It was really something else.
(Eh, I kinda did a store review for it, so there's little need to go over everything again).
The game really did "hit me in the feels", as they say, without feeling sappy, overtly melodramatic or hamming up any "oh woe is me!"-angle. It's just regular folks; the fact that they're shown as animal spirits somehow makes it easier to relate to them, at least for me.
Many of the characters reminded me of (late) family members, or people which I knew in the past but lost track of. They're so very relatable. Which is probably why losing them did hurt. It's not the game, it's not the game's story, it's the memories it brought back that were painful.
Death is inevitable. No one made it off this planet alive yet.
Reflecting on my own past, I can say that Spiritfarer left me a sad but wiser man. And that's quite a feat. Getting someone to reflect upon a topic where my usual reaction can be summed up as "Run !".
Definitly not a game for everyone, but a beautiful game nonetheless.