Lake of Creatures — patch notes and updates
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| Ogre Chambers 2222 is Available! | 2026-06-08 | My next game OGRE CHAMBERS 2222 is out!Making Lake of Creatures was a huge thing for me, I learnt super much and one of the most important things I learnt was to keep scope down. Many things that I feel like went wrong with Lake of Creatures I improved on my next game Ogre Chambers 2222, which is a fast-paced roguelike set in transforming arenas! if you liked Lake of Creatures you might like my next game :)Check it out ❤️ |
| Ogre Chambers 2222 releases on June 8, 2026! | 2026-06-01 | My next game Ogre Chambers 2222 is releasing on June 8th 2026!I've been working on the game for a year and now its finally time to release my next game 😍 Releasing Lake of Creatures was a HUGE learning moment for me, it was my first game and I didn't know what I was doing and the game's launch ended up being a bit of a failure. This time I'm much more prepared and hopefully it goes better :) Super excited to see how you like my new game!! YOUR SUPPORT HAS BEEN SO AMAZING 😭❤️SURVIVE in a transforming arena against ALIEN OGRES in this ROGUELIKE BULLET-HELL 💥 MODIFY your gun, make smart upgrade decisions and master your spaceship's controls t |
| Modding Tool + Achievement Purge | 2026-05-17 | MODDING TOOL + ACHIEVEMENT PURGEModding ToolWe got a MODDING TOOL for Lake of Creatures!! 🤯 This is huge!Lake of Creatures Modding Tool is an unofficial (but awesome) community made tool that allows the community to create and install mods for the game. This is very new thing and I'm hoping we see the first created mods appear soon 😍 This could really spark new life to the game!!Join my Discord to chat with the community about modding the game!👉 https://discord.com/invite/5zB88PSnBvHuge thanks to community member, mod & amazing modder Estonia for taking the time and effort to put together a proper modding tool. Incredible stuff ❤️ He has a |
| Supporter Pack DLC Out Now! | 2026-04-02 | Lake of Creatures - Supporter Pack adds a 4 part developer commentary, where I go into detail about the creation of my first commercial game, Lake of Creatures!This DLC is a way to support my work ❤️ It doesn't add any new gameplay, instead there is 18 minutes of audio of me explaining how and why I wanted to create this game :)#1 Why I Wanted To Make This Game?Why I wanted to create this exact game as my first BIG and REAL commercial game after +10 years of being just a hobbyist.#2 Reasons Behind Design DecisionsWhat new I tried bringing to the genre with this game?#3 Cut & Changed ContentWhat had to be changed during development and why. Id |
| Trading Cards & Community Items are here! 🃏 | 2025-12-10 | You can now find Steam Trading Cards while saving the lakes from mutated creatures! 🥳🃏In addition to the Trading Cards, there are also other community items too that you can use to decorate your profile and show off your love for the game! Profile Backgrounds, Badges & Emoticons are also now available! 😍Now get back to cleansing those lakes and earn some Trading Cards while doing so! Thanks for the support ❤️ |
| BIG BOSS Update! | 2025-12-02 | BIG BOSS Content Update is here!!Thanks for the recent MASSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE support everyone |
| CONTENT UPDATE coming 2nd of December! | 2025-11-27 | CONTENT UPDATE IS DROPPINGBIG BOSS UPDATE is coming next week!! First tuesday of December! 2nd day of December! 🔥Here's what's coming:NEW BOSS FIGHTS !! 🥵🥵🥵Reworked & balanced existing boss fights to make them more fun and intenseNew boss fight arenasImproved art on all bossesUnique boss intro soundsImproved sound effects on bossesMore pre-boss choice room variationAmbient soundtracks for each lake to make each area feel more aliveMany improved sound effects!+ more!Hope you have a blast with it :) We finally getting more boss fights and I'm very excited!!Thanks everyone for your massive support ❤️❤️❤️ it has gotten me so excited about thi |
