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Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!
Tinykin is a 3d platformer, cute and cartoony game
developed by Splashteam
and published by tinyBuild.
Released on August 30th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese and Russian.
It has received 3,386 reviews of which 3,315 were positive and 71 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.54€ on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified Tinykin into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 7 / 8 / 10 64 Bit
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
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There is a phenomenon that happens here on Steam. I call it "the Nintendo Clone" game. As we know, Nintendo refuses to release its games on PC, where not only they could fully blossom, but live on forever. So it's up to other developers to release variations of such games for the PC, Playstation and Xbox crowds. For Mario Kart fans, Sega has released a couple of Sonic racing games - with a new one coming up. People who want the Animal Crossing experience can have Dreamlight Valley; fans of that Super Smash Bros. style of fighting can have Brawlhalla or the Nickelodeon games - and for a time, they had MultiVersus too. People who want that Donkey Kong Country gameplay can have it in Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. Even Breath of the Wild had its clone with Immortals Fenyx Rising. And for the people out there longing for the Pikmin experience, Tinykin is here to save the day. But to introduce Tinykin as merely a "clone" may be to diminish it: this is an excellent game. It's just fantastic both visually and mechanically. Granted: it has those little janky quirks that collectathons may have. But during my 20 hours with it (damn!), it brought me much more joy than properly frustration. And I'm happy to see it has built a community around it. As the promos suggest, you are this small visitor on a typical suburban house. The objective of Tinykin is to collect pieces for your ship, and each peace is in a different room. You must do favours for the bug inhabitants for them to release the pieces. And for that, you must go around collecting these little aliens - the titular tinykin - that can serve different proposes. The purple ones can carry objects small or large, remove obstacles out of the way, or pull things down. When they carry something particularly big, they go on a specific path which becomes partially visible with arrow signs, and as long as they're carrying it, they'll be unavailable to you. They move slow, so I often left them unattended so I could futher explore the maps, until they reached their goal. But sometimes, there'll be something blocking their path, or no path at all, so it's up to you to create one. In rooms, you'll also find smaller objects that your buddies can carry along with you, and you'll use them with other objects in the world - e.g., a key for a lock, a screwdriver for a screw, and so forth. Red ones are naturally explosive, and can blown barricades down, activate shortcuts and free trapped tinykin. Green ones form pillars for you to climb, and here's for a very important PTA: you don't have to aim them at the floor to build a pillar, as you can just press M1 and a pillar will quickly grown with you on top. Blues ones can serve as electricity conductors, while yellow ones become temporary bridges. You call your available tinykin back with E; being colour-coded, they'll only interact with things that glow on their colour, and sometimes, it may be hard to spot that glow - specially purple. The gameplay is intuitive, precise and fun. I decided to play this game with keyboard and mouse since aiming is a small part of it. The platforming is great, and instead of sprinting, your character conjures a soap bar that makes you "skate" around, and it's immediately more fun - specially that you can grind on edges and silk lines (but naturally that you can't skate uphill). You'll also have a bubble that you use to hoover, and it can be improved by collecting a certain amount of pollen in each room, making you hoover for longer and reach new places. There are no enemies in this game, but your character is vulnerable to water: to land on it will make him slower and short-circuit for a time, until you can get him back on dryland or he explodes like Rayman. But fret not: the game is incredibly kind in letting you start over quickly from the last ground you were. So water and gravity are your only threats in this game. The house is typically divided into different chambers, and then there'll be a hangar that works as an overworld. But rooms are also connected to each other, and at first, it may be difficult to navigate the map - especially that some rooms can get quite bit. Apparently, you can fast travel to the hangar at any moment, but even there it's a bit of a mess to know what door leads to which room. A tool that you must use regularly is the binocular: it can identify certain elements in the room, such as characters, side-missions (yes, this game has them), and large objects being carried by your tinykin but that are stuck for some reason. Sometimes, you'll come across points of interest, but you won't have enough tinykin to deal with them, meaning that you have to scoop around for more of them - the problem then becomes to remember where these points are, in that they're not marked by the binocular. Rooms also have common missions such as lighting candles, delivering letters, and