In the meantime, you're completing the requests they give you, ensuring that their stay on your boat HQ is as pleasant as possible whether that's by feeding them the food they like or building them personalized quarters, and continuing to upgrade the facilities and size of the boat in question to accommodate new resource-crafters and residences.
The first passenger you meet is Gwen, here, who was a dear friend to the protagonist Stella in life. After a soul becomes a passenger, you're obliged to meet their needs while they in turn help you out with chores until they realize their time has come, at which point you sail them to the same Everdoor that Charon left through: whatever awaits on the other side is not for the protagonist (or us) to know, but the best they can do is ensure their friends have resolved any lingering regrets and have souls as light as feathers as they say their final farewells. To do this, you sail around some version of purgatory in a ship much like Charon of Greek mythology (said Stygian boatman even appears at the start to show you the ropes just before his own time comes) picking up wayward souls, usually by helping them with some of their unfinished business. Spiritfarer is both a little more involved than that while paradoxically concerning itself with very little outside that emotional core, which does indeed revolve around a very sentimental journey as your silent protagonist helps ferry the deceased to their final resting place. The only tidbits I learned was that the game has a lot of emotions in it and that - much like the underrated Wii classic A Boy and His Blob - it had a dedicated hug button. Spiritfarer made quite a splash (boat jokez) during Giant Bomb's own 2020 GOTY but at the time I was determined to learn as little as possible about it by the end of 2020 I was familiar with Thunder Lotus Games's other projects ( Jotun, which was IGotW #31, and Sundered, which was IGotW #174), and was curious enough about an upcoming narrative-focused adventure about the afterlife, which seemed so dissimilar to their previous output, that I wanted to go in completely blind.
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