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Game
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Toki
Developer Microids
Toki is a run and gun platform game released in arcades in Japan in 1989 by TAD Corporation. It was published in North America by Fabtek. Designed by Akira Sakuma, the game has tongue-in-cheek humor mixed with the action. The player controls an enchanted ape who must battle hordes of jungle monsters with energy balls from his mouth. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
189 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
79
LovedLoved
120 positive · 32 negative
95% range 72–85%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 120 | 32 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 1 | 31 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
135 of 168 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
80% recommend · 126 yes, 32 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 158 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (478 of 556 positive).
Players praise the game's beautiful hand-drawn art and nostalgic feel. [1][2][3] Many note the extreme difficulty, with one-hit deaths and no save feature. [4][5][6] Some reviewers criticize technical issues like uncapped FPS and lack of options. [7][8]
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Representative posts
- [6]
2 words: no saves. Yes, it's a fun game and very pretty, but playing the first two levels over again every time to have another go at a boss on level 3 is quite annoying. What if I just want to play 5 minutes, make progress, and come back later? That's how people play video-games today. Get over it, Toki! But no! This game wants you to be obsessed with it. You have to play it from start to finish every time and …
- [4]
Review by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633003-Gaming-Masterpieces/] Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam. Is this game a masterpiece? No, but the arcade version once was. Toki is a pure single player arcade game. It is not easy, you can use it to show your kids how hard arcade platformers used to be when you were a kid! One hit and you loose a life, all lifes lost and you …
- [5]
This is pretty much an exact replica of the arcade and Amiga classic, but in a new cartoonish style similar to Monster Boy and Streets of Rage 4. It's not to everyone's tastes, but it works well and plays great. Unfortunately the lack of a save feature is very disappointing. Yes, I know the original didn't have such feature either, but now we have busier adult lives, and I can use save states on FS-UAE anyway. It's …
- [2]
A brutal and beautiful arcade game that pulls nary a punch, then flips the tip of your nose whenever you think you're just out of reach of the knuckles. Only six levels, but it will take some heavy duty doin' to commit all the pseudo-prehistoric Edgar Rice Burroughsian hazards to memory. The gorgeous French comic book style suckered me in -- like, look at this here little monkey-man, magically born from some big …
- [1]
(Recommended with some serious caveats - see below!) Me and Toki go way back - I had a copy for the Amiga 500 and I played it religiously. The imaginative levels, effusive music, and weird charm kept me returning to the game again and again. I was surprised and delighted to see this remake turn up and bought it for €20. So keep in mind when reading this - I am VERY familiar with this game! PROS: - Graphics are …
Summarised from 34 of the 193 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Toki talk about gorgeous cartoon art style and animations; those who didn't talk about no save feature, frustrating for modern players. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
In North America, Toki was ranked second among arcade games in a January 1990 equipment survey by Play Meter, while RePlay listed it in its January 1990 issue as being the second most-popular arcade game of the previous month. In Japan, Game Machine listed it on their March 15, 1990 issue as being the fifth most-popular arcade game for the previous two weeks. It received a generally favorable reception from critics. Computer and Video Games considered the game difficult but fun and addictive. The Games Machine's Mark Caswell felt the game was very playable and worth checking out. Henrik Fisch and Martin Gaksch, from Power Play, opined that it was a beautiful, varied, imaginative and very…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 189 · most liked firstI spent most of my week off school with chickenpox as a kid playing Toki on Mega Drive, and whenever anyone mentions a kid with chickenpox to me, my first thought is still:
positive · AI labelView post →Review by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633003-Gaming-Masterpieces/] Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam. Is this game a masterpiece? No, but the arcade version once was. Toki is a pure single player arcade game. It is not easy, you can use it to show your kids how hard arcade platformers used to be when you were a kid! One hit and you loose a life, all lifes lost and you are back at the start. You don't have to tell them that the real thing was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And available now for everyone is this piece on Koei's Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 2, a beautiful and well written game that isn't entirely sure what it's supposed to be: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/09/15/h...
neutral · AI labelView post →netal.itch.io/ilo-kuko This new Toki Pona game stands out!
