FEIST
Developer Bits & Beasts
Feist is an action video game for PlayStation 4, Linux, OS X, Windows, and Xbox One. It launched on PC in July 2015. On December 13, 2016 it was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
244 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
128 positive · 63 negative
95% range 60–73%
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| Steam reviews | 128 | 63 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 6 | 1 | 26 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 20 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What players are saying
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 189 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (402 of 543 positive).
Several reviewers note the game is very short, often completed in two to three hours. [1][2][3] Some players compare it to Limbo, citing similar art style but more combat and less puzzle focus. [1][4][5]
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A game can have a great art style, atmosphere, and soundtrack. A game can have a fantastic concept and challenging AI. These things don't guarantee that a game will be good. I really want to love FEIST for its brutal, beautiful world, but its the glaring mechanical flaws I can't overlook. Aesthetically, FEIST is quite good. The art is dark and moody and the soundtrack is suitably melancholic. The animations are also …
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I feel like the designers of this game spent too much time trying to make this game look pretty (aka, as much like Limbo as possible) and not enough time making it playable. There are far too many times where you die not because you don't know what to do, but because the camera is so far behind you that you can't jump to the right place without doing it over and over again until you have a part of the stage pretty …
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A lot of the negative reviews in particular are, at their core, simply giving the game a bad rating because "it's too hard." Which is absolutely ridiculous. Not because the game isn't difficult, it is, but that's exactly the point of it. It's supposed to be a challenge and make you more observant. Now that I've cleared up that little rant, here we go... FEIST is a visually and audibly stunning game. From the …
- [16]
I can understand some of the negative reviews for FEIST. It's difficult, and frustrating. If you don't have the patience for that kind of game, you should give this one a miss. But if you do stick around, you'll find a very fun challenge presented beautifully in this short but great little game. The controls take a bit of getting used to. They're simple, but they feel a bit slippery and not as precise as they should …
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It's obvious, that graphics are heavily inspired by Limbo (first part with forest). Probably even exeeds it sometimes. This water and how every creature is made from pine needles, I really like it. Gameplay is not anything like Limbo. Yes, there are some traps but they are pretty obvious, and there is a lot of foes. In most cases you don't have to fight, just get away from them. There is 10 levels and 5 bosses which …
Summarised from 34 of the 243 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
FEIST sits at 67% positive across 191 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The review aggregator website Metacritic gave it a score of 65 out of 100. GameSpew said it was visually very gorgeous, but gameplay had issues such as dropped frame rate.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 244 · most liked firstA game can have a great art style, atmosphere, and soundtrack. A game can have a fantastic concept and challenging AI. These things don't guarantee that a game will be good. I really want to love FEIST for its brutal, beautiful world, but its the glaring mechanical flaws I can't overlook. Aesthetically, FEIST is quite good. The art is dark and moody and the soundtrack is suitably melancholic. The animations are also very fluid and organic. Yes, you could say it looks like Limbo, but FEIST…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A lot of the negative reviews in particular are, at their core, simply giving the game a bad rating because "it's too hard." Which is absolutely ridiculous. Not because the game isn't difficult, it is, but that's exactly the point of it. It's supposed to be a challenge and make you more observant. Now that I've cleared up that little rant, here we go... FEIST is a visually and audibly stunning game. From the screenshots and trailer, that goes without needing to be said while the soundtrack I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like the designers of this game spent too much time trying to make this game look pretty (aka, as much like Limbo as possible) and not enough time making it playable. There are far too many times where you die not because you don't know what to do, but because the camera is so far behind you that you can't jump to the right place without doing it over and over again until you have a part of the stage pretty much memorized. In other words, it is hard, but a frustrating type of hard…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Positives: it's pretty, it's atmospheric, and it can get relatively challenging at times. Negatives: the challenge mostly comes from fighting the floaty controls and poor level design. You frequently have to die at least once to figure out how things work. Despite a lot of repitition on the tougher segments, it came in at a grand total of 3 hours. Far too short for the full price. I'd recommend it at half price or lower.