#Spiritfarer spoilers

[howwnowbrowncoww]

Spiritfarer, i am kindly requesting that you stop shredding my heart like pulled pork😭😭😭😭

[siffrins-therapist]

I am both tickled and hurt by my url/icon combo, bcoz Jackie Spiritfarer as Siffrin ISAT's therapist?? Lmao no, someone save them

Just

It is perfectly understandable why this story of the afterlife brings Jackie peace, but one man's peace is another's hell, and thinking about this might throw Siffrin into a panic attack

[toomanygames]

Finished Spiritfarer.

The gameplay was a very chill and relaxing loop. I found it quite relaxing overall, just completing little tasks and always having a few simple goals or locations to check out. The story on the other hand was like getting punched directly in the emotions every couple hours. The story feels very personal and meaningful. The music swell at the Everdoor brought out so much feeling in me every single time I had to hear it. I really liked this game and finishing it was a bittersweet experience, but that makes sense for a game where in a way it really is all about how all things come to an end.

[thebeautyofgaming]

Spiritfarer

Get ready for a sh*t-ton of screenshots because this game was delightful!

...more to come!

[piixel]

been working on my boat situation lately... i still need to figure out where new buildings will go hi, buck and elena! but we're getting there! also got to say my final goodbye to mickey and bruce (who i call buck most of the time) and i'm certainly going to miss them </3

[threewaysdivided]

You have to understand.... That everything is but a meaningless arrangement of atoms. Everything you've ever known, seen, or experienced. Fortuitous circumstances. In the universal chaos, humanity emerged. Not a tiny bit more purposeful than the rest. But with an incredible faculty: That of creating meaning, however fleeting it might be. I have no inherent meaning. Neither do you. But we can create, organize, put in order. And thus create purpose and meaning. Transcend the primordial chaos. All of humankind does so. We create machines that are useful. To take control. Machines like the dreaded chair. The one that subsumed me, made of me an object. But maybe, also, that made me truly realize what impermanence means. For our numerous creations only have meaning as long as they are useful. My chair, when it finally became unneeded, became once again a heap of metal. Melted back in to the universal chaos. Lost its inherent humanity. Usefulness is an easy way to meaningfulness. But not a trustworthy one. It vanishes as quickly as we do. And so it seems the only hope humanity has for transcendence is through art. Meaningfulness pulled from our chaotic minds. Not for utility, but for its own sake. And after the artist has been long gone, turned to dust, the art remains. And even after the last one of all humans will have returned to the primordial chaos, provided that we have protected it, Art will remain. And so it is that art alone is left in our wake. The only veritable form of transcendence to ever have been in our grasp. Proof of our existence, and of our pitiful efforts to raise from the chaos. As would some unknown script from a long-gone power. Well, well, now, Stella. Ozymandias beckons. Let's go.

-Gustav's farewell, Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus, 2020)

[justagingerwithredhair]

tag, you're it !! shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs. afterward, be sure to inflict the curse (ask game) upon as many favored individuals of your choosing as you see fit!

WOE IS ME! I HAVE BEEN STRIKEN WITH CURSE OF ASK GAME!

Very well, crustacean hex maniac, I'll play your twisted games... These songs come from my "Vibes Chill Enough to Warrant a Blanket" playlist.

#1 "Stella's Departure" from Spiritfarer

#2 "Ribs" by The Crane Wives

#3 "Above the Chinese Restaurant" by Laufey

#4 "Sign" by Liana Flores

#5 "Moon Hits" by Vansire

Explore the selection as you may wish. If you do, I hope you find some new favorite artists!

[dollsmyname]

i am emotionally unwell (just finished Spiritfarer and I had saved Stanley for last, right before Stella)

[mygamereviews]

Spiritfarer

Spiritfarer is a game I discovered from the promotional team’s tik toks. The tik toks showed off wonderful music and fluid animation. This urged me to find the game and see what is was all about! The game is about Stella, the main character, and her cat helping people pass on to the afterlife. Each person you meet had a dilemma that is keeping them from passing on, it is your job as the ferryman to help them overcome their issues and help them move on. Most of the characters are people that Stella met during her life, and each represents a different event that was essential to Stella. My favorite was an NPC named Alice, she was an old woman who made clothes, baked and loved her family dearly. As time goes on, Stella begins to notice her body deteriorating and signs of dementia. Alice begins to mistake you for her late daughter, Anne, and the way she dotes on you made me feel so much. Near the end of her time on your boat, you walk her back to her house from the front of the boat at the end of the day. This small mechanic was extremely impactful for me. When she’s finally ready to move on, she talks to you as if you are her daughter, asking about school, reminding you to check in on your father, reminiscing about old family parties. She really reminded me of my grandmother, who passed away last summer. I played this game before she passed but checking in on this game made me feel all those emotions all over again. Spiritfarer is a fantastic game of grief and rebirth, with fun game mechanics too! It can get a little repetitive near the end when gathering resources, and it doesn’t have a lot of replay ability. However, it is a game worth checking out. 7/10

[llamaheart]

After an even bigger hiatus, I returned to Spiritfarer! I've 96% completed it and honestly don't want it to end... This is one of those games you need to savor slowly. Every moment is magic ✨

[justsomeectoplasm]

Yeah I bawled for Jackie the same as Annie. Just pure depression.

[for-thee]

ohhohoho i haAAATE postscripta so much it is the reason i haven't picked up spiritfarer in months

[dontfeartherat]

me bringing astrid to the everdoor: crying

astrid: "don't you forget about me, please. i don't care about anyone else! but you, you don't forget about me, i'm telling you!"

me: cries harder

[to-sock-or-not-to-sock]

so i got elena on my boat earlier in a frantic state of "how the fuck are jackie and buck the only ones left on my ship?????"

i don't normally get her until the end, when only buck is left, but it was so lonely there and something about sending gustav off broke something inside of me this time.

so now i have to deal with jackie and elena and buck at the same time

so fun

[royal-songbird]

Gustav

ive been wanting to make fanart for spiritfarer for a while and finally got around to it !!!! gustav is one of my favorites <3 and im totally not biased just bcus hes an owl and plays violin wdym ahaha

[endy-boi]

i just finished spiritfarer and. it hit me harder than any game ive played before.

at the beginning i was just having fun, not knowing what was happening

in the middle, i didn't want to let go, i wanted to go with them. i didn't want to go on without them

at the end. after my fate was revealed. i fell into a depression. i didnt do anything i didn't have to do for a quest. and i spent journeys inside listening to the music of people id left behind.

i ended up shirking my responsiblities in a vain attempt to avoid my own fate, to hold on to what i had.

i played for 3 days straight, for 35 hours. i stayed up til 3am. and its left me with a lot to think about.