#cube escape case 23

[tilac-f-f]

Playing Rusty Lake Games

I play them again but I still don't understand the main story. Youtube didn't help.

[kygrisoos]

cube escape: case 23 aesthetic 🩸

[tin-bt]

Dale gets brotherzoned in 4k crystal clear quality live on tv (not click bait)

[mourningmaybells]

[heehoothefool]

Time trial type shit where you auto fail and have to start over if you don’t complete the task within a certain time limit that has a ticking down clock.

Now, this mechanic is fine provided that the game gives you plenty of time to do The Task, there are methods of gaining more time/slowing the clock, or the game itself is built with this mechanic in mind (Warioware is fine, for example)

But I mostly play fucking puzzle games/escape rooms, and idk what it is about puzzle and escape room game devs (Thinking very specifically of Cube Escape: Case 23 here, if you know you know) that makes them think putting a timer on their game is a good idea, but I can promise you this:

If you do this, I will pull up a guide because I cannot think THAT deeply under that kind of time restraint, why would you do that in the first place? Who can think critically enough to solve a relatively complex series of Escape Room style puzzles when there's a relatively unforgiving timer set on it that puts you back at the start of the puzzle sequence upon failing?

Anyways, I spent too long stuck on that sequence in Case 23 and I am still a little salty.

actually @ everyone least favorite game mechanic/type of level in videogames

for extra fun points you can’t say escorting missions and ice physics levels (even if you’re right) or water levels (because you’re wrong)

[ahno-nimus]

shitty little cube escape comic

[artsy-arlequin]

That man has infected my brain

[littleprincefan]

cube escape paradox is actually So good like theres Something about how this detective that was just assigned a murder case ended up trapped in an endless cycle just because this woman’s death couldn’t leave his brain and how it also brought back incredibly traumatic memories of the day his parents were murdered

and laura makes me really sad too like she never asked for this. she never asked to be a reincarnation of william vanderboom she didn’t ask to be entangled in this fucked up family she didn’t ask to be also stuck in this loop, in this lake as a corrupted soul

dale and laura became so entangled in each other’s stories even though they never met while she was alive and are tragic to me and this is all mr crows fault idc im blaming his ass WHATEVER

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Rusty Lake Cube Escape: The Cave Submarine level you are my villain origin story

[purplemys]

"Wouldn't it be more fucked up if Laura started moving like Kayako"

[highlysusceptibletodisaster]

started playing cube escape (only the ones that are free) and even though im not very good at this kind of puzzle im finding the games very interesting

[rustylakecandystore]

Cases 1-22, page 1

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[rustylakeconfessions]

Theory: Laura will be the next lady of the lake and Dale will be the next ruler. I think every lady of the lake is a person who was wronged by the ruler in one way or another and the ruler is now haunted by their actions towards them

Hear me out, the first lady of the lake was Caroline Eilander, and the 'ruler' of the lake (as far as we know) was Nicholas Eilander, Caroline's husband who burned her at the stake after she saved Jakob. Caroline's corrupted soul then makes Paradise go through the 10 Plagues of Egypt (or atleast lets it happen) and makes sure Nicholas and the rest of the family can't reach her memories. She was wronged by Nicholas, and she makes him pay.

Elizabeth Eilander is the next lady of the lake (the lady of the lake wears the same dress as Ms. Pheasant, Elizabeth's animal form) and was the sister of Jakob (who would become Mr. Owl). Jakob was able to escape Paradise when he was a child with Caroline's help but Elizabeth was still trapped. When Jakob returns to Paradise, Elizabeth is the most willing to help Jakob and treats him like a brother instead of a servant, unlike the rest of the family. Jakob feels guilty for being the one to escape and not her, and that guilt haunts him.

And then comes Dale and Laura. It seems like the games have been propping Dale as the next ruler of the lake pretty heavily, but Laura I'd also a contender for that position. If my theory is correct, Dale will in fact become the ruler and Laura will become the lady of the lake. Dale never got justice for Laura and never truly solved her 'murder', his plan ever since he first got Case 23. Now that he's stuck in this lake business, I doubt he'd have any way to tell people the truth about Laura's cause of death. Who would believe him when he says he saw bird people and cubes that held memories?

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[casscaval]

doodled something

lately I've been obsessed with the rusty lake games, the out of the blue beautiful weirdness makes me forget how tragic the story actually is the games are sooo good and fun to play! I played samsara room and the entire cube escape collection in one day in class. I love these games! my favorites gotta be paradise, roots, case 23,hotel and seasons.

[nayialovecat]

The Ink Demonth 2023 - Day 25. Cycle

Day 25. Cycle Crossover: Cube Escape Me: Bendy. No. Bendy: But it's a good idea! Me: No, it isn't. They are corrupted soul. You have corrupted body. Minus and minus don't make a plus in this case. Bendy: :c

If anyone doesn't know what this is about, I'll explain. Cube Escape is a series of point and click games created by Rusty Lake and telling the story of a very messed-up family... There is a lot of brutality, a lot of dreamlike things and metaphors, and the whole thing revolves around Rusty Lake - a lake where memories melt and get lost. The entire series is, so to speak, a psychological reflection on the consequences of our actions, dwelling on the past and tormenting ourselves with bad memories. Also reincarnation in contex corrupted soul. Bad memories can corrupt the soul, and corrupted souls... well... are creepy. Really, really creepy.

