You may put collectively a good indie games showcase for nothing simply by loading the Epic Games Store and clicking a button. The present freebie on there may be Polytron’s wonderful, world bending puzzle-platformer, Fez. It’s undoubtedly definitely worth the zero doubloons they’re asking for it. In truth, it’s value at the least 100,000,000 instances that. Fez is nice.
It appears a on condition that there’s extra to the game than meets the attention. It’s a 2D airplane wrapped round a 3D game world. You can solely transfer facet to facet, or bounce and fall, however the world strikes round. An unimaginable bounce turns into attainable with a shift of focus, shifting the view 90 levels and shifting a background block into the proper platforming place. Over seven years after launch, it nonetheless feels novel and contemporary.
But that’s simply the tip of the dimension. Fez has so many secrets and techniques to unveil that an entire slew of internet sites and communities have been dedicated to decoding the strange glyphs that hid the game’s actual story in plain sight. I’m solely on the information beat this week, so I don’t have the time to jot down all of them up, however the late Killscreen website has a good read on the lengths the group went to to unlock Fez’s additional dimensions. You completely can play it as an over-talkative platformer, however there’s extra there for individuals who take the time to search for it.
Fez is free till August 29th, when it’ll get replaced by considered one of RPS’s favorite games, Celeste, and shadowy platform horror, Inside.
