#grave seasons game

[gravedirtt]

A charming pixelated town with a terribly dark secret….. we’ve officially announce Grave Seasons, our upcoming murder mystery farming simulator this weekend at Summer Games Fest.

AND, we’re collaborating with Blumhouse Games to bring out game to life.

I’ve never been more proud to be the Narrative Director of Perfect Garbage.

[fawningbruises]

clean that harvest moon out from under your fingernails

[tbhshaped]

it's 2025 which means I'm 1 day closer to meeting my wife that is also my beautiful girlfriend

[crossbackpoke-check]

“i caught the zoomies” | sea v cgy, 10.19.24

[centuryberry]

Queen of the Mountain Universe

So, after watching Season 5 (which has devastated me, by the way - completely and utterly destroyed me), I was inspired to incorporate a certain character into the Queen of the Mountain Universe and tie together the AUs tied to the games. (Excluding the A/B/O AU, Fae AU, and the Imperial Harem AU.)

This technically isn't a fic spoiler since I won't be adding any of this into the main fic itself, mind you. I already have too much planned in Acts II and III to include the new revelations, but I'm writing my ideas here. (May consider writing some oneshots set post-QotM.)

Warning: Spoilers for LMK Season 5 below!

We all knew it was Xiangliu. This snake man has a grip on me that only happened once before when Season 1 Macaque sashayed into my life. Holy hell, he's the definition of chaotic neutral. Also, the hints of lore he dropped before casually moving on because he thought it wasn't important? Drove me insane. What do you mean you and Wukong used to be friends? What do you mean Macaque made a deal? What do you mean be "he's winning"?! Who's he?!

I have no idea what LMK has planned for him (or if he's even going to come back in the future seasons), but I know what plans I have for him now.

To be honest, Xiangliu (the Nine-Headed Demon who nearly scammed Ao Guang and his ilk in Chapter 16) wasn't supposed to be significant in the Queen of the Mountain universe. But with how Season 5 ended up, I made him into a more important player.

Just like the LMK world, I'd like to think that the QotM world also experiences a similar "cycle" in the form of "resets." It would make sense, right? As In the Sun's Embrace and Sunchaser are games that encourages reloads and resets to explore different routes, it's not too far-fetched to think that the world itself experiences something similar.

I've always had a fondness of Time Loops in stories, especially with at least one person remembering every loop. Xiangliu would be that person in this case. Somehow, he became aware of what was happening and yearned for an escape from this constant resetting of the world.

(He must've gone insane gaining and losing friends, lovers, and enemies, doomed to repeat the same song and dance again except his bonds would never be the same since he's always changing and always growing while everyone else regresses every time.)

Eventually, he removed himself from the living world all together and replaced one of the Ten Kings of the Underworld to find a way out. Still, he'd pop up here and then to maybe make some interventions or watch when something new played out.

While a lot of the diverging AUs are mostly due to the different choices made by individuals, I'd like to think that Xiangliu made some of them possible. Notably, Warlord Shanzha AU, Withered Grave Flowers AU, Detoxify AU, and Extra Pilgrim AU.

Well, you noticed how LBD seems to be absent in those AUs, right? How Yue magically comes out of things alive and unpossessed by her into the modern era? Well, the answer in Xiangliu. He doesn't do this in every cycle, but he sometimes has the heart to spare Yue from her canon fate. Making her fate better always seems to give happier endings to all of the celestial monkeys. Not perfect, but happier.

(And, because it would be so funny to me, I'd like to think he at least hooked up with every member of the celestial monkey poly occasionally in between cycles. So he has a history with all of them which I may expand on in another post if anyone's interested.)

So, there you have it. A way for all of these AUs to technically be canon. (Thank you, Season 5.)

As for what Xiangliu is doing during Queen of the Mountain, he's doing nothing. For the first time, he didn't have to do anything to make a drastic change to the usual script. For the first time, he's interested to see how things turn out. Because of a certain six-eared baby monkey yaoguai who ended up in the palanquin.

[perfectgarbagestudios]

Build your farm, fish and mine, and explore the unknowns of a strange, ancient town all while romancing the secretive local townsfolk. Just make sure you stop the supernatural murders before it’s too late…

Wishlist our murder mystery farming sim now!

[myth-blossom]

For fellow fans of Stardew Valley, here's another upcoming farming sim with a twist:

Here's the thread with some screenshots

[maryamelias]

Currently browsing the grave seasons wiki & Aria got me acting like lovesick gremlin, Like DAYUM!!!!cant wait for this game to come out!!!

[redskullz]

Season 1 and season 2. Looks like she’s Hellen is Gonna play these games again.

[needsmorewlw]

Hey kids, how do you feel about murder mystery farming?

My sister is the lead programmer on this game and they're tryna get to 50k wishlists 🙏 get over here 🔥🔥🔥

Farming Sim with a twist. Mystery, horror, oh, and you can accidentally date the killer 👀

Follow on Twitter for updates

[probablygayattorneys]

Well, I almost managed to put it off for a full 15 years, and it took me almost five months to actually play but

Eventually all things must end, including my time with Kyle Hyde, and, by the light of the Christmas tree, I finished Last Window: Secrets of Cape West and the accompanying novel.

I have a lot of thoughts that I’ll eventually gather and throw in the queue but right now I just have feelings.

If you’ve been following me long enough you will know I will go to truly absurd lengths to avoid finishing a game if I don’t want to. I am truly an artist of bullshit. And I really didn’t want to finish this game because… I can’t explain to you what Kyle means to me. Meant to me. I don’t know. But I knew if I read the last page and closed the book then I would have to say goodbye. There would be nothing left to his story.

And I’ll admit, I’m feeling a little unmoored. But I know now more about what made Kyle into the man I loved when I was a child, the one who was the hero I needed growing up in an unstable environment and I didn’t have a strong father figure who loved me in the way I needed. And love’s never lost when perspective is earned.

So, goodbye, Kyle Hyde. Goodbye, Rachel and Ed. Goodbye, Red Crown. Goodbye, Mila. Goodbye, Bradley. Goodbye, Chris and Jeanie. Goodbye to the Cape West apartments and to the Hotel Dusk and to everyone at both.

But the woman who sits at the window has, finally, turned out the light.

[thelikesoffinn]

I just saw the trailer to a farming game called "Grave Seasons" and like...I want that. I want it nooooowwwww.

[fox-from-fairytale]

Stealing Marlon's dog is worse than spitting on his grave.

[comradecowplant]

Love how the new PLL writers were like okay FINE fans were right to point out that A was never really a slasher villain and continuing to use that moniker for these new villains is a slap in the face to the original evil girlbosses-- Mona, Cece, and Ello Spensah-- who worked 👏 hard 👏 scheming and stooging (sometimes YEARS of preparation!) in order to torture the original liars...... so for these new girls we will call the villains B instead :)

[tevinterdays]

🎵

the song on shuffle when i saw this was french ambient metal without lyrics so moving to the next thing

shuffle has brought us:

rain in soho, by the mountain goats!

favorite lyric

no town more barren than our town no haven safer than the one they tore down

lots of honorable mentions in the tags on this one but this line in particular i always misremember as "no haven safer than the one we tore down" because i was listening to it a LOT when initially playing act 2 of bg3 as my tragic nightmare durge

send ♪ fr a song on shuffle from my library and a favorite lyric \o/

[gifti3]

remembered the asmo cockblock scene once again