Key Fairy
Key Fairy Media
Critic Reviews for Key Fairy
Key Fairy's striking hand-drawn visuals and quirky score are accompanied by tight and satisfying gameplay mechanics to create a truly unique experience.
While a little rough in some parts, the variety of assist mode options give players the agency to tailor their own experience, letting them make Key Fairy as relaxing or controller-throwingly hard as they wish. What this game lacks in colour it makes up for with personality and atmosphere. Key Fairy feels like the little creature you swear lived among the moon-bathed branches of the trees outside your childhood window. If you’re looking for a game which rewards exploration and has a movement system it challenges you to master, this is definitely the game for you.
I was utterly charmed, delighted and enraptured by Key Fairy’s gorgeous hand-drawn visuals, achingly beautiful writing and dynamic movement mechanics. It gave me butterflies, or perhaps they were fairies, in my tummy. Such is its beauty. It’s a game full of love and compassion that I hope brings as much joy and comfort to others as it has to me. We need more games like Key Fairy in this troubled world of ours.
