Mad, this may or may not be an inclusive list, but the developer is Mystery Tag and I found this information here.

Big Fish has all three games mentioned under Pillars of the Earth.

And when I Googled Hope Lake, I found Far Mills as part of the development team:

https://www.mobygames.com/company/13208/far-mills-llc/

Yes, it sounds like maybe two developers were involved.

I don't have an answer for you, Mad, about other games by the Hope Lake developer, but I will watch to see what others comment. I loved Hope Lake and so I replay it every couple of years.

I did a search on Big Fish to see what games they might have that were mentioned in comments above, and they have Riddles of the Past and A Tale for Anna, both listed as being by the same developer who shared development of Hope Lake. The two games are not recent.

I have the A Tale for Anna CE (released in 2021) and it is a very well-made game.

A Tale for Anna Collector's Edition

Thank you both, Reenie and Marian !! 🤗🤗

Wow!! I just finished playing Eternal Journey: New Atlantis. What a fantastic game.

Eternal Journy is one of my Top Ten games. I have replayed it several times over the years.

Judith, that game is also one of my favorites. Another great game from 5 BN!

Just checked my Purchase History - and I do have Eternal Journey: New Atlantis CE - so that could be my next play !!

Sounds good, Mad!

Well into Hope Lake now. And it's a "goodie" alright

I am glad you're liking it, Mad! It felt rather old school to me, which proved to be a good thing in this instance.

I actually played (and liked) Eternal Journey: New Atlantis in 2021, probably based on comments in this thread here.

I get Hope Lake mixed up with some other game and always think that I have played it already but, according to my list, I have not. I guess I'll have to add it to my very long queue of "I want to play now" games.

I finished the main game of Golden Trails 2: The Lost Legacy and am working on getting the "best" score in the unlimited play area.

I did start Twin Mind 3: Ghost Hunter last night but somehow got confused very early, and while the mini games / puzzles are different so far, I'm just not sure I like them.

I think “old school” suits me, Marian. Just as long as there aren’t HO scenes every five minutes and the objects in them aren’t microscopic !!
And Hope Lake is nicely fitting THAT bill on both counts 👍

I reckon I have more unplayed games in my computer den than I have years left on this earth, oldbroad, and yet I still buy more.
So you go to it, gal, and enjoy your massive collection to the max 😬

Yes, exactly!

I am into the bonus game now of Gloomy Tales: Horrific Show CE. So far I have enjoyed the game.

Finished Hope Lake (really liked it) and started Eternal Journey : New Atlantis CE.

So very much looking forward to another good experience

Two good games in a row, Mad.

I agree, Marian

I am quite enjoying the Atlantis game - but not as much as I did Hope Lake !!

If I find any more buried treasures like Hope Lake on Big Fish, I will certainly post about it here!

Thanks very much, Marian

[There's rather a lot of "gadgety" stuff in the Atlantis game and that's not really my forte.]

I agree with Mad on old school and am replaying some Dark Parables and other series to reteach myself puzzle skills. I recently discovered in 13th Skull that I can still do a complex modified slider with relative ease and also managed to solve the tricky tall-masted ship where the tile you click also turns adjacent tiles so I was encouraged that I hadn't forgotten everything. Alas the devilish dominoes in Return of the Salt Princess stymied me. I failed to work out that some pieces which appear to be duplicates, in fact, twirl differently or, at least, I think that's what happens. Salt Princess is a much better game than I remembered.

Just before Return of the Salt Princess, I replayed the first Final Cut, a fabulous game. Top of the line.

Edited to add: I also had forgotten how wonderfully amusing the openings of Dark Parables are. The detective, clearly no horsewoman either driving one or riding, jolts along reading notes and listening to a recording without a thought to oncoming disaster. In 2023, she'd get a ticket for texting while behind the wheel.

And now I'm playing Jack and the Sky Kingdom although the puzzles are way too simple I am still loving the game. I like a series that presumes player familiarity with previous episodes and builds on that to deepen character portrayal and player immersion, hard to do in any casual game, doubly so if helpful remarks are turned off. Sometimes I turn them on just to get some idea of who the dickens the player character is. Old school casual games, less bifurcated from the adventure game branch, tend to have comments unrelated to spelling out tasks and I treasure that feature.

Jack and the Sky Kingdom has a good puzzle at the end. I was sorry when the game ended.

I hope to some day get around to the Dark Parables series.

I finished Twin Mind: Ghost Hunter and last night I started Camelot: Wrath of the Green Knight. One thing I like right off the bat in this game is that you can replay the cut scenes from the journal.