| BIG BOSS UPDATE INFO - What is coming? | 2025-11-21 | New BIG BOSS UPDATE !I've been working on the BIG BOSS UPDATE for a little while in between making my other game Ogre Chambers 2222. Super excited to bring out NEW CONTENT to the game! 💪💪I felt like the game had an alright amount of bosses as there always is some variation on which bosses you'd face during runs, but I still felt there's room for tons more, especially when compared to the game Lake of Creatures takes loads of inspiration from, The Binding of Isaac. Which is why this update focuses very tightly on bosses, but there's some other cool new stuff too that improves to overall feel of the game.Here's what you can expect to see in t |
| NEW COVER ART!! 😍 Thanks to you ❤️ | 2025-11-18 | Guess who got a cover art made by a professional artist... 🤯I got to fulfill one of my biggest game dev dreams! I finally was able to hire a professional artist to make a cover art for my game :) It's so beautiful I'm so happy with how it turned out 😍Your MASSIVE support got me so pumped about this game again and now that we have an AWESOME cover art, my hopes for this game's future has gone even more up 🥹 Thanks everyone for supporting me and my game, it's truly changed everything!! ❤️❤️❤️BIG BOSS UPDATE COMING SOON !!!! |
| +14 Achievements, Better Sound Effects + More 🙌 are BACK IN THE GAME ! :) | 2025-11-14 | THEY FIXED THE LOGIN ISSUE ➡️ I finally was able to upload a new version of the game!! ❤️For over a week I was unable to upload a new version to fix a bug with story events not triggering correctly because of an issue in the game engine's login system. I had to revert the game couple versions back to a state where the story worked properly but it didn't have cool quality of life improvements I added in previous updates.EVERYTHING IS NOW BACK IN THE GAME! 🔥These things are back in the game:Story events and Town Square events now trigger correctly!Toxic Gas Puddle enhanced visibilityWiki button inside game14 new achievementsFix for the achieve |
| I CANT UPLOAD A BUG FIX 😭 temporary solution! (+ TEASER) | 2025-11-06 | Heyy, I had to let you know about an inconvenience regarding the game.I HAVE TO TEMPORARILY REVERT THE GAME'S VERSION BACK COUPLE UPDATES 😭Updated 12th of NovemberI found a bug with the Town Square in the current version of the game that came with a previous update. The bug caused the story events to not properly trigger and update. I have fixed the bug, but I cannot upload the update on Steam as I am having very weird problems logging into my account on the game's engine which has caused me not being able to export the build with the fix.❗ Basically I can't get the updated version out of the game engine at the moment due to an issue on the |
| BIG BOSS UPDATE Coming Soon! | 2025-11-05 | BIG BOSS UPDATE COMING!Lake of Creatures is getting a content update!! This is THANKS TO YOUR MASSIVE SUPPORT 🩷Prepare for cool stuff like this:NEW & AWESOME BOSS FIGHTS!!!Some of the existing boss fights are revamped and improved!Improved art on existing bosses!MORE NEWS COMING SOON + another cool update regarding the game!!! :)) 🔥 Here's a sneak peak of what's you can expect from the update! |
| 14 NEW Achievements + Improved Achievement Art + Fixes! | 2025-11-04 | More improvements coming!! It feels good to be back updating this game this much 😍 Thanks for the support friends |
| FIXES! :-) New Sound Effects + Improved Readability + Achievements | 2025-10-31 | I have been blown away by the love on Lake of Creatures 😭❤️ I never expected such a wave of support to suddenly come after the not so great launch.. but this is most amazing thing to happen and I finally have started to feel like this game is not bad at all! I couldn't be more hyped about this game again, thank you SUPER MUCH!! ❤️❤️❤️I made some fixes and improvements!Improved sound effects on couple placesImproved readability of toxic gas puddles with more obvious looking art and even added a sound effect to indicate dangerAdded wiki button inside the gameFixed achievements so they don't stop working everytime you return to main menu!! (thi |