neutral · AI labelView post →2 words: no saves. Yes, it's a fun game and very pretty, but playing the first two levels over again every time to have another go at a boss on level 3 is quite annoying. What if I just want to play 5 minutes, make progress, and come back later? That's how people play video-games today. Get over it, Toki! But no! This game wants you to be obsessed with it. You have to play it from start to finish every time and you're not allowed to have another go at the boss in level 3 unless you've first…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Okay, Toki Pona has the best monster names. So glad I found some volunteers to translate my game into this perfect language
neutral · AI labelView post →(Recommended with some serious caveats - see below!) Me and Toki go way back - I had a copy for the Amiga 500 and I played it religiously. The imaginative levels, effusive music, and weird charm kept me returning to the game again and again. I was surprised and delighted to see this remake turn up and bought it for €20. So keep in mind when reading this - I am VERY familiar with this game! PROS: - Graphics are fabulous and really seem to belong to the same universe as the original - they…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To describe Koei's Harukanaru Toki no Naka de as overlooked would be a severe understatement - this romantic game deserves Tokimeki Memorial levels of respect and acclaim. Come take a look and see what we've all been missing out on! kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/02/23/h...
neutral · AI labelView post →And available now for everyone is this piece on the fragrant PS1 board game Harukanaru Toki no Naka de: Banjou Yuugi kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/12/13/h...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is pretty much an exact replica of the arcade and Amiga classic, but in a new cartoonish style similar to Monster Boy and Streets of Rage 4. It's not to everyone's tastes, but it works well and plays great. Unfortunately the lack of a save feature is very disappointing. Yes, I know the original didn't have such feature either, but now we have busier adult lives, and I can use save states on FS-UAE anyway. It's just a single feature that would have made all the difference. I hope the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New posts? Let's go! Here's one you probably didn't have on your bingo card: the board game spinoff of untranslated PlayStation dating-sim-RPG Harukanaru Toki no Naka de! ko-fi.com/post/Harukan...
neutral · AI labelView post →www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/s... musi ilo sin li lon toki pona. Another video game is in Toki Pona.
neutral · AI labelView post →Peak 80s game: Toki
positive · AI labelView post →So, before I begin I want to preface that I grew up on the arcade version of toki, not the sega genesis or the commodore 64 copy. This review will be for this game as a whole, and hopefully not clouded by nostalgia. Pros: Absolutely gorgeous art style (though art is subjective) Plays similarly (albeit small differences) between this version and the arcade version Fun to play (also subjective) Cons: The game doesn't cap fps, and there is no option to. I had to manually cap my fps through…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Meet amazing characters such as 'Carolina' in "Royal Stone - Hirakareshi Toki no Tobira" for the Sega Game Gear...
neutral · AI labelView post →#LogLoads64 Toki Another #C64 "cart-only" Ocean game from the early 90s. The arcade was awesome and the 16-Bit conversions not bad. This is a bit of a swing and a miss. I think some plucky fellow is doing a "Toki Remastered", I no longer frequent the Cess Pit, so can't recall. I mean, this is "OK".
neutral · AI labelView post →Beautiful game but not for everyone (it's hard!). I recommend it specially to old Toki/Juju fans like me!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →sina sona ala sona e toki pona? We are translating our game TRAILS to Toki Pona, adding some more accessibility options that weren't done in time for version 1.0 and adding a special achievement. Stay tuned for version 1.1 coming soon! #screenshotSaturday #gamedev #TokiPona
neutral · AI labelView post →Well, I never thought that spitting would be so much fun! When there are so many gameplay videos I think trying to describe a game is almost lost time. For all those "old" gamers that fed the arcade machine, I guess you know what to expect. It's like a good friend from the past that had botox :) For the younger ones feel free to try it and you may realize that you were born in the wrong gaming era! Just don't stop spitting and you may find your love after all!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Preorders open now! Good Smile Company Blue Archive Nendoroid Toki Asuma From the popular game "Blue Archive" comes a Nendoroid of the fifth C&C agent and Millennium Science School student, Toki! Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/vI0Hvw #goodsmile
neutral · AI labelView post →Preorders open now! Max Factory Blue Archive PLAMATEA Toki From the popular game "Blue Archive" comes a PLAMATEA plastic model of the C&C member Toki! Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/jWCYVc #goodsmile
