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- Keeper was revealed right now on the Xbox Video games Showcase 2025.
- This new recreation from Lee Petty and Double High quality Productions is coming to Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox PC, Xbox Cloud, Steam and Sport Go on October 17, 2025.
- A narrative instructed with out phrases, Keeper is a third-person journey full of exploration, puzzle fixing, and sudden departures from actuality.
Keeper is a narrative instructed with out phrases. It’s a third-person atmospheric journey set in a post-human world, after our time within the solar has lengthy since handed.
We open on an island, the place, within the shadow of a distant mountain peak, there stands a relic from a long-lost time. Though its function on this world has lengthy been forgotten, we immediately recognise it as a Lighthouse.
After eons of mendacity dormant, the Lighthouse unexpectedly strikes. It shudders and shakes, and tumbles to the bottom, its historic masonry cracking aside. However then one thing even stranger happens… its damaged items of rubble reassemble, and it stands up as soon as extra – however now on newly shaped legs. It has woke up.
Because the Lighthouse stumbles clumsily and learns to stroll, it finds itself taken with a mysterious sense of function and, discovering its footing, units off towards the middle of the island, towards the mountain.
It has stood alone for numerous years, however now the Lighthouse finds companionship in a curious and spirited seabird, who encounters the Lighthouse whereas searching for refuge from a creeping malevolent presence spreading all through the isle. The Lighthouse discovers that its brilliant beam of sunshine is ready to have an effect on the wildlife, and even appears to keep at bay the withering tendrils spreading all through the world round it.
In the meantime the fowl proves to be a helpful and dextrous ally, capable of work together with unusual and historic mechanisms. Collectively, these two unlikely associates set off collectively on an epic journey, an odyssey of mystifying metamorphosis, and a journey that can take them into realms past understanding.
Keeper Origins
The Artistic Lead behind Keeper is Lee Petty, who joined Double High quality many moons in the past because the Artwork Director for Brütal Legend. Together with lending his abilities to Damaged Age, and Psychonauts 2, Lee has been Artistic Lead on quite a few initiatives together with the matryoshka doll themed puzzle journey Stacking, shag carpeted, sci-fi side-scroller, Headlander, and neon-colored, post-submit-apocalyptic roguelike, RAD.
Although eagle-eyed followers know there are components and themes that join every of Lee’s video games collectively, and maybe will spot some in Keeper too, this new recreation was developed with a barely completely different method.
From fixing puzzles by assuming completely different personalities, to randomly creating new mutant tremendous powers as you cost by means of the wasteland, Stacking, Headlander, and RAD are all video games which had an simply describable gameplay hook outlined from the very begin of manufacturing. In different phrases, that they had a easy elevator pitch at their hearts.
When it got here time to work on a brand new undertaking, Lee was eager to begin from a spot that would not be so merely categorized by its style, outlined by its mechanics, or summarized by its setting. As an alternative, he wished to discover the blurring of genres and to create room for one thing extra atmospheric – an area for the participant to essentially stay inside, and take within the vibes. He wished to present this new recreation the area to breathe, and develop naturally because the workforce engaged with it.
As Lee and a small workforce began to place pen to paper and acquire their concepts, an sudden world occasion would offer a key affect.
In 2020, the worldwide pandemic and subsequent lockdown stored us away from each other in a manner we weren’t used to. We spent a number of time in our properties, away from society, socially distanced. Looking for a change of surroundings Lee would wander the hills and trails close to his house on quiet hikes along with his household, and he began to ponder on this case we had been all in, on humanity’s final destiny; if our time got here to an finish, what could be subsequent for all times on earth?
He dwelled on isolation, he ruminated on companionship, and as these themes coalesced, the sketchbooks began to fill, and the sport you noticed right now started to take form…
Engaged on a recreation on this manner has finally led us to a really curious and distinctive place. Keeper is in regards to the sudden. It’s a actuality bending expertise stuffed with shock, absurdity and delight, by which you’ll by no means know fairly what’s going to occur subsequent. It’s atmospheric, and at instances psychedelic and surreal. We’ve got excessive hopes that followers of our video games will take pleasure in our unusual, otherworldly story.
The Keeper Shall Awaken on October 17
We’re excited so that you can expertise this journey – and the wait isn’t lengthy in any respect. On October 17, 2025, Keeper involves Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox PC, Xbox Cloud, Steam, and you’ll play it on day one with Sport Go. And with Xbox Play Wherever, a single buy permits you to play on Xbox consoles and Xbox PC with full cross-saves – at no extra price.
Keeper
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From Lee Petty and Double High quality Productions, Keeper is an attractive and surreal otherworldly journey, and a narrative instructed with out phrases.
On an island in a long-lost sea, a forgotten lighthouse stands dormant within the shadow of a distant mountain peak. As withering tendrils unfold and coalesce, it awakens. Taken with a mysterious sense of function and joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening story of unlikely companionship, an odyssey of mystifying metamorphosis, and an sudden journey in the direction of the middle of the island, into realms past understanding.