It is also available PlayStation Plus Essential. TOEM: A Photo Adventure is available now for PlayStation 5, Switch, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. The other quests you could have done at neutral but of course saved to now is: Hand in 30 runecloth: +100 rep Are you a Tailor Great, you can trade 2 Mooncloth for 100 rep once. We sincerely hope you enjoy all its changes! Of course you also saved the Deadwood Ritual Totem, which starts a quests that rewards another 150 rep. This update will be a gift to all our players, as thanks for playing. Launchable Socks & Jamal Green have also whipped up some brand new tracks to the game, six of them in total! We couldn’t be happier that they wanted to help us set the atmosphere on Basto with their music! We really wanted to add more interactions to the world to make it feel even more alive! The big bushes, the many objects that react to the water popper, the day and night change that changes where you can go, it all works together to give Basto more life. With this new water popper, you can interact with the world of TOEM in a whole new way, splash your way into stamps and new adventures! It’s also kinda funny looking! A few of the puzzles get a little obtuse, but fortunately, the player doesn’t need to complete every objective in an area before progressing, so challenging puzzles can be skipped and returned to later.We have been hard at work on this one, gathering up ideas that we didn’t have time to finish for the base game as well as new ideas for the region! New quests, NPCs, and Compendium critters to find! All in all, around one to two hours of playtime!īasto also brings a new camera attachment to the game! The player is asked to take pictures of all sorts of stuff, and it was fun to go looking for the right subjects to photograph. The photography system in the game is pretty impressive, shifting the entire perspective of the game from an isometric top-down adventure game to a first-person view. I enjoyed my time with “Toem,” laughed at its jokes, but I didn’t take anything away from the experience.Īlmost every puzzle in the game is solved by taking pictures using the protagonist’s camera. I took a couple of pictures of it, then turned right back around and descended the mountain. Photo Courtesy of SteamĮven when seeing the toem at the end of the game, I was surprised and impressed by the visual spectacle, but the player character looks on blankly without any reaction. Taking pictures of every animal and filling out a compendium of creatures is a fun side activity that spans the length of the game. Helping the other characters ostensibly helps the player with progressing their adventure, but the use of stamps as a metric of progression left me feeling disconnected from the accomplishment. These characters are fun, like a news editor who demands pictures of the most newsworthy thing in town (his own mustache), but at no point is an effort made to tie the experience together. Characters are introduced, each with a problem that needs solving, and then they give the player a stamp, none stick around or influence any greater storyline. In fact, there is no real narrative throughline. Where I found myself struggling with the story is that after the brief introduction where the player is sent off to see toem, it’s never mentioned again. Reaching the toem is the central objective of the game and its protagonist. To get there, players have to complete tasks and favors for people throughout each environment to earn stamps to redeem for free bus rides. The player controls a nameless being of uncertain species who is given a camera and sent on their way to see the toem by their mother, who made the same trip when she was young. It’s not made clear what exactly a toem is until the final moments of the game when the player does get to see it. “Toem” is about a low-stakes adventure to see the titular toem, described as a natural phenomenon. It’s very cute, it’s got fun characters with silly problems, but its lack of a real core storyline really left me wanting more. I enjoyed “Toem,” but not as much as I expected to. I picked up “Toem” because I heard it had similar vibes. Perhaps my favorite of these games is “A Short Hike,” which was released in 2019, could be completed in less than two hours, and followed a bird who has to climb a mountain to get reception for their phone. I love the cute little indie games about going on a walk and meeting nice people. I have a real soft spot for the developing sub-genre of wholesome video games. Platform: PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PC
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