BETTER THAN EVER

KEEPER is a bite-sized adventure game that draws on Double Fine's best work

- Tyler Colp

Keeper can’t be accused of chasing trends. It doesn’t have hyper-realistic graphics; it doesn’t have crafting; it doesn’t have a battle pass; it doesn’t even have humans. It’s a game about a lighthouse and a bird going up a mountain that ends in around six hours.

But all six hours of it are gorgeous. Leave it to Double Fine, the developer that made a level out of psychedelic album art in Psychonauts 2, to create an entire experience that feels like exploring a surrealist painting: a trip through an alien-looking planet that glows with pinks and greens and oranges, starring a sentient lighthouse with spider legs. Keeper is an adventure nobody else could make, and one of Double Fine's best.