Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time, the end-of-the-year break delivered: Postal rounds, a magical hat, nasty consequences and a genuinely classic series.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Lake is a rough-round-the-edges mix of a postal delivery sim and small-town storytelling, and now is the perfect time to give it a go.
You play as Meredith Weiss, a big city professional working during the computing boom of the late 1980s. You have a tiring desk job, a boss who bothers you on holidays, and a sense that despite holding the fort for everyone around you, your work remains unappreciated. But then your father calls, and asks if you can cover his mail shift for two weeks in his sleepy lake town in rural Oregon. It’s time for a working holiday!