Tiny Skweeks alias The Brainies
| Developer: Atreid Concept | Graphics: |
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| Publisher: Loriciel | Sound: |
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| Year: 1992 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Puzzle | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 1 | Rating: |
5/10 | |
In this variant of Sokoban, you must guide, one by one, four little creatures to four matching coloured points. The creatures only move in straight lines and can only change direction after hitting a wall or an obstacle (like a  ).
Despite the cartoony presentation, I find the game lacking in imagination. The “mazes” are tiny (limited to the screen size, with no scrolling) and the mechanics don’t evolve much. You’ll encounter one-way squares, teleporters, switches, and barriers—things you’ve seen in dozens of other games, which, by the way, do it better.
Finally, I don’t like the time limit. I would have preferred a limit on the number of moves, to encourage us to calculate a solution in advance. Instead, it’s more like, “fail and start over” … and don’t forget to mute the music, obviously.
The characters, called skeeks, and later tinies, are the offspring of the hero from the game Skweek. They’ll appear again in a more inspired game in 1994: Fury of the Furries.
Tiny Skweeks was adapted to Super Nintendo in 1996, under the title The Brainies.
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