CUBE ESCAPE (Rusty Lake) - Case 23 / The Mill 

John: Harvey! Hey! Harvey: *shits* John: ... Me: What a beautiful reunion.

you don’t know pain until you watch john ignore a pulsing black dot for 45 seconds

58:28 i like how mr owl is just t-posing on dale

Lines mentioned in multiple games: "All that you touch, you change" "There will be blood" "The past is never dead, it's not even past"

For anyone wondering why he didn't see those tiny black dots he has mentioned it before how hard it is to see obvious things sometimes because he has lights pointing right in his face. Just for those who are wondering what's up.

John, I know it probably gets annoying when a lot of people request the same games, but I honestly really appreciate you playing this series. Just wanted to say thank you for always keeping your videos interesting and authentic.

Actually knitting while watching this. I wish I had some grilled food and warm milk.

John: I did the code, secret code, and nothing happened. Man on the boat: 😒

I really hope you noticed those pulsing black dots in post-editing. ‘‘Twas a bit silly

"As I understand it, you can play this game after Rusty lake... but you can also play it slightly before." As long as you play it slightly before, or slightly after, but not WAY before. And lord help you if you try to play it at the same time.

Obvious black dot is obvious... Nice vid John always love your vids.

You solved the matching pictures puzzle so fast!! :O Impressive!!

John saying “I don’t understand why they’re acting like that” in reference to udders while trying to milk a cow, may be my favorite thing ever.

I gotta say, the comedic timing at 46:30 is *exquisite.*

Fun fact: Dale’s last name roughly translates to ‘From the Lake’

That look John gets after being so excited to see Harvey, but Harvey just squawks & shits XD

Just a heads up, after you play Cube Escape Birthday and Theater, you should play Rusty Lake: Roots, then play Cube Escape: The Cave, and then finally Rusty Lake: Paradise (the way the developers recommend playing it). P.S. The secret code you got in Rusty Lake: Hotel can be used in Cube Escape Birthday (it doesn't give you a different ending (like Cube Escape The Lake) it just gives you a little something special ;) )

black spots indicate where to break the wall John: "I think this is at random" man in the boat starts glowing white John: "I guess that did nothing"

This series of games is absolutely intriguing. I never know what to expect! And your genuine happiness and excitement in playing it adds to the fun of the video.

Yooo This game LOOKs GoooooD man!!

My favorite part is in The Mill when Mr Owl hits us with the T pose

At the wall part at 36 min, you click the black dots ;-; I thought I was gonna lose my damn mind

"We burn the cobwebs with the flashlight.." - John as he uses matches to burn the cobwebs

John, you should shave your beard to see if you get a cardinal!

You should rip the photo of Mr. Crow and his Wife. Its about Dale and his purpose. Also get ready with that code in Hotel it will be used in Birthday. Also theater has a secret called "Bad Egg".

there's a letter behind the old couple picture,too. Love these games,heard their going to make short movie and another new game now !!!

Their were black floating things that you were supposed to press on the cracking wall.

My grand parents had a phone like that and I loved it. It felt really satisfying to dial the numbers. Btw John you are amazing at puzzle solving. Keep up the great work. :D

Great to see you again John! Funny you mentioned Twin Peaks - I've been watching it when you don't post new vids (definitely not getting on ya for not updating - life happens). Really enjoying it so far Agent Cooper is so zany.

30:07 Does that mean Mr.Crow is Dale's grandpa because in Cube Escape Birthday the grandpa looked exactly like Mr.Crow's human form...

Zack did you see it!? There was a message in that man's coffee!

WHAT? A grilled duck is to fucking hot to grab! But you can touch and use the Liquid Gold??? What the F?

OMG THE DOOR PART.

My house still has a rotary phone stuck to the wall. Of course it doesn't work because we had our landline disconnected several years ago, but it remains as an artistic fixture in our kitchen area.

I JUST started watching Twin Peaks! It's been on "my list" but since you started playing the Rusty Lake/Cube Escape series a couple weeks ago, I subconsciously started it. Thanks, John.

John! If you enjoyed the Rusty Lake games, you would **love** the Submachine games! It has the same atmosphere as the Cube Escape games and it's got such a good story to it, too!

"We spawned life out of our beard, fantastic,,, so we got a screwdriver,," I love how perplexed he gets about the stranger plot points

34:47 John, the black dot The black dot John John John the bl the black dot THE BLACK DOT JOHN

Just commenting to say I seriously appreciate you playing this series 😊👍🏽

*investigates a murder* *doesn't collect evidence, instead works on solving the victim's crossword on the newspaper.* Detective of the year.

omg, "Harvey!! Heyy.....*thousand yard stare*" even though I've seen most/played some, I still enjoy these playthroughs. Thanks for the plays and edits.

Surprised the John doesn't overthrow Fire Lord Ozai with his firebending powers that can distort time and space itself

Yesss!!! I was so bored til I saw this notification! And my pizza came 😂 perfect timing

Lol the painting lady's reaction at 30:15 pretty much reflects my reaction through this series

So excited for you to get to birthday...it was my personal favorite out of cube escape. Great video as always! I also never noticed the dots on the wall when I played it, and thought I just had to tap randomly.... hell I didn't even know until I watched this vid. But well, random tapping got the job done eventually so nbd.

I was actually a Librarian for several years, and there was a rotary phone in the "breakroom" of the library. They actually gave me the rotary phone as a gift when i left.

