Fifo's Night

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Fifo's Night is a single player casual platformer game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by Lightbox Academy and was released on October 29, 2020. It received very positive reviews from players.

Fifo's Night is a 3D puzzle-platform videogame that takes place around an enchanted mansion. A gameplay with different combat skills and a lot of jumps, makes Fifo's Night an entertaining game for all audiences.

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Audience ScoreBased on 91 reviews

graphics10 positive mentions

grinding4 negative mentions

Charming and visually appealing 3D platformer with a spooky Halloween theme and lively art style.
Smooth gameplay with solid controls, enjoyable puzzles, and boss fights that offer good challenges.
Completely free to play with no microtransactions, providing great value as a short, casual game.

Game always starts in Spanish and does not save language or settings preferences between sessions.
Performance and optimization issues including FPS drops, bugs, and glitches that can hinder progress.
Some bosses and platforming sections can be frustrating due to difficulty spikes and floaty controls.

graphics
19 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game features clean, detailed, and consistently high-quality graphics with a charming, playful horror-inspired art style reminiscent of Luigi's Mansion, which many players appreciate. However, significant FPS drops and performance issues on high-end PCs can detract from the visual experience. Overall, the unique visuals and atmosphere are praised, though some rough technical patches affect smooth gameplay.
- “The graphics/art style is clean, detailed and consistent in quality.”
- “Excellent graphics and a unique style.”
- “This game has a decent story, likeable protagonist and contains great looking visuals, enemies and locations.”
- “Even with a high-end PC, I had to play on low graphics because the game has big FPS issues, including massive FPS drops (talking 144 going down to 5) that wouldn't come back to normal without a game restart.”
- “Graphics: 7”
- “Fast game with modern-day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on.”
gameplay
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay is simple, clean, and intuitive, featuring solid base mechanics with straightforward movement, attacking, and puzzle-solving elements. It offers well-designed maps, unique bosses, and a charming, interconnected world, making it engaging without unnecessary complexity. Overall, it feels polished and family-friendly, providing a satisfying experience with classic platforming and puzzle challenges.
- “The movement and attacking mechanics are simple, clean, and concise.”
- “It features great map design, 3 unique boss fights, intuitive mechanics, and a spooky theme.”
- “The general gameplay, puzzles, mechanics, and intricacy of the game combined with a nice upbeat soundtrack make this a must-play for all ages; very family-friendly, and being free is the icing on the cake.”
- “I also had a suspicion that some of the mechanics are tied to screen refresh rate, as the second boss felt a lot easier when I set my screen to 60hz.”
- “Gameplay: 6”
- “It has solid base mechanics and feels like the beginning of a larger game.”
music
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's music is generally praised for being catchy, upbeat, and fitting the theme well, contributing positively to the atmosphere. However, some users find it repetitive, occasionally immersion-breaking, and lacking a final polish to elevate it to a professional level. Overall, the soundtrack is considered good but can become monotonous over time.
- “The general gameplay, puzzles, mechanics, and intricacy of the game combined with a nice upbeat soundtrack make this a must play for all ages, very family friendly, being free is the icing on the cake!”
- “The music is also pretty catchy, though it seems to be missing that last five percent of polish needed to push the title to a near-professional level.”
- “Great visuals and music with a few rough patches: the player character would sometimes lose running momentum making longer jumps difficult, and during the tree boss fight the game would sometimes pause itself after you do damage to its weak spot.”
- “The music is actually tedious.”
- “Again, it's slightly immersion-breaking - the music is sometimes the only part of the game making noise, even when there's a fair-enough amount of movement between enemies and objects in the level.”
- “The music, although lively, becomes monotonous after a while.”
story
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story received mixed feedback, with some players finding it satisfying and well-supported by engaging characters and a lively Halloween-themed setting, while others felt it was incomplete or lacking depth. Overall, it offers a decent narrative experience complemented by strong visuals and atmosphere.
- “I finished the main story and felt completely satisfied, even though I didn't go for all the achievements.”
- “This game has a decent story, a likable protagonist, and contains great looking visuals, enemies, and locations.”
- “The setting and the story are totally Halloween-themed and lively.”
- “The story feels incomplete.”
- “Story: 3”
atmosphere
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game features a charming and well-crafted spooky atmosphere complemented by good visuals and music, though the soundtrack can be repetitive. Its level design enhances the experience without overstaying its welcome, making for an engaging but relatively short playtime.
- “Great atmosphere, great level design, doesn't overstay its welcome.”
- “Fifo's Night is a fairly short (2 to 4 hours) collect-a-thon platformer with a spooky atmosphere/theme.”
- “It's a short game, but the controls are great and the atmosphere is absolutely charming.”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Grinding in the game is considered tedious due to repetitive combat requiring multiple hits to kill normal enemies and frustrating navigation issues like unresponsive elevators, leading players to often avoid fights and diminish the combat experience.
- “Some elevators in the third underground/lava area don't activate properly, forcing you to find more tedious alternate routes to progress while searching.”
- “It takes two hits to kill normal enemies, which makes combat feel tedious and pointless, leading me to avoid fights altogether.”
- “The overall experience becomes tedious, especially with the constant need to kill enemies multiple times.”
stability
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game experiences notable stability issues, including game-breaking glitches with ghost animations and severe save point bugs that force players to revert to previous checkpoints, which can be frustrating despite an overall enjoyable experience.
- “My problems are game-breaking glitches where the ghost has a weird animation (happened to me twice) and can't jump, which causes me to return to a previous checkpoint. This got annoying.”
- “Started a new game but still severe save point glitches.”
- “A bit buggy, but I enjoyed my time with this.”
optimization
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The game is generally well optimized, providing smooth performance and a solid platformer experience, though some users still note occasional performance issues.
- “A palatable platformer collectathon experience, Fifo's Night is well optimized and features pretty standard puzzles and level design.”
- “The performance is really a problem though.”
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game is free and does not include any microtransactions, offering a brief but enjoyable 2-3 hour platforming experience ideal for casual play sessions.
- “Free game, no microtransactions, 2-3 hours of decent platforming for a night after work when you don't feel like committing to a longer game.”
humor
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's humor is described as simple yet effective and funny, complementing its classic platform and puzzle gameplay with easy and engaging controls.