

"We want KeyWe to be an experience that is warm, lighthearted that you can play with a friend or on your own," said the developers. It's a nice communication challenge with logical thinking, spelling and puzzles woven into the fabric of the postal-themed experience. This means that each player chooses a job to do and co-ordinates this with what the partner does to be effective.

You can play with a friend online or locally.

With no hands to help them, they must jump, flap, peck and butt-slam their way across an interactive landscape of levers, bells and buttons to get those messages delivered on time.Encounter perilous postal environments and navigate seasonal hazards while. As you play you pass through the different seasons, meaning that you will start to encounter wether hazards make it increasingly hard to do jobs such as winds and thunderstorms make sending messages difficult. KeyWe - KeyWe is a cute, co-operative postal puzzler starring Jeff and Debra, two small kiwi birds working in a whimsical post office. You can customise your Kiwi by changing the colour of its feathers and through unlocking accessories like hats and face-ware. Like that game, each level's location is also different that leads to other challenges and new postal contraptions. It's a little like Overcooked with different tasks slowly racking up. You play by using your Kiwi character to press letters and spell out letters, carrying and fetching items, stamping letters. These tasks range from typing out telegrams, sending urgent messages and shipping mail to make sure the mail is flowing. At first the jobs are simple but as you complete more missions they start to become more complex. The tutorials, too, are brilliant, giving you ample time to learn the new rulesets and adapt your roles.KeyWe is a puzzle game where you control two Kiwi birds running a postal service. 48 levels in four different categories sounds like too much but – nu uh – it’s not a problem at all, as every iteration is different, while still holding onto the basic rules to ensure familiarity. KeyWe also has a knack for remixing itself.

It feels more like you’re working together, and that might just save your relationship. In Overcooked! it can feel like you’re under each other’s feet, but here you’re complimenting each other and high-fiving at the end. For one, KeyWe is fine with you each owning your own section of the problem. Even when compared to Overcooked!, there’s some standout elements. We’ve already mentioned the naff Paperboy clone, but a ‘patching up water leaks’ minigame is also a chore, particularly when you’re trying and failing to grab sellotape from each other’s backs.īut the fiddly bits are worth it because KeyWe is such a riot. And, as you’d expect from a game as stuffed with different things to do as KeyWe, there’s plenty of killer but also some filler. kiwi bird and partner up with a friend to type out telegrams, send urgent messages. It means that, if a player is on the extremes of the game field, it can block off the other player. KeyWe is a cute, cooperative postal puzzler starring Jeff and Debra. Heaven knows why KeyWe chooses to make a couple of them larger than the game screen, but they do. The Overtime Shifts are a mixed bunch, too. The inconsistency takes a bit of learning. Equally, some buttons need you to be standing on them, while others need you to be next to them. When the delete button is on the other side of the room, it can take a chunk out of your time. In games like Telegraph Room, especially when you’re chasing down a gold trophy time, it can be difficult to focus on a small, singular letter and all too easy to stomp on the wrong one. We found some of the actions to be inaccurate. KeyWe does have a few flaws that are worth prefacing.
