IT’S FINALLY HERE!
The PC version of FEZ is out today!
You can buy it on STEAM or GOG.COM for 9.99$
Or, you can buy it from our own humble store widget, which nets us a larger cut of the profits!
Tell your friends!
P.S. should you have problems running the game, head to this support page to get help!
Tired of not being able to buy FEZ on PC yet?
Frustrated with all this money burning a hole in your pocket?
Introducing the FEZ PRE-ORDER PERIOD!
That’s right! FEZ PC will be available for pre-order on STEAM and GOG.COM starting April 22nd!
No more waiting for a thing to actually be out before you can buy it! No more keeping all that pesky money to yourself!
With our patented pre-order technology, we take your money TODAY and give you something LATER!
But wait, there’s more!
The game will also be 10% off for the duration of the pre-order!
That’s right! you can buy a thing that’s not out yet AND pay less for it!
All of this for just one easy payment of 9$!
Spend money AND save money! AT THE SAME TIME!
A WORD FROM PHIL:
FEZ was released a year ago today. A fact i find impossible to believe. But i’ve checked the calendar. I’ve done the math, and it adds up.
FEZ was released a year ago today.
A year ago i was in tennessee with my girlfriend. Today, i am in tennessee with my girlfriend. (things have been weirdly symmetrical like that lately) But life couldn’t be more different now. It’s been a truly transformative year. Suddenly becoming so loved and so hated by so many teaches you some humility. Or at least some things you didn’t know about yourself. I feel like a different person now. A much, much less crazy person. A much happier person. It’s been a fantastic year.
Thank you for that!
The game really found its audience (or the audience found it?). Everyday we get far more love mail than hate mail. Every other day people send us fan art, or a picture of a gomez cake, or a quilt they made, a Drawing, a plushie. seeing people’s notebooks filled with deconstructions of the puzzles and mysteries i had so much fun putting together has been a particularly rewarding experience.
Thank you for that!
Since it came out last year, FEZ has now sold 200,000 units on XBLA alone. Which is completely fucking crazy when you think about it.
Thank you for that!
And now we’re gearing up for the PC release on may 1st, where we’re hoping the game will reach more people than ever before! We’re super excited to finally set the game free on all these other platforms. If you haven’t played it yet, i hope you will! (steal it if you must!)
Thank you in advance for that!
But most importantly, the success of the game is allowing me to take my time to consider my next move and spend years driving myself crazy trying to make something beautiful so you can run around in it.
Something few of us can afford.
Thank you for THAT.
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A WORD FROM RENAUD:
Even though I left Polytron a while ago, FEZ is that kind of elastic string that pulls you back every once in a while.
I’ve been hard at work on the PC version and I’m very happy that the game will finally reach a broader audience.
Working on FEZ has been equal parts amazing and terrifying, but it’s completely overwhelming to see what it has become and how many people it’s touched. It was such an amazing luck to meet Phil five and a half years ago, and what a ride it’s been.
Thanks a million for your support and touching emails; even though we’ve been pretty crappy at answering emails, we do read a whole lot of them!
And thanks for enjoying the game.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Montreal, February 27th 2013, Universe A
POLYTRON CORPORATION INCORPORATED is pregnant with emotion to announce the release of the much awaited FEZ T-SHIRT PORTS!
Indeed! This is what we’ve been up to all of this past year! Working around the clock to bring you the patented FEZ experience to the much-loved T-shirt platform.
All the wonder and mystery, now in T-shirt form! Lose yourself in it, let it surround you in warmth and 100% Fine Jersey cotton.
Available NOW at the polyshop!
Including reprints of old classics, BRAND NEW DESIGNS WITH SHINY INKS and designs once only available at conventions!
AS SEEN IN THAT MOVIE YOU’VE PROBABLY SEEN!
About POLYTRON CORPORATION INCORPORATED:
POLYTRON CORP. INC. is technically a person.
About T-shirts:
They’re for torsos.
I am sitting in an empty polyplex, our place of work for the last 3 years.
Abandoned for months now, it hasnt seen much use since Renaud left for Toronto.
Everything is packed up. Today i move out as our lease expires along with the year, marking the end of an era.
2012 was crazy.
2011 was also crazy, but 2012 somehow managed to completely out-crazy it.
We experienced abyssal lows, but also life-affirming highs. Life-changing highs.Really, really high highs. It took everything but we shipped the fucking thing. And it was a success.
It didnt break any records, but it made more than enough to let me keep doing what i do. So im afraid you’re stuck with me for a little while longer.
Even though the game came out some 9-ish months ago now, i don’t feel like any of it has really sunken in yet. Between the game and the documentary, too much happened. Too much to process. I feel like i learned something, but i dont know exactly what it is yet. Keep your mouth shut maybe?
Between Sundance, IGTM, winning the IGF, becoming a notorious racist, the game coming out, the patch incident, becoming a notorious asshole, travelling the world, battling a brutal post-partum depression and finding love, my ears are still ringing.
2012 was crazy.
But what now?
2013 is going to be an interesting one, too.
For one, FEZ will finally be ported to other platforms.
Yes, i’ve heard you, dozens of people emailing me everyday telling me how much of an idiot i am for not porting FEZ to everything.
We also have some exciting plans for the soundtrack, and something about a US branch?
Beyond that however, the future is uncertain for polytron.
It’s just me now. I could do anything with this company, but i dont know what yet.
There’s a couple of new games in the pipeline, of course.
But there’s also an ambition to do so much more.
I want to design everything!
Maybe not a videogame? Maybe something else entirely.
I JUST DONT KNOW.
And that’s exciting!
I hope you’re excited too!
(I’ve removed the “updates” from this post for clarity, tl;dr but for those who missed it : the patch came live on June 22nd, caused save corruption issues on upgrade for some users, was pulled from Xbox LIVE in a panic some hours later, and then the patch came back live on July 19th.)
The title update (MS lingo for “patch”) is OUT NOW!
I’d like to thank everyone that emailed us with their problems, without your help this would’ve taken a lot more time and would’ve been generally more painful. And sorry if I haven’t answered every single one of you, sometimes I just had nothing to add or it just fell through. We got a LOT of emails.
You can view the complete list of fixed issues after the break!
Please note that some of these fix descriptions contain spoilers, so you may not want to go through them if you haven’t completed the game.
May 2013 update :
For issues with the PC version, use this support page instead of posting here or emailing the fez support email, as it’s much easier to track. Thanks!
August 4th 2012 update :
There is one known crash with the patch : if you save in the “waterfall” level and exit and restart the game, it freezes.
The only workaround for this issue is to clear your system cache, the patch will be uninstalled, and your savefile will load correctly. Then after moving to another level and saving, you will be able to reapply the patch and continue your game.
As far as we know this problem only happens in the waterfall level. Should it happen somewhere else though, this workaround is still valid.
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The patch is out now! Read the changelist here.
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FEZ had more testing done in the past 24 hours by about TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE (!!) than it had in five years. So, as it happens, bugs popped up. Some pretty serious.
A small subset of older Xboxes with smaller hard drives can’t run the game at all. The game has trouble running off a USB stick. Crashes are occurring in specific levels or situations. In a rare situation (exiting the game from the “wall village” interiors), the save file becomes unusable. Nasty stuff.
We will be working internally and with Microsoft on those issues and let you know more later. It makes sense to issue a patch, but we don’t currently have an ETA on it.
If you have a game-breaking problem, let us know Since the patch is released now, we’re not looking for more bug reports. Thanks!
Sorry, and thanks for understanding!
And we’re thrilled to see that the vast majority of you are enjoying the game as it was meant to be.
Renaud
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