NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? A 3D platformer with a Pikmin-ish flavour
EXPECT TO PAY £25
DEVELOPER Splashteam
PUBLISHER tinyBuild
REVIEWED ON Intel i7 8700K, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
MULTIPLAYER No
LINK bit.ly/3UFS8UZ
Let’s get the disappointment done first. In Tinykin, you play a teensy interstellar traveller who commands a legion of microscopic minions to navigate an oversized environment, and yet it’s not the PC-compatible Pikmin that I was hoping for. Take a deep breath with me. If we do our mourning now, we can appreciate Tinykin for what it is: a delightful, laidback platformer romp through a world lovingly rendered from a bug’s-eye view.
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