Felix the Reaper

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Summary

Felix The Reaper - A romantic comedy game about the life of death.

Felix The Reaper is a romantic comedy about the life of Death. It's brought to you on PC as a 3D shadow manipulation puzzle adventure game of dance, dying people and dangerous love.

Felix has set out to conquer the heart of Betty The Maiden. He's fallen in love watching her from the train window commuting to work everyday for ages. He works at The Ministry of Death, she works at The Ministry of Life. Hence they don't meet.

He's taught himself to dance, because he's convinced, that will win Betty over. And he's gotten really good at it too.

Finally Felix has come to realise, that it's not enough, that he can dance, if they never meet. And one day he decides to become a Field Reaper and go to work in the human world. That's where life and death collides. Hence he might finally get to ask Betty out for a dance.

Excel at making sure people die, the way they are destined to, because that's what Field Reapers do, and Felix might finally get to meet Betty here in the human world.

Felix The Reaper is produced by Kong Orange with support from The Danish Film Institute and The West Danish Film Fund, and the production has been invested in by CapNova.


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Felix the Reaper Reviews & Ratings

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Review by TitaniumDragon [user]
June 18, 2020

Felix the Reaper is a top-down grid-based puzzle game about being a trainee reaper, setting up cruel and unusual deaths for people.TheFelix the Reaper is a top-down grid-based puzzle game about being a trainee reaper, setting up cruel and unusual deaths for people.The core gameplay is pretty simple. As a reaper, you can only move in the shadows. There are four primary ways to manipulate shadows:1) You can shift the direction of the shadows by 90 degrees.2) You can pick up and move boxes, barrels, and similar items to cast shadows.3) You can throw levers to move objects around in the environment.4) You can stand on buttons (or place objects on buttons) to move objects around in the environment.These very simple mechanics combine with level layouts to create complex puzzles, many of which require lateral thinking in order to acquire the objects you need and move them through the level to reach your objectives.All of the levels are ultimately solved either by throwing a hard-to-reach switch or by moving some object to a destination to cause some sort of mayhem, like moving a goat in front of a dog so it bites its tail.There are 5 sets of 4-5 levels, each with its own little theme, as you set up some horrible death for some character; half of them are set in medieval times and half in the 1980s, but there’s no meaningful mechanical differentiation between the eras, it is purely cosmetic. The levels are not generally too difficult to complete (though some are tricky), and there is an in-game hint system if you are stuck.If you want an additional layer of challenge, you can try and complete optional objectives – completing the levels in a minimal number of moves, or minimal shifts of the sun, or within a certain time limit, or only moving a limited distance, or taking minimimal actions. These vary from level to level, but while they took some practice, none were overly onerous – though some of the action limits do require you to exploit the levels efficiently to avoid unnecessary movements.There are also “hardcore reaper trainee” levels, which are remixes of the main levels, but often with heavily altered arrangements, resulting in a significantly more difficult solution – at least in theory. In practice, while they’re ostensibly harder than the mainline levels, if you are trying to get the skulls on the mainline levels, they’re not really much different in terms of the time they’ll take to beat.Overall, the game will probably take you about 5 hours to beat if you are just trying to get through all the levels ASAP, and probably about 10-15 hours if you are trying to 100% it.But I guess I haven’t really answered the central question: is the game good?I think it’s fairly decent. It’s not the best puzzle game I’ve ever played, but a bit of clever lateral thinking is required to solve many of the puzzles, especially efficiently. The overall quirky nature of the game is also fun, with a dancing reaper swaying to the music. On the downside, the strictly linear nature of the game means that if you are struck on a puzzle, you have to keep beating against it until you beat it – though all the mainline levels can be solved with the help of the hint system.If you’re a fan of puzzle games, this is a reasonable enough example, but if you are looking for something more action-oriented, this is not the game for you.

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Review by Broyax [user]
April 3, 2020

Pour l'étron indé du jour, un principe qui semble intéressant de prime abord, le tout emballé plus ou moins maladroitement dans un humourPour l'étron indé du jour, un principe qui semble intéressant de prime abord, le tout emballé plus ou moins maladroitement dans un humour macabre plus ou moins de... mauvais goût mais qu'importe, car à l'usage ou à l'essai, Felix le "moissonneur" n'est pas convaincant du tout...Plus que son aspect grotesque et ses gesticulations ridicules, c'est plutôt l'un de ses principes qui s'avère bancal, à savoir le réglage du "soleil" pour délimiter et définir les zones d'ombre, car Felix venant d'en bas, tout en bas, il craint fortement la lumière...Or, il se trouve que l'on ne procède que par essais et erreurs (multiples) pour déplacer le personnage sur les cases qui se retrouveraient (enfin) dans l'ombre afin d'atteindre l'objectif proprement dit... ce qui s'avère vraiment répétitif, chiant et pénible à faire. Il se sont dit peut-être que ça faisait partie intégrante de "l'énigme" de chaque niveau mais ils ont mal joué sur ce coup-là : ça casse les couilles et rien d'autre.Graphiquement, c'est évidemment assez navrant mais c'est surtout le manque de goût qui frappe le plus et confère à cette petite daube indé son côté le plus repoussant. Tout ou presque tout est donc à revoir ici.

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Review by CD-Action
January 10, 2020

It’s a quite nice puzzle game with a quirky character and visual design but also which doesn’t actually stand out in any meaningful way.

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Review by cleverboy [user]
December 21, 2019

Beautiful to look at and listen to; frustrating to play.I really want to like this game - it has a very unique & appealing art direction,Beautiful to look at and listen to; frustrating to play.I really want to like this game - it has a very unique & appealing art direction, quirky macabre sense of humor, the inimitable Sir Patrick Stewart's superb voice talents, and the fun sound track.However, as a puzzle games, it falls short on many different ways. For instance, it's hard to tell how long of a shadow an object will cast. And does it vary over different levels? I think it does, but couldn't be sure. This is even more problematic because the environment will cast shadows too, but then it's even MORE uncertain how long the shadows will be at a glance. Also, items that can be picked up are too hard to tell apart from static objects, and it's uncertain which objects can be stacked on top of others and where. The flags are problematic as well, as it's hard to tell where its shadows will land, especially when they change positions. There are numerous problems like these that makes it hard to play.

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Review by XBLA Fans
November 20, 2019

Felix the Reaper is a textbook example of style over substance. The presentation, especially of the central character, is immaculate and easily the most enjoyable part of the experience. The game itself isn’t bad, but it lacks anything that left me itching to play more. The gameplay is fine but solutions can be a bit obtuse, while the additional challenges are too hardcore to be fun. I could watch Felix dance all day, but those moves won’t charm anyone who’s not ready to take on his deadly dance floor.

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Game Information
Release Date October 16, 2019
Publisher Kong Orange, Daedalic Studio West, Daedalic Entertainment
Content Rated T (Teen)
Game Modes Single player
Genres Music, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Themes Comedy
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, iOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch