Double Fine’s Next Game ‘Keeper’ Gets Announced, Arrives October 2025

Across the landscape of Xbox-owned studios, probably the team most seasoned is Double Fine Productions. A surprise acquisition back in 2019, the team since then has remained fairly untouched in its operating since becoming an Xbox developer. In summer 2021, the game studio finally shipped its long-awaited sequel, Psychonauts 2. Even more, it even received a physical release roughly a year after.

What can be gathered from the impact of Microsoft owning Double Fine Productions is that the Xbox company enable the team to make the game it wanted. In an interview, Tim Schaefer said that many of the boss battles would have been absent if not for the acquisition. Going onto a different strand, there has been fragments of an unannounced multiplayer-focused project that the team was working on internally back in 2023.

But this weekend at the Xbox Showcase, Double Fine Productions stepped into the spotlight to announce a new IP, Keeper. You can watch the reveal trailer in the video below:

“After eons of lying dormant, the Lighthouse unexpectedly moves. It shudders and shakes, and tumbles to the ground, its ancient masonry cracking apart. But then something even stranger occurs… its broken pieces of rubble reassemble, and it stands up once more – but now on newly formed legs. It has awakened,” James Spafford, director of marketing and communications says for the game’s synopsis.

“As the Lighthouse stumbles clumsily and learns to walk, it finds itself taken with a mysterious sense of purpose and, finding its footing, sets off toward the center of the island, toward the mountain. It has stood alone for countless years, but now the Lighthouse finds companionship in a curious and spirited seabird, who encounters the Lighthouse while seeking refuge from a creeping malevolent presence spreading throughout the isle. 

“The Lighthouse discovers that its bright beam of light is able to affect the flora and fauna, and even seems to ward off the withering tendrils spreading throughout the world around it. Meanwhile the bird proves to be a useful and dextrous ally, able to interact with strange and ancient mechanisms. Together, these two unlikely friends set off together on an epic adventure, an odyssey of mystifying metamorphosis, and a journey that will take them into realms beyond understanding.”

Are you interested in Keeper?

Keeper launches on October 17, 2025 for Xbox Series X|S & PC.

Source: Xbox Wire