Even if these spirits are on their way to the next life, they still have to eat, and they all have their favorite meals. There’s a particular focus on gathering and preparing food. You fish and craft and gather, and the items that you place on your boat will hopefully put your spirits more at ease as they face the uncertainty of what comes after this life.
It’s all extremely cute.Īs mentioned in the description, Spiritfarer is a “management game,” meaning that much of the action of the game is taken up with making your boat as welcoming and helpful to the spirits who ride upon it as you can. If you want to have a second player join you, they pop in as Stella’s cat. She pilots a boat that helps carry various spirits, depicted as adorable animals, across the sea that lies between this life and the next. In Spiritfarer, you play Stella, who is, in essence, a video game version of Charon the ferryman who carries the dead across the River Styx in Greek mythology. (I played it on the Nintendo Switch.) Thunder Lotus Games, the studio that created it, describes it as “a cozy management game about dying,” and goodness, is it.
I don’t know that I’ve ever encountered a game that takes this tendency and uses it to make a comment about the very nature of life and death, though - or at least as not as well as the new game Spiritfarer, which is available on all major platforms. The people who make games know this, and they often figure out ways to either exploit that tendency in players - by making it really, really hard to achieve that 100 percent “you’ve done it all!” score - or to comment on that desire obliquely. In each edition, find one more thing from the world of culture that we highly recommend.Ī certain type of video game activates my inner completionist: It’s the kind that makes me want to see everything, do everything, collect everything. One Good Thing is Vox’s recommendations feature.
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