Simply in time for the vacations, Whitethorn Video games and Gameous have introduced that Lake: Season’s Greetings will launch on November 15, 2023.

Season’s Greetings is a prequel chapter of the small-town slice-of-life sport Lake. Set earlier than the occasions of the bottom sport, you’re dropped in Windfall Oaks as protagonist Meredith’s father, Thomas Weiss. He was beforehand an offscreen character in Lake, however now will get to paint within the backstory together with his personal viewpoint. It’s 1985 in a small city, and that’s form of stress-free. Let’s hire some horror and shove it into the VHS participant.

Not solely that, however, because the title implies, the city is totally cloaked in snow. Thomas is delivering packages in the course of the top of the vacations, which in all probability means Christmas music. I can’t say I’m down for that as a result of I’ve loads of trauma from working in retail for a few holidays. It could be even worse than that pop nation within the base Lake.

I felt fairly lukewarm about Lake again once I reviewed it. This was largely as a result of I felt that the narrative actually thought it’s best to love small cities and look down on the busy lives of city dwellers. I grew up in a rural space, and whereas it has its comforts, it’s not all contemporary apple pie and how-do-you-dos.

However, I like a very good vacation sport and am typically to see if a developer takes suggestions into consideration when revisiting an idea. November could be a busy month, however possibly I’ll have the ability to slot in one other go to to Windfall Oaks.

Lake: Season’s Greetings launches on November 15, 2023 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X|S.