Key Fairy is a "hand-drawn, pacifist, folkloric bullet-hell", and its demo actually lives up to how interesting that description is

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The eels of instauration awaken

A dreamlike black, achromatic  and reddish  scenery  from slug  hellhole  Key Fairy. Image credit: Owl Machine

To flooded the archetypal force you conscionable successful Key Fairy (a Bugle with large eyes and bat wings), you zip astir the woods with a grapple, avoiding its circling and collecting the stars it dispenses. When you cod three, it turns affable and apologises for attacking you. "Worry not, small bird", I reply from a acceptable of dialog options. "My cloak is thick." The adjacent surface is inhabited by 3 cyclopean worms chanting astir the "eels of creation". I similar it present precise much.

Brought to beingness with spacious, enchanting and playfully layered physics euphony and hand-drawn creation (you tin alteration the colour palette to thing cooler oregon monochrome if you wish), Key Fairy's wood is simply a spot I privation to live, and I'm precise grateful for adjacent a abbreviated accidental to walk clip successful it.

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You'll find the demo connected Key Fairy's Steam page, which besides has 1 of the loveliest descriptions of making things I've work successful a while:

"An escapade made conscionable for you! We forged this wood retired of blood, and ink, and thought. Come, articulation america for a while, we are lone small, and determination is abstraction capable to share."

"The Forest Contains…"

  • Dozens of unsocial monsters
  • Fast paced, frenetic engagements
  • Trinkets by the bagful, for you to collect
  • Whimsy
  • hundreds of hand-crafted rooms
  • People, with hopes and dreams
  • Sounds (if you locomotion softly, you whitethorn perceive them)
  • The truth
  • An ungodly quantity of keys
  • Pages and pages of hand-drawn art
  • A sword! (not to beryllium utilized arsenic a weapon)
  • No secrets. we committedness determination are nary secrets successful the forest...

The afloat game's merchandise is inactive to beryllium announced. Do sojourn the wood if you get a chance. It's a marvellous place.

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