โฐ๏ธ Grave Seasons Guides
Perfect Garbage ร Blumhouse Games | Coming Fall 2026 โ delayed from August 14 | PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch ยท Xbox Game Pass day one
Grave Seasons is the strangest cozy-adjacent game of 2026: a full pixel-art farming and life sim set in the small mountainside town of Ashenridge, where you play an escaped convict rebuilding a farm at the top of the mountain โ and where one of your 30+ neighbors is secretly a supernatural serial killer. You have one in-game year to farm, investigate, protect victims and unmask the killer, whose identity is randomly reassigned on every playthrough.
Available Guides
| Guide | Description |
|---|---|
| ๐ต๏ธ Preview Guide | A pre-release look at everything shown so far โ what Grave Seasons is, the escaped-convict story, the one-year clock and how the random-killer system works, the farm-by-day / investigate-by-night loop, seasonal crops and occult crafting, all seven areas of Ashenridge, breaking & entering and villager secrets, protecting the next victim, romance with around a dozen candidates (some of them killers), New Game+ replayability, a Grave Seasons vs Stardew Valley vs Village in the Shade data comparison, and a pro-tips FAQ |
Quick Facts
| Info | Detail |
|---|---|
| Developer | Perfect Garbage (Emmett Nahil & Son M) |
| Publisher | Blumhouse Games |
| Release | Fall 2026 โ delayed from August 14, 2026 (no exact date yet) |
| Game Pass | Included day one |
| Genre | Isometric pixel-art farming / life sim ยท murder mystery ยท supernatural horror |
| Setting | Ashenridge (็ฐๅฒญ้) โ your farm sits at the top of the mountain |
| Playtime core | One in-game year per playthrough |
| Areas | 7 โ Your Farm, Mountainside, Forest, Local & Commercial Districts, Coast & Docks, Mines |
| Residents | 30+, with 70+ interior locations |
| Romance | ~a dozen candidates โ some may be the killer |
| Items | 600+ to collect, discover or craft |
| Killer | Randomly assigned from a candidate pool every playthrough |
| Mode | Single-player |
The Hook
Farming sims usually promise peace: a quiet valley, a watering can, neighbors who adore you. Grave Seasons promises the opposite โ and means it. The cozy loop is all here โ seasonal crops, fishing, mining, foraging, kitchen and shed crafting, around a dozen romanceable neighbors, a town that changes with the seasons. But the town has a body count, the residents all have hidden supernatural sides, and the person you're buying seeds from might be the one killing people after dark. Every choice is autosaved and tracked, people live or die on your decisions, and the identity of the killer is redrawn from a fresh candidate pool on every single run. It's Stardew Valley with a murder board.