Quick Brown

[h1]FoxMania: The Quest To Review All Fox Games On Steam![/h1] [i]Conditions for inclusion: [list] [*] -The player character must be consistently a fox; the fox must not be merely a skin or a character option [*] -Must have 100% working Steam achievements [*] -Must not be a visual novel [/list][/i] [b]Game #49: Quick Brown[/b] This is a short, silly joke game. It can be beaten in less than 10 minutes if you memorize it. This game obviously isn't meant to be taken very seriously. It's clearly an amateur work. Controls and collision are pretty bad, and level design is sloppy and super basic. But the low production quality didn't really bother me at first. It only started to get on my nerves in later levels when the difficulty started going up, probably a bit higher than it should have. Some later levels were terribly frustrating. The game’s main gimmick is that the rules keep changing. Some levels have low gravity, some levels have platforms that blink invisible, or platforms you can climb. Some levels are just straight-up minigames. Even so, every level only feels like a proof-of-concept and doesn’t really do anything ambitious with the ideas. Unlike certain other foxes, this fox hates mushrooms, and dies upon contact. The game uses mushrooms instead of spikes, which I found amusing. The story is absolute nonsense. The existence of a Lazy Dog has somehow turned all the animals of the forest into meerkats, except apparently for Cubey the fox, who must collect all the letters of the alphabet so he can spell "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" which fixes the problem... somehow. NPC dialogue is what I would call, without exaggeration, Gen Z brainrot humor. Example of a typical dialogue box, completely verbatim: "YK I CONSIDER MYSELF A [BIG SHOT] I LOVE BULLETHELL MECHANICS, IVE PLAYED TOUHOU SINCE I WAS NEGATIVE 2 YEARS OLD" - spoken by a small white dog with a fox tail named "Toby". There’s an absolute constant barrage of NPC dialogue basically like this. There's also some sprite graphics outright stolen from Silksong and Among Us. Control pads are not supported, because you actually need to type the correct letter of the alphabet on the keyboard in order to beat every level, which is… certainly a design choice. Despite all the complaints, it was a little fun, and gave me a little laugh, and it was a little adorable. And most importantly, I feel like this game was published in good faith. It wasn’t meant to be scammy or super serious. For once, I feel like it’s just a silly little project someone wants to show off. I haven’t gotten all the achievements, some of them seem very hard. One achievement requires a seemingly near-perfect speedrun, which I haven’t pulled off yet. But it’s a short game, and I’m mildly amused, so I might keep trying. Neutral vote on this game. But since Steam doesn't allow that, my policy is to round to a thumbs-up. Sigh... just take the upvote and go. 2.5 / 10.