FixFox

I had a great time and beating this game. It's a neatly packed cozy little adventure. The story was really great and the ending was unexpectedly good and satisfyin. Absolutely recommend everyone to play this little indie gem.

I can't believe it's been four years since I played this game and I still think about it often. It was a true delight to inhabit the world of FixFox, and the story was a beautiful tale of family love and betrayal set in a world of space travel and robots. The ending was delightful and made me want to play again. I think I will soon. Very few games sit with me so quietly yet persistently as this one. 10/10.

First, I struggle to actually call this a puzzle game. Your hand is firmly held for the entire game. A couple of robot puzzles required me to pause, but almost always there's only one possible route to take, and all I needed to do was find it. When doing repairs, you're always told exactly what item you need, and you can always look up where exactly to find it, turning it into a fetch quest. The idea of fixing items using random junk is cool, but the game goes nowhere with it. Your first repair is exactly the same as your 50th. The game has tools of different tiers, and after beating it I still have no idea what the tool tier does, I guess it's more durability? This is especially funny because late in the game you get an ability to skip the repair mini-game, which... okay, you took "fix" out of "fixfox". But the fact that the game considers it a reward... Repairs aside, some mechanics don't seem well-thought. You have a cable fast travel system, which you need to unlock by repairing the stations, and almost immediately after you get the item to use it, you unlock a taxi that can take you anywhere and is available at a press of a button. The alarm system is similarly pointless. Af…

I went into the game with completely the wrong idea, thinking it'd be more along the lines of Assemble With Care or another short-form story with touchscreen style controls after seeing the repair screenshots. Like, okay, we're going to different places and doing jobs for people, that's cool. And I suppose we [i]do[/i] certainly do just that, I simply was not prepared to scour the landscape for locations and search for tools among the trash. In a way, the game both exceeded my expectations - by having a really engaging story that kept me wanting to play more - and also felt somewhat underwhelming. The inventory management might have been more fun if it had been more important, and to some extent it was earlier in the game. However, by the time you're in the second area you will be drowning in so many random objects that it feels absurd. I think the developers had the idea that players would just go out of their minds wanting to [i]constantly[/i] loot stashes for stuff and also forever be on the lookout for odd jobs to do. This would put you into confrontations with the Pirates and the Order who would take things from you unless you have stickers and puzzle books. The problem …

Not the longest game but really fun game loved the story.

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