FireSine LLCJul 25, 2018Free to playView on Steam ↗

Fractal Chicken

Explore, craft, fight, and build your way through multiple infinite voxel worlds, look at fractals, have a good time! Play multiple game modes, builld automated machines, chop trees, build a base, turn into a helicopter, upgrade weapons and equipment and more! Oh, and most importantly, awaken true fractal power!

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Free-to-play

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Est. copies sold

484

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86%

8.6/10

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In Fractal Chicken, you will explore worlds that are connected to each other through portals, all the while fighting the Demon Lizards. The first world is Earth-like, and allows you to begin collecting combat equipment. You can also start basic production from gathered materials (grass, dirt, stone, trees) to maintain your food supply and build other useful items. In your exploration, you will find portals to other worlds with alien terrain and harder enemies. Fight and build your way through these worlds, decide where to build your main base, and enjoy exploring the boundless worlds of Fractal Space, domain of the Fractal Chicken!

* Infinite Voxel World in all directions, fully editable.
* Multiple worlds to explore!
* Weapons and item upgrades - feel your character get stronger and wiser! Kill lizards!
* (basics working) Start a production chain to keep up your food supply and build items useful for combat!
* Use equipped 'cooldowns' to float over terrain or fly a helicopter!
* Options to make the game easy for noobs!
* Immense wisdom from Fractal Beings, especially the most glorious, the Fractal Chicken!
* Mostly open-source. Make your own world algorithm! Make your own game! Fix bugs!
* Most enemies, worlds, and textures made by custom automated generators.
* Lots of Fractals, just look to the sky.

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Not recommended5h played2 found helpfulDec 2022

Fractal Chicken is a very poorly made esoteric kind of "minecraft" ripoff with a fractal theme, but incomplete and incoherent with very poorly designed objectives, gameplay, graphics, well, everything, really. The game was abandoned roughly immediately after launch and hasn't been updated in several years. It blew past the developers commitment to complete the game without any notification or admission of failure from the developer. There's no reliable indication the game will ever be completed, which is a reason for gamers to avoid this. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The game features lazy low-polygon voxel "Minecraft"-like "art", making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. A lot of amateur developers see Minecraft's success and assume it's because it looks bad, not because it had unique and appealing game mechanics, and they try to emulate the success without understanding it. It also happens to be easy, and doesn't need any proper talent in terms of game development/graphic artists etc. That's why reviewers are faced with so many of these terrible games with confrontingly bad graphics. Developers must learn that Minecraft succeeded despite the bad graphics, not because of them. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. That's right, only 2. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason. The game is completely free. This is noble a gesture that shows dedication to both gamers, and the gaming industry. Nothing speaks more to a developers belief in themselves and their product than making their game available for everyone without remuneration. It's a shame in this case that the implementation is below the minimum standards a dedicated PC game should offer to enthusiasts. The quality here is simply too low for me to recommend, even for free.

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