History VideoGame / Spiritfarer

* CentralTheme: YouAreNotAlone. During the entire game, the theme of being there when someone needs you [[spoiler:(especially in death)]] is repeated over and over, with Giovanni and Astrid, Bruce and Mickey, [[spoiler:and Stella and her patients. In the end, Stella's greatest need is to know that ''she'' is not alone, which is fulfilled by being with her favorite pet Daffodil, and with the Lily DLC, knowing her mother and her sister are holding her hands when she passes on.]]

* DeadToBeginWith: The game is set in an afterlife (or pre-afterlife) world populated by spirits of the dead, meaning almost everyone in the story has already died. [[spoiler: Including Stella.]]

** Jacob, Stanley's pet ghost beetle, is almost as big as the mushroom child spirit himself. The ghost mites, which Stella can help Stanley and Jacob collect for their ectoplasm, are much smaller, but they're still relatively bigger than real-life mites.

* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou: lets you craft furniture upgrades for your passengers' houses, which usually gives them a mood boost. Sometimes furnishing a house is required to advance a passenger's story. However, one passenger is a strict teacher type and actually wants a plain, undecorated house, and will get a temporary mood ''loss'' if you give them decorations anyway.

* CookingMechanic: By cooking ingredients in the ship's kitchen, you can make a whole host of dishes to feed the spirits on your ship, categorized by meal size and type (plain, healthy, acquired taste, dessert, etc.). Feeding spirits regularly is not strictly necessary, though they will pester you if they're hungry, and keeping them well-fed keeps their mood up. All spirits also have specific likes and [[DoesNotLikeSpam dislikes]] in terms of food, which is not limited to meal type—Bruce and Mickey will refuse to eat anything with shellfish (since Mickey is allergic to it), as well as dishes with only one ingredient (they consider them too simple). Every spirit also has a favorite food, which they can occasionally request.

* GameGourmet: By cooking ingredients in the ship's kitchen, you can make a whole host of dishes to feed the spirits on your ship, categorized by meal size and type (plain, healthy, acquired taste, dessert, etc.). Feeding spirits regularly is not strictly necessary, though they will pester you if they're hungry, and keeping them well-fed keeps their mood up. All spirits also have specific likes and [[DoesNotLikeSpam dislikes]] in terms of food, which is not limited to meal type—Bruce and Mickey will refuse to eat anything with shellfish (since Mickey is allergic to it), as well as dishes with only one ingredient (they consider them too simple). Every spirit also has a favorite food, which they can occasionally request.

* AlliterationAndAdventurers: According to the archive files, Buck, who loves tabletop [=RPGs=], thinks that ''Demons and Ghouls 2nd Edition'' is better than the first.

** According to the archive files, Buck thinks that [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Demons and Ghouls]] 2nd Edition is better than the first.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Rain and heavy storms will take care of watering your crops for you.

** With the Beverly update, you can set material gatherings in your quest log, sail through event areas without having to go to the starting point and saying no, passengers will give hints to their favorite foods, and failing Elena's tasks will make retries easier.

* ChildrenAreInnocent[=/=]FromTheMouthsOfBabes: At one point, Stanley asks Stella to make him a "fakinhage", much to the confusion of Stella. Stanley is surprised she doesn't know what a "fakinhage" is and explains that it is something his mother used to tell him to get while grocery shopping and that it's white and oval-shaped. [[spoiler: Turns out [[AbusiveParents his mom]] meant a "fucking egg".]]