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Servant of the Lake
Take a job inside the Vanderboom estate and survive three unsettling days of chores, surreal puzzles, and alchemical secrets. Use spoiler-aware help whenever the house stops making sense.
- Aug 13, 2026Release date
- 3 daysMain story
- 24 tasksOfficial chapters
- 49Achievements
THE VANDERBOOM ESTATE
Start here
Your first route through the estate
Choose the kind of help you need. The main story remains hidden until you open it.
Beginner Guide
Learn the inventory, room interactions, saving behavior, and spoiler-light basics before your first shift.
Open guide →02Day 1 Walkthrough
Complete the arrival, breakfast, chores, Aldous sequence, reception, night watch, and attic.
Open guide →03Puzzle Solutions
Reveal hints before answers for the cups, exercise, berries, flowers, suitcases, and hidden box.
Open guide →04Achievement Guide
Track all 49 achievements, including 24 story unlocks, missable interactions, and the final chain.
Open guide →About the game
What is Servant of the Lake?
Servant of the Lake is a premium single-player point-and-click puzzle adventure developed by Rusty Lake. You work inside the Vanderboom estate, completing daily chores that gradually turn into surreal and unsettling challenges.
Set decades before Rusty Lake: Roots, it combines room exploration, observation puzzles, hidden achievements, dark humor, and alchemical experiments across a three-day stay.
- Developer
- Rusty Lake
- Platforms
- Steam, itch.io, iOS, Android
- Genre
- Point-and-click puzzle adventure
- Languages
- 23 supported
Your shift starts now
Ready to serve the Vanderbooms?
Follow the full route, or jump straight to the puzzle blocking your progress.