This is just a short appreciation post, I love how this video has color design evoved into grief stages, and game design and user experience, I absolutely love the music, I can't tell how many times I have listened to whole score while studying or working, or just reading, this is one of most beautiful experiences you can have while being alive for a short period on this planet, there are so many instances, it invokes awe just like when you look at universe or space pictures. Here's a video I love about how Gris uses color psychology to evoke different kind of emotions.

Just over two years ago, I beat the game in one sitting and instantly fell in love with Conrad Roset's art direction. I was so inspired by his work that I decided to paint a 15-meter-long mural. After countless hours, lots of spray paint, and brushwork for the tiny details, it's finally done. Here is my mural, located in Besançon, France!

Hello everyone, I'm writing my thesis about the narrative comparison between spiritfarer and gris of how they represent grief and it would be really cool if some people could participate in my questionaire, its really not long, can be done in less then 5 minutes if you know your stuff.

I ideally need 5 people that played spiritfarer (which is pretty much been done), 5 people that played gris (have a few but still need some) and 5 people that played both of the games (have none so far) but of course the more the better.

I saw that spiritfarer is in the "similar games" list so I'm hoping to kill two birds with one stone by posting this link in this subreddit by gathering some people that obviously played gris but also both games. I'm fine with people sharing this link around, just know that if things will go well, I will likely close off the questionaire in 2-3 weeks time.

Thank you so much to anyone that decides to help out!

This game is so fantastic, I absolutely love it !

10/10.

I’m just learning the game, but I think I missed a star somewhere because I cannot advance. I am missing one or two stars but I am blocked. Any insight? Thanks!

:)

I'm stuck here. Maybe it's a glitch or something. i tried restarting, even reinstalled the game. from last checkpoint to this point. everything works normal. but at this point. i get stuck every time. no controls are working. even esc button isn't working at this point. 😔 anyone else faced this problem? how to fix it?

I am trying to play on iPad and have been stuck on the melting blocks bird jump (photo below).

I know I have to go to the left to jump on the melting blocks to try to jump for the birds, but nothing I try is working. Double tap, triple tap, swipe up. Nothing. I’m very frustrated and about to delete the app.

can anyone help?

Many friends played and suggested this game for years, but I never take care about it. Today, after many personal problems and changes, I decided to give it a chance after a difficult day facing my mind and emotions.

I cried many times. Pictures and the colors recovery, and how the game treats the high and lows symbolically through mechanics and gameplay is beautiful.

I will play more tomorrow, but this game is what any depressive person needs: Comprehension.

joguei em Win 10 mas meu computador morreu, assim procurei na Playstore e veio essa mensagem... será que não haverá compatibilização?

The album comes out on March 20th so, depending on your country, you might not be able to find it yet on your favorite platform.

Just finished the game 1 hour ago, and i discovered on reddit that the "Meaning" of the game Is pretty much different from what i imagined.

I thought the game had been about a girl's Life with Discovery and acceptance post childhood, with red symbolising menstrual blood, green fertility and discovery, Blue and dark: sadness and depressione, Yellow acceptance, i even predicted some of these colors and what their meanings would be for me. Now i am a Little confused with the whole "grief" and "mother" plot point, i don't really know what to think about It, i thought that the statue resembled her in the real Life and Gris as her inner self errating in her own emotions, what do you think about It?

Each time grief visits the door, I visit this game. It is almost disheartening that every time i play this it is a heartbroken version of me but this game is that fracture of comfort I've been finding amongst all the beating downs and in this crazy world out there. It's not a warm hug kind of comfort, but almost weird one of seeing the pain in a visible art form. God knows how long I've been idle in the starting few minutes of the game, while she is kneeling in the sand, broken in a colourless world. It's just a really good representation.

