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Toby: The Secret Mine

A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

59 20 October 2015

Toby: The Secret Mine is an adventure developed by Lukas Navratil, released 20 October 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One.

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What Toby: The Secret Mine is

Toby: The Secret Mine is an adventure game developed by Lukas Navratil and released in 2015. It was published by Headup Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A peaceful way of life in a small village in the mountains was thrown into disorder. Someone has kidnapped most of it’s residents. A couple of brave hearts tried to rescue their friends but none of them has returned. Little Toby didn’t want to just sit and wait so he decided to find them by himself. He went to the near deep forest but he soon realized this is just a beginning of a big adventure.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 5 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Toby: The Secret Mine holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 or better, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD 4000 or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

Toby: The Secret Mine launched on 20 October 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Toby: The Secret Mine — frequently asked questions

When did Toby: The Secret Mine come out?
Toby: The Secret Mine was released on 20 October 2015 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Toby: The Secret Mine?
At minimum, Toby: The Secret Mine needs Intel Core i3 or better, 2 GB RAM, Intel HD 4000 or better graphics, 800 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Toby: The Secret Mine?
The PC version needs about 0.8 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("800 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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