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Trine
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Trine is a fantasy 2D side-scroller for PC and PlayStation 3 that lets you switch between three different characters to solve puzzles and find treasure.
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"The physics-based action in this puzzle-oriented platformer from FrozenByte is inventive, satisfying, and visually stunning."
5 ★ (21)
4 ★ (20)
3 ★ (6)
2 ★ (2)
1 ★ (0)

Good, but wears out its welcome

Trine is one of the more interesting applications of physics in gaming to date. With some exceptions, realistic physics has been a mostly cosmetic feature of action-oriented games up until now. Games… Read more

Visual Brilliance meets slick gameplay, Trine is a feast !

Trine is a perfect example of a game that turns out to be more than the sum of its parts. A puzzle-2D platformer in the vain of Lost Vikings may not sound like much, but Trine delivers an amazing game… Read more

Nice graphics, but just generic and imprecise gameplay

Trine is a physic based 2D platformer developed by Frozenbyte. In the game the player takes control of a mage, a thief and a knight, all merged into a single character. The player can switch between t… Read more

Fun...for a while

Trine tells a simple tale set in a fantasy world fabulously created full of colour and surprising detail. Based on the positive reviews I expected quite a lot. Mostly the game kept me happy and entert… Read more

Onlive Review: 2 Out of 3 Ain't Bad

I played this game on the Onlive system, which I presume is the PC version of the game. Technically there are no problems with the game's performance in relation to the Onlive service. Game loads incr… Read more

Jewel of the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle

I’ve been buying the Humble Indie Bundle s on principle since I think pay-what-you-want is a great idea that I want to support, and I also want to support the EFF. I picked up Trine with the Humble Fr… Read more

A lesson on how modern 2D platformers should look and play like.

I don’t think anyone ever intended for 2D platforming to die, it was just a natural course of events. As 3D evolved and established it was pretty much the main focus of basically everyone, I’m glad th… Read more

Fun for the whole family!

The side-scrolling platformer is far from dead with this great game! The story is narrated during loading screens, which don't take more than a minute to load, at the longest. And while the story isn'… Read more

Trine delivers a solid base, but fails to deliver much more.

It seems that the style of the cheap, downloadable puzzle/platformer is becoming more and more popular, and usually these games do a lot to reinforce the ideas that innovative gameplay and general pol… Read more

Trine

It seems like if there's one way to get people to love your downloadable game this generation, it's to make it a side scrolling puzzle platformer. Trine combines that style of gameplay with a cute if… Read more

Sheer Brilliance

This game has the cleverest physics-based puzzles since Half Life 2 and the proceeding episodes. At first, I put the game down for more than a year because I thought the game lacked depth. Boy was I w… Read more

Trine harkens back to classic team-based gameplay magnificently

I recently had the chance to sit down and play through Trine with my friend Matt. We played on the PC, an Xbox 360 controller in my hand, and a keyboard at his. Let me tell you, it was a great experie… Read more

An Innovative Platformer

Trine is one of those games that you just don’t see coming and never quite understand until you play. The game is a platformer, but it’s not the usual type of platformer in that it has a whole new lay… Read more

Thrice as Nice

Given the current marketplace, much of gaming has come down to yearly sequels and variations on a theme. There is not a lot of room for major deviance within that system, much of the time it simply is… Read more

A Throwback Platformer with Modern Elements

This game has a lot going for it. Right away, the game brings you into the story and explains the gameplay element of switching on the fly between a knight, wizard and thief. Immediately upon starting… Read more

Is This Steamy, Downloadable Threesome Worthy of Your Dollars?

The twenty years I've spent playing video games have taught me three things about my gaming brethren: they all own computers, their use of the Internet is constantly changing, and they all enjoy a goo… Read more

Trine: Where Physics and Level Design Mesh Well

Right from the get-go, Trine is the sort of game that knows what it is and isn't. It is a (predominantly) downloadable game, with a modest scope and healthy, but not particularly lengthy run time. In… Read more

Fantastic.

I've never been into 2D sidescrolling games, mostly because those kind of games are generally hard in a "you can't be good at this game" way. But when I saw Trine i have to admit that I was curious...… Read more

Why isn't this on XBLA???

Yes, this game is worth buying. It features the best graphics I have seen on a side-scroller, glorious animation, actions, and puzzles galore. If you are a person that has operable fingers and enjoyed… Read more

Full on potential, lacking on delivery.

According to Trine's physics engine, momentum doesn't exist. You can swing something back and forth until your hand is sore, but the second you let go, it drops immediately down and loses all speed. T… Read more

Trine proves that you don't need to be original to be great.

First off I would like to thank steam for the awesome deals that they have. Which led to me picking up trine, a bright, beautiful and overall great action platformer. The plot of trine seems like it w… Read more

The Old, New.

For a game that once again treads the 2D platfomrer path (albeit with meticuluosly detailed 3D environments), Trine is able to feel surprisingly original by mixing a mastery of the established with th… Read more

A very unique and entertaining PSN download

Although delayed a bit, Trine for PSN is beautiful, fun, clever and entirely worth the wait. The Great: Each of the three character types are fun to play as and are well realized. Beautiful and clever… Read more

Good Ol' Fashion Fun

Trine....is almost Perfect. I say almost because, despite the creative and inspirational mix of gameplay styles between the Wizard, the Thief and the Knight, depsite the lush visuals, despite the puzz… Read more

Trine Review

Trine is a 2-D platformer in a 3-D world with a puzzle twist. In a kingdom there is a strange artifact that gets touched by three different individuals at about the same time. What happens next is sor… Read more

A beautiful and inventive take on a classic genre.

Developer Frozenbyte has forayed into two-dimensional territory with their new platformer, Trine. For its high price point, this choice of style may initially be an eyebrow-raiser, but Trine’s deeply… Read more

A unique modern Platformer-

Trine is a 2D indie game from game developer FrozenByte and oozes prettyness from every part of this game, especially the levels...and the Character design....and the narrator...and the Aw hell the wh… Read more

Charming and fresh, a tremendous machine

Developer Frozenbyte has forayed into two-dimensional territory with their new platformer, Trine. For its high price point, this choice of style may initially be an eyebrow-raiser, but Trine’s deeply… Read more

Trine

Trine is a 3D sidescroller, you know, 3D graphics but you can only move on a 2D plane. Theres fighting with a variety of weapon (more on that soon), basic platofrming and some physics puzzles. It also… Read more

Trine: A charm filled physics based game.

Trine is a 2D sidescroling game, based on physics and uses a system reminiscent of Lost Vikings, but with a dash of little big planet. Trine's story is one that is fairly simple, although it's not det… Read more

Damn Fine game.

I vaguely recall my fond memories of Lost Vikings on the SNES when i'm playing Trine. I 1st saw this game as a featured video on Gametrailers and then heard the boys over at gamerswithjobs raving abou… Read more

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