Double Fine Productions’ Keeper was revealed Sunday at the Xbox Games Showcase and will launch Oct. 17 for Xbox Series X and Windows PC. It’ll also be available day one on Xbox Game Pass.
In Keeper, you’ll play as a weathered lighthouse aged by time. It sprouts legs, and you and a bird companion will then explore various environments together. The trailer showcased a forest, an illuminated cave, and a village populated by robotic characters on wheels. Double Fine’s games are known for being full of heart, and judging by its reveal trailer, Keeper will have plenty of it.
Double Fine is perhaps best known for 2021’s Psychonauts 2. It had previously set aside Keeper in favor of completing development on Psychonauts 2. Polygon enjoyed Psychonauts 2, calling it “one of the most imaginative platforming games out there, with an absolute flood of joyous ideas and images” in our review. Its development was featured in the Double Fine PsychOdyssey documentary, one of the best and most honest looks at the process of large-scale video game development.
Double Fine was acquired by Microsoft in 2019 and is known for developing artistically and narratively unique games such as both Psychonauts titles and Broken Age, as well as remasters of games that founder Tim Schafer originally worked on in the 1990s, like Grim Fandango Remastered and Full Throttle Remastered.