About This Game Lake Ridden is a story-driven, first-person puzzle game! A cozy supernatural adventure where you unravel a mysterious past, trying to find your sister. Luckily, you are not alone....You are Marie, a 13-year-old girl and the year is 1988. The warm summer is giving way to the first signs of autumn. Reluctantly, you join your younger sister and her friends for one last camping weekend in the wilderness of Maine. It was going just great, but the second night by the sizzling campfire, an argument with your sister ended with her running off into the forest. While searching for her, you stumble upon an old forgotten estate.To solve the mystery, and ultimately find your sister, you must investigate for clues, solve tricky puzzles and communicate with former residents!Key Game FeaturesPuzzles, Mystery, and ExplorationLake Ridden is a story-driven mystery, focusing on narration, atmosphere and challenging puzzles.A Beautiful SettingUncover an old estate filled with mysteries, explore a stunning forest and experience a cozy time-bending adventure.Challenging Puzzles and InvestigationSolve tricky puzzles and look for clues as you investigate your sister's disappearance.Experience a Rich StoryImmerse yourself in a narrative where you'll get to know Marie and other characters as you dive deeper into the mystery.Created by former Minecraft and Paradox developers. Lake Ridden is not a horror game, nor a walking simulator. 7aa9394dea Title: Lake RiddenGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:Midnight HubPublisher:Midnight HubRelease Date: 10 May, 2018 Lake Ridden Activation Code [crack] lake ridden puzzle. lake ridden update. lake ridden ship. lake ridden box puzzle. lake ridden ps4. descargar lake ridden. lake ridden gate. lake ridden español. lake ridden gog. lake ridden solution. lake ridden optical puzzle. lake ridden puzzle solutions. lake ridden pc. glen ridden lake district. lake ridden game review. lake ridden safe. lake ridden igg. lake ridden ending explained. lake ridden recenzja. lake ridden juego. lake ridden update. lake ridden steam. lake ridden pc. lake ridden ign. lake ridden engine. lake ridden komplettlösung. lake ridden igg. lake ridden island puzzle. lake ridden final puzzle. lake ridden root cellar. lake ridden trailer I didn't write too many reviews of games yet, but I'll put my thoughts into order for this one:What started out with paralells to "Through the Woods" quickly evolved from a walking simulator to a first person puzzle game. You still find snippets of journals/letters, but part of the story is also acted out vocally, which makes the characters more relatable than just plain text.Visually the scenes convey mostly calmness, a bit of lonelyness and at points coldness, until you light the lamps/candles all around (seriously, there are hundreds of them XD). Also stylewise the game was pretty well realized, to be close to realistic, but not in a way that makes some other games' textures look like imported photos. The ambience is subtle, calm, soothing, always there, but never really diverting your attention from the task at hand.The puzzles come in multiple varieties, some repeat, but many are unique. Those unique puzzles can be a bit harder, not only needing one layer, but two layers of hints, which you can get from journals, letters, environment etc. I really liked that you could "revisit" most of the gameworld, even at a later stage, just to see, if you happened to miss anything (or experience the place in a different light), since in many games you are just pushed down a linear path and never get to catch up on collectibles you missed, unless you started an old savefile or from chapter selection.Overall, it was a fun and at times, challenging trip, with some very interesting characters.Also the soundtrack will be part of my work playlist now :D. I'am sure the devs meant well, but i just can't give the game a positive review, just because it dosen't have much positive in it. I would go for a neutral review if that's been possible.The game is a mix of a Walking Simulator and a Puzzle Game. While it tries to be both at the same time, it fails in doing so greatly. It's just OK-ish in every aspect and nothing more. There is stuff to explore like in any Walking Simulator "Game", but there is just nothing really interesting you can explore. So much stuff you can pick up, look at, but don't have any purpose. So many empty drawers to open and so many items you can't interact it in the first place. A dark, dull environment and poor graphic aren't very helpful to keep you motivated.Story is just incredible generic and boring. It tries to be scary at times, but even fails in that department. Extremly annoying Ghosts/Spirits and uninteresting Characters all over the place. Dull notes of Lore you can find and Drawings without any connection to anything. Overall Story and the conclusion is just meh.Puzzles are ok, but they are just very easy and the solution is most of the time right next to the puzzle itself. Which isn't that