FoxHaunt

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Very interesting design for this title, with a combat system that's a bit more complex than it looks. You have a set of 8 worlds, each with 4 choice events and a boss. You won't know what each choice does or even where the boss is until you experiment and try. The game will remember what you get from each choice so you know in advance what will happen the next attempt. There's an achievement for doing all the choices in a single save (so you will have to intentionally die on bosses to get everything), so make sure to do those potentially unoptimal choices until you have all of them visible to you. Each boss has a unique modifier to your powers, their orb, and these give you a lot more build variety than at first glance. Each boss fight is played out in a turn based manner, where you choose a form and an aura which modifies your stats for that turn, and each one has an advantage against one your opponent chooses. Some of the orbs will care about type advantages, but they can mostly be ignored unless you're borderline on a combat. There's not much music but what's there is good! The artwork is quite good, the foxes are really cute and there's a good amount of personality in their designs. It's very tough to choose but I think I like [spoiler]Red Foxing Hood[/spoiler] the best. It's pretty inexpensive, and while there is some build variety there's not a huge amount of replay value; but it's short enough that you can pick it up in a year or two and have fun with it. It played perfectly on a Linux desktop and I expect it to be a great Deck game as well.