My first game in the Cube Escape series was, if I'm not mistaken, The Mill, and then I played Seasons (second one, first one is The Lake), and then I tried to play it in order. The plot is very complex and with each subsequent game we discover more fragments of the past of the Vanderboom family (and people associated with them). Certain recurring motifs and a feeling of anxiety create a unique atmosphere - a bit of horror, a bit of crime-story, a bit of psychological drama plus a very oneiric narrative. Is it enough if I say that after playing Case 23 (which, nomen-omen, I never finished), I had nightmares and was afraid to go to the toilet in the dark? And I played it when I was a grown woman X"D

I love this series and am looking forward to the next parts. We already know the history and fate of individual characters - but new threads are constantly emerging. I'm honestly waiting for the next chapter of Paradox (I hope there will be one more) and I just noticed that Underground Blossom, announced some time ago, has been released... Guess who won't be able to complete all the Ink Demonths before September? XD

I decided to have some fun here and make a gif. Art has a lot of symbolism - firstly, it is a perfect square. Secondly, the colour changing from white to black - also corresponds to the theme of black and white cubes (with bad and good memories). Plus both textes of Corrupted Soul come from "Cube Escape: Seasons" in inverse order :) I highly recommend the game. It's really great.

Bendy and the Ink Machine (c) Joey Drew Studios Inc. Cube Escape (c) Rusty Lake Sammy and the Ink Machine (c) Nayia Lovecat

[noridal]

I was just going to reply to @sunshine-herricane under the original post, but I figured why not make a longer infodump. So, mind your spoilers and get ready to click a read more link, because it's time to enjoy my personal

Harvey lore rant

Harvey is one of the first two characters to be introduced to us in Cube Escape: Seasons along with Laura. It is known to us that he's a relevant character because otherwise Rusty Lake wouldn't bother to make Cube Escape: Harvey's Box, in which you play as him; plus, if he wasn't relevant you wouldn't need him alive to complete Seasons.

The thing is, I think it's easy to forget about him, or brush him off as a secondary character, since we only see him as a sort of "sidekick". Apart from Harvey's Box, he just makes minor appearances and gets nearly killed by Laura on various occasions (Think of the scene in Cube Escape: The Mill in which Laura, as a corrupted soul, almost chokes him to death).

Things change with Rusty Lake Hotel, where, if you manage to give Owl the Rusty Lake Cigars, it's revealed you're playing as Harvey. This is huge, because at this point you find out that Harvey isn't just a pet, but a character that can be compared to Mr Owl or Mr Crow, which up to this point are the people playing puppeteer with the other characters of the plot.

This is why it's logical to imagine that Harvey's role, in this situation, is to act as a butler for Mr Owl, and one can easily assume that it was Owl's idea to kill the hotel guests. In other words, Owl is the boss, and Harvey is just following orders, whether he likes killing those animal-people or not.

Before getting to Paradise, I think it's important to make a quick stop through Cube Escape: Birthday, in which we see him with his humanoid form for the first time:

And we also get to see an interesting piece of lore about the corrupted souls of the hotel guests breaking free from their containers and attacking both Harvey and Mr Owl. This way we learn that Harvey is also a shapeshifter, and contrary to Owl or Crow, who have a human and a hybrid form, Harvey seems to be naturally a bird that somehow achieved this (I'm assuming) "enlightened" state of half bird, half human.

This is important information because it indicates that Harvey is likely immortal. This is in line with Rusty Lake Roots: judging from that level in the Emma storyline, Harvey is around the lake in 1891, and is also around Laura's death (1971 according to Cube Escape: Case 23). Now, I know nothing about parrots, but 80+ years is a pretty long life for a parrot that seems suspiciously to never age.

One could argue that this could be just a similar parrot or whatever, but we also know that Hotel takes place in 1893, and Harvey is definitely in that game at least.

Now we get to the infamous Paradise Easter Egg: it's fairly missable, but you can find Harvey sitting on the window sill during the third plague

This happens in 1796. And being Paradise Mr Owl's origin story, well, this is clearly evidence that Harvey has been around longer than him. This is a theory of mine- but he probably was Caroline's pet, or the one that sparked her research around the lake and immortality.

Point is, this is a huge turn on the Harvey-Owl dynamic: where at first Harvey seemed to be a servant, now he feels a lot more like an equal. At this point of the story I thought that Harvey could've been the one to suggest to Owl to take revenge on his family/hotel guests, and Owl could've been the one saying "let's go for murder".

Except that underground blossom came out.

I won't share screenshots of it because it's another stance of the Rusty Lake franchise being weird about nipples, plus I don't want to spoil much of that game, but to cut it short: toward the last few stations, Harvey decides to torture a pickpocketer for stealing Rose's timepiece.

This is another strong statement about Harvey's personality, since it's clear that he really had no problem killing the various people during Hotel. This puts a bunch of things into perspective, because I mean, c'mon, he deliberately hurts unaware bystanders who just steal shit and aren't really involved (so far) in the plot. One could've said that the Hotel guests "deserved" it (since it's clear they aren't really pleasant or good people either, even before Paradise came out), or again, Harvey was just doing what he's told. But this one scene screams "Harvey is a sadistic bitch" and at this point I'm not even mad about it.

Now the only thing left to find out is when he actually gains his human form- but by the looks of it, the clues are pointing towards him being the oldest immortal bird-person in the lore, and probably the one who knows the real secret to reach ascension and enlightenment.