFF as a Steam Daily Deal! 🧨

🎂Happy birthday… Birthday! 🎉 Put on some music and cut the cake (but watch out for needles) and celebrate! Cube Escape: Birthday turns ten years old today! 🥳 Would you attend Dale’s party? 👀

💟Happy Valentine’s Day from the winners of our Discord contest: Rusty Lake-inspired “bad” Valentine’s Day card! 💌✨ Nothing says romance like some Rusty Lake rizz!❣️🦐 🎉Congrats to our winners: Oxxenfree (insta), @kurainvillager.bsky.social ,Black and white cat, & Markuria, jackfandealbert (twitter)

Rusty Lake wouldn’t exist without Adobe Animate…

Valentine’s Day is approaching…and things are getting steamy on our Discord! 🔥💘 It's time for our annual card contest! Create a Rusty Lake-inspired "Bad" Valentine's card and share it in our Discord server. 💌 💟 Discord.gg/rustylake

The Rusty Lake Office opens February 2nd, 2026, 14:30 - 15:30 CET! 🗓️📌 After your digital office visit in Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, now visit IRL! Meet the team, grab merch, play our escape room & more. A visit to die for! 🙌 Will we see you there? Confirm below 👁️ 🔗 forms.gle/QnDzWQwLpfyd...

🚨 Our #SteamDailyDeal ends in under 3 hours! ⏳️ Don't miss out on our biggest Steam discount yet on @rustylake.com's The White Door!

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Happy 8 Years of Rusty Lake Paradise! 🎊 The Eilanders are waiting for you at the party! Play Rusty Lake Paradise, now 80% OFF in our Steam Daily Deal event! 🔥

Our first Rusty Lake spin-off story, The White Door, celebrates its 6th anniversary today! 🎉 Thank you, instagram.com/gabriela.winind/, for beautifully capturing the struggles Robert Hill faces at The White Door! #fanartfriday P.S. The White Door is 70% OFF on Steam till Jan 15th! 👀

🟨 2025: A Year to Remember #tbt From celebrating our 10th anniversary with cake, merch, a short film, & a free-to-play game to announcing Servant of the Lake & showcasing it worldwide! 🪄🎩 Thank you to everyone for making 2025 (& the past decade) at Rusty Lake so special! 🙏

The Servant of the Lake Demo will be featured in the GIG Showcase, organised by @gelius.bsky.social ✨🧹 Check out the livestream now, alongside 100+ upcoming indie games 🏡 www.youtube.com/@gelius__

⏰️ 4h left of icy cool discounts on all our premium Rusty Lake games on Steam ✨️ ❄️ store.steampowered.com/developer/ru...

🎊 Happy New Year! 🥂✨ 🎂 Our 10-year anniversary curtain call 🪄 ushers in a carriage journey back to our roots! 🏡 In 2026, get ready to once again step through the doors of the Vanderboom family home and take up the role of Servant of the Lake 🧹

Happy Holidays from Rusty Lake! 🕯️🎄 We hope you enjoyed a glimpse at the Vanderboom household and their holiday rituals! 🪟🧩 Now gift them that which they most desire for a chance to win a @lostincult.co.uk anniversary bundle! 🎁👇 ✍️ forms.gle/uRWevA2rghPV...

☃️ On the third day before Christmas, Aldous asked of me… 🪟 A stack of famous books… 📚✍️ 🧩👀

❄️🎁 Point-&-Clickmas Giveaway Time! 🎁❄️ In the spirit of the gift-giving season, our friends @amanita-design.net have given us the wonderful Pilgrims board game to give away! To enter, solve this puzzle: 🐐👃🧅🦣🥚 Submit your answer here 👉 forms.gle/76uvnnnYqX4P...

❄️ The Rusty Lake Winter Sale is now live on Steam! 🎄 Save up to 44% on all our premium Rusty Lake games & @secondmaze.bsky.social titles until Jan 5, 2026. This holiday season, treat yourself or a loved one to a surreal experience on Steam. 🎁 🎉 store.steampowered.com/developer/ru...

Point-&-Clickmas Bundle ❄️🎄 We’re teaming up with @amanita-design.net this holiday season! Two atmospheric adventures wrapped together for cozy festive downtime. 🎁 Grab both for ✨ 50% off ✨ on Steam now! store.steampowered.com/bundle/63528...

Congratulations to our amazing Community Manager, Andreea @noflavor.bsky.social, on five years at The Lake! 💙 Her passion and care have truly helped shape our community and the Rusty Lake universe. To celebrate, Maarten Pelders created this artwork honouring her achievements (and side quests) ✨

🎄 This December, share the gift of Rusty Lake with someone close to you by gifting both of you a copy of The Past Within for ✨️ 70% OFF ✨️ during our Steam Daily Deal Event! 🎁 store.steampowered.com/app/1515210/... * Sale ends on December 18th

🚨 UPDATE: The Rusty Lake 10th Anniversary Collection (with @lostincult.co.uk) is NOW SHIPPING! Thank you for your patience while we perfected these premium items! Keep an 👁️ on your email for tracking info. Can't wait to see your unboxings! 📦✨

7 years later, we returned to WePlay, Shanghai! ✈️ Fans came by to play the Servant of the Lake demo, 📸 posed in scenes from Birthday & Rusty Lake: Hotel, joined our meet & greets and our on-stage Q&A. 🤩 Thank you to our amazing fans, cosplayers & the WePlay team for the warm welcome! 🚣

One more WePlay 2025 highlight! 🤩 This #Fanartfriday we’d like to highlight all of the artwork we received from fans and all the amazing cosplay we saw last weekend at WePlay. We’re always stunned when we see what beautiful things our fans put together inspired by Rusty Lake ❣️

Servant of the Lake: the new premium point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series from the creators of the Cube Escape series, The Past Within and Underground Blossom. rustylake.itch.io/servant-of-t... by @rustylake.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDx9...

