A few weeks back I got my paws on the preview build of FixFox (aka to me, personally, FikFok), and honestly it’s a really lovely game about being a mechanic who is also a furry a distant-future human gene-spliced to have fox fur. The world of FixFox is a pleasingly analogue version of the future, where you fix old fans with bananas and postage stamps for friendly robots. And these robots will reward you with a feather duster, or perhaps a lovely meal. There’s a real emphasis on being kind - on helping each other out, on trading. Whenever you need to find a new location you invariably have to ask a few robots for directions. Your little landspeeder bike and your jumbled tool box are both your pals. And I really loved sitting down and actually eating, bite by bite, a bowl of soup or a pudding, or loading my game by selecting and playing a casette tape. There is adversity in the game, too, but it’s more sort of… figuring stuff out. There’s no biffing a robot on the nose to be done. But, like I said, this trailer leaves many questions unanswered. Why is this planet populated almost entirely by robots? Why is it square? What is the Order Of Tools whole deal? All more interesting questions than I have found from many a big-budget game. One thing that I really like about this trailer is that Vix has a voice in it! They sound cool. I wanna be mates. FixFox is coming to Steam on March 31st next week.