bad, but still looks like if they didn't put much thought into it. There mostly just 3 recurring puzzles you have to handle. One kind of sliding puzzle for gates to unlock, one kind of "hit buttons puzzle" to open all the optional puzzle boxes and one kind of "memorize 5-6 buttons in a row puzzle" for main story boxes to open. The just vary a little bit, but nothing more. Only interesting puzzles are those few that advance the main story. Anything else is boring, easy and uninspired.Only real positive about it, it's over pretty soon and you can get 100% on Archivements easy, if you interested. Music is ok. Playtime is very short. Just 6-8 hours.If you really wanna buy it wait for a heavy sale. If you don't buy it, be assured, you won't miss anything. There are just so many good puzzle games out there and even better Walking Simulators than this, if you into such things. This one is just not worth the money.. I love puzzle adventure games \u00e0 la Myst and from the trailer this game seemed like the perfect fit for me, but I sadly can't recommend it, for multiple reasons:- Story:I didn't find the story particularly interesting, but I guess that's a matter of opinion. What is more problematic is the way it's written. It doesn't feel like it's been written by a professional writer, which doesn't make us feel engaged in the story and makes the characters difficult to believe, with sentences like: "Today it was the first clear sky for the first time in several months".The story is mostly told through letters that seems to have been ripped from people's diaries and, for some reason, scattered everywhere. A lot of walking simulators do this, but in this case it makes it all feel really fake since you'll often find pages saying something like "I hope this person doesn't know that I hid this object in that box", and the page is placed on the floor, right in front of said box. It feels like the people living in this world are really bad at hiding secrets, but mostly it feels like the people who made the game didn't know how to guide the player around their world in a more subtle way.Another problem is that the game is filled with paper everywhere: on the floors, on desks, in drawers. The letters that you can read are a little different from decorative letters, but not a whole lot, so the game quickly becomes a pixel hunting game in 3d, where you need to look in every drawer (and there are a lot of drawers!) and move your mouse over every piece of paper in case one of them is important. It's even more problematic since some objects are buggy. For example, if you open the top drawer of a cabinet, as you mouse over the content of the drawer your cursor will change, telling you that there is something to click. You'll think it's a letter, only to find that it's actually the hitbox to open the drawer under it...For the dialogues, there is a voice actress, but the problem is that the same person does all the voices. It can sometimes be confusing to know who is talking. To help with that they added subtitles that change color depending on who is talking, which is good, except for the parts where they mix up the colors, although I've only noticed this once. It's also sometimes not clear if the main character is talking to you or if it\u2019s a non-character narrator.Last thing with the story is that it's really bad at making you feel engaged. You start the game looking for your sister, you see her at the other side of a broken bridge, you find a way to get there and she's gone. The rest of the game you are progressing through the world to find her. The problem is that, to try to find your sister, you solve a bunch of puzzles to open doors that you know your sister can't have gone through, since the puzzles weren't solved when you got there. So for the first 5 minutes you feel like you're looking for your sister, but for the rest of the game you feel like you're wasting valuable time on side quests, helping other characters and searching rooms full of drawers to open.- Puzzles:The puzzles are the second most important part of this game, but they're just as bad as the story.The game contains a lot of the puzzles we normally find in students' projets, like the puzzles where a machine plays a pattern and you need to repeat it, or puzzles where you press a button that switches the lights on the buttons around it and you need to find out how to light the whole board. There is even a gear puzzle and a pipe puzzle.Some of those basic puzzles are even there multiple times, like the lightswitch puzzle that is there 9 times, and the repeating pattern puzzle that is there more than 3 times.The other puzzles are a little better, but a big problem with them is that, just like the letters about hidden secrets that are placed right next to the hidden secret, puzzles often have their solution written right next to them. There is no need to search for clues or anything, it's all right there. For example, you have an inventory system, but the game could probably do without it since most of the time you'll add items to your inventory, only to place it straight away on a machine that's right next to where the items were.Speaking of items, there is a lot of trash in this world that you can interact with, and I mean literal trash, like empty cans that you can pick up and examine for some reason. Because of that, it's often difficult to know when there are important items to find between all the trash.Some of the puzzles and charades can also sometimes be interpreted in multiple ways, which is annoying, and some of the solutions don't make much sense. Puzzle games are my favorite type of games and I've played a ton of them, but the puzzles in this one just weren't interesting to me.