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Unofficial fan guide · Updated 2026-08-14

Servant of the Lake Walkthrough

Every task, every puzzle solution and every code for Rusty Lake's Servant of the Lake — Day 1 to Day 3, plus the hidden ending. Each page is spoiler-tagged, so you can read only as far as you are stuck.

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The Vanderboom estate at night beneath a blood-red moon
The Vanderboom estate — the house you never leave·Official screenshot, Rusty Lake
Released
Aug 13, 2026
Structure
3 in-game days
Achievements
49 on Steam
Platforms
PC · macOS · iOS · Android

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Stuck on one screen? Go straight to the puzzle. Starting fresh? Take the full route.

Walkthrough

Full route in play order

Puzzles

One page per puzzle

Codes

Numbers you can enter right now

Secrets

Post-credits content

Achievements

The ones people search by name

Lore

Story context, light spoilers

Elsewhere

Related, not covered here

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Servant of the Lake — Soothing the Baby
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Soothing the Baby

Soothing the Baby wants the champagne given to the infant James before William gets it. Where the bottle is, and why a polite playthrough misses it.

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Servant of the Lake — Deep Cleaning
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Deep Cleaning

Deep Cleaning is not about the floors. Scrub the family portrait in the kitchen — the clue points at the drawing, not the job you were given.

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Servant of the Lake — Close Inspection
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Close Inspection

Close Inspection is the bathroom keyhole on the second floor. Look through it before you help with the bath — once the scene moves on, the chance is gone.

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The coachman waiting outside the Vanderboom estate with the horse and carriage
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Petting the Horse

Petting the Horse needs many clicks, including on its glasses, and all of them before the carrot. One click does nothing, which is why it looks broken.

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The estate entrance hall with the staircase, the maid and Rustie the cat on a pink armchair
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Feeding the Cat

Feeding the Cat is an order problem, not a discovery one. Rustie takes the milk first and the dead mouse second — reverse it and the achievement is gone.

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The attic at night with a crow at the window and a brass box marked with alchemical symbols
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Chasing the Crow

The crow is not at the attic window when you arrive. Move in and out of the containers until it appears, then click it — the clue skips that step.

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Solutions you can actually read

Most guides publish puzzle answers as a screenshot of somebody’s screen. Every fixed code and sequence in this game is drawn out instead — the star dials, the click order, the keypads, the clock.

Diagram of the three in-game days and their Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night blocksDiagram showing the attic chest dials set to 4, 2 and 3 from left to rightDiagram of the nine alchemy box clicks: right right right left right left right right left

Where you will be

The estate, room by room. Official screenshots from Rusty Lake.

The coachman waiting outside the Vanderboom estate with the horse and carriage

Day 1 Morning — the courtyard. Two tin cups and an unpaid driver.

The estate entrance hall with the staircase, the maid and Rustie the cat on a pink armchair

The entrance hall — the maid, and Rustie on the armchair.

The attic at night with a crow at the window and a brass box marked with alchemical symbols

Day 1 Night — the attic, the crow, and the chest with the stars.

Five things to know before you start

  1. 1

    The game runs on three in-game days. You cannot skip a day, and most tasks must be done in a fixed order.

  2. 2

    When a scene will not advance, the missing step is almost always an item you have not picked up yet — sweep the room before you re-try the puzzle.

  3. 3

    Hidden achievements are triggered by doing the *wrong* thing deliberately (feeding the goat, failing the exercises). Grab them on your first pass; a second playthrough is not required.

  4. 4

    One three-digit code — the luggage in the garden — is randomised per playthrough. Shake the baby basket and listen; no guide can give you that number.

  5. 5

    The final secret, "You've found him!", only starts after the credits. Do not chase it before you finish Day 3.

Servant of the Lake FAQ

+How long is Servant of the Lake?

It is built as three in-game days. Rusty Lake's premium titles typically run a single evening, and this one is in the same range — most players finish the main route in one sitting. Chasing all 49 Steam achievements adds a second pass.

+Is this walkthrough spoiler-free?

Every page carries a spoiler level in its header — none, light, or heavy. Puzzle pages give you the solution and nothing about the story around it, so you can unstick yourself without reading ahead.

+Do the demo and the Lite version share solutions with the full game?

The demo covers the opening slice of Day 1, so those puzzle solutions carry over exactly. Content past the demo is unique to the paid release.

+Is the walkthrough complete?

Day 1 is documented step by step. Day 2 and Day 3 are complete for every puzzle we could verify against more than one source; anything we could not confirm is labelled "to be confirmed" on the page rather than guessed at.

+Do you cover the rest of the Rusty Lake series?

Not here. This site is Servant of the Lake only — walkthroughs, puzzle solutions, codes and achievements. Which order to play the other eighteen games in, and where this one sits in the timeline, is on our sister site servantofthelake.net.

Wondering where this one sits in the wider Rusty Lake series, or what order to play the other eighteen games in? That is on servantofthelake.net. This site stays on Servant of the Lake.