Seasonala Cemetery

Thank you devs for making this game! In 2022 I lost my best friend to COVID-19. I found out about it on my wedding day. I was so crushed, since she lived in the UK and I live in the USA. Because I'm on a fixed income and disabled, I cannot travel so I will never be able to sit by her grave and grieve properly and get some closure. This really helps, it gives me a 'place' to go and sit, cry a little bit, and remember her. Just a small ask: could you allow for a couple of the gravestones to be customizable with name, dates, and epitaph? If it's not too much trouble. Thank you~

Wow... I cried for a bit at this game. There is nothing much going on and the gameplay itself is pretty nonexistent, but a lot of graves are for pretty young people, pets, sometimes babies. And some messages are so heartfelt and you really get a sense that graveyards aren't such dead or scary places where only the dead find peace, but the living can face the reality of life and death and the persisting love that lives on after we pass on. I even found two headstones that weren't actually very nice about their deceased person and you can sense a vague story of struggle and difficult relationships in them. They're also placed so out of the way where nobody would think to look, almost as if they are meant to be forgotten. When I visited, one of the graves in the under-6 section was still unengraved, which broke my heart. But they're all together almost as if they can now all play together, which is beautiful. Just, a lot of this game is so beautiful and touching if you just let it grab you. I really enjoy this meditative experience.

It's hard to say how much time you will spend in this... realistically, depending on the person, you might wander around a peaceful cemetery anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, just reading gravestones and noticing any other visitors. Since it's free, it's easy enough to boot and and check out if you want. Pure atmosphere, if you're into that. Achievements for visiting on certain days.

概念很有趣，相当于把你steam库链接到一个墓园，游戏状态和现实世界时间挂钩，可以随时进去转转，散步 but npc站桩，有点傻

There’s a quiet that settles in your chest, where grief and gratitude sit together without arguing. You miss them in a way that still feels physical, like something just out of reach, but it’s softened by the strange warmth of having known them at all ... of having been loved, and having loved back.

Didn't expect to cry at this, but I did, just a bit. It's surprising to discover what'll affect you.

Seasonala Cemetery is a free and gentle game showing the changing days, seasons, weather, and visitors (human and animal) in a stylised 3D model of a Canadian cemetery. The games follows the computer's time & date settings to determine daylight or darkness, weather, plant growth or dormancy, and which visitors will be present. This is not a game for long play sessions. I've run it every day since I installed it five months ago but only for 15 - 30 seconds (hence my overall low play time); I just see who's visiting that day, what they are saying or thinking, and what the environment looks like (the game is particularly good at showing the changing seasons). The one exception was the first time I played Seasonala, when I looked around the whole cemetery grounds and read every grave stone & marker (many very poignant, some funny, a few weird). There are achievements for being in the cemetery on particular occasion days, meeting a rare once-a-year visitor, and encountering rainy or snowy weather. Now that I have all of the achievements, have probably heard the full range of dialogues, and have seen all of the visitors and seasons (except Spring), I shall only run the game occasionally from now on. But it has been a relaxing and thoughtful experience, for which I thank the developers.

The visitors to the cemetery change with the hour of the day and the season of the year, and on some special days they get up to unique activities. It's more of a meditative experience than a game per se, but I'm glad to have experienced it over the course of the last year. The team that made this have great talent for pulling emotion from a few words and pixels. I miss the days that open world games put this level of care into their environments. It's not the sort of thing that everyone will enjoy but I'm glad it's here. It's free so value isn't really a question, just time. I found it worthwhile.