About This Game "Tiny Brains" is a cooperative action puzzler that follows four super-powered lab animals in their attempt to escape a mad scientist's experiments. In this joyously chaotic multiplayer game, the four "Tiny Brains" must combine their unique physics-based powers to navigate through a trick-ridden maze. All of the puzzles in "Tiny Brains" can be solved multiple ways depending on how groups combine their powers. The game has competitive and challenging fast paced communicative play along with simple controls so players of any level can jump right in. KEY GAMEPLAY FEATURES •Cooperative Gaming: Tiny Brains requires players to collaborate and put their heads together to overcome physics-based obstacles. With each player controlling a different superpower – Create, Force, Vortex and Teleport – the Tiny Brains must work as a team to move forward and escape the scientist’s deadly labyrinth of mazes. •Play It Your Way: All of the puzzles in Tiny Brains can be solved multiple ways depending on how groups combine their powers. The co-op level design creates dynamic, emergent gameplay, whether advancing through the campaign mode, beating time-based challenges, or competing in endless levels. •Whimsical World: To escape the mad scientist’s lair, players explore a colorful world of Popsicle stick-like ice pops, duct tape, tiny cages and Rube Goldberg machines. The zany art style gives rise to a slew of slightly mutated, yet oddly cute, playable characters. •Hardcore to Casual: Tiny Brains eggs on hardcore gamers with competitive leaderboards and fast-paced communicative play, challenging them to combine their powers as efficiently as possible. At the same time, the game has simple controls and physics-based mechanics that make it easy for casual and less-experienced gamers to jump right in. 1075eedd30 Title: Tiny BrainsGenre: Action, Adventure, Casual, IndieDeveloper:Spearhead GamesPublisher:Spearhead GamesRelease Date: 11 Dec, 2013 Tiny Brains Portable Edition Bought 4 copies to play with friends, the on-line multi-player is broken. Forums filled with same problems of not everything being able to join like we were experencing. Last developer post was in April 2014 promising an update which never appeared. I recommend never buying from this developer again.. Has a lot of potential but the story mode is waaaay too short for $20. Great game for a one-time local-coop play through. Mechanics do get old and repetitive, but main story is only ~2 hours. The bottom line is you should get this game if:-You have access to "friends" for local coop-Are okay with about 2.5 hours of gameplay-And most importantly, it's on sale. Overall, this is a fun little romp when you have 3 or 4 local couch co-op players available. In my opinion, there is some wasted potential here, but it works. Tiny Brains boils down to giving each player a very specific 'power' which they can then work as a group to solve puzzles. In general, the puzzles are trying to get out of a single room (move the 'key' to the slot kind of thing). The theme is science. It could be better executed, but because this is such a niche genre (4 player puzzle solving) it gets a pass. I hate saying that. In general I think it suffers from some blandness that often is associated with AAA titles. Although I have no idea what the budget was for this game - there were many people in the credits.Try the demo - it is a decent length.Pros:+Science theme is cool enough+Controls work fine+Puzzles have a medium difficulty - could have been more difficult IMO, but it was fineCons:-Some levels have fighting elements which I would rather do without - just stick to the puzzles-Voice over is real meh-Graphics are bland, needed someone to make stronger artistic decisions, IMO-Better in short play sessions to keep it from feeling repetitive-I know this sounds really silly and picky - but it bothered me when all the people in the credits had the Dr. title - I know its in the theme, but it just bothers meIts a steal if you can get it on a sale. Try the demo - it speaks for itself.. From the little I played, I recommend the game. Interesiting physical puzzles games with each of the characters, with a touch of comedy from the scientist and signs around the map. Great for playing wtih friends and as a party game.EDIT: Really fun party game, and usually requires everyone's involvements to solve the puzzles. Down side is that the game is easily finished in 2 hours or less.. Has a lot of potential but the story mode is waaaay too short for $20. Tiny Brains is a cooperative puzzle game with a kid friendly aesthetic. You control and swap between 4 different mice with different powers: 1) sucks up inaniminate objects, 2) blow inaniminate objects, 3) swabs inaniminate objects, and 4) creates ice blocks that help you reach up vertically through levels. You'll enter different puzzle rooms which are all variations of hit this button, or put this box on this switch etc. Two other level variations involve pushing and pulling a ball with your powers through a Marble Madness like arena, and the last is a Horde Mode mini-game where you defend an objective against... umm.... chickens. Of these the puzzles are the most satisfying, with the other 2 being boring to frustrated. "Dying" in levels is very lightly penalized with a 5 second respawn. Dying actually becomes a strategy for completing some levels even, not a mechanic I particularly find satisfying.Tiny Brains biggest issue is it simply runs out of ideas. You'll solve puzzles that are just minor variations of each other. Maneuvering the big sphere quickly becomes a chore as does the Defense missions. Graphically the game looks good enough. Polygon counts are low but the bright colors and well lit environments are nice to wander around. Its reasonably well voice acted but it tries way too hard to be funny. The puzzles make this game too hard for kids, and everything else is too simple for adults.. This is a case where I wish Steam reviews weren't binary "recommended" or "not recommended" decisions. This game falls somewhere in the middle for me but I'm gonna round down. It's not a bad game in any sense that it's buggy or has real "issues" (although I read online coop is broken, haven't tried it). But it's really short and the puzzles just aren't really challenging at all. I played local coop with 3 others of varying "gaming" skills and we still breezed through it without scratching our heads but maybe once. And the script is annoyingly un-funny as well. If it's less than $5 then maybe give it a shot but otherwise don't waste your money.. Tiny Brains is an incredibly stupid co-operative game. It tries to hit the same spark that Portal did all those years ago, but is held back with strange & sometimes buggy graphics and programming, not to mention finicky collision boxes and sub-par voice acting.That being said, you should totally play it. If only for a couple hours, playing it with friends is a hilarious experience. Though the puzzles are clever at times, there is usually a way to cheese your way out of doing it the right way, the different characters and abilites are fun to mess around with, and completing the game is satisfying. It's a great way to kill time; even if you only play it once, that will be enough.Not to mention one of the best ending songs I've heard in a game.
- eminderetwatchfull