The Bunny Graveyard

About The Bunny Graveyard

The Bunny Graveyard is the first chapter of a planned series by Pichon Games, made by Kenneth Alvarez (Pichon), who handles the programming, art and music, with Jorge Ramirez as writer and creative director. It came out on Steam for Windows and Mac in September 2023, and is also sold on Nintendo Switch and PS5. The makers chose to make each chapter its own game; a sequel, The Bunny Graveyard II, is in development.

It opens at an old computer, playing a small 8-bit game, until the screen cracks and pulls you in. You become a gloved hand, a cursor, in a bright pixel garden, where a group of mute gloved hands called the Handy Pals lead you to Skye, a friendly bunny who wants a new helper. From there it plays as a top-down adventure built from minigames: gardening, fishing, rock-paper-scissors and hide-and-seek, an underground boxing league modelled on the NES boxing game Punch-Out, and stealth sections later on.

The horror is in how the cheerful world sits on top of something else. Characters tell you that you are different and should not be there, sneaking away from the garden leads somewhere you were not meant to find, and the store page warns of a strange entity inside the computer that will not let you leave. Players praise the silent survival segments and the creepy animated cutscenes; one reviewer was caught by a jump scare while half expecting it, and the PS5 version carries an ESRB Teen rating for blood and violence.

It suits players who like mascot horror and cute-but-wrong worlds, such as Andy's Apple Farm or Pony Island, and who enjoy hunting for collectibles and lore. It is a chapter, so it ends with the larger story still open.

How to play The Bunny Graveyard

1. Buy The Bunny Graveyard on Steam (Windows or Mac), the PlayStation Store (PS5) or the Nintendo eShop (Switch).
2. Start the story at the old computer and play the opening minigame until you are pulled into the garden.
3. Move the cursor around the top-down world, talk to Skye and the Handy Pals and take on their garden tasks and minigames.
4. Win the matches and challenges that open new areas, and keep out of sight in the stealth sections.
5. Collect the figurines and hidden items along the way to uncover more of the story.

Tips

• Explore off the main path; many collectibles and lore pieces are hidden away from the obvious route.
• Boxing matches can be replayed, so take time to learn each opponent's tells before moving on.
• Pay full attention in the later stealth and fighting sections; a reviewer notes the difficulty rises there.
• Collecting every figurine is optional and takes extra time, so finish the story first if you just want the scares.

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