Under Microsoft, Double Fine has made its weirdest game yet—and this is only the beginning: 'We can take more risks'

The lighthouse covered in candy floss and floating into the air in Keeper.

During a behind-closed-doors look at Double Fine's latest game Keeper, I'm struck that this is probably the studio's strangest game yet. With a back catalogue that includes everything from psychic summer camps to living Russian dolls, that's really saying something.

It stars a living lighthouse—tottering about on tree root legs—who travels through a post-apocalyptic world with a mutant bird friend. Focusing its light beam on parts of the environment causes changes, such as making a rock creature withdraw its limbs and slam down into the ground, or forcing back shadowy tentacles.