Episode 193 - Super Death - Spiritfarer

Do you know why we’re here? It’s because I have a small podcast.
Welcome back to NOCLIP! Today, we’re going to be talking about
Spiritfarer, an incremental, management sim, narrative game. Which
is a lot of ways to describe what is really a pretty simple game.
The core of Spiritfarer is in its characters, spirits who you pick
up from various islands and tend to while they come to grips with
their own demise and prepare to go to the “Everdoor.” The
storylines presented by each are genuinely heartfelt, the
characters are expressive and the art used to depict them is
beautiful. Some of their dialog might just be meaningful enough to
provoke a strong emotional reaction from you. Many different
tragedies play out with these characters, but also successes. Some
just need a little more time to finish what they barely missed out
on in life, while others fall into a state beyond repair and have
to move on by their own will or not. And all of these great
character moments and fantastic artwork is stapled onto what I
would describe as a fairly slow paced farming sim game. Whether the
gameplay of Spiritfarer speaks to you is going to be personal
preference, but the game may be worth checking out for the other
elements alone. We’re going to be talking about the value of
spending more time in the game to building character relationships,
the lack of value in spending more time in the game just getting
from place to place, and, frankly, the value of our own time. Thank
you for joining us again this week! We’ve been on a bit of slow
pace with releasing episodes, so I’m sorry if you’re someone who
does listen week to week and we haven’t been there, but life
unfortunately has been fairly busy and our games have been fairly
long, this one being no exception. The pacing of this game may have
been a little better before expansions were added, but it’s hard to
say playing it in its current state. If you were an early adopter,
let us know what you thought in comments, or over on our Discord!
Next time, we’re going to be talking about The Talos Principle II,
so I hope you’ll join us for that.