Minute of Islands on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...

Minute of Islands is a puzzle-platformer, hand-drawn and story rich game developed by Studio Fizbin and published by Assemble Entertainment.
Released on June 13th 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 837 reviews of which 649 were positive and 188 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7+ (64-bit OS required)
  • Processor: 2,5 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Geforce GT540 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 5570 (1024 MB)
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS Sierra 10.12 (or later)
  • Processor: Intel i5, 2,5 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
  • Storage: 3 GB available space

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March 2025
I'm only a few hours in and my impression is that this is a slow paced interactive story, heavy on narrative, with dark humor and light puzzle elements. Not for those looking for fast paced action or mind-bending challenges. The narration is great and the artwork is cute. The pacing of the game is made to encourage you to slow down and appreciate the little visual details. Some reviewers found this aggravating, but I find it cozy and relaxing especially after a long day. I'm curious if the story will take a darker turn!
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Dec. 2024
Heartbreakingly sad. Bittersweet, and hauntingly beautiful. The game has moments of beauty, moments of fear, and painful moments. It does a good job making you feel the mix of emotions Mo is feeling. It can be painful to play at times. You feel disgusted with yourself at times, or impatient that things are taking too long, but it's what you are meant to feel to immerse yourself in the story. The game is visually stunning and well-animated. The music is beautiful. The worldbuilding feels immersive, and the narration is stunningly good. Stay until the after-credits scene. It's worth it. The only cons are that the controls are pretty meh. Even at the fastest you can run, you still move quite slowly. Jumping is fiddly and weird. Pushing things is also fiddly and weird. You can't pull anything, and sometimes Mo automatically starts pushing when you don't want her to. The puzzles are super simple, but at the same time obtuse enough that I didn't always realize I was in a puzzle and got confused how to move forwards.
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Nov. 2024
This is pretty tough to recommend, but I'd give it a 5/10. This is a story game, the puzzles and platforming are secondary. Really, they're only there to be a break from the walking simulator the main part of this game is. Not a criticism, just saying that if you're looking for interesting platforming or puzzles, you won't find them. The story of this game is wonderful, the art style is really impressive too. It surrounds themes of death, life, work, family, and insecurity. I'd say it's worth buying on a 50% or more sale. There's so many bugs, poor design choices, and unaddressed issues. There is no chapter select, there is no keybind change, all cutscenes are unskipable, overly long cutscenes, the crawling animations are so godamn slow, the animations stutter, the textures changing before and after animations are inconsistent, textures will appear on the wrong layers, there's a tree that will not stop blinking out of existence, etc. I enjoyed it, but the amount of problems it has that have gone unaddressed makes it hard to recommend. Buy it on a sale, and use a walkthrough if you want the achievements without spending another 4-5 hours of your time.
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Sept. 2024
This is tough to recommend. On one hand, it has extremely tedious game-play, clunky platforming and it's difficult to even identify what the core game-play loop is. On the other, it's a beautifully realized world, a touching story and art design that left me awe-struck. Near the end I found myself tearing up at how poignant it all was. If you're someone who can forgive lackluster game-play for good writing/dialogue, world-building and sheer style, I can give this a recommend.
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June 2024
beautiful art, story and soundtrack. can be a bit glitchy and unintuitive at times but 100% worth playing
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Minute of Islands
7.4
649
188
Online players
3
Developer
Studio Fizbin
Publisher
Assemble Entertainment
Release 13 Jun 2021
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