Dearly vs Pebblebrook

Dearly is a gentle cemetery-keeping game about restoring forgotten names, tending quiet places, and guiding kind little ghosts home. Take over a small, overgrown ground and bring it back one grave at a time. Reveal the people who rest there, gather the donations left by visitors, plant flowers, light lanterns, and open the path to the next distinct place. WHAT YOU’LL DO • Restore graves and return every resident’s name • Gather kind donations and grow your grounds at your own pace • Guide friendly ghosts home beneath the lanterns • Keep flowers, ponds, cottages, and memorial spaces • Follow quiet family stories in the Memorial Book • Travel through distinct grounds, including returning seasonal places • Discover twenty authored grounds, each laid out in its own way, across the permanent road, a free chapter of six new grounds, the Twilight Paths chapter, and the returning year • Join Hallowtide from October 24 to November 2 without streak pressure or paid catch-up • Play in portrait on iPhone, or in portrait and landscape on iPad GENTLE BY DESIGN Dearly has no ads, no energy timer, no competitive ladder, and no punishment for taking time away. Offline progress is capped kindly, seasonal progress is preserved, and everything important can be played for free. OPTIONAL ACCOUNT Play as a guest on one device, or use Sign in with Apple or email to protect your grounds with cloud backup. Account deletion is available inside Settings. FREE TO PLAY Dearly is free to play. There are no ads, energy purchases, paid skips, or purchasable currency. Seven optional purchases support the game, and every one is permanent; none is consumable. Six are cosmetic: three supporter tiers, each with its own garden statue and a thank-you in the credits; two small decoration sets; and a four-season visual theme. The seventh is Twilight Paths, a story chapter of two further grounds. None speeds up, shortens, or gates the free journey. Twilight Paths' two grounds, like every chapter in the Memorial Book, add to donations once remembered (up to 10% more across both), and the free journey is priced to keep the same pace without them. A little cemetery, kept with love.

You have inherited Pebblebrook, a small abandoned village by the river. Play as Miro, an otter who gathers berries, fishes the slow water, and fells patient trees to bring the village back one building at a time. There is nothing to rush. The village keeps working while the app is closed, and your harvest is waiting when you return. A village that grows slowly Forage Patch, Fishing Dock, Timber Grove, Tea House, Stone Mill — raise five places and your village level with them. Neighbours who move in one by one Hazel, a hedgehog who knows every ripe bush. Pip, a kingfisher with impossible patience. Five neighbours, each better at gathering one thing. While you were away The village works for up to eight hours without you. Come back and collect. Light and quiet No account, no sign-in. Plays without an internet connection. Your progress is stored only on your device. Available in eight languages. Free to play with ads. No in-app purchases.