Lake Haven - Chrysalis

Lake Haven - Chrysalis

Released Jan 2023

This game serves as a prequel chapter for the upcoming game 'Lake Haven'. Detective Zeke Reynold is called to investigate what he assumes will be another case he'll quickly forget, but what he finds will be sewn into the fabric of his existence forever.

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Released, content planned but development status unclear
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Evaluation

Lake Haven - Chrysalis is a standalone prologue chapter released on January 18, 2023, explicitly designed as a prequel to a larger game called "Lake Haven." The store description and short description both describe Chrysalis as a foreword to the upcoming full Lake Haven experience. The full game has not been released. After a cluster of bug fixes and quality-of-life patches in the weeks following the January 2023 launch, developer activity went quiet for over two years. In September 2025, the developer posted an update about Lake Haven (NEWS-2), though the content of that post appears to consist only of an image. On October 26, 2025, a Unity security patch was released (NEWS-1), and the developer signed off with "Stay tuned for more on Lake Haven..." — confirming as of that date that the full game was still in development but giving no timeline or concrete details. No updates of any kind have appeared since October 26, 2025. The full game "Lake Haven" — the primary promise attached to this prologue — remains unreleased and unscheduled, with no roadmap or release date communicated publicly. Anyone who played this prologue expecting it to lead into a full game is still waiting, with no confirmed delivery date.
Evidence
Store description explicitly states Chrysalis is 'the prologue chapter to the upcoming game Lake Haven', framing it as a prequel to a larger, unreleased experience.
description · Jan 18, 2023 source content planned
high
Short description reaffirms Chrysalis serves as a prequel chapter for the upcoming game 'Lake Haven'.
store metadata · Jan 18, 2023 source content planned
high

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Encrypt Games
Achievements
—
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

On October 7th, at 9 PM the Kansas police department receives a call from an old woman called Marianne Lambert, who is acting out of concern for her younger friend Eleanor Robertson. According to Mrs Lambert, Eleanor hasn't picked up the phone in 13 days, and her letters have gone unanswered.



Detective Zeke Reynold is called to investigate what he assumes will be another case he'll quickly forget, but what he finds will be sewn into the fabric of his existence forever.



"Chrysalis" is the prologue chapter to the upcoming game "Lake Haven". It serves as a foreword to the mind-bending and surreal mystery that is to follow...
Experience the story of Zeke Reynold as he becomes intrinsically bound to the shady happenings in Lake Haven.

  • Explore an atmospheric and detailed environment, carefully crafted in the style of PS1 horror titles.
  • Solve puzzles, find clues and uncover Eleanor's story.
  • Step into a surreal, gruesome, yet beautiful world.
Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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