Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10 [Achievement Difficulty Rating]
- Offline: 43 [1000gs.png]
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000gs.png: 8-10 hours [Estimated Time to 100%]
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Missable achievements: Sniper (15G) is technically missable
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty option
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None

Introduction:
Welcome to Tinykin, an exploration/adventure with a heavy focus on collectibles. This game is very casual, with no enemies or combat whatsoever. It's an open collectathon-type adventure game with gameplay very reminiscent of Pikmin. In this game, you'll find various colored eggs that give you tinykin of the same color, and each color tinykin serves a specific purpose: purple ones move things, green ones stack to make ladders for you, red ones are tossed at things to destroy them, blue ones are used to chain electricity, and yellow ones make ramps. You'll be collecting tinykin all around each area to use to get more tinykin and complete missions for various people. The game takes place inside a house, with you as tiny as some of the bugs and other tiny residential pests. NPCs will give you quests and side quests, and there are things to collect to upgrade your hover ability. All in all, it's a simple game with a heavy emphasis on the art style and gameplay. Let's get started.

Abbreviated Walkthrough:
The only missable achievement in this game is Sniper (15G). The game literally tells you to do this right at the start during the tutorial, but if you don't throw a tinykin at a tinykin egg, and you finish the entire game and collect all tinykin eggs, you will need to start a new game to get that achievement. Just be aware of it and get it right away like the game tells you to do.

Aside from that, the rest of this completion is really straightforward: each new area/room you come to, your goal is to collect/do everything. That consists of:
 
  • Completing the main missions (displayed in the center, often consisting of multiple objectives)
  • Completing the side missions (typically three, displayed indented right under the main missions)
  • Collect all museum relics (these are the rewards from above side mission)
  • Collect all pollen (the gold bits scattered all over each area)
  • Collect all tinykin (in the form of eggs or from breaking crates with them inside)
  • Find and talk to Ghasper the ghost/bug
  • Talk to Sikaru after collecting the required amount of pollen so that you get another Glide Bubble
I should note that I don't recommend following a video guide as you go unless you really want to try to get this completion as fast as possible, because that will just make the whole thing tedious. Personally, I played the entire game without a guide, and I only needed to put up a guide for one area where I was missing pollen and couldn't figure out where else to look. So, my recommendation is to play each area, fully and methodically explore it to get everything you can find, and then when you're done, if you're sure you've looked everywhere you can think of and are still missing pollen or tinykin, refer to the video guides in the guide to help track down what you're missing, especially the pollen.

Collecting all pollen will require you to do some things required for other achievements. For example:
 
  • Delivering all letters - there are four letters per room (not including the staircase area), and each one you deliver gives you pollen)
  • Lighting all candles - there are many (typically around 10) per room (not including the staircase area), and each one you light gives you pollen. Lighting them all in a room gives you a cutscene and then a large 50-pollen reward to collect
  • Complete the miscellaneous achievements - there are a couple in each area, and each one gives you a large 50-pollen reward to collect
Speaking of miscellaneous achievements, each area has a few. They will likely all come naturally while exploring and interacting with everything, because none requires you to do something outside of the normal gameplay. By that, I mean that all just entail interacting with something with the correct tinykin, and if you're being thorough in each area to use tinykin in all available places, you'll almost assuredly unlock all miscellaneous achievements along the way. To help though, here is a quick summary of what achievements apply to which areas, since the miscellaneous achievements are scattered around the achievement list.

Sanctar
Ribbit (15G) 
How does it smell? (15G) 


Foliana
Green Thumb (15G) 
Nosedive (15G)
 
Swim like a Stone (15G) (easy time to get it)
Miraculous Reflexes (15G) (easy time to get it)

Balnea
A Light Shining in Darkness (15G) 

Transidor (second visit, when you ascend the stairs)
Get The Clock Ticking (15G) 
Matryoshkaput (15G) 
Animal Vegetable Cannibal (15G) 


Ambrose
Tax Fraud (15G) 
Breaking the Ice (15G) 
Super Milo Bros. (15G) 


Celerion
Big Wheel Keeps On Turning (15G) 
Amateur Librarian (15G) 
The Milo Show (15G) 


If you're missing any other miscellaneous achievements, such as But... why? (15G), you can very quickly do them at the end of the game or after beating the game. Once you've gotten all collectibles and all of the above miscellaneous achievements, you'll be done with this completion.

