FEZ

Fez is a delightful and cozy adventure that involves you solving 3D puzzles in a 2D world. The music, pixel art, gameplay, and atmosphere are all top-notch. Aside from a few puzzles that feel overly contrived or possibly unsolvable (like the infamous black obelisk, whose solution may not exist or remains undiscovered), the puzzles are genuinely fun to work through, especially deciphering the in-universe language. It's a must play and one might say... shifts your perspective a lot.

I feel like games are really afraid to be like FEZ anymore, not concerned with being easily understandable and actually requiring community effort to solve all the secrets the game has to offer.
I wasn't actually smart or patient enough to decipher the two main ciphers of the game by myself, but even still I found the secret chasing to be very fun. You don't even need them to actually finish the game so.

Now obviously the monolith and text blocks puzzles can go suck my fat nuts, but they are still quite iconic for how ridiculously obtuse they are, the monolith one hasn't even been properly solved yet!
I've seen people criticize the game for this, but I think it's expecting the game to be something it's not. The ciphers are the whole appeal of the completionism part of it, and if you don't like you can just play like, the thousands of other platformers around.

Nice game with nice platforming and puzzles. Endgame is however absolutely brutal and for total nerds only.

Yes, but be warned. This is a puzzle game that is more than just a fun little perspective shifting platformer. That's what I thought I was buying. What I got instead is a puzzle game involving linguistics, secret codes, and headaches. Still a great game, just not as relaxed as I thought I'd be, haha.

FEZ is one of the most unique gaming experiences I have ever had. I don't really know how to describe it, but the world of FEZ absolutely mesmerizes me. It starts really simple as a platformer/collecting game, but as soon as you figure out how to read the languages in the game, it becomes something truly unhinged.

Also, this game has one of the best soundtracks and sound design I have ever heard, kudos to Disasterpeace for the soundtrack!

Really clever puzzles, interesting gameplay, awesome synthe music. Reminds me of ANimal Well, but I liked Animal Well more for sure. Great game though.

One of the original indie darlings in the eyes of many, FEZ is a game steeped in a whole bucket’s worth of history and intrigue. Nine years after its initial release and no sign of a sequel (as promised by its creator before getting abruptly cancelled), can FEZ still dazzle the new generation of Switch owners? The answer is yes, but let’s pretend you didn’t already know that.

FEZ begins with you playing the role of Gomez, a spritely little chap who says a little bit less than naff-all. After responding to a request to meet the aged adventurer of Gomez’s two-dimensional village, our mute hero is gifted a small fez which allows him to warp his 2D world with 3D impudence. Sadly this has the slightly irritating side effect of tearing reality apart at the seams, which we’re sure you’ll agree is a right old nuisance.
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Gomez has to shuffle off to find all 32 cubes that make up the almighty Hexahedron, a doohickey that somehow keeps the world from collapsing, in order to prevent just such an occurrence. These are often found split up into further cubes, eight of which count towards one of the 32 (keeping up?). In order to reach these cubes you’ll have to platform throughout the world, changing the perspective in order to reach otherwise unreachable areas.

You see, each time you pivot the world 90 degrees you’re presented with another entirely 2D perspective that Gomez can traverse with zero depth. This means otherwise distant platforms can be forced to line up granting you access to higher structures, as well as doors that were just flat-out not visible in any way from any other angle.

This is where quite literally the entire game lies; you might play the game for an hour and find a challenge that seems entirely impossible and assume you’ll get a double-jump or something at some point. Nope! You’re stuck with what you’ve got matey-person, you just haven’t figured it out yet. It’s this simplicity that results in a countless number of those ‘a-ha!’ moments that are so important in puzzle games, and what makes FEZ such a joy to play.

Incredible game that seamlessly combines a 3D world with a 2D perspective, creating a unique and innovative gameplay experience. Its simplicity on the surface hides a deep layer of complexity, with intricate puzzles and a beautifully crafted world that invites exploration. The charming pixel-art aesthetic and atmospheric soundtrack add to the game's immersive quality, making every moment feel like a journey of discovery. I hope there will be another chapter in this story

Super unique. So addicting! I can't stop playing!

great gameplay and level design with awesome pixel art, must play

Solving puzzles with the power of three dimensions.

You play as Gomez, a marshmellow-like being who's eyes just got opened to the power of 3D. He then goes on a grand journey to collect cubes by completing puzzles; and the game has a lot of puzzles.... many of which make no sense when you first see them. The world can also get pretty overwhelming, with the number of puzzles/secrets you don't know how to solve racking up quickly at the start of the game. That said, once you figure out the flow of things it's just some good puzzle-solving fun.

