Anyone play the game "Fe" before? It's $5 this week on XBox Gold.

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Fe is a painterly, much-ballyhooed exploration game set in a wondrous fantasy world. It’s clearly inspired by the ancient woodlands of developer Zoink’s native Sweden, delivering a world of echoing oaks and creaking roots, swamp creatures and majestic stags.

It’s a picturesque exploration game that feels like a poet’s idea of a 3D platformer, one that’s significantly classier and more subtle than the cartoonish efforts we’ve often seen in this genre.

And yet it also defies this genre categorization, incorporating elements from many different gaming cultures. Fe manages to pull together influences from cartoon platformers as well as from arty narrative games. It plays with stealth and RPG-like progressions to create an exploration into a fairy tale, where the tasks are fun and engaging, but they mean less than the stirring world around them.

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