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's obvious, that graphics are heavily inspired by Limbo (first part with forest). Probably even exeeds it sometimes. This water and how every creature is made from pine needles, I really like it. Gameplay is not anything like Limbo. Yes, there are some traps but they are pretty obvious, and there is a lot of foes. In most cases you don't have to fight, just get away from them. There is 10 levels and 5 bosses which are on the tradng cards (yes you have to fight most of them). Is price tag a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Positive: - The game looks nice. - The physics are good and feel really smooth. Negative: - Challenging fights combined with lots and lots of trial and error "puzzles" means you have to do the fights over and over again, which is really frustrating. - The camera does not follow your character properly when you are moving fast which means that you can often die to enemies or traps that you run into, simply because you couldn't see them. This can also force you to redo a difficult bit you just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad. Good solid platforming. Good physics. Good music, environment, and art. It can be fun while running and dodging enemies, and throwing items works well for the most part. The puzzles aren't too challenging and are usually self explanatory. The problem is when many enemies are on the screen. They are faster than you, can grab you, have perfect aim, and you have to hit them a ton of times. Also a single hit with the sticks breaks them, which can be quite annoying. The game is super short,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It establishes an eerie mood, making you feel vulnerable to what lurks in the shadows. It's more a jump n run than a puzzle game. The design and style are obviously inspired by Limbo, but it does add that special "umpf" to the formula that makes it stand out from other Limbo-like games. It's fun, mysterious, scary and quite a challenge! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=604574953 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=609664931…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you never played Betrayal at Krondor, that is a game that STILL holds up today. Funny thing is that I was already a fan of Raymond E. Feist when I found out Betrayal at Krondor exists, but for many, it also served as an entry point into Feist's novels.
neutral · AI labelView post →I can understand some of the negative reviews for FEIST. It's difficult, and frustrating. If you don't have the patience for that kind of game, you should give this one a miss. But if you do stick around, you'll find a very fun challenge presented beautifully in this short but great little game. The controls take a bit of getting used to. They're simple, but they feel a bit slippery and not as precise as they should be. That adds to the frustration at times, but it's part of the challenge.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feist is a indie platformer game what based on physics and a bit remember for you Limbo. This game don’t have so thinking puzzles what have Limbo, but also looks awesome. You are a small creature what a bit remember a hedgehog. At the start you found yourself trapped, so your first task escape from this, after that you should go ahead deeper and deeper in forest, fight with creatures and finally find and escape your friend. The control system is enough easy, but for better control I think you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FEIST makes a good first impression. The art style is striking (even if the silhouette style is a bit overdone now) and the animation is fantastic. FEIST is an atmospheric physics based puzzle-platformer that draws you in with clever puzzles, avoiding traps, and pitting forest creatures against one another. ...and then about halfway through all of that goes out the window and it's replaced with frustration, cheap deaths, and fiddly physics puzzles. I get what FEIST was going for but for such a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(eng) / (rus) I've played just a bit, and got totally astonished by the physics and animation works here! I dont'remember an arcade game where fighting with enemies brought so much random fun you couldn't help laughing even when you die for the 10th time in a row! The situations this program creates again and again get totally crazy and unexpected! The wordless story's about a furry clot that escaped some hungry Neaderthales' captivity and now got cheerfully lost in a fur-tree forest, where…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feist sounds great. Love hearing something other than the standard rock at a hockey game.