- Saving system:The game has an autosave feature and no manual save. Normally that's not a problem because most puzzle adventure games save as soon as you change something on a puzzle, or at least as soon as you solve a puzzle or an important part of a puzzle. Lake Ridden saves... when it wants to.Sometimes it doesn't even autosave after solving a big puzzle, like one of the big puzzles that unlock a new section. You'll solve the puzzle, but before it saves you'll need to walk 20 meters towards the next section to reach a point that triggers a save.Another problem is that the loading icon (when it loads a new section) is placed in the same corner as the saving icon. If you look at it directly, you can tell the difference between the two, but if you're looking at the center of the screen and just see something in the corner of the screen you'll have no idea if the game was saved, or if the game is just loading the next room.It becomes a big problem when, after solving a big puzzle, the trigger to load the next section comes before the one to save. One time I spent 15 minutes on a puzzle, started walking towards the next section, saw an icon in the corner, thought the game was saved and closed it. When I loaded back the game I saw that it hadn't saved my progress and that I needed to waste another 15 minutes to solve the puzzle once more, because the icon I saw was actually the loading icon. The trigger to save was another 10 meters after the trigger to load the next section. This is very annoying. I can't count how many times I wanted to exit the game but kept on playing simply because I wasn't sure how far back the game had last autosaved.- Level design:In multiple sections, especially in the first sections of the game, the level design feels like you're walking through a maze. They added a bunch of lights that you can light along your way to help you remember the places you've already visited, which helps, but a game shouldn't require you to light up hundreds of lights just so you can understand where you are going.There are also funny directions given to you by characters, like one time when I'm coming out of a house, in the middle of a forest. It's raining and there is a lot of fog, making it hard to see, and a character tells me "the path is over there, next to the trees". I'm in a forest, of course it's next to the trees! But what trees? From the missions list, it said that I had to get to the lake, so I took the path I knew was going to the lake, but no, that wasn't the right part of the lake. It turns out there was another more hidden path leading to another side of the lake...- Graphics:The game doesn't look like the images on the store page. I\u2019m not sure if they changed something to the style after the game came out or if those images are art renderings of the game, but the real game is very different. The graphics in the game are a lot less contrasted and saturated and there is more fog. It makes it look a little more realistic than in those high contrast images, but it also makes it a lot harder to see what's around you, making it even more difficult to navigate the levels.. This game is one of the most stunning looking game i've ever played. This is a nice and chill game to experience if you have few hours to spend. You can easily complete the a 100% playthrough in about 4-5 hours if you take your time and look carefully around you. The puzzles are very easy at the beginning and they get more challenging towards the end, but you can solve them without problems with some decent logic. There is nothing scary about this game, but sometimes the eerie atmosphere is filled with a strange feeling washing over you. Overall, this game is a great 8/10, not worth the price though. Probably suggest to get it on sale.. Perfectly servicable Nordo-Jank. I absolutely love this game so far! It's very atmospheric and the surroundings are stunning. The story is interesting and intriguing and I have enjoyed the few puzzles I've tried so far. I will update this review once I've finished the game, but if you're looking for an atmospheric and well made game I would highly recommend this one!. A first-person adventure game, which has an absolutely incomprehensible story, but many riddles that are still so much fun you just keep playing.. Decent game,but to short. A rather boring story. Did