I bought this game during the Steam Winter Sale on a whim. I didn't even finish watching the game trailer on the store page before buying it, it just looked so up my alley. I'm a casual gamer at best nowadays, but when I fired up Fez for the first time, you couldn't punch the grin I had from my face. I dropped everything I was doing and somewhat unwittingly spent the next three days playing it and replaying it.

A friend had suggested I watch Indie Game: The Movie when I gushed to them about how brilliant, beautiful, inventive, and perfectly suited to me Fez was. I haven't plugged into the gaming community for a long time, and just a minute ago I finished watching the film. I had no idea about the tumultuous history behind the game and its creators, its reputation, or any of that. And even without any of that hype and context, I found this game to be a visual, musical, mental, and emotional masterpiece. This is interactive high art in video games.

I bought this game during the Steam Winter Sale on a whim. I didn't even finish watching the game trailer on the store page before buying it, it just looked so up my alley. I'm a casual gamer at best nowadays, but when I fired up Fez for the first time, you couldn't punch the grin I had from my face. I dropped everything I was doing and somewhat unwittingly spent the next three days playing it and replaying it. A friend had suggested I watch Indie Game: The Movie when I gushed to them about how brilliant, beautiful, inventive, and perfectly suited to me Fez was. I haven't plugged into the gaming community for a long time, and just a minute ago I finished watching the film. I had no idea about the tumultuous history behind the game and its creators, its reputation, or any of that. And even without any of that hype and context, I found this game to be a visual, musical, mental, and emotional masterpiece. This is interactive high art in video games.