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.

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

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

Really fun little experience, the way it changes based on the weather or time and date is really cool. I had a really nice time walking around reading the graves. Some are funny and some are sad, if you're in the right mood this can be a reflective and melancholy experience.

"Seasonala Cemetery" is an "art experience" (not game) that gives you a mildly interactive cemetary to walk around and look at... somewhat ironic because "cemetary" is where all these barely-game art school dropout "experiences" belong. But I digress. What do you do in the game? You walk around the cemetary, click through some badly written visual novel text, some mini-activities, but no real goals or game loops... even walking sims take you somewhere. This doesn't. There's a gimmick that the game uses your system time (creepy) to decide if it's day/night/summer/winter etc... but that's not nearly as clever or interesting of a feature, especially when gamers load this up, see there's nothing actually there in terms of a game, shut it down and uninstall it. It's difficult to call this a game, it feels less like an entertainment product and more like a digital art exhibit trying to pass itself off as a game. What negligible gameplay there is serves only as a flimsy excuse to pass this off as a game when gameplay wasn't the developers intention... and that's a problem. We're here for games. It's true that games can be art, of course... art is where the pinnacle of creativity, craftsmanship and expertise come together to form something greater than the sum of its parts. This product does a poor job of all of those three. The Mona Lisa would not be hanging in the Louvre if she was drawn as a stick figure in crayon on a napkin. On the important subject of visuals, this features fairly low quality stylised/cartoony low poly 3D graphics. It comes across as the kind of thing you see on mobile phones and Nintendo games, which will deter a lot of PC gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and to be considered one of the best games on Steam, the graphics have to be some of the best on Steam. That's not happening here. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 9 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? This is a "nope". While it won't necessarily cost you money, the time and hard drive space it requires could be better invested in one of the many higher-quality alternatives on Steam.

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.