| Better Fish Names! :) | 2025-10-13 | Much requested change is here!Fishes now have much better names, lovingly handcrafted by me!Hopefully this makes catching them more fun than before. Have fun finding out all the silly things I named them! :)❤️ Special mention and a massive thanks to all new players from Tiktok, I love you guys 😭❤️ |
| My NEXT GAME'S DEMO is OUT! | 2025-10-08 | Ogre Chambers 2222 DEMO is now available!Conquer the GLOBAL LEADERBOARDS in both normal mode and special challenge mode, AVAILABLE ONLY TODAY, on DEMO'S LAUNCH DAY!!! Come battle against competition around the world. I'm real excited to see how good scores you get!CRAZY MOMENTS, LET ME KNOW HOW YOU LIKE THE GAME |
| Ogre Chambers 2 DEMO is COMING THIS WEEK! | 2025-10-03 | MY NEXT GAMEOGRE CHAMBERS 2222DEMO IS COMING THIS WEEK!8.10. // 8th of OctoberWEDNESDAY // WEDNESDAY // WEDNESDAY🔥 GET READY TO PLAY 🔥LAUNCH DAY WILL HAVE A SPECIAL CHALLENGE RUN AVAILABLE ONLY ON DEMO LAUNCH DAY !! BE THEREAT THIS TIME IN YOUR COUNTRY:USA (Eastern) 10:00 amUK 15:00France 16:00Italy 16:00Germany 16:00Spain 16:00China 22:00Finland 17:00Japan 23:00Korea 23:00Poland 16:00Brazil 11:00WISHLIST OGRE CHAMBERS 2222 TO GET IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED ONCE THE DEMO DROPS!! |
| Nominate Lake of Creatures for Best Game 2025! | 2025-10-02 | Nominate Lake of Creatures for Best Game 2025! 💥GameMaker Awards 2025 are here and you can now NOMINATE best GameMaker games of the year!I'd really appreciate, if you nominated my game, Lake of Creatures, as your Best Game of 2025! ❤️(The game wasn't eligible for its launch year's GameMaker Awards, as it released too late in the year 2024, but its eligible for nomation this year!)Nominate here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5dGPShl8F3QWsybO-bIH9OETy0I24jcwZ8EgFjrqlD_1ETQ/viewformBtw: check out my upcoming game Ogre Chambers 2222 too! |
| Wiki (hype!) | 2025-09-19 | Lake of Creatures now has a wiki! 🥳It includes useful information about the game, such as more detailed treasure descriptions explaining more how they work!👉 https://lake-of-creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Lake_of_Creatures_Wiki |
| My Next Game's DEMO is Coming Soon! | 2025-09-17 | BE PREPARED TO PLAY SOON!DEMO of Ogre Chambers 2222 is dropping very soon! I'm really excited to find out how you guys like this one!! 🤝 I feel like the design is super tight and my best work yet!👇👇👇 WISHLIST to get notified immediately once the DEMO DROPS! 👇👇👇 |
| This is my NEXT GAME! | 2025-08-29 | Announcing MY NEXT GAME !!!So excited to make a sequel to Ogre Chambers DX! It is my first game that got somewhat popular and holds a special place in my heart!Ogre Chambers 2222 is a ROGUELIKE, where you FIND and FUSE ABILITIES, while raiding TRANSFORMING space chambers 💥 Traverse randomized planets - Murder their populations - Get stronger - Take down Ogre Overlords! 💀 But remember, DO NOT anger the ogres beyond your guns' capabilities!❤️❤️❤️ WISHLIST NOW! ❤️❤️❤️ |
| My NEXT GAME is Announced! | 2025-08-18 | Ogre Chambers 2222 is Announced!❗ I've been cooking up some stuff after Lake of Creatures, and it's about time to finally share it with you guys! ❗ I have a feeling you're gonna LOVE this one if you enjoyed my previous games ❤️ This is going to be my BEST GAME YET!Stay tuned, DEMO is coming soon! 😋WISHLIST on Steam! |
