Keeper can't be accused of chasing trends. It doesn't have hyper-realistic graphics; it doesn't have crafting; it doesn't have a battle pass; it doesn't even have humans. It's a game about a lighthouse and a bird going up a mountain that ends in around six hours.

When I first saw Keeper at the 2025 Xbox Games Showcase, I wasn’t all that impressed by it. If you’re familiar with their work, putting up a Double Fine logo before footage of a sentient Lighthouse crawling around on spider legs only to be joined by a strange-looking bird is only going to invoke a