
Thomas is quickly joined by other quadrilaterals of different shapes, sizes and abilities. At the beginning, you control Thomas, sliding in two dimensions and jumping over abstract obstacles and pits filled with toxic water.

Mechanically, Thomas Was Alone couldn't be much simpler. He also happens to be a very inquisitive rectangle, a fact that exemplifies everything that makes Thomas Was Alone special. What's amazing is that, thanks to the a tiny injection of story and a bit of good writing, you may actually start to care about them.%Gallery-187303%Thomas is a small, red rectangle. To reiterate: Thomas Was Alone is a platformer starring a cast of little, colored blocks. It breaks platforming mechanics down to their most basic levels, quite literally, replacing characters with colored rectangles and environments with precarious arrangements of black rectangles.


On the surface, Thomas Was Alone appears unremarkable.
