Join the housekeeping team and start uncovering a new mystery in Servant of the Lake

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The Vanderboom house is the setting for the next Rusty Lake adventure, which is scheduled for a Spring 2026 release

The Rusty Lake adventure series is returning with a new premium point-and-click entry, sending you back in time to work as a housekeeper at the infamous home of Aldous and William Vanderboom. As revealed during the Future Games Show at gamescom, it's targeting a Spring 2026 release on PC and mobile.

As a servant of the Vanderboom estate, you have an amount of free rein to explore all of the rooms in the house while performing your duties. This will get you access to dig around, so you can start uncovering the secrets hidden within.

You'll also be called upon to assist the brothers Aldous and William as they dabble in the dark art of alchemy, by setting up complex experiments and then dealing with the fallout from them afterwards. All the while you'll be accompanied by haunting melodies composed and performed by Victor Butzelaar, to soundtrack the surreal puzzles you're trying to solve so you can complete your unusual tasks.

Servant of the Lake is aiming for a Spring 2026 release window on PC plus iOS and Android for mobile, but for now you can wishlist it on Steam to stay up to date with the latest announcements.

If you’re looking for more excellent games from today's Future Games Show, have a look at our official Steam page.

Iain Wilson
Iain Wilson
Guides Editor

Iain originally joined Future in 2012 to write guides for CVG, PSM3, and Xbox World, before moving on to join GamesRadar in 2013 as Guides Editor. His words have also appeared in OPM, OXM, PC Gamer, GamesMaster, and SFX. He is better known to many as ‘Mr Trophy’, due to his slightly unhealthy obsession with amassing intangible PlayStation silverware, and he now has well over 900 Platinum pots weighing down the shelves of his virtual award cabinet. He does not care for Xbox Achievements.

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