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"It's sometimes crazy to see what the community make." "That's something we never expected when we started Rusty Lake," Ras says. "From the beginning, we invested a lot in the community," Ras says – a lesson taken from his days running Flash portals – and they've been rewarded with reams of fan art and even the occasional tattoo. Throughout all these changes, what has sustained Rusty Lake is its fanbase. "It has this old Flash game vibe around it – people are publishing games really easily." Comics, films, and beyondĪ page from Lau Kwong Shing's Cube Escape: Paradox graphic novel (Image credit: Rusty Lake) "We really like that platform," Ras says. Rusty Lake expanded to Steam in 2016, the pair gaining confidence after a successful Greenlight campaign – "we were a bit surprised that people liked them on desktop, as premium games," Looise says – but the closest replacement they've found for the scene they both came up in is Itch.io. It had been releasing its games on mobile app stores from the start, Looise reckoning that they were a perfect fit "because they're so small and easily accessible for a lot of players". The studio wasn't entirely caught out by Flash's closure, though. When it comes to getting your game noticed, he says, "I think that it's a bit harder nowadays." "In the old Flash days, you published a game and then it would spread over all these portals, so it could have millions of plays within a few days," Ras says.
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Since then, Rusty Lake has bounced between free and premium games, continuing to foster a dedicated community even as the games' original home was demolished with the end of Flash – a slow fizzle that began in 2015, almost in step with Rusty Lake's debut, and was fully extinguished on New Year's Eve 2020.
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And Hotel did take a few months to find any traction with players, eventually bolstered by another code crossover with Cube Escape: Birthday, a freebie released the following year. Ras, Looise and the latest member of the team, community manager Andreea Bosgan (Image credit: Rusty Lake)Įven today, though, there's a slight nervousness in the pair's voices when they talk about taking this leap, a sense of needing permission from their audience to charge for their games. "But because we did it in all those smaller steps, it was not so stressful for us." "For us, that was not really possible." Taking that kind of gamble is simply too stressful, he says. "We see a lot of developers working for a few years on one game," Looise says. Effectively tying together six Cube Escape-style rooms into a single point-and-click adventure game, Hotel is significantly more substantial than everything that came before, but it's still a fairly slender project by the standards of most games – it was released in December 2015, eight months after the first Cube Escape, and just three months on from the most recent. Rusty Lake Hotel was the first game to bear the name of the studio and universe in its title, but more importantly it was Rusty Lake's first premium release. "We didn't have a good business model at all," Ras admits. The games had won a few cash prizes on Kongregate, while mobile releases brought in a little ad revenue, but this wasn't enough to keep the studio afloat. "But we also saw right away, we cannot do this forever." "We thought, OK, this is working well, we have established a community of players," Ras says. All the games so far had been released for free, in the hope of building an audience. By the end of that year there were six of them, and Rusty Lake was preparing to take its next step. The first Cube Escape games arrived in April 2015. We selected games with a fascinating story, ambiance or unique game-play made by more forward-looking developers.Ĭheck out our blog, social media or newsletter for new updates and content.Maarten Looise (Image credit: Rusty Lake) On our game portal you can play our free games but also find other adventure, room escape and puzzle games. On the right, you can find a list of all our games sorted by release date. Serve deadly dinners to five animal-headed guests in Rusty Lake Hotel, expand the bloodline of the Vanderbooms in our award-winning adventure Rusty Lake: Roots or stop the ten plagues on a small island in Rusty Lake Paradise.
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Next to our Cube Escape series we created three premium adventure games with unique story lines taking place in Rusty Lake as well.
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Cube Escape: Paradox is our latest installment which is combined with a short film! Download them for ten on iOS, Android or play on Desktop. Currently we have ten Cube Escape games taking place in the Rusty Lake universe. Why not try out our praised Cube Escape series first? Let the cubes guide you the eerie and atmospheric point-and-click adventures with an "escape room" feeling. We offer you the most mysterious game series you'll ever play. Welcome to Rusty Lake, a surreal place where anything can happen.