little to keep me motivated. Lake Ridden Patch #1: Hi all, thank you so much for playing Lake Ridden <3 Releasing our first game as a studio together has been such an amazing (and very stressful) experience. We're reading every single comment and all the feedback we can find, so keep it comin'! Here's our first patch to improve Lake Ridden:Lake Ridden Changelog 1.1 A player could previously fall through the ground when clicking continue The player should no longer be stuck in the basement V-sync should now be properly set on startup Changed some texts to make it easier to find places Fixed outer bounds were a player could move outside of the world It is now easier to rebind shift and ctrl for other functions Gate rotation puzzles now work better with low-resolution textures Keyholes added to doors that were missing themNext up we'll continue fixing bugs. In parallel to this, we'll hopefully start working on the Mac port and the controller support as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience! If you enjoyed the game please consider leaving a review since every review means the world to a small indie studio like us!Cheers,The Lake Ridden Team. Lake Ridden Patch #5: Hi all! This version is focused on major performance improvements and for some of you who have reported issues with saves. We also added a few fixes noted during our recent showing at EGX.Lake Ridden Change log 1.5 Improved save disk handling Improved performance, especially when moving around in the game Small game play improvementsIf you experience bugs in the game, drop us an email to support@midnighthub.com and we'll do our best to help you out!Cheers,The Lake Ridden Team. Lake Ridden Gameplay and Releasedate Trailer Live!: Hi all! Lake Ridden will be available on May the 10th! It's hard to believe something we've worked on for the past 2,5 years will soon be live for you to play and enjoy! We really hope you appreciate the brand new trailer we made to celebrate this! Lake Ridden trailer on Steamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvUGYnKDB2oLake Ridden has a playtime of roughly 6h – 9h, and it will be sold for 19,99€/19,99$/14,99£. At release, our game will run on PC only, but we’ll do our very best to make sure it also runs on Mac and support controllers as soon as possible after release! If you’re as excited as we are, make sure to tell your friends about Lake Ridden and help us spread the word.If you’re press and looking to cover Lake Ridden, drop us an email to: press@midnighthub.com. Keymailer link for streamers HERE [www.keymailer.co]Cheers,- The Lake Ridden Team. Lake Ridden Gameplay and Releasedate Trailer Live!: Hi all! Lake Ridden will be available on May the 10th! It's hard to believe something we've worked on for the past 2,5 years will soon be live for you to play and enjoy! We really hope you appreciate the brand new trailer we made to celebrate this! Lake Ridden trailer on Steamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvUGYnKDB2oLake Ridden has a playtime of roughly 6h – 9h, and it will be sold for 19,99€/19,99$/14,99£. At release, our game will run on PC only, but we’ll do our very best to make sure it also runs on Mac and support controllers as soon as possible after release! If you’re as excited as we are, make sure to tell your friends about Lake Ridden and help us spread the word.If you’re press and looking to cover Lake Ridden, drop us an email to: press@midnighthub.com. Keymailer link for streamers HERE [www.keymailer.co]Cheers,- The Lake Ridden Team. New Lake Ridden Story Trailer: Hi guys!As you might have noticed we launched our new story trailer a little while ago, here on the Steam page but also on the Interwebz! IGN even picked up the trailer and post it, which is huge for us!The trailer can be viewed on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFu7EGS9EKoOn our Lake Ridden Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/696530/Lake_Ridden/We really hope you like it! And a HUGE thanks to all you puzzle fans who came to try the demo at EGX!Cheers,- Sara & The Lake Ridden Team. Lake Ridden Patch #3: Hi all, and thanks for your awesome feedback! We are working on controllers and Patch 3 has partial support. Full support should be added in the next few weeks.Lake Ridden Changelog 1.3 Added a map of the village area Increased contrast on some screens, especially at night Improved performance when moving between zones in the game Improved performance in the garden Improved saving/loading for Island puzzles Improved performance and reliability of saves Added new frame smoothing for mouse input The camera would turn wildly during scene loads The game no longer runs in the background Changing resolution in the game would be unreliable on some PCs Minor tweaks to hints and objectives Lots of additional minor fixesIf you experience bugs in the game make sure to drop us an email to support@midnighthub.com and we'll do our best to help you out!Cheers,The Lake Ridden Team
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