In Lake you play as a mail carrier Meredith taking a break from her computer job in the big city to deliver mail in her rural Oregon hometown for a couple of weeks in September 1986. The good parts of the game include the scenery and music. If you love the PNW setting of games like Life is Strange then you will feel at home here. The licensed music was also well chosen, I just wish there was more of a selection. For a game about delivering mail, it doesn't really have much mechanics around that. There's no timer and you don't have to worry about things like gas or damage to the vehicle and there are no dogs to avoid. It's mostly a matter of going to a location on the map, and going up to the door or mailbox and clicking A. In some ways it was nice that it was low stress, but the van wasn't that fun to control, so the driving part was not really that engaging.

The main focus of the game is primarily around Meredith's relationships with the people in the town and here it fares a little better. Some of the characters were fun like Kay and the cat lady, I just wish it didn't force relationships on you. In my mind I was playing as a person looking for a vacation, but the game really tries to push you to pick a character to settle down with and stay in the town, which didn't make sense to me. I was especially put off from having to deliver mail six days a week. It must be something about Americans being overworked, but I'm not going to take a job that makes me work weekends if I can avoid it.

All in all it was enjoyable, but didn't live up to the probably unreasonable expectations I had set. If you are interested in playing it I would wait since the version I played had a lot of glitches. 3.5/5