Minute of Islands

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 816 reviews of which 630 were positive and 186 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

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

The Steam community has classified Minute of Islands into these genres:

Puzzle-Platformer Hand-drawn Story Rich Exploration Mystery Narrative Platformer Comic Book Adventure Indie Atmospheric Puzzle Singleplayer Post-apocalyptic Action-Adventure Family Friendly Cartoony Female Protagonist Cute Action

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Requirements

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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

Reviews

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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.

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.

June 2024

beautiful art, story and soundtrack. can be a bit glitchy and unintuitive at times but 100% worth playing

Feb. 2024

This game is for you if you are looking for something: - slow/story paced - narrative focused, less puzzle and minimal platformery gameplay - beautiful visuals and sound combo - like dogs When in doubt, wait for a sale. I highly enjoyed it, though not all was perfect. It also ran well on my system and I didn't encounter any bugs.

Feb. 2024

Tl;dr: story, art, music and voice-acting are fantastic and work together in a way few games manage. The "game" side feels superfluous, and calling it a "puzzle platformer" is something of a misnomer. Recommended with a caveat. PROS + stunningly beautiful hand-drawn art. Kept running back and forth to get a better look, and I took so many screenshots. The penultimate island, specifically, + mood is a perfect blend of "oo, pretty" and "DEEPLY DISTURBING" that very few games meet (see again: the penultimate island) + great narrator, well-written and acted + music matches everything + character-based story that hits hard without sliding into sentimentality, especially for anyone who has ever struggled with issues of guilt or self-worth. (I see some reviewers were expecting more plot, adventure or lore, but Minute of Islands is very firmly a character-based story. By its nature, it is very open-ended, and this is a good thing.) CONS - not... an awful lot of game going on. This feels more like an interactive comic, and while the comic itself is, as mentioned above, absolutely gorgeous, this leads to my next point: - the "game" elements are very simple and linear, with most puzzles consisting of "follow the linear path to the next location where you press the appropriate key when prompted". - the three underground areas are almost indistinguishable, disappointing after the rich, varied backgrounds found elsewhere. The puzzles within are equally indistinct. - lots of backtracking: end-of-level shortcuts are noneexistent, a problem exarcerbated by the frustrating platforming. One should not have to consult a video walkthrough to find which part of this beautifully-drawn platform I am allowed to climb / drop down from. It really doesn't help that the control for dropping down (down + space) also reads as the control for climbing (space). - memory cutscenes force Mo to stand still while an audio plays. Why not let me move? It feels like the designers wanted me to stop and look at the art, which I was already doing .

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Developer

Studio Fizbin

Publisher

Assemble Entertainment

Release 13 Jun 2021

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