The corrupted human from the earlier games was the woman. She was trying to remember herself. She died, I think from that green pill, or from being murdered from a corrupted human, and the crow collected her body for the lake. The crow takes dead people, their good memories (white) and bad memories (black). But if you extract bad memories, you can corrupt the body, which is why the woman became black. The corrupt become killing machines, desperately seeking their lost memories that they can never have back, only fragments. This is just my interpretation. I have no idea what the owl did to the detective, though.

I'm really loving this series John!

My theories so far. The black humanoid figures are those who were harvested. At the end of mom, the future is the detective. After he put the cubes in he said he saw his memories floating in the lake then we saw mr owl with him. I think we actually are mr Crow in the mill, that's why he said to the figure that they were already harvested. Don't know who the shadow with the horns is. But you're right about the cubes being memories. I'm not sure about Harvey's role but maybe he killed the guests at the hotel for mr owl because with memories it was shown you could change your past. He wants the woman to come back to life perhaps. And maybe the horned shadow dude is the killer then?

You have such a great memory for these games! I wait patiently for your next cube escape video :)

Case 23 is the hardest cube escape game for me but I find it really fun except for the last chapter because I'm slower than a turtle XD😂 cube escape the mill is extremely easy for me:)

Man I love this series of Cube Escape

Soo hooked on this series! Playing some of the Cube escape games and maybe the Rusty Lake ones too before I carry on watching your videos.

"Harvey!" *Shits* Your facial expressions are gold😂😂😂

The mill is one of my favourite cube escape games

Twin Peaks was awesome. Quite reminiscent. So I'm like "JOHN !!! Pick up the paper, YOU MISSED THE PAPER !!! ARGH !!! John !! " LOL

I love your content. you always play the coolest games.

Notifications only work for John's videos. Thank you Illuminati and FBI guy, you get me.

Yay! I'm so glad you're playing more of my favorite series. The first one I played was Birthday, and I've been hooked ever since. Can't wait until you play that one

1:01:30 they explained that the cubes were memories earlier...

"It seems like I'm just RaNdOmLy clicking." *clicking on blacks spots on the wall*

These games got me through a long flight. I'm glad you're playing them; I figured you and your audience would enjoy these. Cheers from Canada.

only really just found this series both game wise and video wise, fully making story notes

I had that phone when I was younger, I'm 21. The phone wasn't connected so I would play with it, I think it still worked though.

John Wolfe has a cute baby face

Hey john! There's also a game made by the Rusty Lake devs that was way before the cube escape series, but still has the same style. It's called Samsara Room and its a trip and a half.

Dale. Another Twin Peaks similarity. I love this!

I'm really glad John took awhile with the book part, I was doing it and I felt really dumb trying to figure it out lol

:Burn the cobwebs with the flashlight" lmao XD

Glad you're enjoying the series! I've never seen these shorter titles, so glad you're playing through them in order.

Twin Peaks season 3 is on Netflix actually, wonderful show

I'm sure someone already said this, but in case you didn't find it after taping, the wall breaking one has a blackish dot hovering around that you click to break. I noticed that darker colors seem to be hard for you to see, probably because your line of work is so heavy on varying lighting. Take care of your eyesight so we can keep having awesome content from you!

hey john, remember the secret code from rusty lake hotel? in certain moment, u will be able to use it in the cube escape birthday...

John: *burns the cobweb with matches* Also John: Ugh we burn the cobwebs with a flashlight..

😂😂Was falling asleep during this vid (not cause it was boring just tired) and I woke up to see John playing with the utters and saying 'I don't understand why they're acting like that' 😂 idk why that cracked me up so much

Hi john! So excited to watch your video!! Its 1 hr video love it 😍

john clicks on the wall where the black dot is, wall crumbles, john: "i guess its just random?" watches john click ar0und the black dots that pop up lol

What life would John's beard spawn if he shaved his? Hmm? 🤔

I was about to study for my exams but ...... what can I do? I’m weak when John releases hour long videos :(

I love both atla and twin peaks and john mentioning them made me so happy

You were not Dale during The Mill. You were whoever the backwards voice is.

2:26 Boy I sure am glad we have the ability to levitate couch cushions in this game. That's a really neato mechanic! :D

I'm absolutely loving this series and can't wait to see you tackle the next installments!

You know a game is weird when you're surprised you can't pick up cat shit

Just wanted to say, thank you SO MUCH for playing this series. I love it! Also, spoiler, the next game, Cube Escape: Birthday is all about Dale Vandermeer.

Why are there humans here but in Rusty Lake hotel everyone is an animal?

That AD placement at 21:10 though scared the bajeezus outta me

Is the lake rusty thou, that's the real question

When he yells eat the food at the cow... EAT THE FOOD TINA

Still watching this series in 2019, it's my favourite of all your playlists. For some reason I always laugh hardest when John gives that brief look to the camera when he knows some Rusty Lake bullshit is about to go down XD

John, you haven't played any Jeff the Killer games in a LONG time, do you not care about us anymore? Edit:Why did I get so many likes?

Started watching this series so late , what a great series !

I could watch John play Rusty Lake games all day. What a series.

Yeah!! You rock, John! 😎

This series is so freaking interesting! Thanks so much for putting in the effort to play these!

If you write CROW into the typewriter at the end of doing the typewriter thing zou get an achievment "dark wings". I discovered it bc in the newspaper in chapter 1 there is an add for a typewriter and there is CROW written on it.

These games are such a huge part of my childhood, so glad you're playing them.

glad im not the only one that A) thought you were supposed to draw what was on the note and B) didnt see the dots

Favorite series so far, definitely eager to see the rest

35:00 me screaming at the top of my lungs “ITS THE PULSING BALL OF DARKNESS!!”