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Controls
Walkthrough
Point and Click
Welcome to the Rusty Lake Mill, the residence of Mr. Crow. A familiar guest will arrive soon and it is your task to get that mysterious machine running. Click on the arrows to navigate inside the cube. Interact with objects by clicking. Select found items in your inventory and click somewhere on screen to use them.
Living Room
Stove/Window
Take the wood from the floor.
Focus on the table and get the matches.
Defocus, focus on the stove, and get the pan with water.
Open the top left drawer.
Place the wood in the drawer.
Light the wood with the matches.
Close the drawer.
Defocus and look up.
Ceiling
Use the matches to burn the spider web.
Take the key that is revealed.
Look down and go to the cabinet/door.
Cabinet/Door
Unlock the cabinet next to the door.
Focus on the Old Woman.
Click her mouth twice.
Click her teeth in this order:X, 6, 4.
V, 5.
3, 1, IV.
I, I, 2.
3, I, II.
2, II.
2, I, I.
Take the golden tooth.
Defocus, then go right.
Stove/Window
Focus on the stove.
Place the golden tooth in the top drawer of the stove on top of the burning wood and close it.
Open the bottom drawer and retrieve the liquid gold.
Close the drawer and defocus.
Focus on the table.
Open the key mold.
Place the liquid gold in the key mold on top of the table, close it, open it, and take the golden key.
Defocus, then look up.
Ceiling
Unlock the attic entrance.
Climb up into the attic.
Top Floor
Bird/Wheel
Click on Harvey on the window.
He will poop on the window. Take the bird shit.
58205aefa8c35c952c0717ca7de9bf007f5b990d AchievementDefocus, then go left.
Spinning Wheel
Focus on the pot.
Take the scissors from behind the pot.
Use the bird shit as fertilizer on the potted grass.
Pour water from the pan onto the grass.
Defocus, then focus on the pot again.
Cut the grass with the scissors.
Defocus, then go left.
Cow
Feed the grass to the cow.
Click on the cow a few times to make sure it eats it.
Examine the painting to get a list of symbols: target, box, triangle, box, butterfly, target Defocus, then examine the painting to get the symbols: to: udders transcript:1: triangle
2: box
3: butterfly
4: target
Focus on the cow's udders.
Place the pan underneath the udders.
Click the udders in the correct order.
From left to right: 4, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4.
Take the pan with milk and defocus.
Go left.
Clock/TV/Phone
Open the cabinet doors.
Get the telescope and the knitting needle.
Focus on the TV.
Turn on the TV by clicking the button.
Change the channel by clicking the button, then click away.
Click back on the TV.
Click the button twice.
Defocus, then answer the phone.
Click the phone a few times to have a cryptic conversation with him.
P: Hello?
D: Hello, this is detective Dale VandermeerP: Yes
D: Is this Rusty Lake?
P: Say the word
D: fate?
P: I am sorry
Your place is already takenDefocus, then focus on the TV again.
Click the button one more time.
58205aefa8c35c952c0717ca7de9bf007f5b990d AchievementDefocus, then return to the Old Woman downstairs.
Living Room
Cabinet/Door
Focus on the Old Woman.
Cut off her hair with the scissors.
Give her the knitting needle.
Defocus, then return to the spinning wheel in the attic.
Top Floor
Spinning Wheel
Focus on the spinning wheel.
Use the spinning wheel to turn her hair into wool.
Return to the living room.
Living Room
Cabinet/Door
Focus on the Old Woman.
Give her the wool.
Click her to see she needs warm milk.
Defocus, then go right.
Window/Stove
Focus on the stove.
Place the pan with milk on the stove.
Get the pan with hot milk.
Defocus, then go left.
Cabinet/Door
Focus on the Old Woman.
Give her the warm milk.
Click her and she will knit you an oven glove.
Defocus, then return to Harvey in the attic.
Top Floor
Bird
Focus on the right: hand window. Focus again.
Use the telescope on the church to see the numbers 1384.
Return to the living room.
Living Room
Cabinet/Door
Focus on the door.
Enter 1384 into the door.
Defocus, open the door, and go to the valve downstairs.
Basement
Valve
Click the water valve to start filling the room with water.
Go left.
Duck/Stairs
Click the duck to get him to eat the three plants on the wall.
Get the fat duck.
Return upstairs to the stove.
Living Room
Stove/Window
Focus on the oven.
Open the oven door.
Put the fat duck in the oven.
Close and open the door.
Use the oven glove to get the grilled duck.
Defocus, then go left.
Cabinet/Door
Focus on the Old Woman.
Give her the grilled duck.
She will knit you a net.
Click on her to see she wants grilled fish.
Defocus, then go downstairs to the water valve.
Basement
Valve
Use the net to catch the fish.
Return to the stove.
Living Room
Stove
Focus on the stove.
Open the oven door.
Put the fish in the oven.
Close and open the door.
Use the oven glove to get grilled fish.
Defocus, then go left.
Cabinet/Door
Focus on the Old Woman.
Give her the grilled fish.
She will knit you a strong rope.
Defocus, then go left.
Memory Machine
Apply the strong rope to the machine.
Return to the clock in the attic.
Top Floor
Clock/TV/Phone
Focus on the clock.
Change the time to 6:10 (time found on basement wall).
Defocus, then open the clock.
Click on Laura's corpse to move it to the memory machine in the living room.
Living Room
Memory Machine
Use the arrow buttons on the machine to maneuver Laura's head into the top of the machine.
58205aefa8c35c952c0717ca7de9bf007f5b990d AchievementReturn to the TV in the attic.
Top Floor
Clock/TV/Phone
Focus on the TV.
Click the button several times to watch Dale Vandermeer place cubes into the slots until the screen flashes white.
Defocus, then go left.
Bird
Click the window on the right.
Look outside: you will see Dale Vandermeer lying dead next to the Church with a beam of light coming out of him.
Use the telescope on his body.
Click his body. Mr. Owl will appear behind him, magically levitating his body and causing a storm to break out.
Return to the memory machine.
Living Room
Memory Machine
Click on Laura's head inside the window.
Click on the brain and play the memory game.
Extract the white cube from the machine.
Return to the basement.
Basement
Valve
Open the valve.
Go right twice.
Machine
Click the left: hand trough.
Place the white cube in the machine.
Click the lever.
Click the window to see the number 257.
Return to the memory machine.
Living Room
Memory Machine
Click on the brain.
Enter 257 to the left, then flip the switch.
Click the screen to play the next memory game.
Extract the black cube from the machine.
Return to the machine in the basement.
Basement
Machine
Place the black cube in the machine.
Click the lever.
Return to the bird in the attic.
58205aefa8c35c952c0717ca7de9bf007f5b990d AchievementTop Floor
Bird
Click the Corrupted Soul through the dialogue.
please leave
there will be blood
your memories belong to the lake nowleave them all behind
all that you touch, you change
Added: 1 Mar 2024 - Released: 7 Sep 2015 (Rusty Lake - RustyLake.com)