Tinykin

No matter who you are, we challenge you to play Tinykin without a stupid grin on your face from start to finish. This is an utterly wholesome adventure game, packed with charm, clever ideas, puzzles and exploration. Heck, it even has a narrative twist to keep you on your toes. There’s so much to love here – we’re just sad it had to come to an end. Splashteam has absolutely blown it out of the teen...

Tinykin is packed with fantastic third-person platforming, creative mechanics, and levels that are a joy to explore.

A fun Pikmin-like with tight platforming, cute critters, and a cluttered house full of exploration potential.

We have reviewed a handful of games by tinyBuild in the past, and for the most part, they were duds. The company is doing a Herculean job trying to become yet another Devolver in the market (as in, a bigger indie publisher with style and attitude), but their output of quality titles was simply nonexistent. Bad games like Hello Neighbor, Hellpoint, and Happy’s Humble Burger Farm felt more like YouT...

Tinykin encapsulates all that is great and not-so-great about classic platformer collecathons. It’s charming, it’s witty, and it’s full of adorable creatures. Plus, the level design is superb, with each of the 6 areas feeling unique not in just design but in storytelling and exploitability. There is a lot offered here in such a small, low-stress package.

Tinykin smartly blends platforming and puzzle-solving with the minion management of Nintendo's Pikmin series. Players control a flea-sized astronaut who travels from his home planet to Earth to trace humanity’s true origins. The explorer’s journey takes him to an ordinary home occupied by sentient insects who worship a mysterious deity. To return home, the astronaut must assemble a rocket by gathe...

The notion of exploring an oversized world has appealed to me since watching films such as ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’. Seeing mundane items from the perspective of a miniature character adds a refreshing twist to the familiar, and it’s here where Tinykin resides. Taking inspiration from Pikmin, you use an army of cute critters to overcome an array of barriers. As entries into the sub-genre are rar...

At first glance, Tinykin might appear overwhelming with its various tinykin mechanics and the collectibles to find, but somehow, the game keeps you moving at a steady but still entertaining pace. At its bare minimum, you will still get at least six hours of fun trying to get Milo home. However, decide to go full completionist, and you can add a couple of hours to the total playtime and more satisf...

Even if I would’ve liked a touch more Pikmin-style horde-commanding strategy, and maybe one more traversal ability to shake things up, I still really enjoyed Tinykin as a fluid and fun gotta-find-’em-all platformer. It’s polished enough to stand out in the crowd.

The only thing I wish Tinykin had more of, was more Tinykin. Besides the main objectives, there’s only a handful of side quests you can do to upgrade Milo’s suit, and a recent update added a series of genuinely challenging time trial races that’ll keep you busy for a time. And it’s also one of the few games to replicate that Crackdown fever of wanting to grab every little orb floating around. Whil...

Small Man Syndrome.

Our world is simply massive. Huge cities filled with millions of people; vast, sprawling deserts teeming with life; endless oceans stretching away under infinite skies. Caught up in the minutiae of our little lives, it can be easy to forget just how small we are. It follows, then, that the billions of insects around us could be similarly introspective: focussed on their own stories, their own cult...