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Miniatures is a dreamy, interactive picture book of strange, dark tales I would have loved to have as a kid
Miniatures is the kind of game you're only likely to play once, and at just 35 minutes long, that's not really saying v…
Based around a quartet of miniature objects, which are kept inside a mysterious treasure box on the game's menu screen, these standalone stories all share one important theme: they celebrate the weird and unknowable corners of childhood imagination, and how simple, everyday occurrences can balloon to magical proportions. Some gentle puzzles have you piecing together broken objects or finding snails beneath the leaves for Hugo to eat, but when the lizard makes a break for it, Emil joins him on a surreal chase through the undergrowth, his entire world now reduced to similar square fragments of reality that cannot be glued back together again. 'Familiar', meanwhile, reenacts the dark, arcane magic of putting together flat-pack furniture (don't lie, we've all been there), with a family of four all helping to sort screws, nuts and those little wooden pegs into jars, turning screwdrivers, and rotating jigsaw-like drawer pieces to no avail.
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