finding a jewel. The game was designed that you never get stuck, as there's enough tinykin in a room to spare. But it's important to notice that you don't take your tinykin with you all the times: the tinykin you find at a specific room will be there for you in that room only. Also, the game does that thing of introducing new mechanics (that is, tinykin) as you discover new areas, and it's weird to go back to some early rooms without being able to build pillars (because such rooms don't have the tinykin for that). Now, Tinykin has a very serious issue. It may not be a problem for those of you who just want to play the game, but for completionists going for the achievements, it can be a gruelling experience to collect the few remaining pollen, or the few remaining tinykin. Some of them are incredibly well hidden, but once again, this game has formed a community, so there are YouTube videos that can be of help. Still, the game could have found a manner to guide players to those pesky final collectables, like a radar or a sensor. And then there's the update, which introduces this time trial mode, in which you have to traverse as quickly as possible these tracks - two per room. This is the game at its most addictive, and by all means, it's a game in and of itself, changing the gameplay into this unhinged Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. From my 20 hours with this game, most of them came from this update, as I repeated myself until I got the platinum badges. The tracks demand that players get their feel, and they succeed when they pull the right moves at each point. Visually, Tinykin is wonderful. The cartoony visuals are superb, and the developers made sure that you see your avatar's face even if you're behind him, just so you always get a good look on his nerdy face. As you progress, you gain new clothes for your character - which strangely, you have to collect at the hangar before being able of freely equipping. The scenario evokes early-to-mid 90's vibes, with VHS tapes all around. The little bugs that populate the worlds are also incredibly sympathetic, and with funny dialogues for those curious enough to interact with them. But unfortunately, the game also makes liberal use of obnoxious pop culture references, with a lovey-dovey couple that was straight up named Jack and Rose, and a cook bug named Remy. When I passed by a miniature medical bay, I just thought to myself: that's gonna be a House reference, isn't it? And what do you know? It was. This diminishes the charm of the game, instead of adding up to it. Tinykin is not a perfect game, but it's a wonderful time, very addicting, and with a surprisingly moving ending. It's one of those games that I picture being a perfect contender for a cartoon adaptation - the visuals are already there. And if Nintendo won't bring its notoriously modest-selling Pikmin games on Steam, where they could have a larger consumer range, maybe Splashteam could deliver us another gem, improving over the aspects of the game. Just cool it with the pop culture references, okay?
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Very cozy, cute, and fun. Super addictive! It's incredibly satisfying to go through the levels and collect E V E R Y T H I N G Recommend if you don't need combat to enjoy a story and exploration
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I love this game, couldn't put it down! It reminded me of my childhood playing PS2 games, the vibe, platforming, and the cute little tinykins you collect on the way. Definitely recommend, it's hard to find games like these nowadays.
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This was a truly delightful experience. It's kind of like a mix between Mario Odyssey and Pikmin with its own little charm to it. It took me about 14 hours to collect everything in the game, including getting the platinum badges for the time trial challenges. If you like platformer collectathons, then you'll like this game. The story isn't anything to write home about, but it has its charm and parts of it could tug on your heartstrings a little. Overall, I would definitely recommend checking this game out if you're even remotely interested. I saw this game around when it came out, and frankly, I'm a little upset I waited as long as I did to play it.
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This game is superbly chill The game offers the essence of classic 3D adventures. With its charming art style and intuitive gameplay, it also felt nostalgic yet a fresh experience. If you like lighthearted exploration and puzzles you will enjoy it for sure!
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Tinykin is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
Tinykin is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
Tinykin received 3,315 positive votes out of a total of 3,386 achieving an impressive rating of 9.38.
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Tinykin was developed by Splashteam and published by tinyBuild.
Tinykin is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Tinykin is not playable on MacOS.
Tinykin is not playable on Linux.
Tinykin is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Tinykin. Explore additional content available for Tinykin on Steam.
Tinykin does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Tinykin does not support Steam Remote Play.
Tinykin is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
16
Developer
Splashteam
Publisher
tinyBuild
Release
30 Aug 2022
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