QUESTIONS
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What am I actually trying to do?
Make it impossible for the "Environment" Office to keep calling this land empty. They have already scheduled it for construction, and nobody at that desk has ever actually walked the ground they are signing away. You have one season to put enough of what really lives here on record that tearing it up stops being the easy, quiet decision it currently is.
How does saving work?
Only by sleeping in a cabin bed. There is no autosave. A save is always a quiet moment you chose to have, and anything since the last one is yours to lose.
What actually happens when I die?
A "death moth" flickers out and brings you back, with just enough of whatever killed you to keep going. When there are none left, the save is marked dead. It is not deleted. It simply never opens again.
Do I need to be online?
No. Turn the network down at the first launch and play the whole thing offline. Nothing out in the garden depends on a connection.
Can other players affect my world?
Not at all. The only things that cross between people are a filed season and a postcard, and a postcard is chosen from a fixed set. Nobody can reach into your save.
What platforms?
Windows, Linux and macOS, on both x64 and arm64. Unzip and run. There is nothing to install.
Can I mod it?
Yes, and it was built that way on purpose rather than as an afterthought. Every bug, biome, item, pet and letter is a plain file you can open and change, and every species carries its own small script deciding how it behaves when you find it.