#lake ridden

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Games played in 2020  ↳ Lake Ridden

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Lake Ridden: Quality Puzzles and Puzzling Ghosts Galore

Lake Ridden, a first-person puzzle game created by Midnight Hub, invites you to solve the mysteries of an abandoned estate in the hopes of discovering what has happened to your sister, Sofia, who has vanished from your sisterly camping trip. Along the way, you pass through some suitably creepy locations with some surprisingly soothing music and gather as many clues as you can.  

The game labels itself as a supernatural puzzle game, with the latter elements being somewhat stronger than the former. The game itself is very clear that it is not a horror game - you have the ability to run and crouch, but there is never even the slightest need to run and hide. The supernatural element comes through whatever ruined the estate and turned all the inhabitants into ghosts a century earlier - and it seems to exist largely in order to justify the inclusion of certain puzzles and the exclusion of any other visual characters, given that we are never really given any concrete answers as to what plagued the estate, turned huge numbers of people into ghosts or stole our sister. 

However, I do greatly appreciate a game which will let me brute-force the final number of a combination lock and then have a little ghost-girl call me out for cheating. 

The supernatural element did also allow for the inclusion of far more creative puzzles than would otherwise have been feasible, although the inclusion of a surprisingly-benevolent mad gentleman inventor in the estate’s history needed accounted for the rest. Each section of the game comes with a few ‘feature’ puzzles, several of which required actual note-taking on my part to solve, and a scattering of repeated puzzle-boxes and rotating locks which got steadily trickier as I made my way through the estate.  

The porting to Xbox seems to have gone smoothly - there was one moment in which the game glitched and crashed in my playthrough, but a generous approach to auto-saving made this far less stressful than it could have been. The dialogue is all helpfully subtitled, which even change depending on the speaker, although the subtitles themselves are hard to read in places - especially when there’s small white letters with a faint grey outline on an entirely white background. 

Ultimately, Lake Ridden succeeded at the most crucial part of its mission - the puzzles. The storyline, although somewhat thin in places, was plenty enough to keep me moving through the estate, and the setting and music made it a perfectly pleasant way to spend a few hours. 

Now I just need to find some more puzzle games to get this need to solve all the things under control… 

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Game Devs Give Advice to a Student: Interview | Lake Ridden, Figment, The Lost Bear, Silent Streets

Being a Computer Games Art student (primarily focused on Game Design) in my final year, I got the amazing opportunity to go to EGX and talk to some talented Game Developers, asking them not only about their games, but gaining valuable insight into their opinions on how to get noticed in the gaming industry, as well as what to think about when making a VR and AR game. Watch the full interviews over on my second channel, Gaming with YagmanX: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDdrhz3IH1w-3MA4r4YsjmQ

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The State of the Gamer: 9/8/22

The State of the Gamer: 9/8/22

<–The State of the Gamer: 8/25/22           The State of the Gamer: 9/22/22–> A weekly post updated every other Thursday detailing my current gaming projects.  I have an account at Grouvee, which is a site you can use to keep track of your backlog, so please feel free to friend me there! Games Demoed: 1 The DioField Chronicles – It’s another Squeenix SRPG game with more realistic graphic…

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https://www.gizorama.com/2018/review/illusion-of-difficulty-lake-ridden-review

Illusion of Difficulty - Lake Ridden Review

Playing Lake Ridden is like putting together a thousand piece puzzle of some mundane picture, like a bowl of fruit or a cabin by a lake. You're probably not going to glue the puzzle and hang it on your wall when it's done, and you're probably never going to put it together again, but you'll have a fun time working on it until you've finished.

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Lake Ridden | Release Trailer ( indie/puzzle/story driven )

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Promoção na Steam do jogo Lake Ridden

O jogo Lake Ridden está com 10% de #desconto, saindo por apenas R$ 33,29! https://store.steampowered.com/app/696530/

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Lake Ridden from Midnight Hub is available on PC today, is a first-person puzzle game shrouded in a mystery to uncover

Lake Ridden from Midnight Hub is available on PC today, is a first-person puzzle game shrouded in a mystery to uncover

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