Cube Escape
| Rusty Lake | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Escape Room |
| Developer | Rusty Lake |
| Publisher | Rusty Lake |
| Platforms | |
| First release | Cube Escape: The Lake April 25, 2015 |
| Latest release | Cube Escape: Collection October 14, 2020 |
Cube Escape is a series of surrealistic escape room video games developed by Dutch indie game developers Rusty Lake. The games largely focus on the life and death of Laura Vanderboom, who serves as the protagonist for the first two entries, Seasons and The Lake. Other games in the series feature different protagonists, such as Vincent Van Gogh, a parrot, and a detective, Dale Vandermeer, who is investigating Laura's death.
The series, along with the overall Rusty Lake series, is heavily inspired by Twin Peaks. As of June 2021, there have been eleven mainline games released in the series, the tenth being complemented by a limited edition of the Cube Escape: Paradox comic book, illustrated by Lau Kwong Shing. In addition, Cube Escape Collection, a collection of the first nine Cube Escape games, was released on Steam in October 2020 in advance of the deprecation of Adobe Flash. The eleventh entry, The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, was released in 2025.
A prequel series following Laura Vanderboom's ancestry includes three paid games: Rusty Lake: Hotel, Roots and Paradise. In the same universe, but considered singular games, Rusty Lake has released both The White Door and Samsara Room. Additionally added to the series on November 2, 2022 was The Past Within, which is a two-player game, the first Rusty Lake has made of this type. The game revolves around solving the mystery of Albert Vanderboom by communicating between the past and future, and fulfilling his legacy.