Foxus Reviews

No absolutely not this is a broken mess that Vladamir should be actively embarassed to have released in this state. From moment of launch this broken game was terrible to control, over senesative camera and when you turn the sensativity down it just stops working completely. I could barely move fluidly down any path, camera all over the place was not a "relaxing" experience. Putting one design on a fox in different colors does not add much variety and you need to STAY AWAY from this game. It's an absolute embarassment, should not be on steam in this state. Holy shit.

I love the fox movements, and the general atmosphere is very pleasant. However, the game itself seems like a prototype; more a demo than an actual game. Playing with an XBox controller you can't move the camera at all (right stick doesn't work - hopefully a bug and not just negligence), and regardless the in-game camera jumps all over the place and through objects. Overall seems like it has potential if this is the beginning of development, because I love the fox character, but it's not something worth paying for, in its current form. I hope the developers make this into something great, because there's a dearth of animal games of this kind.

Unfortunately, not enough content to warrant a $7.99 price tag, much less the $9.99 regular price. Has a lot of promise, and hopefully they will be able to expand it to take more than 30 minutes to complete. If more content becomes available, I would be willing to re-evaluate. In addition, it needs a lot of help with controls. First, the mouse kept leaving the window and going to one of my other screens, and I couldn't get it to lock into the game. So most of the time I clicked to lunge, it took the focus from the window, and even clicked links on pages I didn't want clicked. Aside from that, having free mouse look, but having to use A and D to actually turn the character goes against every 3rd person game I've played.

I feel really bad about leaving this review, but I honestly regret buying this. The Fox is really cool looking and realistic, that being said, it’s dropped into a game with essentially Pokémon, which is a little strange to me. There isn’t really much to do either, the story is really short, and it leads you to everything making it so that you don’t have to explore any of these cool areas. I see a lot of potential in this game though

Played it - liked it. Now for some more detailed critics. PRO: The art style is okay, what you'd expect from low-poly. The fox's animations though are splendid. Loving them. A little hacky here and there (turning to the sides could be smoother, same for attacking) but otherwise fine. Interesting that a fox collects strawberries and stars. Maybe in the future we'll learn what that's about. The music is relaxing, even if scarcely used. There could - and should - be more of it while you play. Some levels are completely silent. CONTRA: About the camera; this really needs improvement. It goes below the ground whenever the fox - for some reason - looks up. Also, when changing levels, it reverts to manual mode despite being set to follow. Collisions really suck. You need to be able to jump over fences and rocks and run past trees without an invisible wall blocking your way. The use of mesh colliders and capsule colliders would help a big deal (if the latter is already in place, please lower the radius, thanks!). In the first level, about west from the npc, you find a rock you can walk right into. This shouldn't happen either! AFTERTHOUGHT: I won't comment on the content at this point, realising the game's still in early developement. Seen worse so far, even "The Forest" started out as a small game, so I expect some serious growth in the future :) More NPC variations and especially a proper AI for the endboss should be obvious. Also, bigger levels, more to do in them and please.. please! ... replace the particles. While they may be meant as stylish, they strike me as textureless. Even Unity's default particle would do better.