| Steam Deck Verified! | 2025-08-08 | Lake of Creatures is now ✅ Verified on Steam Deck!Thanks everyone for the continued support on Lake of Creatures! ❤️This was my first attempt at making a commercial game and I couldn't be happier with how people are putting in hours grinding the game! While making the game I hoped there's enough content to keep people hooked in at least closely similar fashion to how The Binding of Isaac has hooked me. Now that I see you guys with nearly 100 hours playtime, I think I can say that the game has provided some good times to people :)Despite some issues at launch, I'm super happy how you were patient with it and helped me make the game better! ❤️ |
| v1.40 - New Characters, Character Redesigns, Quick Restart + MORE ! | 2025-07-10 | I've been adding some new cool stuff to Lake of Creatures. I have also fixed some issues brought up by you guys ( Thanks for letting me know of all the bugs and problems you've encountered! )I really hope these additions and changes make the game better and provide more replayability!Here's what's new:+2 New Playable Characters with Unique Gimmicks !All Playable Characters were redesigned! Now everyone has their unique gimmick that affects how you play. Also new art and even names on some characters!Quick Restart (this was requested a lot lol)New Much Juicier Gun Sound Effects!We Got Some Balance Changes and ImprovementsUnlocking Treasures in |
| v1.30 - Chinese, Polish and Czech Localizations !! | 2025-02-18 | Hey Lake of Creatures enjoyers! The game is now supported in 3 new languages: Chinese Polish Czech There are also some general improvements like balance changes in this update! Very exciting times !! |
| v1.28 - Achievements + Gun & Spike Changes + MY THOUGHTS | 2024-12-04 | I read your feedback and take it all into consideration! I've done these changes: Achievements are back Gun no longer deteriorates (lose ammo) if you didn't shoot any bullets in a room Speed boost is disabled near spikes to prevent taking unwanted damage Made enemies' toxic more visible Sausage rooms no longer have spikes at the start Removed unused music files to decrease game's file size ABOUT GUN SWAPPING This is by far the most requested feature and I am considering adding it in due to a lot of people telling me they dislike the current system. Swapping guns used to be possible, but I took it out due to it leading to a strat where gun amm |
| V1.27 - Better Readability + Some Improvements | 2024-12-01 | Hello gamers I've made adjustments based on your comments: Bullets can no longer go so big they cover the entire screen Adjusted enemy spawn on Gem Cavern to make the rooms feel less cramped Enemy bullets are now displayed above players bullets to increase visibility (especially when ur bullets are massive) Crosshair no longer turns red when shooting to increase visibility of enemy bullets Easy mode made even easier + maybe more cant remember Keep the feedback coming! |
| Lake of Creatures OUT NOW! | 2024-11-28 | Lake of Creatures is available to purchase NOW! There's still couple days left of the release sale, so be sure to grab the game while it's still... -25% off! Hope you enjoy |
| v1.26 - Gun stat balancing + Boss arena fix | 2024-11-27 | Fixed all the new issues that has been reported! Boss Arena Door collision fixed so you don't get stuck to it when moving against the wall. Birgit's default gun nerfed to make it's default gun less OP Raimo's default gun improved to make it more fun to use Buffed every pickup weapon to make sure no pickup weapon is less useful than any character main gun. I'm pretty sure now that Birgit's gun is less OP that already is enough to make the other guns feel worthwhile! Hope you like! Lemme know if game is sh*t I try to fix |
| v1.24 - Difficulty Balancing | 2024-11-22 | New update! 👇 - Bosses have less HP, especially final boss 💀 - Made final boss shoot more bullets to provide challenge instead of it having tons of HP - Gem Cavern fights made more interesting with better enemy pool and more difficult enemies - Adjusted DMG on some guns - 2 reported crashes fixed Hopefully feels good to play! |