Admittedly its kind of cheating to make a sad game about death and grief, try to make a sad game about the Zucker Brothers and there's a challenge! But seriously this game came to me at a particularly challenging moment in my life when I lost my Dad, and it helped me through some personal stuff.

It also does so without being a walking sim or visual novel, no, this is a game that uses its game mechanics to help tell it's story whilst being compelling gameplay wise. This game accurately recreated the experience of losing a loved one unexpectedly through the medium of videogame in a way that was both clever and utterly devastating to me, in a good, cathartic way.

More importantly it's a game about death which is sad precisely because it isn't miserable, much like we only feel the pain of losing a loved one because we had good times with them, Spiritfarer achieves its melancholy by being a joyous , humourous game about celebrating life as much as it is mourning it's ends. There are some gameplay and story niggles but ultimately I don't want to get bogged down in them because they are unimportant, spiritfarer is an utterly unique experience I will think about for the rest of my life