One part is basic upkeep: they need to be fed, housed, and every so often, hugged. Drawing inspiration from both Studio Ghibli and the paintings of Yoshida Hiroshi, Spiritfarer is consistently gorgeous, whether in just drifting through the waves, or exploring the tops of mountains replete with trees, tents, and geysers.Ĭaring for the spirits entails a number of things. It might sound morbid, but Spiritfarer masks this with a beautiful style. After acquiring a proper nautical vessel befitting the afterlife's ferry, Stella hosts a number of spirits and gives them comfort so they can conquer any lingering fears or wants before heading to what lies beyond. Armed with the Everlight, Stella becomes the new Spiritfarer-a guide for dying spirits from here to the hereafter. The story of Spiritfarer opens with Charon, the mythical boatman of the river Styx, handing the reins off to your character, Stella, and her cat Daffodil. It is a bittersweet, cozy game about dying. All those bountiful resources I've harvested for hours on end will result in a gift, one that will make someone smile and get them ever closer to acceptance of what's left in life's allotment for them. It's all beautifully masked by the simple nature of each related minigame, and the dreamlike world it imagines. Spiritfarer, from developer Thunder Lotus Games, is a management game at its core, and that entails a lot of resource gathering and juggling multiple branching production lines. No seafaring vessel should be as tall as my ridiculous boat. Every rock smashed, crop tended, sheet of metal, and hunk of ore curved and crafted became blocks for my next building. Over the course of only a few hours, I might hack a dozen trees down and turn them into two or three times as many planks. Xbox One (Game Pass), PS4, Switch, PC via Epic/GOG, Google StadiaĪt some point, I lost track of the number of times I performed certain tasks in Spiritfarer.
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