Using the Joy-Con provides more precise movement at the expense of a slow-as-hell cursor (there’s no option to change the speed, either), whereas it’s a pain to control Agatha using the touchscreen, but at least you can just tap on things to interact. Touch controls are available on the Switch version, but either method has its foibles. One button pulls up your inventory, another button pulls items from it, and that’s about it. You use the left stick to move Agatha around and the right stick to move the cursor, which you can hover over items of interest for some flavor text or an interaction prompt. Or she can do what any rational child would do and start a new religion called Carnivorism to solve both her problems.Īgatha Knife plays out as a pretty standard, if not slightly modernized, point-and-click adventure. She could wuss out, throw down her throat-slitting knife and embrace a life of veganism. She sees the fear in them whenever she enters the room. They’re terrified of her, of being released from this mortal coil, and Agatha knows this. Only problem is Agatha feels a deep compassion for the animals she slaughters. When a new supermarket opens in town, offering its inferior meat at a lower price than the family butcher shop, she wants to do what she can to save the business. She lives in the back room where the slaughters takes place, a fact pretty much every character points out is kind of fucked up.
Released: Ap(PC), Ap(Switch), Ap(Xbox One)Īgatha Knife follows the eponymous seven-year-old who works in her mother’s butcher shop killing and cleaning the animals they sell.
I think this is the first time one has ever had me create my own religion to cure what ails me.Īgatha Knife (Switch, PC, Xbox One) More often than not, it involves weapons or fisticuffs or some other form of good, old-fashioned violence to make everything go away. Most games present a problem and offer up a set of tools as a means to solve said issues. Just use a blade that’s short and sharp for me