Closer to neutral than negative but there is no excuse for putting in puzzle solutions that you can only get after finishing the game but the puzzles still exist in NG.

Some puzzles are impossible—who cares what the developer's personal whimsy is—rather than puzzles which require your mental efforts. These made me feel I wasted my time.

Phil Fish was right, and we shamed him off the face of the internet for it.

Fez cast such a long shadow that games coming out over a decade later are still doing the same things it did in 2012. Play it for the history and the ending.

Fez walked so Tunic and Animal Well could run, and Fez has far more depth then you'd expect.

It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

A modern classic that stood at the forefront of the indie boom in the early 2010s. Even today, it remains one of the finest examples of the genre—an absolute must-play!

It is like the flipping aspect of Super Paper Mario, but expanded into a full platformer. I thought some of the puzzles were a bit overkill, especially the ones that required a lot of decrypting. The game is really meta, but I still enjoyed it. Would I play it again? Probably not.

if minecraft and antichamber had a child

Absolutely amazing game! I wasn't expecting anything more than another gimmicky puzzle platformer of sorts, like "our game is so unique because you can change the perspective in a 2.5D kind of way," like "yeah okay, so original..." but hooooBOY was I wrong about that lol. The music and atmosphere were nice all throughout, and the general presentation was also great, especially from how well they implemented the whole perspective altering gimmick, but most of all, the natural progression and discovery of FEZ just straight up blew my mind...

It is on par with the most immersive and complex puzzle/exploration-oriented games I've ever played (Tunic, Animal Well, Tomba, Elephantasy Flipside, Eldritchvania, Vision Soft Reset, the La-Mulana series, etc.) and I could have stopped after reaching the basic ending, but I could see a lot of potential for solving more puzzles and discovering more secrets, so I broke out the old pencil and paper and started writing down anything I could make a connection to from the game like some kind of crazy sleep-deprived detective's evidence board of red yarn and newspaper clippings lol.

I never did end up figuring it all out, still periodically repeating some riddle from the game in my head randomly from time to time to see if another light bulb goes off, but I did get pretty far past the basic ending, and that's typically just how these kinds of games tend to go for me, too, when they offer enough meat on the bone for me to chew on for a while (not solving everything but losing track of the hours spent solving what I could and just really enjoying the journey of discovery rather than the final destination).

I am just amazed at how much of a work of art this game was altogether, though, and how much more it offered beyond my expectations. Also, being a very big fan of these kinds of games, of intellectually stimulating existential stuff, and of the music of a certain classical composer, the ending that I did get to was like some kind of out of body experience for me, leaving me unexpectedly awestruck, and actually sort of inexplicably brought tears to my eyes. 11/10.

Grab a notebook and a pencil. You'll need it.

Just wish there was a better way to travel. Doing the same parkour sections over and over again gets annoying quikly.

Fun and calming

I think Fez was so well received because it released back when indie games weren't really hitting their stride yet. That combined with a bit of a neat gimmick made for a game that was really enticing about ten years ago. Unfortunately, while the game holds up fine, it doesn't really feel special anymore. The gimmick is cool, but the puzzles just aren't deep or interesting enough to keep the game going for more than an hour or two and, sadly, that's longer than it takes to finish the game. It quickly gets stale and once it is, it stops being worth playing.

"FEZ is a 2D game"
Gomez: bends reality a becomes 3D

I've been coming back to this game every five years since I was a kid.... Third playthrough, second 200%. Timeless.

I love this game. I played it for the first time like 10 years ago when it released on the PS4 and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. The music is beautiful, the concept is simple but gives a satisfying challenge with the variety of puzzles it includes. It's a solid game for the Steam Deck too, it was compatible with my controller and ran smoothly. Highly recommend if you're into platformers

concept is amazing, music is god tier and the story is lovely <3 what more can you want from a game

A fantastic, creatively designed Indie puzzle platformer that’s pushed further by its incredible score and fun exploration, only brought down by some asinine cheat code style puzzles.

the gameplay is really fun, the worlds are beautiful and i scoured the internet to find this game again after 8 years

Brilliant puzzle game. It just keeps giving. Be forewarned, however, these puzzles are super hard. Like "get out your pen and paper to take notes" type hard.

