Minabo - A walk through life

Critic reviews

• Screen Rant

  Leo Faierman · May 15, 2023

  2.0

  The world of Minabo: a walk through life, as visually colorful as its characters and backdrops are, is frustratingly opaque, and its turnips often fail to reveal recognizable specks of personality on any given playthrough. As a life sim, there’s very little life to be found here, just a span of rudimentary clicks in overly long sessions which never get within spitting distance of an understanding of human relationships or a reckoning with existential dread, outside of this: life’s too short to play Minabo: a walk through life.

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• Destructoid

  Zoey Handley · Apr 28, 2023

  4.5

  Minabo boils life down a bit too far. Life is so unbearably exhausting and complicated, and Minabo is boring and simple. It’s not that I think that it needs to be crushingly depressing or maddeningly frustrating, but there needs to be some sort of conflict or tension.

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• Way Too Many Games

  Leo Faria · Apr 28, 2023

  4.5

  Minabo: A Walk Through Life isn’t broken, nor is it poorly made. It’s a well-put game in the technical sense. On the design side of things, this is pointless. I wasn’t having fun with it, I was constantly bored and wondering if could just replay The Sims 2 instead.

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• Gaming Nexus

  Jason Dailey · Apr 28, 2023

  5.5

  Minabo: A walk through life has an interesting idea at its core, but ultimately it is not a jaunt worth taking. A lack of heart and the absence of a compelling gameplay hook are obstacles simply too large to overcome.

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• TheXboxHub

  Gareth Brierley · Jul 10, 2023

  7.0

  MINABO – A walk through life feels like almost the perfect game to play on mobile, taking in a playthrough whilst on your commute. Yet perhaps it’s not as interesting on console. There’s no doubt that it’s original and clever, but things do start to wane after a little while. However, if you want to play a social sim game with a big difference then MINABO – A walk through life could be for you.

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• Game Reactor

  Alberto Garrido · May 05, 2023

  6.0

  The artistic design is beautiful, with well-executed animations of the turnip characters, and the music and sound design are a strong point that kept me in the gameplay cycle beyond just the premise of achieving objectives.

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