Lake
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $3.28/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 760 / Radeon HD 7950 (2GB VRAM), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in December 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, AER Memories of Old ($14.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats The Town of Light ($18.99, scores 40).
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 423 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
At 6.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
51% start to 8% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
21 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 02:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
Lake scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1118240/lakeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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