Earlier in the year, Toree 3D was an utterly unexpected gem on Switch that we discovered by chance. A low-poly platformer with a PS1/Sega Saturn visual style, its breeziness and super-budget price were a breath of fresh air, with cheep (heh) and cheerful — but incredibly satisfying — gameplay that puts many a full-priced 3D platformer to shame.
A similarly super sequel, Toree 2, arrived back in October (indeed, it featured in the Nintendo Life Indie Spotlight) and developer Siactro has announced that a free update which includes a trio of new winter-themed levels is coming on Wednesday 22nd December at 10am PST.
As you can see in the trailer above, the new stages contain plenty of fir trees as part of the winter theme, along with new festive music to get you in the holiday mood. Of the three new levels, two are apparently "different takes on how Toree would play as a collectathon", and the other one is a "linear level with a hidden secret twist".
For just 99¢ / 99p each, both Toree 3D and Toree 2 are absolutely worth your time and money/Gold Points if you're looking for something light to tuck into on the morning of the 25th December — before all the heavy food and games come along in the afternoon. Both titles are fantastic, fun, bite-sized chunks of 3D platforming that earned them places on both our best short games on Switch and best Switch 3D platformers lists.
Don't want to take our word for it? The first game currently features on our reader-ranked list of the Top 50 Switch Games of 2021. And if you're still on the fence, you check out our mini reviews of both games... although in that case you'll have to take our word for it again:
- Toree 3D - Low-Poly, Pint-Sized Platforming For Pennies
- Toree 2 - A Second Shot Of Low-Poly Platforming That Puts Some Bigger Games To Shame
Let us know below if you'll be downloading and enjoying this update over the holidays.
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How did I miss this game? I love 3D platformer and N64 graphics. We need more retro 3D games!!
Got them both. Fantastic value of a game
We're these games made in Game Builder Garage? 😂
Toree is the future of mascot platforming
It reminds me of when PC gaming companies would do little holiday themed levels or sprites back in the day. This is really cool.
@rjejr Nah, it was made for a playstation demo disc horror game collection. The original was at least. It was then ported to Switch, and was sold for 99 cents. Then, since that was successful, the creators went ahead and made a second game that was around the same price, but has some free DLC to it now.
Lovely, can't wait to torture myself trying to get all S ranks.
@chipia Yes we do!
I really like both Toree games (was actually just revisiting the first one last night to check out the remix level update), but I would love to see the developer make a longer, more ambitious Toree game. Even if it kept all the same simple graphics and gameplay, but maybe had a few different themed worlds, with some levels only accessed if you've collected enough stars or completed a stage in a certain amount of time. I liked how Toree 2 concluded with a boss fight, maybe there could be a few of those? I'd happily pay a few more bucks for a Toree experience that's a couple hours instead of 40 minutes!
I’m pretty sure most of the traffic for this game was generated by NL coverage. Otherwise, it would be pretty much unknown. It’s pretty fun even if extremely basic.
It is less than one hour but is only 1 dollar. Other indies could learn from this. Obviously not all of them that cheap, but your 2-3 hour game is not worth 25 dollars.
@VoidofLight Thanks.
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