It's been almost a year since the initial release of Fez, the lovely retro-themed 2D platformer with a 3D twist. The game's development process was almost as complex as the game that eventually emerged, with developer Phil Fish famously polishing the game far past shininess and well into ludicrous territory. The love and time spent on Fez certainly shows: five minutes into the game, when the little blobby protagonist acquires the eponymous hat and gains the power to rotate his 2D world in a third dimension, it's such a momentous event that it reboots the entire world. The game is a layer-cake of puzzles piled on top of meta-puzzles, and it showcases the utter brilliance—and no small amount of manic intensity—of the developer.
However, the 3D fun has so far only been available to XBox 360 players on XBox Live Arcade. Phil Fish famously tweeted before the game's release that Fez is "a console game. for consoles. PCs are for spreadsheets." Fortunately, Fish had a change of heart (or is fed up with XBox Live's patching policy) and delivered some good news this morning for PC gamers who want to get in on the action: Fez is coming to Steam on 1 May, 2013.
The initial release will be for the Windows version of Steam, but Phil Fish revealed in his Reddit AMA today that there will also be an OS X version at some point (though whether that will also be available on Steam or standalone was not mentioned).
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