Tiny Thor is a perfect precision platformer that throws combat into the mix and makes it work like a charm! Seriously, it is one of the best games I’ve ever played this year and I wasn’t expecting it to be this good! Its beautiful pixel art caught my attention in the first place and seeing the fluid gameplay in the trailer, I grabbed it the first chance I got and, boy oh, boy, if only I knew I was in for a very, very good time. It starts off with very simple stages to get you familiar with the mechanics and the difficulty gradually increases so that you don’t feel like it’s unfair in any way. Although it warns you about being a difficult game in the opening, it actually has a very sweet difficulty that seasoned platformer players will be satisfied with and the beginners will probably be able to enjoy the game with the Assist Mode. However, I can’t really give you information about the Assist Mode since I haven’t played the game with the Assist Mode activated, but I’m sure it will serve its purpose for the newcomers.

It starts with our little god making his way to his birthday party and his father, Odin, gives him Mjölnir as a birthday present. He later runs off to play with his new toy, only to encounter a stranger who tricks him into doing something very bad which immediately puts him on a quest to fix the mess he caused to get things right. After navigating through carefully designed stages, solving cleverly put puzzles, and defeating the perfectly crafted bosses that have their own gimmicks, our little brave god gets a new ability after each encounter that helps him on his quest. You can also buy new abilities and unlock challenge stages with blue and red diamonds you find scattered across the stages. The soundtrack is also pretty good, and the achievements are quite fair. I personally had a lot of fun unlocking them. I also hardly needed to check any guides to find blue and red diamonds in stages and it shows how fair and accessible this game is to every kind of player out there.

A perfect precision platformer that is mixed with combat. It has tight controls, fair, but tough difficulty, perfectly designed stages, puzzles, and bosses. If you’re into precision platformers, Tiny Thor will be one hell of an experience for you!

Best 2D plataformer i've played in a while, it's fresh, engaging and challenging.

I really loved the hammer throwing mechanic, it's super fun to play with and it's used to solve puzzles in many creative ways. It has solid controls, the movement feels good, it's almost perfect gameplaywise.

The presentation is also amazing, with some great looking pixel art/animation and a catchy, memorable soundtrack.

The only thing that keeps me from absolutely adoring this game is how exhausting it becomes, the levels are a bit too long for my taste and as the game goes on it becomes harder and harder and more demanding. Around the last few levels i was starting to get really tired halfway through the stage and wanted to take a break but they kept going forever. The lack of visual variety doesn't help, while the game looks good there's only like 3 backgrounds, a forest, a cave, and an ice fortress, spending 30 minutes in a level trapped in a cave only for the next level to be like 20-30 more minutes of the same cave background drove me insane.

Starting Level 19 i think i was beating like 1 level or 2 per day and stopped caring about the collectables and secret levels, i just wanted to be done with the game and there was no way i would replay them for the things i missed before.

Aside from Level 25 i didn't dislike any of the levels and i think they're well designed (lv26 was my favorite), full of creative/fun solutions for the puzzles and good plataforming. Even if i found them exhausting i'd take levels like this over the usual uninspired, basic and dull level design i find in many other plataformers.
The bosses were really well done and very fun to fight, i liked all of them and were my favorite part of the game.

I recommend it to anyone that loves a good and challenging 2D plataformer, if you're more of a casual player i think you should skip it because it gets VERY demanding. There's an assist mode to activate "legal cheats" like immortality, but i don't see the point in playing a game like that when you could simply play a game that's designed with you in mind.

Nice little game..
Really reminds me the Jazz Jackrabbit games from the 90's.

I only narrowly recommend this one.

I got most of the way through the game. It is quite short, though a bit longer if you collect all of the gems to unlock all of its harder, optional stages.

I didn't love Tiny Thor. It's not an immersive, straightforward platformer like Donkey Kong Country or Mario World.

It has some precision and puzzle platformer in its blood which make the levels a bit more frustrating then I prefer. I don't outright hate precision platformers (Super Meat Boy, Aeterna Noctis <3) though I do tend to avoid puzzle platformers for the most part. Every now and then you'll hit a section in a level where you might need to spend a few minutes just figuring out how to progress and then die a few times trying to execute the plan near-perfectly.

Tiny Thor also doesn't have much diversity in biomes/areas which makes it easy not to get immersed or care about the world you are advancing in on the map screen. The music was.. "fine" but didn't hook me in either.

Tiny Thor isn't bad, in fact some things like the way the throwing hammer is used to solve problems can be quite creative, but ultimately I found the experience to be lackluster and unexceptional.

I really recommend this if you're into difficult platformers! The art and music are absolutely incredible, and help you keep going even when things become really hard, and the boss battles are very fun and unique! But be warned, it is a very difficult game and at times a bit frustrating, but as long as you're patient it will pay off and feel rewarding when you beat it!

decent little precision platformer with some quirky "move the screen to control the bounce" ideas, but the ground stomp is garbage and they keep insisting that I use it
cut that out, homie

Perfect Imitation for Old school 2D games, the only negative side the dash ability is complex to perfect, as result, some challenges were almost impossible to complete unless you understand perfect dash jump combo. Still highly recommend the game, and consider it hidden gem. 8.5/10

The game is fun, difficulty is okay. The game takes about 15 hours. For the bonus level VII you need another 15h and for all other achievements another 5h.

I chuckled when I read the warning screen that pops up when you start a new file. It warned me that "Tiny Thor is a difficult game" and that there are accessibility options available to make the game more, well... accessible. I didn't end up using any of the accessibility settings during my playthrough, but I will say that the warning was no joke. This is indeed a difficult game. It is clearly designed with very seasoned platforming players in mind. The main stages typically aren't too bad (with one BIG exception at the end of the game) but the "challenge" stages can be really tough. These challenge stages are optional and don't stand in the way of progression through the story. I think that was a wise decision by the developers.

In a nutshell, Tiny Thor is an action platformer collectathon game with puzzle elements. The puzzles are very creative throughout and they do a really good job of using a combination of both intricate hammer throwing as well as skillful platforming. I was surprised just how many unique ideas the game offered in terms of puzzles. Generally, the most "big-brained" challenges were reserved for optional collectable rewards, but certainly there were some mandatory ones that posed a good challenge.

Combat is pretty simple and straightforward. Throw hammer or bounce on top of enemy. Nothing we haven't seen before. Bosses were generally pretty creative and had interesting gimmicks.

One thing I will say is that some of the stages, particularly the later levels of the game, tended to drag on and feel unnecessarily drawn-out. It was not uncommon for me to have a 25-30 minute clear time for a single stage as I neared the end of the game. Some may not mind that, but I definitely had a feeling of exhaustion after clearing some of the levels.

Overall, despite some levels being needlessly frustrating, I really enjoyed Tiny Thor and would definitely give it a recommendation to fans of action platformers and puzzle platformers. However, I can see how the difficulty would be a turnoff to many players. I never even looked at the accessibility settings, so I can't say how much of a difference they would make, but hopefully they are robust enough to allow lower-skilled players to play and enjoy the game.

nice + challenging retro platformer