Double Fine's Next Game, Keeper, Has You Controlling a Walking Lighthouse Driven by a Goofy Bird

Following Psychonauts 2, Double Fine has been hard astatine enactment connected a caller crippled that was conscionable revealed astatine today's Xbox Games Showcase. It's called Keeper, and it puts you successful the wobbly legs of a walking sapient lighthouse driven by a silly-looking bird.

The footage shows a goofy vertebrate landing atop a lighthouse, which past sprouts spindly legs and begins trotting disconnected crossed the continent with the vertebrate seemingly helping oregon helming the operation. It's not wide conscionable yet what the lighthouse is after, wherefore oregon however it tin walk, oregon what it's narration with the vertebrate is, but the satellite it's wandering is intelligibly a fantastical 1 successful the dreamy vein of different Double Fine games.

Strange arsenic it seems, we've got precocious hopes for Keeper aft Double Fine's past work. We gave Psychonauts 2 an 8/10, with our reviewer saying that its "weird and wonderfully written communicative is afloat of interesting, nuanced characters that I instantly fell successful emotion with." and that "Double Fine has besides done a large occupation of expanding this beingness toward some grander and much intimate threats without losing the joyous puerility escapade vibes of the original."

Keeper is retired connected October 17 for PlayStastion 5, Xbox, and PC.

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