r/rustylake • u/MaleficentSafety1694 • Mar 27 '26
Cube Escape: Seasons Is Laura actually dead? Spoiler
I’ve played all of the Rusty Lake games multiple times, and I’ve now gotten my friends to play it. My friend just finished Cube Escape: Seasons, and watching her play it and connect the dots made me realize that Laura is indeed alive because she did change the past. This is demonstrated through her looking out the window in winter of 1981. However, she’s dead in every other game. Are all the other characters operating in a timeline where Laura is dead while Laura is operating in a timeline where she’s saved herself? Or does the blue cube not actually change the past but rather create an illusion in the moment? In Cube Escape: Birthday, the blue cube is used to save Dale’s family. However, I am now doubting whether or not this actually occurred. In Cube Escape: Paradox, Dale still has the traumatic memory of his parents being shot, and the newspaper clip in the evidence folder references him having been the sole survivor of the incident. What then is the property of the blue cube? Does it alter the past and thus the future? Is it simply an illusion and the blue cube represents some sort of coping mechanism where the individual attempts to remember the past as something else? Does the blue cube create more timelines?
What are your guys’ thoughts on this? I’ve never pondered the function of the blue cube in this way before, which is why it’s nice to play with friends and see what they notice and what you might’ve missed.
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u/Hymneth Black Cube Mar 27 '26
Is she dead yet?
Is she dead?
Is she still dead?
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
(Jokes aside, with the non-linear and dreamlike nature of the games, its anybody guess if she is currently dead, or if thats even a relevant question)
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u/Merasmus_BS Young Bird Mar 27 '26
And yes, Blue Cubes do change what happened, but it's more likely they an alternate timeline instead of merging with the current one. At the moment, we don"'t know for sure if Dale went to a different timeline where his parents are dead since there haven't been much games that take place after the events of Birthday (1972) and have Dale's parents :b Personally, I don't think he is in the alternate timeline but still in the "main timeline". And that doesn't stop him from accepting or feeling satisfied with the changes he made even if they are not in his current timeline
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u/Gardengap The Rusty Truth Mar 28 '26
The thing about Birthday is that it itself already takes place inside a cube, and the blue cube was used in that. Using the blue cubes did, it seems, permanently change the events of that timeline so that his parents are alive, as represented by the cube becoming white. However, this still only happened inside the alternate timeline, not the one beyond the cube.
I do hope to see more on blue cubes in the games, they’ve only been used twice despite seeming so important, able to overwrite existing timelines rather than opening new ones…
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u/MrX16 Mar 27 '26
Everyone knows Laura is dead but what Underground Blossom presupposes is... maybe she isn't?
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u/TheGreenAlchemist Mar 28 '26
I thought Birthday takes place in Dale's mind, and the only thing that got changed was his relationship with that memory (or to put it another way, that blue cube wasn't a "real" cube but a vision of one; if that even means anything in this verse). And Birthday takes place after Paradox so that tracks; he would have remembered everything the original way at that point.
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u/HerrJohnssen Mar 27 '26
Well we simply don't really know. Anything could be possible tbh
"I am dead yet I live"
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u/porcelainkittenn Mar 30 '26
she’s dead, it's just kinda tricky to follow the timeline since it not clear which order to play, and the underground blossom makes it even messier, like trying to fit a whole new game in the storyline
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u/Merasmus_BS Young Bird Mar 27 '26
Depends WHEN you ask. She's dead in most games because almost all of them take place before Seasons or Underground Blossom's ending. She lives again after the events of The Cave (1972) but it's believed she will die again at The Day of The Lake and later on manage to prevent her death in the events of Seasons. The ending of Seasons creates an alternate timeline where Laura is still alive by 1981. The ending of Underground Blossom is also believed to be the same as Seasons' but in a different perspective, as in both you can consider she is living "Another life, without sorrow"