positive · AI labelView post →This game was IMMENSELY fun, i remember wishlisting this awhile back after watching the preveiws and falling in love only to seemingly lose it in the store and forgot the name due to benefit of the doubt or possibly dev recall i don't know... the disappointment i remember feeling was great, yet when i stumbled upon it once again in one of my many queue i almost instantly went out and got steam cash, the gameplay was amazing, the puzzles were fun yet challenging and the premise was straight…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is not fun in the slightest.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game looks nice. It's not a BAD game, but I sat down and beat it in two hours. It is a very, VERY short game. The replay value is in the fact that there's a lot of achievements for the game... if you like doing those, you could probably get quite a lot of gameplay out of it. The game's really not for me, I felt that the game forced you into combat situations too often for it to establish any sort of eerie mood. Protip: If there's an enemy in your path, kill it. Personally, I liked the first…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+ pretty looks - terrible gameplay
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →F***ing hard. Did developers test the game difficulty?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the only game I have that I will not play because it is such a pain to move forward. Mind you there is no difficulty setting. Do you want to play a game were you are being killed over and over and over again no matter your skill level? And there is a very good chance you will be unable to finish it. I regret wasting money on this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically Dark Souls if it was indie platformer game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good action/platformer. Music makes for some real cool atmosphere and it's pretty challenging in parts. Only takes a few hours to finish, worth checking out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Welcome to my review in which I´ll carefully analyze the game Feist. If you´re feeling lazy to read all the review you can just go to the conclusion and read a summary. Characters We play with a forest being that tries to find a way through multiple obstacles. After a few levels our character will find objects he can pick up to have an easier time against his enemies. Story The game does not really tell us a story, but you can end up imagining the context. Our character has lost his…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Walk to the right, but not too fast, or get gotcha'd by some tedious ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Extremely uninteresting to play, hard to see what's happening. What is an interactable object and what is just some view-obscuring fluff? You will find out the hard way as Feist proceeds to kill you again and again, making you replay the same stupid wannabe LIMBO levels until you uninstall and request a refund.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feist is a beautiful game to listen to and look at, but that's about as much as it has going for it. The gameplay is incredibly frustrating, throwing hazard after hazard after hazard at you, giving you no indication whatsoever as to how much health you have, making you guess where exactly the last checkpoint was and somehow expecting you to deal with a bunch of flying spike-ball things and a giant furball that throws micro-sized suns at you. As atmospheric as the game is, the atmosphere…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Avoided any Trent Green cards in the media game, but Bayley Feist got straight red in the 88th minute. Teal Rising Cup madness! #KCBaby
neutral · AI labelView post →Run away from it Since it's cheap, there's no sense in overcoming levels. Only frustration with having to continue with everything. I couldn't wait for this game to be over. Pros Art style Cons It's not difficult; it's cheap. That ends up frustrating the player Ridiculously build challenges No real motivation to end the campaign No replay value Terrible gameplay
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Betrayal at Krondor is a gem, both the game and the book (which I think after the basic Riftwar quartet is really the other Feist book in the series that is a must-read. It’s really book 4.5 in some ways) There are a couple of Let’s Plays. Kikoskia’s is top notch www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgs...
