Lake
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, with its iconic lake and quirky…
Lake is an adventure developed by Gamious, released 1 September 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 9 hrs to finish.
What Lake is
Lake is an adventure game developed by Gamious and released in 2021. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It's September 1, 1986. You take on the role of 40-something Meredith Weiss, who returns to her beautiful hometown Providence Oaks in Oregon. She exchanges her busy career job to temporary fill in for her dad, a mail carrier. Meredith has an eventful two weeks. She meets lots of new people, gets into romances, helps prevent the construction of apartments, gets reconnected with her bff, rats or bails out a colleague, and gets pushed by her boss back home to recommit to her career job.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy, drama and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 10 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Lake holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 7 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 68, across 73 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-4570 / AMD FX-8350, 8 GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 760 / Radeon HD 7950 (2GB VRAM). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Lake launched on 1 September 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Lake yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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