We've seen Xbox boss Phil Spencer pick out a variety of Xbox games to highlight throughout 2022, with Vampire Survivors and Cult of the Lamb being a couple of examples, and he's just added to the list with the fantastic Tinykin.
Over the weekend, Spencer took to his Twitter account to show off a screenshot of the Pikmin-like platformer, revealing that he was "having a great time" with the August 2022 Xbox Game Pass addition.
It's not just Spencer who loves this one — Tinykin has turned out to be one of the best Xbox Game Pass surprises of 2022, racking up an 88 Metacritic score for Xbox Series X along with "overwhelmingly positive" reviews on Steam and even a 4.7/5 rating on the Xbox Store, which is notoriously difficult to score highly on.
In other words, Tinykin is definitely one of those games you should consider downloading for the holiday period if you haven't tried it yet! We'll leave the description down below, along with a few screenshots.
"Milo arrives on Earth to find that he's way too small, everybody's gone and a day hasn't passed since 1991! Team up with the mysterious tinykin and use their unique powers to create ladders, bridges, explosions and a lot more! Find a way home through a sprawling ant-sized metropolis, and unravel Earth's biggest mystery!"
Have you played Tinykin on Xbox Game Pass? Let us know your thoughts on it down below.
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Yes!! Tinykin its such a wonderful game. My children love playing it and deserves so much more praise than it got, happy too see Phil Spencer is mentioning it. Hopefully more people will get to play it.
Yay for GamePass too.😁
It's on my Jan playlist. Several friends have recommended it but still so many are unaware. Well done Phil for giving it a shout.
@EliJapan I don't think this site even reviewed Tinykin.
Tinykin deserves so much praise. What an absolute surprise of a gem! I'd easily vote this as my GOTY.
He praises just about everything he can.
I did not even know this game existed. It might have been on the E3 reel but I certainly forgot about it since then. This looks good, It looks like peak Level 5 before they descended into mobile shovelware.
I really hate that any colorful game with a jump button is labeled a platformer. This games asks you to make like 4 skilled jumps in the entire playthrough. The gameplay is oriented around exploration not jumping. It's an adventure game.
Smashing game, great addition to Gamepass
Tinykin is fantastic, I might give it a second playthrough before its inevitable departure from Game Pass.
A very easy, fun little game. Perfect for the 10 and under crowd as there's no enemies and plenty of sandbox to explore at a leisurely pace.
Really enjoyed it. Hoping for a follow-up.
Oh this looks like a great mix of paper mario and pikmin. Looks amazing and fresh.
My goty. I always wanted to enjoy Pikmin, but for whatever reason it never clicked with me. Tinykin is a breeze - so easy to get into & hooked upon. I'd like a sequel already.
For an example of just how much I love this game, we have five xbox accounts in our household, I've played it on all five.
As I said on here before, Tinkyin was the most enjoyable this year, Tunic was the most well crafted. I would have given it points in the poll had it been included, but putting it in "other" felt wrong. I loved it from start to finish and had to force myself to only play one zone per day because I didn't want it to end so soon. I collected everything and talked to every npc, and Tinykin is the rare exception that I might do that again at some point in the future.
The store is only tough to score on cuz the anti-woke clowns that don't know what woke means.
One of my favorite games of the year too. Such a good gameplay ride (completed everything with joy).
I actually have to agree with him here, tried this game out and it felt like a great throwback to the collectathon 3D platformers, and in a good way. Has some good mechanics and it's just an overall appealing game.
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