Cube Escape: The Lake

Cube Escape: The Lake is the second game in Rusty Lake’s Cube Escape series. You have found an abandoned cabin on a small island in the middle of Rusty Lake, and all you can find is fishing tackle, a knife and a crowbar. Explore the room and go fishing; perhaps you can change your fate.

The developers made this as a small addition to the story of Cube Escape: Seasons, which is why it was only announced on 27 April 2015, when the release of both games was declared together.

How the game plays

• Controls: mouse only.
• Menu: the gear icon in the top right corner.
• Inventory: down the right-hand side of the screen.
• Saving: automatic. The save folder location differs by operating system and game version.

Gathering the tackle

Take the ROD leaning against the wall and pick up the LINE from the floor.

Zoom in on the desk drawer and take the KNIFE.

Zoom out and look up. Take the INSECT off the ceiling.

Look back down and to the right. Pull a SHEET OF PAPER out from behind the window architrave and examine it: you need to collect five items.

Look right and pick up the HOOK from the floor. Open the cabinet and take the CROWBAR. Look right.

Fit the rod into its holder and attach the line. Attach the hook to the line and bait it with the insect.

Fishing

Cast the rod and catch a SHRIMP.

Look right and zoom in on the worktop. Put the shrimp on the chopping board and cut it with the knife. Take the KEY from inside it, and the SHRIMP HEAD.

Zoom out from the table and unlock the upper cabinet on the right with your new key. Take the WORM and the MAGNET. Look left.

Bait the hook with the worm, cast, and catch a FISH. Look right, zoom in on the chopping board, put the fish on it and cut it with the knife. Click the fish repeatedly until a tree grows out of it.

Zoom out and look left. Zoom in on the hook and bait it with the shrimp head. Zoom out, cast, and catch a CORPSE. Zoom in on it, cut it with the knife and take out an APPLE.

• Achievement 1/8.

Zoom out, then zoom back in on the hook and attach the magnet. Zoom out, cast into the water and pull up a KEY. Cast again with the magnet and pull up a CASKET. Cast a third time for a second CASKET.

Zoom out and look right. Unlock the lower cabinet with the key you fished up and take a COIN.

• Achievement 3/8.

Use the crowbar to lever off the sawn board in the wall and take the KEY from the cache behind it. Turn around, by looking left or right twice.

Unlock the wall cabinet with that key and take the MOULD. Look right and zoom in on the hook. Remove the magnet and attach the mould. Zoom out, cast, and catch a SHELL.

• Achievement 5/8.

The two caskets

Zoom out. Select the first casket you fished up in your inventory and note the inscription pointing back to the previous game: remember the seasons. Enter the code you used in that game, 1487, open the casket and take the GREEN GEMSTONE.

• Achievement 2/8.

Look at the second casket. Note the word Mirror. Cut the symbols in half in your mind and you get the expression 6 × 237. Enter the result, 1422, and take the BLUE GEMSTONE.

• Achievement 8/8.

Look left. Lever off another sawn board in the wall with the crowbar and take the EYE from the cache.

• Achievement 4/8.

You now have all the items from the sheet.

• Achievement 6/8.

At some point during the game a corrupted soul appears in the window; click it.

• Achievement 7/8.

The tree, and the two endings

Turn around and zoom in on the tree. Open the sheet of paper you found earlier and study the drawing.

Place the blue gemstone in the upper position and turn towards the exit. Click the dark entity several times and it comes closer.

The other ending

Place the green gemstone in the upper position instead and turn towards the exit. Click the dark entity several times and the darkness gives way to light, revealing a BLACK CUBE. Take it.

The second game in the Collection is complete.