A step counter with a dragon fox attached, and I want to know if it works
Trainimals turns your daily step count into a pixel-art creature you have to look after, and the screenshots hint at real depth beneath the cute front.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The pitch for Trainimals is disarmingly simple: you walk, a creature hatches, trains and evolves off the back of it, and the exercise stops feeling like exercise. The screenshots make a decent case that there is more going on under the hood than that one-line summary lets on. Start with the logo screen, because it tells you more than logo screens usually bother to. A wooden sign, rope hinges, a spotted egg sprouting wings above a paw print, and a banner reading Move, Hatch, Evolve underneath. It is a mission statement dressed as branding, and it is followed by a pastoral shot of three start...