Conclusion:
I found Tinykin to be the epitome of a hidden gem. I knew next to nothing about it before going in, and found myself really loving it despite how simple it is and despite spending most of the game collecting collectibles. The game is really enjoyable to look at, and the gameplay loop is really fun. Exploring never once felt like a chore to me, and I was sad to be done with it when I'd gotten the completion. Some people might get tripped up if they don't do a thorough sweep of each level and have to track down some missing collectibles, but aside from that this is a very easy and straightforward completion, one that I found very fun and would highly recommend to anyone who's a fan of the genre. Congrats on the completion!
 
[XBA would like to thank Necrophage33 for this Roadmap]

Tinykin Achievement Guide

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There are 43 achievements with a total of 1000 points

  • Find one of the artefacts stolen from Prattle's museum

    Refer to Legendary Collection (30G) for more information.
  • Find all the artefacts stolen from Prattle's museum

    Each room in the house has three side missions, indicated by an NPC leaping up and down pretty high. Once you talk to them, the side mission will get added to the pause screen (before that, it'll just show as question marks, indicating you have an undiscovered side mission). Completing each side mission rewards you with an artifact from Prattle's museum. You will need to collect all three in all rooms.

    In general, you will come across all of these and have no problems completing them. The jumping NPCs with missions are easy to spot and are among other collectibles and things of interest (they aren't hidden). If you need help completing any side missions for whatever reason, refer to the videos above in the pollen-related achievements. Those videos also show all side missions, with timestamps in the Youtube videos themselves. You will almost assuredly complete all of these naturally without having to go out of your way, but if you miss any or just can't find one (or find one but don't have the needed tinykin, and forget to come back to it or forget where it was), refer to the above videos.
  • Help Sikaru prepare his first brew

    Story-related; cannot be missed.

    Refer to Master Brewer (30G) for more information.
  • Help Sikaru with all his brews

    Each room in the house has Sikaru at his shop on the floor level around other NPCs. You need to collect the required amount of pollen (shown in the upper right corner as you collect pollen) and then talk to him to get another Glide Bubble added. The first of these is story related, and then each subsequent one is tied to pollen collection. Just note that there is another bubble he gives you inside of the hub area too, so don't forget to talk to him there after the first area to get that bubble.

    You should have no problem getting enough pollen for his brews in each location, considering you only need around 60-70% of the total pollen to finish his brew. Since you need to collect all pollen anyway for other achievements, refer to the pollen-related achievements above for all pollen locations, as needed.
  • Make friends with all the tinykin in the house

    This achievement requires you to find/collect all tinykin in all rooms of the house. Note that this includes the following:
     
    1. Sanctar
    2. Folinea
    3. Balnea
    4. Transidor (second time you go to this area is when you can get them all)
    5. Ambrose
    6. Celerion
    7. The Last Refuge (there are four unmissable tinykin in this area)
    In general, I found tinykin easy to find, and didn't need a guide for completing any rooms of all tinykin. However, if you find yourself missing any in any room, refer to the pollen-related achievements above for videos showing all collectibles in all rooms.
  • Destroy 100 objects with explosive tinykin

    This is cumulative over your entire playthrough. Assuming you are destroying everything you can (which you should be), such as candles, silk worm strings, ropes that drop down, crates that hold other tinykin, etc., you will unlock this naturally toward the end of the game, likely in Ambrose.
 

Secret achievements

  • Let Ardwin's Canticle ring out across Sanctar

    Story-related; cannot be missed.
  • Liberate the funnel from Offrocker in Foliana

    Story-related; cannot be missed.
  • Get the party started in Balnea for Partipupa

    Story-related; cannot be missed.
  • Free the passage under the stairs in Transidor for Ridmi

    Story-related; cannot be missed.
  • Unlock the safe upstairs in Transidor

    Story-related; cannot be missed.
  • Prepare Ardwin's Cake for Seross in Ambrose

    Story-related; cannot be missed.
  • Help Wolter organize the race in Celerion

    Story-related; cannot be missed.
  • Go back to Aegis with Salvior Ardwin

    Story-related; cannot be missed.
  • Post every letter in a room

    Refer to Employee of the Month (15G) for more information.
  • Post every letter in the house

    Each room of the house (Sanctar, Foliana, Balnea, Ambrose, and Celerion) has four letters that you need to track down, throw a purple tinykin at to pick up, and then deliver to that room's mailbox. The mailbox is typically found on the floor level, in the "town" areas of each room. The letters are found tucked away in corners. If you're exploring for all collectibles, especially the pollen, you will assuredly find all four letters in each room with ease. 

