The Hungering Lake

The children of the village are gone. The fishermen who went looking never came back. Now nobody goes to the lake.

Except you.

The Hungering Lake is a top-down folklore horror game set at a remote fishing cabin in the Finnish wilderness. The village is starving, and you’re the only one left willing to fish these waters. Something beneath the surface notices every fish you take.

Feed the village. Don’t feed the lake.
Every catch keeps the village alive, and every catch makes the lake angrier. Bring home too little and the village collapses. Take too much and something comes for you. Every trip to the shore is a gamble.

Find the missing logs
The fishermen before you kept records of what they saw, and those pages are scattered around the lake. Some are in the reeds. Some are in the bellies of things you’ll have to catch. One is held by something that should never be pulled to the surface. Together they hide a name, and the name is the only way to end this.

Survive the breach
When it rises, it comes for the cabin. Board the windows, hold the door, and hope the iron is enough.

Features

• Tense, hands-on fishing where the lake can bite back

• Balance the village’s hunger against the lake’s wrath — it decides your ending.

• Cabin puzzles and environmental storytelling drawn from Finnish folklore

• Dynamite, bear traps, iron and strange hooks to tip the odds

• Boss fights against things that don’t belong in any lake

• Multiple endings that depend on what you took and what you left

Don’t trust the quiet water. And if you hear a child out there, don’t go to it.