Toem is a photography adventure. You wander around taking pictures and solving simple problems. It's fitting, I guess, that after playing through the recent Basto update yesterday, the first thing I did before writing today was look back through all my pictures.
Cor. Here's me at a camp fire listening to a spooky story. Here I am helping a mermaid sing a song. Here I am judging a royal sandcastle competition. Here I am stuck in some kind of pipe. Understand this: Toem is already one of my favourite games in years. Basto just makes it all even better.
The free update provides an entirely new region with a bunch of new objectives to tick off, but also a new bit of Toem's newsprint world to explore, new characters to meet, new whimsy to engage in. Basto's a tropical region, with lovely palm trees laden with fruit waiting to be collected and turned into ice cream. There's a new day and night mechanic that sees the tides changing and bringing different paths into play. There's a new attachment that allows you to fire water balloons from your camera. There are mountainy bits, camps, oddballs, and even a spooky cave. Get in.