Chicory is a blend of Zelda, Animal Crossing and colouring books Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Chicory is a blend of Zelda, Animal Crossing and colouring books And the Steam demo is available now. Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Updated on 13 Dec 2019 1 comment Chicory is a bunny with a paintbrush whose job is to keep her little kingdom fully coloured. Sadly, she's gone missing, and some kind of nasty force is turning everything to black and white. Luckily here comes a lovely little dog who picks up the paintbrush and sets off to fix everything. I think this is quite accurate: a dog would do this sort of thing. I saw a Tweet the other day about a dog in Florida - of course it was Florida - who was driving a car, doing a few doughnuts and taking out a neighbor's mailbox before the cops managed to intervene. The dog emerged tail wagging and full of sunniness. Even if I'd owned the mailbox I would struggle to be too angry with it. Chicory the game is the story of the dog's quest. It's a blend of Zelda and Animal Crossing, with, I think, a little of Mother thrown in. You explore a lovely kingdom, meeting people and doing favours for them. Everything is black and white at the start, thick lines like a starter colouring book. Somebody wants their house painted. Someone else wants you to track down their kids who have run off to play. Interaction is handled by that magical paintbrush, which you swoosh around with one thumbstick while you move the dog with the other. Painting feels lovely, and the game offers plenty of control when it comes to staying within the lines. You can change colour and change brush type pretty easily, and you can erase with the click of a trigger. Painting doesn't just fill the world with colour, it also prods at it in interesting ways. Those kids I was sent to track down were all hiding in trees, and so I painted any trees that shook to bounce the kids out of them. Later on, tracking down a character who would open up the main quest, I had to paint trees to life in order to open up new pathways, and erase them when the path doubled back on itself. Mushrooms can be painted out of the ground to act as bounce pads, and at the end of the current demo, after a short but very inventive paint-based boss fight, I earned the power to lay down paint that glowed in the dark - useful for navigating a shadowy cave, I suspect. The fun that can be had with the paint in Chicory is not in doubt, then, but more than any of that, its world is a delight, filled with interesting, sometimes prickly characters to chat with and riddled with treasure chests that allow you to swap out your standard clothes for something a little more interesting. Thanks to the Game Awards, the demo is available on Steam for the next day or so. Try it out! It's a delight. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. 14 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 34 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Sennheiser's legendary HD 599 open-back headphones are just £70 at Amazon in the Prime Early Access Sale Comfortable with neutral sound and a wide sound stage. Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. 1 Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store