Aaah flash games. I remember the old times, when I didn’t know about PC gaming yet I played those kind of games all the time, however when I found out about the “real” games I played those games instead and in the end flash games remained forgotten in the darkest parts of my brain.

But that was till I found this game called

Lakeview Cabin

….It restored my faith in flash games.

There’s a reason I don’t play flash games: They are limited. Most flash games have a pathetic amount of space when compared to the games that I play now, but Lakeview Cabin managed to make such an excellent game in such little space.

The game’s summary is simple, you are enjoying the week-end in your own lakeside cabin! Enjoy thrills such as chopping wood, enjoying the hot sauna and spying on girls near the beach.

But that’s just scraping the surface of this interesting game, there is no particular genre to Lakeview Cabin, but I’d like to call it a game that is mostly based on puzzle, even the combat requires puzzle solving.

This system is however not that great. You can only carry one item at a time and this might cause some frustration when you need to combo items to complete a specific puzzle, also certain puzzles make no sense and are completely illogical, certain important items can also be lost forever and in order to gain them back you’ll have to restart the game from the beginning.

However for some people this might be a big plus, Lakeview Cabin is about exploration and experimenting. On each playthrough you know that you will want to try something different, certain puzzles can also be completed in alternate ways unlike most puzzle games that have a mostly straight-forward way to be completed. This system both enhances and destroys the game though, most of the time you’ll find some red herrings in the game that make sense in real life, but no sense in the game world, there are only few “free” choices.

Also please note that this game might be scary at certain parts, so you were warned. Blood and gore is also present in Lakeview Cabin along with partial, pixel nudity. These elements might seem to be useless and added by some psychopath, but they actually deepen the plot of the game. There are no written notes or cutscenes in Lakeview Cabin, the plot is told to you by exploring and you can manage to piece it together if you pay attention to all the details in the game, even the game mechanics and hidden things you can do in the game aren’t spoon fed.

Simply put, Lakeview Cabin is a great coffee break game, but you should still play it like a paid, full product, because I would certainly pay to play this game. Sure, because of flash the game lasts only for a few hours, but it’s an enjoyable ride to the end.