Stardew-like meets murder mystery Grave Seasons has some supernatural secrets still to come

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Last month Rachel made us aware of a life sim called Grave Seasons, a kind of mash up of perennial favourite Stardew Valley and, er, the half-season serial killer arc of a police procedural TV show. Naturally this turned my head, like Tarantino walking past a ladies shoe store, and I emailed the developers Perfect Garbage to find out a bit more. They describe the game as "fun, campy and spooky" and hint at yet more secrets to be revealed. Appropriate for a game where, every time you start a new run, one of the townsfolk starts killing everyone else.

Studio director and co-founder Son M. (who first caught Rachel's eye by posting some fun screenshots on Twitter tells me that Grave Seasons is in early development - and indeed, Perfect Garbage have a cyberpunk visual novel called Love Shore coming down the game-release pipeline, due for release later this year (there's a demo on Steam right now).

My main question was asking for the team's elevator pitch on the game, which I will reproduce in full below:

The word supernatural really stands out for me there. We already knew that there would be murders of course - one of the screenshots Son M. shared shows the player's journal, where they can keep track of who has been killed and their relationships with the townsfolk - but supernatural puts a different spin on it for me. Is the motive supernatural? Is this some Lovecraft shit again, because that's been in for a while?

Speaking of relationships, as well as it being possible to accidentally romance the murderer, I have confirmation that you can also romance a character in Grave Seasons only to see them get absolutely done in. Your relationships with the townsfolk are also one of the planned ways you can gather clues to solve