Toby: The Secret Mine

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Toby: The Secret Mine. Available now $11.99 Buy download. Eligible for up to points A peaceful way of life in a small village in the mountains was thrown into disorder. Someone has kidnapped most. Toby: The Secret Mine is a secret not worth sharing. It’s a bore of an experience that doesn’t give you any context whatsoever, and comes off as an obvious piggyback from the game Limbo. Although it does share a few good, similarities when compared to the inspiration, enjoyment is sadly not one of them, and if I wanted to play a Limbo-esque.

With its art style making use of shadow, minimalistic design for its 2D protagonist and with challenges more clever than they first appear, Toby: The Secret Mine feels like an indie platformer. We’ve had a lot of those on the Switch so far, with a lot of them coming up with the goods and giving themselves a permanent place in our collections. This game, from Headup Games, should be considered up there with the good ones.

1. Toby: The Secret Mine is reminiscent of games like Limbo or Inside. Although the game has very few controls to to use, the gameplay does not Toby: The Secret Mine is reminiscent of games like Limbo or Inside. Although the game has very few controls to to use, the gameplay does not suffer from this minimalism one bit.
2. Toby: The Secret Mine gameplay full game.

Toby is a humanoid being with horns whose friends have been kidnapped by demonic-looking red-eyed villains. There are twenty-six of them strung up in bird cages across the game, and your side quest is to reach and release them, with a lot of them found in hidden alcoves and just out of sight of the beaten path. But the main mission is to negotiate the game’s puzzle-platforming sequences, with the slightest of touches to any of the game’s hazards resulting in Toby’s death. It’s a pretty forgiving game, usually respawning the player back at the most recent safe spot, but it does quietly record your death count to torment you with at the end.

Your inputs are fairly simple, with a jump button allowing you to make leaps between platforms and an action button for pulling levers. Toby moves at a very rigid and non-negotiable pace; there’s no sprint button, which does make the game feel pretty slow and plodding, but there is a reason for that, as many of the puzzles involve timed challenges like pendulum swinging circular saws and moving platforms which require precision in the timing of jumps in order to progress. There are also more intellectual puzzles, from tile-sliders to environmental conundrums where a code is displayed in the background a short while before you’ll need to enter it, so keep those eyes peeled.

The biggest criticism of Toby is his lethargically-slow speed, but towards the end of the game there is a mine-cart level which ups the pace dramatically. Still, the precision platforming and the emphasis on good timing does offer a decent amount of challenge, but even without following a guide you’re likely to have played through the whole story in around an hour. Difficulty is at a decent standard, but it’s not impassable for novice players.

Colour isn’t exactly showered across this game, but it is used in a way which gives clues towards danger. Spikes that you don’t want to collide with will be a much brighter colour than the dull black that the majority of the environment is presented in, but on the whole it’s darkness which is at the forefront of the presentation.

On the whole, Toby: The Secret Mine is a solid puzzle-platformer. It won’t live as long in the memory as some of the other examples of the genre we’ve seen on Switch so far, but it’s a pretty fun ride while it lasts.

Summary

Toby: The Secret Mine doesn’t do anything we haven’t seen before, but it is a solid if slow-paced puzzle platformer. Pick it up.

A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo or Nihilumbra.

A peaceful way of life in a small village in the mountains was thrown into disorder. Someone has kidnapped most of it's residents. A couple of brave hearts tried to rescue their friends but none of them has returned. Little Toby didn't want to just sit and wait so he decided to find them by himself. He went to the near deep forest but he soon realized this is just a beginning.

Go with Toby on an eerie adventure in a dark and creepy world full of dangerous situations, enemies and challenging puzzles.

features:

Various beautifully handcrafted environments

Lots of different puzzles

Many dangerous and challenging traps and enemies

Controller support

Many hours of fun

Get lost in the shadows and pray you find your way out.

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90% on Steam

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'The game looks and sounds beautiful. I personally found the game extremely immersive.'
Keengamer
'If you like challenging (but not frustrating) platformers and the visual style of Limbo - you'll have a lot of fun with Toby.'
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'I enjoyed the game a lot. Loved the art-style and the game play was also really solid from what I've seen up till now. I don't really have any complaints, just a really solid platformer overall!'
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I have it on Steam. It's full of bugs.

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Difficult to control it.