    Explaining their locations in text would be really difficult, so refer to THIS PLAYLIST, which contains a video of each area, and in the Youtube description are timestamps for everything, including all letters. Full credit to WheatYT for the great videos.
  • Light all the candles in a room

    Refer to Pyromaniac (30G) for more information.
  • Light all the candles in the house

    Each room in the house contains a bunch of candles (typically around 10, give or two) that need to be lit. They look like white balls with red spikes sticking out, and you need to throw a red tinykin at them to destroy it so the candle lights up. Lighting a candle gives you some pollen, and lighting all candles in a room gives you a large 50-pollen cluster to collect. You will more than likely easily find all candles in each room while exploring and collecting all pollen and tinykin. They're virtually always mounted on walls in areas you'll be traversing.

    If you're missing any, refer to the pollen-related achievements in the guide below for each room. Each of those contains a video guide for all pollen locations, and the videos' Youtube descriptions have timestamps for everything, including all candles in every room.
  • Ribbit

     

    15

    Rebuild the frog in Sanctar

    In the center temple-like area on the floor is a frog statue missing a piece. Its missing piece is on the upper level of the building, and you just need to grab it with a few purple tinykin, take it downstairs, and throw it on the frog to unlock this.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/XVXTnuDS3u
  • Give Sanctar's sphinx its nose back

    The sphinx is located on the shelves right next to the piano, and its nose is located at the top of the same shelves. Climb up to the top, get the nose with a purple tinykin, then descend to the sphinx and throw it on to unlock this.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/rSHZnKA36M
  • Reposition the nose on the fountain in Foliana

    Inside the one tank, you'll see an obvious waterfall right next to a bridge you cross. You may notice a large 50-pollen cluster behind the waterfall. To get it, you need to throw a bunch of purple tinykin at the nose on the top of the waterfall to cut off the water supply. That'll both unlock this achievement and give you access to that 50-pollen cluster.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/t9UDx7k2Bv
  • Light up the dung beetles' lamp in Balnea

    Pretty much as soon as you enter Balnea, there will be an electricity outlet and wire right by you. You'll need a few blue tinykin, but connect the wire to the outlet right by the start of the level and you'll unlock this achievement.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/cHfjJzXKmy
  • Empty the sink in Ambrose

    The sink is up on the counter and pretty obvious. One side has water running into it, and the other side is plugged up and full of water. You need to use purple tinykin to bring down the counterweight near the window to lift the plug from the left side of the sink, emptying it and unlocking this achievement. Use the nearby rope to get the height you need to reach the counterweight. 

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/pJNVj9AaUD
  • Break the biggest ice cube in Ambrose

    For this, you'll first need to access the freezer. Climb on top of the fridge, and there will be an ice block up there. Throw red tinykin at it to break it, which will open the freezer door. Now you can drop into the freezer, and there will be a big obvious ice cube right in the middle. It takes a bunch of red tinykin to break it, but doing so unlocks this achievement and gives you a nice 50-pollen cluster.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/GqZ4dub5Su
  • Sneak into the pantry in Ambrose

    On the mid-level shelves in this area, you'll likely come across a bug guarding access to a room. Climb up to the level right above him and there will be an opening up there you can simply enter. Drop down to the level the bug was, then down one more level inside the room, and you'll find a 50-pollen cluster. Grabbing that pollen is actually what unlocks this achievement, not just entering the pantry.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/fyQUUgJDLu
  • Get the big wheel spinning in Celerion

    This is referring to the giant ferris-wheel-looking thing on the one side of the room. To get it spinning, you'll need a ton of blue tinykin. The electricity outlet for the wheel is (if you're standing looking at the wheel) in the room right behind it. You'll need to get inside, destroy the doors to open up a way through the winding maze for your blue tinykin, then create a long path around the twists and turns from the outlet to the wire to power the wheel. This will unlock the achievement and spawn a 50-pollen clusters to grab. Also be aware that only one of the four ferris wheel carts has another pollen cluster inside of it; don't miss that one!

