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Rusty Lake: Roots
Rusty Lake · 1,099 ratings · ★ 4.8
4.8
★★★★★
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Top complaints - extracted from 12 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"game"
8 negative reviews mention this · 67% of all complaints
★★★★★ "12+ ?!. I’ve played a lot of the rusty lake games. Morbid yes. Sometimes my wife or daughter help if I think it’s ok for a 12 year old girl. So she did a bit and then “jar of semen”?’ Are you freaking kidding me?! Go ahead and say “it’s not that ba…" - louhazosc23
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"series"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The ending ruined the series for me. Cryptic trash. Lame, tedious conclusion. Narrative is both obvious and underdeveloped. Unfortunate because I enjoyed moments of this game, only to be let down in the end. Worst betrayal since the final season of Game of Thrones. 1 star to b…" - ionlyreviewwhenimmad
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"level"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Glitch. Pretty unhappy because stuck on level with glitch after trying to reset multiple times. Cannot complete game I paid for. I highly recommend any of the other Rusty Lakes games which were great." - uhgurlhasnoname
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"walkthrough"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "incredibly dumb. most puzzled need a walkthrough and make no logical sense" - RainS345G
5
"played"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "12+ ?!. I’ve played a lot of the rusty lake games. Morbid yes. Sometimes my wife or daughter help if I think it’s ok for a 12 year old girl. So she did a bit and then “jar of semen”?’ Are you freaking kidding me?! Go ahead and say “it’s not that ba…" - louhazosc23
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"rusty"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "12+ ?!. I’ve played a lot of the rusty lake games. Morbid yes. Sometimes my wife or daughter help if I think it’s ok for a 12 year old girl. So she did a bit and then “jar of semen”?’ Are you freaking kidding me?! Go ahead and say “it’s not that ba…" - louhazosc23
7
"games"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "12+ ?!. I’ve played a lot of the rusty lake games. Morbid yes. Sometimes my wife or daughter help if I think it’s ok for a 12 year old girl. So she did a bit and then “jar of semen”?’ Are you freaking kidding me?! Go ahead and say “it’s not that ba…" - louhazosc23
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"went"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "You went too far. I’m all about unexpected story lines but jizz in a jar is too far. You’re not weird anymore, you’re just gross." - Player0459
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incredibly dumb
most puzzled need a walkthrough and make no logical sense
12+ ?!
I’ve played a lot of the rusty lake games. Morbid yes.
Sometimes my wife or daughter help if I think it’s ok for a 12 year old girl.
So she did a bit and then “jar of semen”?’
Are you freaking kidding me?!
Go ahead and say “it’s not that bad” then let me watch you explain that scene to a young girl while being a decent parent.
I can’t believe that you don’t have one girl on your team that didn’t raise an eyebrow to that.
Sometimes my wife or daughter help if I think it’s ok for a 12 year old girl.
So she did a bit and then “jar of semen”?’
Are you freaking kidding me?!
Go ahead and say “it’s not that bad” then let me watch you explain that scene to a young girl while being a decent parent.
I can’t believe that you don’t have one girl on your team that didn’t raise an eyebrow to that.
The ending ruined the series for me
Cryptic trash. Lame, tedious conclusion. Narrative is both obvious and underdeveloped. Unfortunate because I enjoyed moments of this game, only to be let down in the end. Worst betrayal since the final season of Game of Thrones. 1 star to balance the overrated and undeserved 4.8.
Glitch
Pretty unhappy because stuck on level with glitch after trying to reset multiple times. Cannot complete game I paid for. I highly recommend any of the other Rusty Lakes games which were great.
You went too far
I’m all about unexpected story lines but jizz in a jar is too far. You’re not weird anymore, you’re just gross.
Too disturbing to continue...
I played many of the other games in this series and was very disappointed with this one. It took the macabre to a disturbing level and went way too far with the grizzly things it asked the player to do to complete a puzzle. As always the puzzles were clever and challenging but I ended up deleting the game a little over halfway through because it just became too disturbing. When you find yourself wanting to not complete a puzzle purely because you don’t want to continually be the perpetrator of evil acts then it’s time to quit.
Don’t buy this game
Poor graphics, not a lot of fun.
Disturbing Content / Subpar Format
I’ve played every game in the Rusty Lake series. This one just went too far. I felt gross playing it, to be honest. Also, the shorter, multi-level format made the gameplay feel too easy.
Levels Broken
I love the series, but the levels are broken-I completed the level “The painting” but it won’t finish for me. I’ve done everything according to a walkthrough and it won’t finish.
Love the game... if I could only play it.
I absolutely love this game. However, I can’t get into my “settings”, without the screen turning black and the app crashing. I can’t do anything, I.e let my screen go into sleep mode, look at another app, etc) without the game crashing. Once I start the game back up, it’s wiped clean. Last night I was at puzzle 24, I believe, pushed through the hours of the night to finish it (in fear of it losing all my save files).. only for it to randomly crash on its own and start me from the beginning.. all. Over. Again. If it would allow ppl to save their progress and not wipe it whenever it wants, I would give it 5 stars. Because it’s an amazing game.. but I can’t keep restarting the same game over and over again and dish out hours upon hours of redos.
Colorblind beware!
Firstly, if you are colorblind (or even partially, like me) be warned that several of the puzzles depend on color matching to solve. But that not why I gave it such a low rating, I don’t expect the world to cater to me.
I rated the game so low because several of the puzzles just flat don’t make sense. Even after resorting to watching the walkthrough for a couple of them,I was left scratching my head and thinking “ok, but it still doesn’t make sense...”
The story is definitely... unique. I will give it that. All around, for the price I don’t feel like I wasted my money. However, I would not recommend it to a friend. If you really like puzzles and need to kill a few hours and the price is under $2.00, eh, just don’t say you weren’t warned.
I rated the game so low because several of the puzzles just flat don’t make sense. Even after resorting to watching the walkthrough for a couple of them,I was left scratching my head and thinking “ok, but it still doesn’t make sense...”
The story is definitely... unique. I will give it that. All around, for the price I don’t feel like I wasted my money. However, I would not recommend it to a friend. If you really like puzzles and need to kill a few hours and the price is under $2.00, eh, just don’t say you weren’t warned.
Boring
I find this game to be boring, navigation is difficult. Waste of purchase
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)