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Have You Played Minit?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time…

This year’s E3 may have been dubbed “the year of the time-loop game”, but I’d argue there’s nothing as tight or as satisfying in this emerging subgenre as the 60-second sojourns you’ll face in monochrome puzzler Minit. You play a small, nameless duck-faced fellow who has the terrible misfortune to happen upon a cursed sword that locks him into a minute-long time-loop, and – oh, wait a minute, the timer’s about to run out. See you in a sec–

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