Blumhouse Games was back at Summer Games Fest this year, and this time they had multiple games for us to check out this time around. The first was the farming sim Grave Seasons. A farming sim usually isn’t scary, right? However, once you get into it, this game went from zero to terrifying at the snap of your fingers.
Grave Seasons sees you play as a character who is a criminal wanting to get a fresh start somewhere and winds up owning an old farm. During the day, you do the typical farming sim things. Clean up the farm, pick crops and plant new ones, water those new plant, flirt with your neighbors, you know, the usual things you expect from these types of games. However, then you find a weird ring that no one knows who it belongs to or you dig up a severed hand while picking your crops that freaks everyone out.
Though, once night settled in we were told to go the forest. Immediately upon entering, we see one of the characters we had met earlier get attacked by a horrifying shadowy beast and tears her to shreds. This completely caught me off guard as I didn’t expect the game to make that sharp of a turn into horror that early. Once the character had died we were tasked with finding some clues to why it had happened before returning home for the night.
Unlike most farming sims which can be endless, Grave Seasons is set to have around a thirty hour narrative and looks to offer a ton of replayability as things will change at the start with each new playthrough. Even the girl who dies in the demo can be saved in an actual playthrough of the game. Grave Seasons is set to release at some point in the future.