positive · AI labelView post →Ooo In no particular order: Magician/Midkemia by Raymond E Feist (despite this already being a game from the 80s) Pirates of the Dark Water Wasteland, the post apocalyptic CRPG series
neutral · AI labelView post →Disadvantages : - Hairy beast at the end of the game sometimes stops spawning fireballs and you have to restart the whole level - Grabbing the Hairy beast results that you cannot stop it and the whole game stops and the only thing that you can do, is restart. - Short. - X and C are only buttons (except arrow keys). Advantages: + Amazing soundtrack + Amazing Artwork + Sometimes you have to think about a puzzle.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool story and even greater atmosphere. You will say it reminds you of Limbo? I won't argue, but this should make you want to play it even more. Don't let Feist be a "hidden gem" because it deserves more. 8.7/10 spikes Review in romana (Greuceanu@IGN Romania): https://ro.ign.com/feist-pc/1135/review/recenzie-feist
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THis game is beautiful, has a nice soundrack, good controls, smart AI and amazing physics BUT due to the artstyle it can be hard to know what you can and can't use as a weapon and the humanoid pig monsters that you will see like a thousand times are OP. I'm ok with hard games but this game is frustratingly hard, when you overcome great challenges you don't feel rewarded enough to compensate the frustration, and the farther you get the worst this becomes, it's not like Super Meat Boy, Monster…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great graphical design, terrible level design.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: Well crafted game with nice graphic, animations, mood, etc Spooky spiders Awesome physics Cons: Litterally look 2 hours to finish Rock falling level was the shortest Boss combat was unintuitive All in all, I just wish it was longer. Much longer!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much like Limbo but with less puzzles, and more combat https://youtu.be/tK3b7CuxIb8 + Very atmospheric ambient sounds and music + Intense combat that focuses on quick movements and precion aiming + Light puzzles (meaning they are not too hard to figure out / solve) + A somewhat vague mysterious storyline adds a sense of exploration and discovery + Controls VERY well with a controller + The environments are well done, although mostly black, some parts will show a very nice looking lake in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In their attempt to create hard and challenging game they ended with stupidly frustrated game. Art style, atmosphere and soundtracks are Decent The controls and world / challenges design are very very lame
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a great example of how a game can have a great look, good controls, smart AI, nice sound, an interesting idea, and how despite all that, still be a broken mess. Let me break down the gameplay. Run right, die, try again, die, try again, die, and repeat this about a dozen times until you get to the next section. The game is almost entirely trial and error gameplay where no amount of skill or understanding will get you through a level; the only way to get through is to try over and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't really know about this one. The fights were pretty frustrating at times, it was pretty short and it didn't really offer a lot... I mean what gives? What was the point in all this? It does have a cool style obviously (reason I bought it was because it reminded me LIMBO) but the "story" was very lacklustre ... which would have been okay if the gameplay had been amazing but while it wasn't bad it also didn't really knock me off my feet. So at the end of the day what remains are atmosphere…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can see my more thought out review of this game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuT8fhTWkCk I love the art style, and the music, and the background looks gorgeous. And the physics are actually pretty good. Sometimes you have to swing a hanging box or move around to make a branch sway in a certain way so that you'll be able to reach a ledge. Or sometimes, you need to roll a rock to a ledge to be able to get up. It's actually a pretty cool idea. But it's not so cool when enemies are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For 10 Euros Feist is disgrace to download onto your hard drive. The game barely has 1 hour of content. The only reason why I have 1.8 hours on record are repeated and unnecessary deaths (mostly in the last 3 levels). But what is Feist? Is it a Limbo clone like so many users compare it to? No, not at all. Where Limbo was a monochromatic puzzler, this is a "run and gun" platformer with 10 levels, each taking only a few minutes if you're good at the game and each as replaceable as the last one…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing 2D platformer. Nice visuals, challenging levels and really good music. The storyline is not much detailed, but it's all you need to be motivated to play: you are captured by ferocious fluffy beasts and trapped in a cage. You then free yourself and go on an adventure through the forest in order to save your friend. The game was nice to play, not hard to beat, but not easy either. There've been a few traps that got me killed many times before I managed to guess how I should pass them. You…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're idea of fun is dying over and over and over and over and over and over until you're so frustrated that you want to strangle the developers of the game, then you'll enjoy Feist.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gotham score but Sam Kerr was offside and screening Marissa Jordan. She clearly can't see with the late reaction on a slow rolling shot. Back to 2-1 and Cooper is entering the game for White (Feist on for DiBernardo). #KCBaby
neutral · AI labelView post →the original trilogy were written around a D&D campaign if you liked them, the Magician books by Raymond Feist were written in the same style - notes from a D&D game the Belgariad by David & Leigh Eddings are a similar story/ structure as well not very deep, but reading should be fun
neutral · AI labelView post →Stunning, haunting, and savage, Feist absolutely delivers on its promised atmosphere. The closest it comes to a spoken word in its 10 levels is the owl-like 'woo' heard in its looping soundtrack, and I'm pretty sure that's a woodwind. Still, a simple but heartwarming narrative is clear throughout. Foreground and background shadows make up the majority of the visual design, so along with the lack of dialogue, I'm left imagining I'm watching all this unfold from very far away or as projections…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BaK, terrible? I don't think so, certainly not for 1993, but I never read the books and I know Feist had little involvement with BaK specifically. Most of the skills in that game actually DO something.
