Spiritfarer

I played Spiritfarer! It was...an experience! I think some of this is down to the fact that I was very convinced I would love this game despite, I now understand, knowing basically nothing about how the gameplay worked. However, a lot of this is down to a lot of design and polish issues, which I probably would have been willing to set aside if I hadn't already been annoyed, and some pacing issues, which I suspect were largely caused by post-release updates that added extra content to the game.

So basically, under the cut, I will be saying a lot of negative things about a game that I know many people loved and that I also expected to love! I don't think it's a bad game in the sense that I don't understand why people liked it, I just think it's badly made in a million little ways that I ultimately just couldn't forgive, potentially because the core gameplay is just not my kind of thing.

Spoilers for all of it! Even if you have played Spiritfarer before: Spoilers for new content that came out over the course of 2021, some of which significantly impacts the ending! Spoilers for not-in-the-game content where the creators have explained the events of the game in an extremely literal manner!

( but i've loved you, and that won't stop even if i'm not around anymore. )