Spiritfarer Is A Chill, Touching Take On A Stressful Genre

Spiritfarer, which is described by developer Thunder Lotus Games as a “cozy management game about dying,” came out yesterday for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. I’m only a few hours into this massive, striking game—it’s reportedly 30 to 40 hours long—but those words seem remarkably accurate so far. To play Spiritfarer is to light some candles, make a cup of Chamomile, and curl up under a cashmere throw. It’s more or less Hygge the Game.
In Spiritfarer you play as Stella, the titular Spiritfarer. At the start of the game, you take over Charon’s venerable soul-guiding duties, and are gifted a modest boat. (For those who skipped Mythology 101, Charon is a figure from the Greek mytheme who ferries the deceased, across the not-at-all-subtle River Styx, into the afterlife.) As you play, unique animal spirits move into your boat. They all have disparate needs, and it’s up to you to tend to them. Is Atul the frog hungry? Really, again?
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