Lake Key

PLEASE NOTE: This page refers to content that is not present in the final versions of the game due to being cut, removed or repurposed.

The Lake Key is an unused key that can be found using cheats within earlier builds of MediEvil. It uses the same icon as the Skull Key. There are also several strings for the item in the 2019 remake of MediEvil.

Lake Key
Icon(s)
Flavour text	Key to Zarok's Lost and Found
Found in	The Hub, or The Great Machine, or The Time Device (speculative)
Used in	The Lake (speculative)
Appears in	MediEvil (1998) MediEvil (2019)

Gameplay

MediEvil (1998 original)

It was presumably meant to be used in The Lake level or to unlock it.

In early versions of MediEvil, The Lake was a part of the final portion of the game. It would have been accessed from The Hub, along with The Great Machine, and The Time Device. It is possible the Lake Key was a way to force players to play these levels in a certain order before The Hub level was removed from the game and The Lake was moved to an earlier portion of the game.

MediEvil (2019 remake)

It is unknown how or whether the key was going to be used in the remake. Its flavour text implies that it was going to unlock something called Zarok's Lost and Found. Several strings exist for the key in the game files.

Key	Value
General/INV_LAKE_KEY_FOUND	Found Lake Key.
General/INV_LAKE_KEY_FLAVOR	Key to Zarok's Lost and Found
General/INV_LAKE_KEY	Lake Key
General/INV_LAKE_KEY_USED	Used Lake Key.

In other languages

Unlike for most other placeholder/cut items, the key's name was fully translated into each language.

Language	Official Name
Arabic	مفتاح البحيرة miftah albuhayra
Bulgarian	Ключ за езерото Klyuch za ezeroto
Croatian	Jezerski ključ
Czech	Jezerní klíč
Danish	Sø-nøgle
Dutch	Meer-sleutel
Finnish	Järviavain
French (France)	Clé du lac
German	Seeschlüssel
Greek	Το Κλειδί της Λίμνης To Kleidí tis Límnis
Hungarian	Tókulcs
Italian	Chiave del lago
Japanese	湖の鍵 Mizūmi no kagi
Norwegian	Innsjønøkkel
Polish	Klucz jeziorowy
Portuguese (Brazil)	Chave do Lago
Portuguese (Portugal)	Chave do Lago
Romanian	Cheia Lacului
Russian	Озерный ключ Ozernyy klyuch
Spanish (LatAm)	Llave del lago
Spanish (Spain)	Llave del lago
Swedish	Sjönyckeln
Turkish	Göl Anahtarı