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Drain the Lake with a Spoon

Drain the Lake with a SpoonHTML5 · Browser

Quick Controls

  • ↔Keyboard and mouse to walk and look around.
  • ◎On touch screens, use the stick and drag to look.
  • ⇥F11 toggles full screen.

Quick Tips

  • •Spend early dollars on a bigger container so each trip pays more.
  • •Move pumps down onto the dried lakebed as the water drops.
  • •Take rush orders from the water company for triple pay.

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Drain the Lake with a Spoon

What Is Drain the Lake with a Spoon?

Drain the Lake with a Spoon is a first-person incremental game about emptying a lake the locals call Bottomless Lake. You start with a single teaspoon: walk down to the water, dip, carry it back to the water company's depot, and pour it in for a dollar a litre. With more than 72 million litres on the counter, every upgrade matters.

Bigger containers, running shoes, pumps, pipes, and hired helpers slowly take the work off your hands. As the shoreline retreats, the lakebed gives up lost objects, fish crowd into the shrinking water, and a mysterious buoy on a chain hints at what waits at the bottom. The browser version is a free demo where upgrades stop at the starter tiers.

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Game Details

  • DeveloperB.H
  • PlatformBrowser (desktop, mobile)
  • TechnologyHTML5 (Godot)
  • Mode1 player, first person

Classification

Simulation GamesIdle GamesIncremental Games

Complete Guide

How to Play Drain the Lake with a Spoon

Every trip is the same loop: walk to the water, scoop, walk back, and pour into the depot to get paid. Spend the money on better containers and machines, and keep chasing the water's edge as it moves farther away.

The Spoon Loop

  1. Dip and Carry

    Walk down to the lake, fill your spoon, and carry it back on foot to the water company's depot.

  2. Get Paid

    The depot pays a dollar a litre, so a teaspoon is worth half a cent per trip.

  3. Upgrade Containers

    Step up from a tablespoon to a paper cup, jug, bucket, storage box, wheelbarrow, and barrel trolley.

  4. Longer Walks

    As the lake drains the shoreline moves away, so running shoes help keep each trip quick.

Machines, Helpers, and Secrets

  1. Pumps and Pipe

    Buy pumps and lay pipe to the depot. Each hose has a reach and lift limit, so carry pumps down onto the dried lakebed as the water falls.

  2. Hired Hands

    Hire up to three helpers who scoop with their own teaspoons and pour all day.

  3. Fish and Ducks

    Dip where the rings appear to catch fish, watch out for Big Bertha, and grab a scuba tank and speargun for the big ones.

  4. Lakebed Finds

    Glowing items surface as the water recedes, from a boot and a message in a bottle to a vintage car and a treasure chest.

Controls

  • Keyboard and mouseMove and look in first person
  • TouchStick to move, drag to look
  • F11Toggle full screen

Conclusion

Drain the Lake with a Spoon takes an absurd goal and makes it satisfying: every bigger container, longer pipe, and new helper visibly pulls the shoreline back, and the lakebed keeps rewarding you with something strange to find.

Grab your teaspoon and see how far you can get. Press Play Now and start scooping.

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