Grave Seasons – A Murderous Farming Sim Releasing in 2026
Grave Seasons is a cozy farming sim with beautiful pixelated art. Yes, there are a million cozy farming sims with beautiful pixelated art out there, but how many cozy farming sims are there with a supernatural murderer on the loose? Also, your character just escaped from jail instead of just being a blank slate who inherited a farm. Are you interested yet?
Grave Seasons – Cozy Farming Sim Meets Terrifying Horror
The game’s official Steam page describes it as “a narrative farming sim with a terrifying twist – someone in the town is a supernatural killer. Farm, romance, and investigate your way through the unsettling town of Ashenridge.” Most games don’t include “farm” and “romance” in the same sentence as “unsettling,” which already tells you how this game will blend cozy games and horror games – two genres that are normally considered opposites.
Like in most farming sims, you can grow and sell crops from your farm, fish, and mine for minerals. You can also chit-chat with the locals and romance some of them. In most farming sims, who you romance is a fun decision completely up to you, but in Grave Seasons, who you romance will actually affect the story. Your love interest might get murdered, or your love interest might turn out to be the murderer. This is sure to encourage replayability as people explore how different love interests affect the story.
Between your Stardew Valley-style relaxing sessions of farming and fishing and romancing, you can investigate the murders. Explore the environment, question the townsfolk, and break into people’s houses. You can also brew potions with your farm’s resources, which might just protect someone from getting murdered.
The game’s developer, Perfect Garbage, calls itself “a diverse, narrative driven studio crafting innovative games that meld the new, the old, and the downright scary.” They currently have one game out, Love Shore, which is a cyberpunk visual novel that tells the story of a dystopian world suffering a fertility crisis. It was released in June of 2023, and it currently has a “Mixed” user rating on Steam.
This Sounds Awesome! When is it Coming Out?
Unfortunately, Grave Seasons currently doesn’t have a release date, though the developer’s official X account says it will be out sometime in 2026. The official Perfect Garbage website has an email update system that you can sign up for to receive news, but the latest update on the game’s Steam page was on October 16th. There is currently no word of a demo or release window. The last discussion thread on the Steam page’s Discussions page was started on December 31st.
However, given that Perfect Garbage does have one released game in their history, we can hopefully expect them to deliver the game instead of making us wait forever. The publisher, Blumhouse Games, has published three previous games, so here’s hoping that we get a release date or at least a demo shortly. Grave Seasons will undoubtedly be worth the wait, however, and interested players will be willing to wait for a quality product.
However, now that we are in a new year, it would be in Perfect Garbage’s best interest to give the game’s budding fanbase an update about what state the development is in. A demo release could help build interest and pacify the excited players while they wait for the full product. As for how much the game will cost, there is currently no word of a game price either.
In any case, I have Grave Seasons wishlisted and I am eagerly looking forward to whenever it gets released. If a demo ever comes out, I will definitely download it and possibly review it here. Grave Seasons looks like a fresh look at farming sims – and who doesn’t want to romance people while hunting a supernatural murderer?