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/CFbB7H6QEw
  • Put back all the books on the messy shelves in Celerion

    Off to the one side of this room is a giant multi-level bookshelf. Each level of the bookshelf has two books that you need to throw a purple tinykin at to push it back in. Since purple tinykin aren't consumed when used, you only need one for this entire process. Make your way up (or down) the shelves, pushing each both books on each level, and when you're done you'll unlock this achievement, as well as getting a cutscene with the pollen cluster spawning.
  • Fix the giant clock upstairs in Transidor

    This takes place on your second time in Transidor, when you're tasked with going upstairs. Right at the top of the stairs, directly in front of you, is a big grandfather clock. You need to enter the "bottom" of it (the bottom of where the pendulums hang) and use your red tinykin to free the pendulums. Doing so will get the clock running again, spawn a large 50-pollen cluster at the top, and unlock this achievement.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/k9gHeT3GCU
  • Break the damaged Matryoshka doll upstairs in Transidor

    This takes place on your second time in Transidor, when you're tasked with going upstairs. From the top of the stairs, on your right is a high set of shelves. At the very top are five Matryoshka dolls. The second one is glowing red and cracked. You'll need to throw a ton of red tinykin (nearly all the ones available in this area) at the doll to break it, granting you a 50-pollen cluster and this achievement.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/5AA64xhSjN
  • Steal the pollen from the voracious plant in Transidor

    This takes place on your second time in Transidor, when you're tasked with going upstairs. This one is easy to miss. From the top of the stairs, go down the railing down the stairs just enough so that you can glide over to the ceiling light toward the center of the first floor. From there you can glide over to the high ledge on the wall and collect the pollen you're probably missing from this area. Head inside and there will just be a large 50-pollen cluster in the mouth of a plant like the ones in Folinea that try to eat you. Jump over, grab it, and glide back to safety to collect the pollen cluster and unlock this achievement.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/wzYq4rzGGB
  • Collect all the pollen in Sanctar

    The following video, courtesy of WheatYT, shows the location of all pollen, as well as letters, candles, and side quests. Use it as needed to find what you're missing. As noted in the roadmap, I recommend doing a sweep of the level yourself first rather than following a guide for the entire thing from start to finish, because that would be really tedious and eliminate most of the fun of this game. These video are great for mopping up whatever you missed.
  • Collect all the pollen in Foliana

    The following video, courtesy of WheatYT, shows the location of all pollen, as well as letters, candles, and side quests. Use it as needed to find what you're missing. As noted in the roadmap, I recommend doing a sweep of the level yourself first rather than following a guide for the entire thing from start to finish, because that would be really tedious and eliminate most of the fun of this game. These video are great for mopping up whatever you missed.
  • Collect all the pollen in Balnea

    The following video, courtesy of WheatYT, shows the location of all pollen, as well as letters, candles, and side quests. Use it as needed to find what you're missing. As noted in the roadmap, I recommend doing a sweep of the level yourself first rather than following a guide for the entire thing from start to finish, because that would be really tedious and eliminate most of the fun of this game. These video are great for mopping up whatever you missed.
  • Collect all the pollen in Transidor

    Note - the second time you go to Transidor (when you're tasked with going upstairs and Ridmi makes strings for you to use to grind up to the top) is when you'll be able to collect all pollen (and everything else) in this area of the game.

    The following video, courtesy of WheatYT, shows the location of all pollen, as well as letters, candles, and side quests. Use it as needed to find what you're missing. As noted in the roadmap, I recommend doing a sweep of the level yourself first rather than following a guide for the entire thing from start to finish, because that would be really tedious and eliminate most of the fun of this game. These video are great for mopping up whatever you missed.
  • Collect all the pollen in Ambrose

    The following video, courtesy of WheatYT, shows the location of all pollen, as well as letters, candles, and side quests. Use it as needed to find what you're missing. As noted in the roadmap, I recommend doing a sweep of the level yourself first rather than following a guide for the entire thing from start to finish, because that would be really tedious and eliminate most of the fun of this game. These video are great for mopping up whatever you missed.
  • Collect all the pollen in Celerion