You can tell why so many games have been inspired by Fez's puzzles. Fantastic artistic direction, visually and musically -- and mathematically. The one thing I dislike is the companion character. There are better ways to do tutorials in knowledge-based games.

The rotation concept has really cool lore implications, but it does not lead to very difficult puzzling. Rather, the good puzzling comes from decoding the world's secrets and languages (plural!). I love this kind of game and I'm surprised it took me so long to find this one. Now looking at a game like Tunic, the Fez inspiration is obvious.

If you just want to do some puzzle platforming, you could probably beat this game in a few hours, and maybe you won't think it's all that great. If you want to solve the mysteries of a strange universe, the game goes much deeper and it's wonderful.

It's fine. The main concept of the game is kind of neat but it gets extremely boring when you realize you're just jumping to blocks and swapping your perspective. It makes for a pretty cool 30 minute session to feel it out and then you're left hoping there is more to do with the mechanic.

I wish there was more of a game attached to this mechanic.

Very fun and chill game and cool puzzles

Very fun platformer full of puzzles. Cute main character and game play with some deeper challenging layers that are a little more intimidating if you choose to take them on.

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Fez is simultaneously a game I'm glad to have played and a game I don't really like. How is this possible? Because while I like the novel approach to platforming, i.e., the 3D-in-2D thing, it ultimately fails to be a satisfying puzzle game. At least 50% (I don't know the exact percentage but it feels like this much) of the "puzzles" are just walking into rooms and finding a cube. Seriously? I mean sure, you did have to rotate the world in order to find the room, which is fine for the first few minutes of the game, but not 2+ hours into it. Then there are the mystery rooms where the puzzle is so cryptic I'm tempted to break my no-looking-for-answers-when-playing-puzzle-games-online rule. So on the one hand, we have puzzles that are brain-dead simple, and on the other, puzzles that are bang-your-head-against-the-wall difficult. It feels like the devs spent so much time perfecting the 3D-in-2D thing that there wasn't any time left to make interesting puzzles. And to be fair, that's an incredibly difficult thing to do even without the dimensional gymnastics. But still, if you're going to make a puzzle game (or any game for that matter), then you need to design interesting puzzles (or whatever thing fits that genre) because novel mechanics alone won't save you. In summary, Fez is a game with a great concept, but weak execution. I'd wait for the sequel, but unfortunately there won't be one.

The main game is fun but the puzzles get annoying later

This game is really good
Discovering the language a numbers by yourself is really good
I can't describe in words what it feels like to finish it

(I'm not a completionist) Smooth, intuitive, visually appealing puzzle experience. So obviously an indie classic, so clearly inspired the likes of Tunic, HLD, etc. It's worth playing but I don't think it really achieves what it could have.
I started finding my way around the game's world after about 6 hours, that's when it got interesting. And then I get to an ending, without the game requiring me to actually engage with deeper and more complex puzzles. I'm sure there is something big hidden but I'm not too inspired. I don't have too many leads and now I don't even have a goal to strive towards, except completing the puzzle. The game is self-aware in a fun way but doesn't have any stakes either, gameplay or story wise. Eye-candy, aha-moment-core, proto-4th-wall-breaking quirk-wave.

To me the solutions to many puzzles don't feel overly "deserved". There were many moments where stuff just happened and I got a reward. It feels smooth though, as I said.

cute, original and weird, it has good puzzles and is not hard unless you want to 100% it

Pretty and fun with good sound design.

Sure, it's cool

the game is a cool mistery to uncover

after beating TUNIC and ANIMAL WELL, i got the itch to replay FEZ again for the first time in years. after those games, it seems a bit short... a bit overly obtuse.... but at its core it's still a phenomenal game. i really do think that everyone should play fez. it's a top-tier puzzle platformer. not too hard, with a clever central gimmick and absolutely unparalleled atmosphere. not to mention how important it is in the history of indie games!

i will warn that the deeper layers of fez are not super accessible. you've gotta be either a puzzler fiend, or willing to use a guide. i do think it's worth trying to get as far as you can on your own! but this is a game that loves its truly bullshit puzzles (i do say this affectionately), so be prepared for that.

Ron sends his regards.

Remember: The blueberry is a... standalone fruit...

I was first introduced to this game back in the xbox 360 days and it has remained one of my all time favorite games. Solving all the puzzles, decoding all the secret messages, and finally reaching that 209.4% completion. I enjoyed every second of this game and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for somethin to play.

great game

Great puzzle