Tomb Toad
A toadally awesome adventure
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Puzzle
Languages
English
Mon Aug 08 2022
bug fixes, gameplay, and physics improvements
Tomb Toad is an ingenious puzzle-adventure game. You don't move the toad—you move the room! Rotate the dungeon to guide your toad past spikes, traps, and monsters. Explore over 100 levels, fight epic bosses, and collect treasures in this retro-inspired quest that challenges your spatial reasoning and timing.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Tomb Toad is a brilliant fusion of retro aesthetics and modern physics-based puzzle design. It feels like a long-lost Game Boy title, complete with a gorgeous monochrome palette, but it plays like nothing else. Instead of controlling the toad directly, you rotate the entire world to navigate your character through deadly dungeons.
This 'world rotation' mechanic leads to some truly ingenious puzzles that require you to think about gravity in a completely new way. The level design is dense and challenging, often requiring frame-perfect timing to avoid spikes and enemies. The boss battles are a particular highlight, forcing you to use the rotation mechanic offensively. It’s an incredibly clever indie gem that perfectly demonstrates how a simple mechanic can lead to immense depth.
Features
Unique world-rotation mechanics
Beautiful 1-bit/Retro art style
Over 100 handcrafted levels
Challenging physics-based boss fights
Tips & Walkthrough
Don't just flip the world 180 degrees. Small, quick rotations allow the toad to 'walk' along walls, which is necessary for avoiding traps that cover the entire floor.
Gameplays
The bosses are defeated by dropping objects on them. Use the rotation to swing hanging weights or loose boulders into the boss's path while keeping yourself safe.
Screenshot
Q&A
It's more of a physics-puzzle adventure, as you move the environment rather than jumping manually.
Ratings & Reviews
A retro souls-like puzzler with heart
Fri Nov 20 2020 ThesheduThe perfect game to bend your mind no matter how much time you have to play. Tomb Toad takes the tight control and rewarding difficulty of a souls-like and mixes it with a Super Mario 3-like world and a gravity based puzzler. It may sound like an odd combination but the gameplay fits perfectly alongside it’s charming lo-fi graphics, fantastic pixel animations, catchy chip-tune soundtrack, and clever sense of humor. Each stage has a unique look and feel where the introduction of new dungeon denizens changes the mechanics and style of gameplay keeping it feeling fresh. The boss fights are equally unique and fit the overall theme of each stage well. It also gives you the freedom to explore the tombs and the overworld at your own pace with near constant auto saves and a non-linear progression. The level editor is intuitive to use and fully realized. The copy/paste mechanism for sharing your creations makes it simple to send them directly to other players or to post on Twitter.
Amazing game
Sat Nov 21 2020 Duppys124I really enjoy this game, it is pretty tough and there is a slight learning curve with the controls when the difficulty starts to ramp up but overall I love the feel and style of the game worth the $. I do wish there was an easy place within the game to post user created levels because I love making them but want to try out other people’s creations. So that would be a really nice added feature !!
A toadally awesome mobile game
Fri Nov 20 2020 L. LevineTomb Toad is a highly addictive and inventive mobile game that will provide hours worth of pixelated dungeon fun. A throwback to retro gaming with unique mechanics, challenging gameplay, and a little bit of puzzle DNA thrown in. It’s well worth the purchase price for the amount of levels you get to work your way through. The style, soundtrack, and overall theme takes me right back to getting my first NES circa 1987.
Favorite Mobile Puzzle Game 2020
Tue Dec 08 2020 DwstratThis is the perfect puzzle game for mobile devices. The gameplay has so much depth especially with the difficult coins in each level. Such original gameplay, and I LOVE the level editor to make my own levels. So much polish, love the world that looks like a game boy game.
Add an option to turn off game sound
Fri Nov 20 2020 HehhbdeebPlease do it Add an option to turn off game sound. Other than that great game that looks polished and is pretty challenging actually to get the three coins
HELP
Sun Aug 28 2022 FixItFelix531Guys help I can’t get anywhere past the ice world. I have the spyglass but when I go to the desert it just crashes. I assume this is where I’m supposed to go but I really have no idea. Please help. I love this game so much. I really want to finish it. If this is a bug please fix it!
Fun idea but doesn’t save!
Tue Nov 17 2020 sbelli69Like the game but it does not save when you quit. This is unacceptable for a mobile game. Also needs a sensitivity slider. It can be difficult to turn quickly enough to get coins in the middle of a map.
Great Game. I can’t wait to use the map builder.
Thu Nov 26 2020 Disregard all promptsI’m having a ton of fun with this game so far. The design space is very wide! I can’t wait to play lord and learn more about this world so I can contribute too with the map builder.
News found!
Crescent Moon announces 8 upcoming mobile games including Beyond This Side, Tomb Toad, and Echoes of AeonsCrescent Moon is fast becoming one of the most prolific publishers of quality mobile games around, with the likes of Morphite,...
Pocket Gamer Mon Sep 28 2020
Gravity-defying dungeon crawler Tomb Toad arrives tomorrowTomb Toad, the latest mobile game from David Donze and Crescent Moon, releases tomorrow. Make your way through 100s of dungeons using just one button.
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