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There’s a peaceful, melancholic beauty about Miniatures.
It’s hard to call a game that confronts such sensitive themes “fun,” necessarily.
Therapeutic, trancelike those are more fitting descriptors.
Miniatures is both cozy and troubling in that regard albeit deeply cathartic.
Each item in this box tells a different story, summoning flashes of childhood memories that feel somewhat changed.
The little boy, in contrast, has a large, empty house as his only solace.
Miniatures is about rediscovering the world through the naive, forgiving eyes of youth.
Perhaps my favorite of the four interactive stories is The Last Sandcastle, found after examining the seashell trinket.
That’s what Miniatures is about: rediscovering the world through the naive, forgiving eyes of youth.