LakeLady

LakeLady is a story-driven horror game about Salvio, a doctor who returns to his hometown five years after a flood leaves his daughter missing. He investigates HongQiang Hospital, where missing children, the forbidden Ward Nine, uneasy colleagues and a guarded childhood friend point to a buried truth.

People and choices

You meet more than ten characters with secrets of their own, including a lost young girl, a mother consumed by grief, an old friend with regrets and powerful people whose motives are difficult to read. Each holds part of the truth. You can try to understand them, challenge their stories or see events through their eyes.

Choices and story paths intertwine, so one playthrough cannot reveal everything. Clues found on one path can change how you understand another. Follow your convictions as you persuade others, find crucial items, piece together the truth and escape danger.

Investigation and rituals

You explore in side-scrolling sequences, take part in surgery and perform talisman rituals based on the Five Elements. Clues are woven into the narrative, while puzzles support the mystery without bringing the story to a halt.

The fictional forbidden rituals draw on traditional culture. Surreal imagery and a shifting score carry the story from uneasy calm to sudden terror. Metal thermoses, public telephones and patterned sofas evoke the humid atmosphere of southern China in the 1990s.

Loss and fear

The ghosts are real, as are the losses and fears haunting the people around Salvio. The story deals with loss, family and hope, as well as the lake lady and the people forced to take another's place.