{"id":564636,"date":"2026-03-13T04:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fez-10-year-anniversary-retrospective"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:37:20","slug":"10-years-later-fez-still-doesnt-need-a-sequel-it-never-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/10-years-later-fez-still-doesnt-need-a-sequel-it-never-did\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years later, Fez still doesn&#8217;t need a sequel &#8211; it never did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/10-years-later-fez-still-doesnt-need-a-sequel-it-never-did.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need to tell you Fez is a great game because you know that. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fez-review\">Everyone told you that<\/a> in 2012. We named it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/eurogamers-game-of-the-year-2012\">Game of the Year<\/a>, then called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games-of-the-decade-fez-and-the-doors-of-perception\">a Game of the Decade seven years later<\/a>. It&#8217;s one of the indie icons, a mandatory mention whenever you&#8217;re talking about them.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s been 10 years since it was released, which is a long time, and somehow within all of that, I had never played it. Until now, that is, and it&#8217;s an interesting place to look back on the game from. There&#8217;s no noise surrounding it now, no drama. All that hullabaloo, it&#8217;s gone. Now, really, there is only the game.<\/p>\n<p>And what a game. I&#8217;m not here to give you a controversial hot-take on how time has ravaged Fez and revealed it to be rubbish, because it hasn&#8217;t. In fact, I&#8217;m partly here to tell you the opposite and how time doesn&#8217;t seem to have touched Fez at all. It&#8217;s remarkable how fresh it still feels. It could have been released this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fez-10-year-anniversary-retrospective\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fez-10-year-anniversary-retrospective\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t need to tell you Fez is a great game because you know that. Everyone told you that in 2012. We named it Game of the Year, then called a Game of the Decade seven years later. It&#8217;s one of the indie icons, a mandatory mention whenever you&#8217;re talking about them. But it&#8217;s been 10 years since it was released, which is a long time, and somehow within all of that, I had never played it. Until now, that is, and it&#8217;s an interesting place to look back on the game from. There&#8217;s no noise surrounding it now, no drama. All that hullabaloo, it&#8217;s gone. Now, really, there is only the game. And what a game. 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