The Grounds-Keeper

Death retired. The lawn didn't. After an eternity of reaping, the Grim Reaper has hung up the scythe for something gentler: keeping the parish graveyard. The Groundskeeper is a cozy, spooky chore game about tending moonlit cemeteries, one plot at a time — and about the spirits who notice someone finally cares. Tend the groundsGhost Mower — glide through long, overgrown grass and leave neat, short turf behind you. Spray & Brush — scrub moss, lichen and soot from weathered headstones with a bottle of holy water until every name reads again.

Leaf Basket — draw drifts of autumn leaves into your wicker basket and haul them to the compost bin. Flowerbeds — pull out the dead stalks, soak the soil, and watch rows of snapdragons burst into bloom. Hedge Shears — clip scraggly bushes, snip by snip, into one of five spooky designs. Fifteen plots, three groundsWork your way from The Old Yard, a crooked little village churchyard, through the long rows of Chapel Row, to the windswept crypts of Crypt Hill.

New chores arrive gently as you go, and every visit lays the plot out fresh — headstones, trees, flowerbeds and hedges are never in quite the same place twice. The dead have storiesFinish a plot and linger a while: a spirit may rise at a grave to talk.…