
The Grave Seasons demo I'm playing at Summer Game Fest begins like the first bite of ice cream. It's innocent, but I prepare myself for the moment it becomes obvious why the horror masters at M3GAN studio Blumhouse are publishing a cozy farming sim.
I decide to get in the mood for tragedy by being as much of a bitch as possible. A supernaturally buff townsperson, Hari, saunters by to welcome me to Ashenridge, a seemingly quaint country town which the previous owner of my little cottage happened to flee without warning. But Grave Seasons' protagonist, like myself as a horror obsessive, seems attracted to fear.