neutral · AI labelView post →There is a lot to say about this game, So if you plan to read it all, make sure not to forget your sleeping bag or your reading glasses. And don't worry: There is no spoilers in this review. Only my personnal experience and a useful tip that will make the experience more enjoyable if you ever decide to give this game a crack. First, I should mention that this is a game with the same feel and atmosphere as Limbo and Playdead Inside. Like most of these style of games, you're playing as the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →90s VIDEO GAMES BASED ON NOVELS Betrayal at Krondor (PC) by Raymond E. Feist Though the 1993 game offered a new story intertwined with the novels, Feist eventually adapted the plot in the novel Krondor: The Betrayal. He did the same for the 1998 sequel. #gaming #videogames #retrogames #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →Show: The Last Kingdom Book: The Empire Trilogy by Raymond W Feist and Janny Wurts Movie: A Knights Tale Album: Fashion Nugget by Cake Video Game: Dragon Quest 11
neutral · AI labelView post →#WoTSkies Introduce yourself with: (not including any WoT stuff because that seems too easy) One book: The Magician by Raymond Feist One Movie: Twister One album: the wall Pink Floyd One TV Show: fear thy neighbors One game: borderlands 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Great but flawed game often ruined by stupid comparisons to Limbo despite being in development much earlier (and not like the art design is that original) upd: It seems like the game been updated to a new branch of unity since forever, and it's extremely buggy now to the point of being unplayable past lvl 9, so unless you know how to use the steam depot, don't really bother
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too often does this game throw you into a situation where you're just supposed to die a dozen times before you can even BEGIN to figure out what you are supposed to be doing to escape it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks pretty but the gameplay is... eh. Your character controls like a listing piece of soap, traps are sometimes telegraphed but lots of times it's a game of trial&error. You'll respawn needlessly often in this game and it's not fun to do so. This isn't perfecting your movement like in Super Meat Boy, it's just trial and errot until you found all the stuff that can kill you and THEN you can work at evading it. Overall: Meh.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The challenges are incredibly frustrating, and most of the difficulty feels like fighting sluggish controls and weird character inertia. You know those annoying ice levels in Mario games? This whole game feels like that. If that's your thing, hop on in. If you really want a weird, amazing looking side scroller that DOESN'T make you want to rip your hair out, check out INSIDE.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I picked this up because I liked the art style, but the level design feels lacking. I got bored fairly quickly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ahh another LIMBO clone. And that is not a bad thing. Unlike LIMBO, FEIST delivers a faster pace action feel, allowing your fuzzy little savage (unlike the star eyed hero in LIMBO) to deal with most of his threats. However also unlike LIMBO, the puzzle aspect is lacking in creativity. Most can be figured out by careful platforming or placing one thing on top of another or using an enemy to do it for you. That's fine with me because that is not what I was hoping for in this game. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've died so many times i dont need to kill myself anymore
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautyfull, immensely atmospheric, wonderfully animated. Unfair gameplay that becomes a grind as you have to slowly attend to EVERY enemy you come across or they will snipe you over half a level or you run into new enemys ahead of you that you couldn't have evaded whatsoever. This leads to players repeating the same part again and again and again and often having to repeat them because you were unlucky that one moment and got stuck or caught in something you had no control over. Not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please make more content in dlc or a second one this was amazing !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Immersive like Limbo, easier than Dark Souls. Very nice choice for Friday evening (can playtrough in one approach). Definitely recommend because such games are art.
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