- Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
- Release Date: Oct 17, 2025
- Also On: Xbox Series X
- Summary:
- Developer: Double Fine Productions
- Genre(s): Action Adventure, General
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 38
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Mixed: 8 out of 38
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Negative: 0 out of 38
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Oct 17, 2025Whether intentionally or not, Keeper feels like a quiet rebuke to the current games industry and its devaluing of human craft. A towering testament to the joyous, creative and novel search for meaning that games can elicit with a subtle focus on the hands that craft such worlds. Keeper’s surreal journey through abstraction and connection is a wondrous trip through a lighthouse’s looking glass.
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Oct 17, 2025Keeper takes a straightforward puzzle-based walking sim and elevates it tenfold with an unbelievable level of interactive storytelling.
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Oct 17, 2025Keeper stands out with its constantly evolving gameplay and surrealist design philosophy, while at its core lies the story of a deeply sincere friendship. A tale of rebirth, clinging to life, and a journey of struggle, told through the eyes of two unlikely heroes, this is another original triumph from Double Fine.
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Oct 17, 2025A beautiful and stunning journey about a lighthouse and a seabird full of fun puzzles and an atmospheric adventure that can relax any player who might need a little break from other titles.
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Oct 20, 2025Keeper is more experience than challenge – a surreal, poetic game that fills you with a sense of wonder instead of testing your skills.
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Oct 17, 2025If you're in the kind of mood to think about the nature of the universe, Keeper is the story to check out. It's hard to imagine a living lighthouse is capable of bringing out emotion in people, but that's what makes this game a Keeper.
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Oct 17, 2025Keeper is a visually stunning yet hollow experience. Its painterly art direction and symbolic premise show Double Fine’s artistic flair, but the gameplay lacks depth and the pacing drags. Performance issues, repetitive puzzles, and a story that never truly develops make it feel more like an experimental art project than a full-fledged game. Beautiful to look at, but short on substance.