Read all about this incredible event in our latest blog post 👉 blog.rustylake.com/thank-you-we... ✨

🎬 Thank you WePlay 2025 ✨ This weekend hundreds of fans joined us in Shanghai at our biggest booth to date 🤩 We showcased the Servant of the Lake demo, held meet & greets, hosted a Q&A, and even presented the Excellence in Narrative award at Indie Play 👀 Thanks to our amazing fans who came by 🙏

Help us bring The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show to the stage of the #SteamAwards2025! 🎩 Act 21: Steam Award? 🐇 If you enjoyed our 10-year anniversary magic show and its signature minimalistic look, nominate The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show for Outstanding Visual Style! 🪄 store.steampowered.com/news/app/347...

Content creators! The Lake is calling... ☎️ Jordan is looking for creators to join the Servant of the Lake launch next year. 🧹 Is this you? Submit your details below👇 forms.gle/dZK579cCjSH2...

The Rusty Lake team is growing!😄 Welcome our new Servant of the Lake & marketing alchemist 🥁… Jordan! ⚗️ Jordan is giving away a Servant of the Lake Goodie Bag! Share your favourite Rusty Lake moment, game, puzzle, or theory for a chance to win. 🧪✨

Steam Machine acquired at Rusty Lake ⬛✨

#ThrowbackThursday to when we showcased Cube Escape: Paradox at WePlay Expo in Shanghai 7 years ago ⬛️✨️ We had such an amazing time meeting so many of our incredible Chinese community that we decided to take the flying carriage and attend WePlay once again this year with Servant of the Lake! 🙌

That Cube belongs to us ◼️👀

All good things must come to an end, but not before a final round of incredible #laketober 2025 art! 🎊 Thank you to everyone who participated and made this 10-year anniversary edition of #laketober truly special! ✨ We can’t wait to do it all over again next year! 🙌

🕯️🎃 Congrats to Vambisailles for winning our #RustyHalloween contest 🎃🕯️ Many Corrupted Souls have been unleashed this Halloween...Thanks to everyone who joined! 🖤 www.tiktok.com/@vambisaille...

✨🎃 The Lake wishes you all a Happy Halloween! 🎃✨ Thank you tiktok.com/@charlies.planet/ for this incredible 🎃 Halloween Vanderpumpkin! 🕯 Ps. We'll share our #RustyHalloween winner later today 👻 and stay tuned for our final batch of amazing #laketober2025 winners next week! 🙌

had to draw by hand 😭🫰🏻 #RustyHalloween

👁️ Unleash a Corrupted Soul into your home this Halloween… and win a #ServantoftheLake Goodie Bag 🎁🖤 Decorate your home and share it with #RustyHalloween, don’t forget to tag us 👀 Template & instructions below 🕯️👇

Decorate your Steam Library for Halloween 🎃 with our Rusty Lake premium games, now 55% OFF in the Steam Scream IV Fest! 👻 🦇 store.steampowered.com/developer/ru... Ps. You can check out our Servant of the Lake demo for free and spend a 15-30 min trial period serving the Vanderboom household 🧹

Servants, your contracts have been reviewed 🖊️ Congratulations geneon101! Your signature crossed from the Vanderdoom estate into reality.🩸 To all servants who signed, your devotion will not be forgotten. If you’ve yet to sign, your Servant of the Lake contract awaits below 👇

🎩 Give it up for one more round of incredible #laketober2025 winners! 👏 We’re constantly amazed by all your creative takes on all our prompts so far and cannot wait to see what you got in store for us for the grand #laketober finale! 🤩

We're excited to share that not only are we leaving the Servant of the Lake demo up on Steam indefinitely, but the demo is also now available on itch.io! 🎉 🧹 rustylake.itch.io/servant-of-t...

Our Servant of the Lake demo is the No. 14 most-played Steam Next Fest demo out of 3k+ participating demos! 🙌 Thank you all for answering the call to serve the Vanderboom family! 💚

🎂 Celebrate 9 years of Rusty Lake: Roots with us by going down memory lane to relieve some iconic moments from our second premium game in the Rusty Lake saga! 🕞 We hope you’re excited to go back to the Vanderboom house next year in Servant of the Lake! 👀

One lucky servant will win a #ServantoftheLake goodie bag for #SteamNextFest 🎁 🖋️ Re-sign your contract with the Vanderbooms. The more dramatic, unhinged, or mysteriously stained, the better. 🐦‍⬛ Tag us so the Vanderbooms can see it with #SteamNextFest. 🏰