So this, uh, this Foxus game? It's not good. I didn't have the highest expectations going in, I was mainly just excited by the thought of getting a game where I could play as a fox. That's something I like a lot, and normally I could overlook flaws in fox-based games because, uh, I really like foxes Alas, not the case here. Foxus is a very brief, featureless game that purportedly sells itself on "atmosphere". Don't be fooled, though - this is not anywhere up to the level of Abzu or Proteus. The game's aesthetic is a mixed bag. On the face of it, it's something I really love: bright, blocky colours and less focus on realism. Indeed, the promotional screenshots look pretty appealing. However, once you actually hop into the game (and after it finally loads) you'll realise that there's quite a few inconsistencies. The fox playermodel is the only thing in the game that is expressed in those low-poly blocks, every other character just looks like abandoned assets from some Wii shovelware title. There's a weird contrast between the cartoonish fantasy of the enemies (which don't actually hurt you) and the more realistically designed player model and landscape. This kind of jarring difference isn't really the worst thing, mind you. That would be the camera and controls. These are awful. The fox does, I suppose, move in a realistic way - with almost tank controls that makes you feel like you're driving it around. This might have been acceptable if it weren't for how loose and inaccurate the keyboard controls are, with each button press twisting you round a solid 45 degrees. You charge randomly around this grassy field, using a fixed-distance jump to try and land on moving targets and it's painful. The pain is only exacerbated by the abysmal camera, which isn't connected to your motion at all. Instead you can freely rotate independent of movement, which means you have to actively follow your fox with the mouse if you want to see where you're going. The camera also stutters awfully, even with mouse smoothing enabled, meaning that you'll want to try and move in a straight line as much as possible to avoid having to turn and look around. These control issues are Foxus' fundamental flaws. The rest of the game is mediocre Unity gameplay that you might expect from a solo developer, but that could be forgivable if the core of the game, i.e. walking around and looking at things, wasn't such an uncomfortable experience. The dialogue and story (because yes, this game actually has some of that for some reason) is not paticularly important or interesting, with most conversations with the pink Pikachu thing boiling down to: "walk here and get this thing and talk to me again." There's really nothing fulfilling here, folks. There are a couple of things I can praise, mind you. The soundtrack is nice, borrowing from the Breath Of The Wild school of gentle piano melodies interspersed between nature sound effects. When you're stood still and not looking around, it's almost atmopheric. The fox's animations are also really nice, looking really smooth and realistic; and it feels like more time was spent on animating the player model than was spent on making the rest of the game. It feels like such a waste. And that brings me back to what ruins this game for me. All the finer details missing, like an interesting story or deeper gameplay, would be completely fine by me if it were just enjoyable to walk around a landscape, being a fox and soaking up the atmosphere. Sadly what little charm this game has is occluded by its clumsy controls and almost-nauseating camera. 2/10

Don't buy this game. I was hyped about this one (back in the old day I greenlit it even) but trying it out is a horrible control-wise the way camera moves when I am turning while running literally giving me nausicae feeling and makes me feel literally sick so I tried to force walk my way around but it is still feels wrong and lack of actual content. Sadly my gametime literally less then 10 minutes as that is how much I could tolerate without feeling sick of it so my vote is nope even if there is a fox inside to play as.

bought the game for Rp 14.624 at discounted price back in the day around October 2018, only to see the game has relisted but with the price of Rp 449.999 ...... so I would like to say WHAT THE HELL???

I've been waiting for this game to be done for like half a year and when it came out, i've bought it immediately. I wanted it to be good so much. BUT -the camera sensitivity is awful, no matter how i adjust it -the game starts too slowly (even if i installed it on the ssd) -still too many glitches

Review Update 22/06: It's been a while but I'm back with the latest update: The Wild Lands Update. I'm sorry for the bad quality of the video, still looking for the best preset on OBS for my machine. Sadly, the update feels empty, with "easy" achievements. Guess the developer is still working on it, but my suggestion is quality over quantity. Don't take my wrong, I understand that develop a game is hard (I do it on my weekends) but maybe you (the developer) should focus on the first thing. https://youtu.be/GSUpKbnkukY Review Update 21/04: Just a little gameplay of the game. Probably the best part is at 2:26 https://youtu.be/uqWOxdcjinQ Original review: Wait...A game where you can play as a Fox? That's great, dude! Foxes are my favourite animals, that's why the game caught my attention on the first place. The graphics are nice (personally, I like the poly style). Had this game on wishlist for a while, saw that it came out and add to my cart. Sadly, on the current status, it's dissapointing. Nothing against the developer, just my opinion. Barely played for a few minutes and wasn't able to force myself to keep playing: the camera is bad, the controls doesn't have any sense, you can jump through rocks, map dissapears, sounds are only music and pick objects. I could ask for a refund but the developer needs the chance to show his love for the game. My review can be updated and changed to positive if things goes nice.