Keeper Reviews
A gorgeous adventure that is as surprising as it is beautiful, Keeper is far more than the game about a sentient lighthouse that it presents itself as. Filled with engaging puzzles, mesmerising scenery and a visual story to make you think, Keeper is well worth taking the time to complete.
Keeper from Double Fine is a visually stunning and deeply atmospheric journey about companionship and renewal in a ruined world. Its ever-changing puzzles, intuitive design, and heartfelt tone create a unique experience that's as touching as it is imaginative. Minor camera quirks aside, it stands out as one of the year's most distinctive games.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Keeper is a keeper. The story is good, but the method in which it is told is memorable because few other games try to do it effectively. The gameplay is simple to grasp, with only a few puzzles that are challenging and only a few instances when the camera is a hindrance. Fans of adventure games will enjoy this short experience with good pacing and a solid presentation.
Double Fine has once again delivered a beautiful, unique, and moving adventure. Keeper is a game with soul, the kind that is sadly becoming increasingly rare these days. Grab it and play it, because it's pure gold!
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Lee Petty has created his best work yet with Keeper. This constantly evolving platform game takes us on a journey with the lighthouse keeper and his feathered friend through a decaying world full of mysteries and surprises. Its exquisite level design offers a mini adventure in each of its 39 chapters, including new mechanics, movements, and strategies at every step of our odyssey. With no combat, no text, and no dialogue, Keeper manages to make itself understood through its silences and melodies, much better than other works riddled with words and violence.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Keeper is an experience that goes beyond the traditional concept of a video game. It is an inner journey disguised as an adventure, a silent story that speaks through gestures, light, and the breath of the environments. Double Fine, once again, proves itself to be a studio capable of bending the language of video games to a rare authorial sensibility.
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Keeper is one of the most unique and captivating games that you'll ever play. With so many unexplained otherworldly sights, you'll feel like you visited some strange yet beautiful alien planet that you'll think fondly back on long after the credits roll. 💡
Keeper may be a relatively short journey, but it’s a singular experience unlike anything else in video games. It’s exactly the kind of project only a studio like Double Fine could create—charming, strange, and deeply personal. The way its characters, visuals, music, and storytelling intertwine with gameplay perfectly highlights the true strengths of the medium.
After spending meaningful time with it, we can say with confidence that Keeper is a singular, deeply resonant experience – one that draws the player into an environment as immersive and psychologically textured as anything found in either the independent or AAA landscape. Every component is crafted with deliberate care, generating a palpable sense of isolation and vulnerability; simple acts of exploration become emotionally charged, quietly shaping the narrative through atmosphere rather than exposition. What impresses most is the coherence of the whole. Visuals, animation, sound design, level architecture, and fragmentary storytelling operate in seamless concert, sustaining a delicate, continuous tension that makes the game both absorbing and meditative. Its mechanics – grounded in exploration and environmental problem-solving – encourage curiosity, interpretation, and moral reflection, making the player feel not merely present in the world but genuinely responsible for how they read it. The slow, contemplative pacing will inevitably divide players, but it is essential to the game’s impact: it fosters a deep emotional bond with the setting, making each small discovery feel weighted and meaningful. The sound design, in particular, is exceptional – modulating tension, isolation and mystery with precision, turning even the faintest ambient noises into narrative signals that enrich the experience moment by moment. For anyone seeking a thoughtful, psychological adventure, Keeper stands out as something extraordinary. It offers complete immersion in a coherent, mysterious, and beautifully realised world, where the story is not delivered but uncovered – rewarding patience, attention, and interpretive nuance. It demonstrates how games can serve as powerful forms of narrative expression and introspection, eliciting complex feelings without relying on speed, spectacle, or combat. And as a final, quietly dazzling touch, the bond between the lighthouse and the seabird delivers moments of tenderness and emotional clarity that linger long after the screen fades. Do yourself a favour: play it.
Keeper is one of the most distinctive experiences of the year, and one of Double Fine's most beautiful games. It delivers a unique narrative with simple yet refreshing gameplay ideas, full of pleasant surprises, making it a very enjoyable experience for a game built around simple adventure and puzzle elements. This is further elevated by the gorgeous art direction, which was unquestionably one of the game's strongest aspects.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Keeper is something we rarely get to see on our screens - because of everything it carries within itself and the creative approach it radiates in every frame, this is a game you shouldn’t miss.
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Keeper is a story of one of the most original friendships we’ve probably ever had in the gaming world. At the same time, it impresses with its beautifully crafted world and pleasant music, which together create an exceptionally strong emotional experience.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Keeper is both different and deeply intriguing, with a genuine sense of wonder woven into every moment - a world and a friendship worth exploring.
Keeper has no dialogue whatsoever, and that is by design. This is a story told entirely through its gameplay and minimal amount of cutscenes. It works for the better, ensuring the player stays immersed in the game’s energy and presentation. Early on, I even wondered if Keeper would end up being a walking sim game before puzzles were inevitably thrown my way. Keeper is a puzzle game, though you wouldn’t expect as much from your first impression. None of these puzzles are particularly hard, mind you, but rather ‘comfortable’ would be the word to describe them.
Keeper is a beautiful game in every sense of the word. Its vibrant, creative world will leave you in awe multiple times, while its story will make you feel plenty of emotion. While the gameplay is quite basic and can leave a lot to be desired, there’s enough in the puzzles to get by in Keepers short runtime. A fourth act with Keeper’s final form would have been ideal, but as is Keeper is worth an afternoon to enjoy.
The opening scene of Keeper is strange and beautiful and very on brand for the Double Fine team. You awaken as a dormant lighthouse on an island long forgotten by time and life. The ocean hums, the sky flickers with doom and gloom, and with a groan of rusted metal, the lighthouse sprouts legs and takes its first steps which leaves you wondering what adventure lies ahead. It sounds mental, but it works. The first time you move that slow, lumbering stride across soft sand there’s something oddly bittersweet about it. It’s clumsy, awkward, and alive. Like a toddler trying to gain it’s first steps you constantly fall left to right until the lighthouse figures out what legs are and how they work. You’re don’t play as a hero on a quest to save the world. You’re an ancient machine rediscovering movement and purpose in life.
Keeper is a short but strikingly imaginative adventure that delivers surreal world-building and gentle puzzle-driven exploration. It’s a heartfelt journey full of laughter as you literally get to play as a lighthouse that rewards going in blind and experiencing its surprises without expectations.
Even without words, Keeper delivers a memorable and introspective experience, masterfully exploring the friendship between a lighthouse and a seabird on their journey to rid the world of Wither. With clever puzzles that make excellent use of the environment and breathtaking visuals — albeit with some optimization issues — Keeper once again showcases Double Fine’s trademark quality and creativity, which I sincerely hope will continue to thrive under Microsoft’s wing.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Keeper is a visually stunning work of art with mesmerizing design and style, but its short length, predictable story, and clunky camera keep it from being as emotionally powerful as it looks.
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Keeper appears to be a picturesque walk through the countryside, but in reality, it has a much deeper meaning than it might seem. The story tells itself, and you don't need a single word to understand it. The individual chapters are unique, and the plot twists are so well constructed that the game won't let you catch your breath, and suddenly, you're at the end of this adventure.
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