Grave Seasons

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• Announcements·4 Aug 2026Official

  Devlog: Farming Systems & Grids

  Hello farmers!Thank you all so much for the outpouring of support. We’ve been hard at work building the best experience we can in Ashenridge! As a small team, we’ve pushed ourselves d to make some important aspects of our game feel as good as possible. One of them is, of course, farming!If you’re tuned in with our publisher, Blumhouse Games, you might have caught this lovely video of Grave Seasons that discusses some of our farming systems: We wanted to highlight some of the work that went into crafting our farming system, and to give you a tour of how it all works in Grave Seasons!Farming Tools We would be remiss not to first talk about the tools you have access to in Grave Seasons. After “moving in” to Ashenridge, you’ll find yourself carrying a shovel, a pickaxe, an axe, a watering can, and of course, your trusty crowbar.The majority of tools in Grave Seasons are used for farming. You’ll use your shovel to dig up the land, select seeds from your quick inventory, and plant them. Then, equip your watering can and water that newly seeded plot!Your pickaxe lets you engage in mining, and your axe is great to deal with trees!Each tool has the potential to become greater in your capable hands.Seasons & SeedsThere are four seasons in our game: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Grave Seasons takes place over the course of a single year, and each season brings new trials and tribulations.Each season impacts the seeds available to grow on your farm! With over 45 seeds available in our game, some can only be purchased, while others can be found while foraging.All seeds have unique qualities that impact their growth, such as seasonality and farming plot type (more on that later!) You can check out all this information either when you purchase seeds or on their tool tips. Types of Farming PlotsAlthough we have a controlled space for farming, we have three different types of farming plots: Arid, Regular and Wet.Arid is a dry, more elevated soil region on the farm, and only cer...
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• Announcements·17 Jun 2026Official

  Devlog: Day & Night Cycle

  DevLog: Days and Nights in AshenridgeWelcome back to our devlogs. This time around, we wanted to share our approach to the different times of day in Grave Seasons!Grave Seasons operates on a 24 hour schedule! Some of our favorite games have a hard line for when the player must get some rest. For us, with our goals of showcasing multiple facets of our town and its people, we didn’t want to create a hard stop during the night that would halt exploration.Some of the most ominous moments in Grave Seasons can happen in the dark, and we wanted to embrace the ominous tonal shift that comes with night falling around you as you stay out too late poking around in your neighbor’s stuff.The Purpose of TimeIn Grave Seasons, we wanted to explore the limits and benefits of a full 24 hour system. That meant even NPCs could wander at night alongside you. Late night drinking? Chilling out by the docks as the sun sets? These were all on the table, and would play into our goals of nuanced NPC schedules. We wanted to create a town that felt explorable, even when the moon was out. After all, you did escape from prison, and allowing you to use the cover of night to poke at Ashenridge’s secrets just felt right. Time itself is a resource in our game, and while rest is still necessary to engage in our full farming loop, you might have to get inventive. We knew that players would want to take unusual actions in the face of the very unusual circumstance of taking on a supernatural serial killer in Ashenridge.No matter what you do in Grave Seasons, “live” time is still ticking away. So how do we visualize that progression of time to the player?A ‘Day’ in AshenridgeA 24-hour day in Ashenridge is composed of different stages of light. Rather than having day and night as distinct states, letting the player travel through the town as time passed meant we paid a lot of attention to blending early morning into midday into early evening and then late night. Visualizing those changes in time, outside o...
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• Press Coverage·13 Jun 2026

  SGF 2026: Grave Seasons Preview — More Than Just Crops and Romance

  When I first saw Grave Seasons last year, I walked away intrigued, but a little cautious since the idea of combining a cozy farming simulator with a murder mystery sounded fantastic. It sounds like a game right up my alley, but it’s also the kind of pitch that immediately raises questions about making sure the blending of the two was perfect. What I saw in 2025 focused heavily on the farming side of the experience, introducing the town, showing off crop management, teasing some of the darker themes beneath the surface, and ending on a monster attack to show you that this was a much more mature experience. It was enough to grab my attention, but I wasn’t entirely convinced yet. After finally getting some more hands-on time with Grave Seasons at Summer Game Fest, however, I’m starting to think the team at Perfect Garbage is onto something incredibly special. The biggest surprise wasn’t the murder mystery, either; granted, what we saw in the demo was... Read more
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• Announcements·5 Jun 2026Official

  Release News + Dev Log Updates

  Thank you to everyone for your continued excitement and support for Grave Seasons!As our teams work through the realities of game development, we've decided to fully prioritize the journey to launch. As a result, we will no longer be releasing a Grave Seasons demo on June 15th. The team would love for this to be possible eventually, but it will depend on studio capacity further down the line. Currently we're fully focused on getting the game ready on all platforms so our whole community can experience it together on Day 1.Importantly, to ensure we have the time needed for polish across all platforms, we are moving the release date of the full game to Fall of this year.We want to make sure Grave Seasons launches in the best possible state for players across all announced platforms. We know this may be disappointing news for those who were looking forward to playing sooner, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding. We can't wait for you to explore Ashenridge. Grave Seasons is big, and we’re proud of it! We’ve hit a whooping +300k words of narrative and have over 600+ items to discover. We’re excited, and want to give you a sneak peek, backstage tour of some of what we’ve been cooking! The Map of AshenridgeAshenridge might be a small town to the locals, but to your bird’s eye view, it’s quite large with tons of things to explore.Ashenridge is split up into a few sections. You have your farm (and home) at the very top of the mountain. There’s a mountainside you can visit, a forest you can explore and a coast with a quiet dock and a sunny beach. The town itself is broken into two sections:Local DistrictCommercial District The Local DistrictOutside the bar at night. The Local District holds the homes and shops of the majority of residents in Ashenridge. Built by a small community working with the space they have, a lot of folks live on top of shops, and many buildings have multiple uses. We wanted to make a space that felt compact but also a little maze...
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• Announcements·26 Mar 2026Official

  Release Date Announcement!

  Greetings farmers! We’re incredibly excited to announce that Grave Seasons will launch on August 14, 2026 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch. Grave Seasons will also be released on Day 1 for Xbox Game Pass players! You can watch the full announcement trailer here to catch a new glimpse of what we’ve been creating. Additionally, we’re showing off our first player-facing demo at PAX East, in Booth #19049! Come by to play the demo and experience a first look at Ashenridge yourself. And regarding a Steam Demo, we've got plans to have one soon! Stay tuned as we'll update closer to the drop date. We’ve been working hard tilling new plots of land, watering all the plants we can, and poking around Ashenridge… it’s almost your turn. Keep your head on a swivel, don’t let those crops wither, and make sure you keep your crowbar clean. Perfect Garbage cannot thank you all enough for following us on this journey. The game has grown so much over the course of its development and the love you’ve shared with us has pushed us to do our very best!Your support means the world.The Perfect Garbage Team
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