You could choose to complete these tasks if you want, or you could spend some time sitting on the end of your boat fishing, or experimenting in the kitchen cooking meals and learning new recipes. A spirit could ask Stella to build them something, make their favourite dish, or travel to an island to collect an item for them. You can stack buildings on top of each on the boat like a game of Tetris.Īs part of the management section of the game, you will be given tasks from each of the spirits to complete, but it will be up to you to decide which of them you will prioritise. As the game progresses, you will unlock houses for each of the spirits to live in, as well as orchards, vegetable gardens, a sawmill to make wooden planks, a loom to make fabric, and more. As captain of her boat, Stella must take up farming, fishing, meal preparation, crop harvesting and mine for minerals to help care for her passengers and craft upgrades for her boat. In the game, Stella devotes herself to caring for the spirits of her friends and family, just like she used to care for her patients as a palliative care nurse before she got sick. It is 2D action metroidvania, a visual novel, a side-scrolling platform adventure and an Animal Crossing style management game all in the same breath. Spiritfarer is an interesting mix of genres.
The lives of each of the spirits is celebrated from beginning to end. It is natural, inevitable and embraced as an unavoidable conclusion to life. There is no fighting death in Spiritfarer. But it is also overwhelmingly positive, heartbreakingly emotional, and peaceful.
This is a game that doesn't shy away from death and how it impacts people.
Spiritfarer can be very sad in some parts, but it is also breathtakingly beautiful and has a lot to say about life and death. I was a bit hesitant to play it at first. The use of colour, the hand-drawn animations, the cast of characters, the emotional storytelling and the excellent soundtrack had me hooked from beginning to end.
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