SMALL MAN SYNDROME

TINYKIN's minion management might be shallow, but its platforming shines

- Lincoln Carpenter

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.