    The following video, courtesy of WheatYT, shows the location of all pollen, as well as letters, candles, and side quests. Use it as needed to find what you're missing. As noted in the roadmap, I recommend doing a sweep of the level yourself first rather than following a guide for the entire thing from start to finish, because that would be really tedious and eliminate most of the fun of this game. These video are great for mopping up whatever you missed.
  • Sniper

     

    15

    Hatch a tinykin egg using another tinykin

    *MISSABLE*

    This is technically the only missable achievement in the game, but it'd be hard to miss considering the tutorial literally tells you to try doing this. What you need to do is get any tinykin, find another tinykin egg, then aim with lt.png at that egg and throw your tinykin with rt.png at it to hatch the egg and collect a new tinykin. You likely won't do this at all during the normal gameplay just because there's no reason to (there aren't any tinykin that are out of reach and require you to use this mechanic to collect them). So, get it out of the way right at the start of your game so you don't have to worry about it.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/cGuSsHZE2e
  • Avoid drowning in extremis

    This achievement requires you to exit water at the last possible moment before drowning. Most rooms aside from the first one, Sanctar, have some form of water or puddle somewhere. This is easily done in Folinea or Balnea, since they have puddles of water you can just walk into and out of. Basically, walk into a water puddle to start the drowning animation, and then walk back out right before you die. If you're too late and die, just try again until this unlocks.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/TgFeJq4FZM
  • Survive a fatal fall in extremis

    This achievement requires you to save yourself from a fatal fall right before dying by using button-a.png to hover. So, in any room, climb high enough that the fall will be fatal (doesn't take much, and is indicating by Milo flailing in the air once you've fallen far enough). Jump off and watch your shadow. Once you're right above the ground, press and hold button-a.png to activate your Glide Bubble and save yourself from dying, unlocking this achievement.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/CxiqrBKi5E
  • Mistreat the house's inhabitants 100 times

    This achievement requires you to "bother" the various NPCs around the house a cumulative total of 100 times. Ways to "bother" them include (but not limited to):
     
    • Jump on their heads
    • Throw a tinykin at them
    • Run into them while on your soap
    You may do this accidentally sometimes, but personally I don't think I made any progress toward this naturally. Thankfully, you can grind it out very quickly and easily by first collecting a bunch of tinykin in any room, then going up to any NPC, aim at them with lt.png, and then just hold down rt.png to throw tinykin at them rapid fire. This achievement will unlock in a minute or less.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/wrHTkhScuv
  • Talk to Ghasper in each room

    This achievement requires you to find and talk to Ghasper in all rooms of the house. Note that this includes the following:
     
    1. Sanctar
    2. Folinea
    3. Balnea
    4. Transidor (second time you go to this area is when you can get find him)
    5. Ambrose
    6. Celerion
    7. The Last Refuge (he is tucked in a corner near the house)
    As far as I can tell, there isn't a way to track which rooms you've found Ghasper in, so make a mental note to not move on to the next room until you've found him in the current room. My experience is that if you're exploring and being thorough, you'll find him without issue in each room. He isn't by himself in some random corner (other than in the The Last Refuge). He's always in an area with pollen or other collectibles, just off to the side. I personally found him in all locations without needing a guide. However, if you find that you've cleared an area and still didn't find him, refer to the following video courtesy of WheatYT for all Ghasper locations.
  • Get behind the scenes in the house

    This achievement takes place in Celerion.

    On one side of the room is a casino called the Golden Dynast, which you'll enter while collecting all pollen. On the first floor, from the entrance, head to the right around the back of the farthest slot machine, and you'll see a glowing playing card on the wall. Throw a tinykin at it, and it'll open a secret door. This door is located on the second floor of the casino, up the ramp and around the far end of the top floor. As soon as you go through the door into this secret area, you'll unlock this achievement. Just go through and collect all pollen in this area.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/irQcEm5rGu
  • Be lunch for a carnivorous plant

    This achievement takes place in Folinea.

    In this second level, there are a few instances where there are plant akin to Venus Fly Traps where, if you stand on them, they'll try to eat you after a couple seconds. For this achievement, simply stand on one and don't jump off so it eats you.

    https://www.xbox.com/play/media/qSTZw8nS8b

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