Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition

For someone with anxiety, this is the perfect game. The time pressure of this game is very low, you gradually learn the platforming skills as you go along. Frustration levels never seemed to mount for me, unlike other platforming type games where if you fall, you die. Beautiful, gorgeous scenery, smooth animation. You sail around the large world at your own pace, learning recipes and collecting ingredients. finding items and building things like a loom, a sawmill, a forgery. Grow your own vegetables and hug your passengers, if they want one. One of my favourite activities in the game is fishing during sunset. Gorgeous colour palettes as you cast a line, you cat by your side. Truly a pleasure. It's a lovely game, not only because it is relatively easy, yet still challenging and engaging -but it isn't a vapid story line, by any means. You learn about your passengers lives and personalities gradually over time and help them find resolution by performing tasks and unlocking memories. Eventually they will make the decision to request a trip to the Everdoor -where you learn to say goodbye. I won't lie, this game made me cry a few times, but experience the complex emotions connected to grief. That there is pain in saying goodbye, but there is also beauty in the cycle of life and in the value of love and friendship. With the free added content, this game is also comfortably long, with many collection type challenges, errands, favours and such. I have played it all the way through a couple times, but it lasted a long time, and it was my choice to end the game, I certainly could have gone on sailing and fishing and exploring. the game does not feel short, and you do have some control in how quickly you want it to progress. I did not expect to love this game this much, I don't even play games that often. But when I am in the mood to play something that will soothe my anxiety, yet keep me engaged -I come to Spiritfarer. Certainly worth your time.

This is both a very, very well designed exploration, crafting, management, relaxing kind of game in a similar world to Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, it is also a beautiful work of storytelling art. It avoids a lot of the pitfalls a lot of these kinds of touchy feely indie games do by telling its story primarily through its gameplay, and has actually very good gameplay.. If this doesn't look interesting to you, I don't know what I could say that might make it, but if you are even a little bit interested in this game, trust me, you will love it. This game is worth every penny. Note: I got the game on steam, which is why I am not a verified owner, but want to start writing reviews for games I like, which is why I'm here.

Spiritfarer is a fairly original game, it's a resource management/farming/mining/cooking/etc game, and an exploration platforming game, then you have spirits you bring aboard, which have requests to fulfill, and stories to tell, as well as the fuzzy wuzzy hugs to share. It's like someone took some Harvest Moon, added a helping of Wind Waker's (or more specifically, Phantom Hourglass's) sailing and island exploration, and then a dash of Metroidvania platforming and powerup fetching. The powers are almost entirely movement based, and there isn't combat in this game, unless you count wrestling with OP tuna. Also maybe a sprig of Pyre in a way. The art and animation are fantastic, buttery smooth. Very vibrant and pretty, speaking of... One time, the cat helper, Daffodil, was in a glitch singularity, her animation was stiff, 1 frame of animation depending on which way she was facing, then her, and also a few spirits at times would get stuck in a navigation error loop, where they would rapidly dart left/right or up/down a ladder. Then there would be 2 Daffodils during certain animations, like sleeping. I then exorcised the glitch demon out of Daffodil by hugging her, and... no joke, that fixed it when nothing else would, even saving/quitting. It's a feature. My few gripes with the game are, other than the occasional tedium these types of games have at times, are that the game tends to give you station upgrades waaaaaay past the point of you even needing them anymore. Then again, that could just be depending on your route, I at least got the foundry upgrade early on, which was very useful. Another thing is, that Bruce and Mickey tend to just randomly move when you're talking to them, happened way too many times and gave me S.T.A.L.K.E.R. flashbacks of the same thing happening with random NPCs when you try to talk to them. Do yourself a favor, and let these two starve if this happens and annoys you even a little. They're jerks anyway. Neato game overall.

This is one of the best and loveliest animated games, I ever saw. Every possible motion is animated in such a great way. The characters feel real and the story is so touching. You don't have a single boring moment.

Just it... Ypu should try it.