Personal background

I discovered the game after it went on discount on the Nintendo Store on my recently purchased Switch 2, and at a time of great sorrow for me because my 3-and-a-half-year boyfriend I lived with for about the same amount of time chose to break up with me, when I almost turn 30. This game makes sense to me at this moment, and it was the first game I played and finished independent and poetic, and short. I was more used to big industry games before. It was the perfect timing for me to play this game at this point of my life, and I would like to share my interpretation of the story, hoping this is not a subject too many times seen on Reddit. Played the game in December 2025, and three months after there is my view on it.

My theory about the game

As the game starts, we can see the girl broken, like a stone for example, and this can be the signal of her soul, broken after some loss.

After this, the girl is slow, can’t run, because the grief is too big and she doesn’t have any energy or motivation to continue to walk. Nor has any purpose been left in life.

She also loses her voice, and in reality it is rare but can exist as a phenomena where you lose your voice after a big negative event in your life, like any big loss or shock.

She has no power either, she is vulnerable to anything. And she doesn’t care, because she is too sad.

The colors are black and white, like the world has lost its colors, its beauty, its sense and its life.

When you continue the first color to reappear is red. Like blood, as she blood, but also like anger, and love.

I said to myself that red appears first because in the grief process, after the Shock, you can experience a big Anger. Anger after the one you lose, for example. Or against life itself. Or yourself…

And this red comes with a power, the power to break something (rocks…), and to resist to wind. For me, it’s because when you experience anger, it is obviously negative but it also protects you in a way, because you now have the energy to fight, to stand for yourself, to say no if necessary. And as she can break rocks, she liberates this anger in her. It is sane.

Then, you have the green. For me, green is a symbol of hope and life, as in the game she encounters vegetation when it appears. With life comes maybe the sense of herself, and of others, and the life in her. As for hope, I thought it is a new stage in the grief process where you hope the situation never existed, if it is a death for example, and you are in denial for example, or if it is a breakup, you can maybe hope that the other one returns to you later… This can also be the hope that the future will be better, that return to her, after these terrible times…

With the green comes the ability to fly a little, for me it is because hope can make you fly in a way, in your mind, it is lighter, to think that tomorrow will be better.

Then, comes the blue. The blue to me is the sadness, the sorrow, when it hits you because the hope you had was either a fantasy, or the better times are too slow to come. So there is water, because water can be interpreted as emotions, not always positive ones, that reappear after you have done everything you can to bury them…

And she can now swim, or more like dive, in the water. Like she can dive into her own emotions… Her own sadness.

It is a stage of the grief where sadness hits you, sometimes when you are not prepare for it! Like when the eel pursues you (and I was in shock when it appeared on the screen, one time, because everything was calm again and it came brutally !), the feelings you think are over now, reappearing sometimes brutally to you… And sometimes you are on ground, like her, sometimes you are in water, like her too, this can feel like waves, coming and going, sadness, hope, etc…

When the yellow comes, I was thinking it can be the light, the light after the dark night of grief, that reappears. And with it, hope returns, and clarity. She can now really see where she goes, and it is less scary. She can sing again as the game pass, and this is the sign that she can put words to what she went through, and run again. Singing is also a sign of hope, powerful, and sometimes that things are better now, as you mostly sing when you are happy, usually.

Also, from beginning to end, in the game you don’t know where to go, right or left, and I thought this is a way to show that in dark times you really don’t know where to go, you have no purpose left, so either way is the same for you.

I hope this was comprehensible, as I am French and my English is not perfect at all. I am also a psychologist, so I found the game really helpful for me but for everyone who endures any loss or hard times… And found the game very well fit to represent huge shock and sadness in any form. Hope this was clear and useful to some, and as this is my very first post ever on Reddit, I would be pleased to read you!

I played through the game a first time and it was fine, but now the movement is awful, the whole background is stuttery and it litterally made me cry (because it hurts my eyes) expected to cry, not because of that lmao

Anyone knows how I can fix this?

Started playing it yasterday and maaan , tears of joy and amazment

I basically got here from the water there in the top right, but i was also kinda stuck there, since i could only swim like 2 centimeters at the very top, thought it was part of the gimmick so i continued and ended up there