Fe

This upcoming action adventure single player video game developed by Zoink and published by Electronic Arts. It is scheduled to be released on 16 February for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Play Station 4 and Xbox One. In it, the player controls Fe, a fox-like creature in a forest setting, attempting to defend it from hostile entities called the Silent Ones, gaining help from other forest creatures by guiding them to complete tasks and learning new abilities from those it helps. The breathtaking Fe could be 2018’s most moving game.

Fe is an action-adventure game in which the player controls Fe, a fox-like creature within a forest that is highly responsive to the songs of the creatures and plants within it. The forest creatures are being attacked by entities called the Silent Ones for unknown reasons that threaten the forest’s wildlife. Fe is able to sing to other creatures and objects as to gain their help. These creatures can teach Fe a new song which gives the fox additional abilities through the forest, such as activating a flower that acts as a jump-pad to launch Fe to higher locations and explore more of the world.

The game has been noted to have minimal instructions, requiring the player to experiment and to perceive the forest’s ecosystem to determine how to progress, instead of a set of objectives. One example requires the player to observe that one species of bird likes a certain type of flower, suggesting that they may be able to use the bird’s song to interact in a different manner than if they used the flower’s song. Fe has been favourably compared to Journey and Shadow of the Colossus for this “hands-off” approach to game play.