The Minims – A New Beginning for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is a point-and-click (point-and-touch?) adventure game created by beyondthosehills studio, a self-described ‘tiny indie development team based in Greece’. The work of a single developer, Andreas Diktyopoulos, an early version of the game appeared in 2013 as a benchmark test. The Minims – A New Beginning is an almost complete reboot with improved story, length, puzzles, graphics and sound. Players take control of Mii, a Minim who must embark on a journey of self-discovery to find his missing life partner, Mo.
Although The Minims – A New Beginning is currently only available for smaller mobile devices, the graphics immediately convey a sense of quality and – perhaps most important of all for a game about undertaking an epic journey – scale. Mii lives with Mo ‘on the top of the rock’, a towering pillar high above a desert wasteland. A furry yellow limbless creature with large protruding eyes, players must wake Mii to start his day by making a spider come down from his bedroom window… and blow a trumpet.