neutral · AI labelView post →A remake of a 30-year old, run and gun arcade classic? Sign me up. Toki is back and it is the exact same game it was back then, only lavishly remade with modern cartoon graphics and sound. The game looks and sounds great. Its simple gameplay loop remains highly engaging and makes you want to replay its limited number of stages again and again. Naturally, being originally designed to gulp down coins at an alarming rate, the game is very difficult, at times even unfairly so. Some bosses in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Positives first. Art and animations are charming and gorgeous, though more frames on the animations would have been welcome. Music is great as well. The game somehow feels very cozy to play. Now the negatives. I am someone who enjoys his difficult games, but the challenge needs to be fair. This game is difficult for the wrong reasons. Poorly telegraphed and inconsistent mechanics (Bashtar and the final rail segment respectively) ruin the final stages. I was able to reach the final stage with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OVERVIEW: Toki had both a Sega Mega Drive and an Arcade port back in the 90’s when I first heard about it. I barely played the former for like a weekend rental, but I recall to this date that one of my best friends spoke volumes about how wonderful was this platformer and all that jazz. For several times I made plans about playing it again on the Genesis but just now decided to have a go at it with the developers MICROIDS endeavor on Steam Pros -» Gameplay: basic with a jump and a shot…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nostalgia. One of the arcade games i favorited in my childhood. Too bad you can't switch the original graphics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For this #RandomGameSaturday, I offer you "Jekyll Hakase no Houma ga Toki" for #Famicom, or, roughly translated, "The time of Dr. Jekyll's Evil". Released in US as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". As the back of the box says, "A fairytale adventure in a beautiful world awaits you!"
neutral · AI labelView post →I just started learning a tiny conlang called Toki Pona last night! let's check out a game called Toki Pona Island to see what it's like! going live shortly :3 twitch.tv/sussybnuuy
neutral · AI labelView post →Is LOK Digital the first game with a Toki Pona language option??? This delighted me. It's fun too because the Lok words and Toki Pona words kind of have a similar phonology 😄
neutral · AI labelView post →Positive review simply because it's Toki and it's a good version at that. Toki was one of the more memorable arcade cabinets back when I was a kid, the purple hand snatching the girl and the guy being transformed into a monkey, along with the soundtrack were iconic. Everything stands the test of time. I've seen others criticising the visual touch ups, appreciated them personally, the art itself would have held up regardless. I do however find it too clean which is why the CRT filters they…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm fan of the original game and I used to play it a lot. I still play it from time to time when I get that NES itch. But this "remaster" is pretty bad. It's short, took me an hour to complete it. I didn't enjoy it. If you are going for all achievements you are going to have a pretty bad time. - Bugged/broken enemies and areas in some levels. - Art style that tries to cash in on the popularity of Cuphead and other retro-inspired games. - Art style makes you die in stupid ways in some places.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Getting one-hit killed every frame you move maybe was fun 30 years ago, in 2019...it isnt.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I 'm sorry to say that as it is the game to me is regarded unplayable. It completely escapes me how the developper went into so much trouble to revive Toki in beautiful graphics, only to screw the gameplay. I had my dues promptly paid with hundreds of hours of Toki in both the Arcade and the Amiga versions back in the day, so I think I know my way around the game. As it is, it's slow (about 30% slower than the original) and the controls are laggish and you're definitley better off with the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well been waiting this game since it's announced, 10 years ago, finally it is realsed. Beautifull creative hand drawn, the game is gorgeous, gameplay is great. Unfortunately i have a 144hz screen and a heavy specs rig. Whatever i do even with 60fps cap the game is running too fast, it is playable, but too fast. So i will ask a refund within a few days if it is not patched. There are no options at all to modify anything and 20 bucks, that's the price of a decent inde game with graphic options…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pleiades Company’s 2001 free ADV, Toki no Furusato (ときのふるさと), has received a modern port for web browsers available for free. This includes the game’s additional scenario as well. Previously, the game did not work on modern systems due to the discontinuation of Flash: qiita.com/shinohara-ts...
neutral · AI labelView post →Need casual Toki and Rio in game already #BlueArchive
neutral · AI labelView post →No SAVE function, bug in control. Get it when it is 90%+ else it doesn't worth the money. Still thinking of refund even i got it on 90% sales. Rating : 1 (1 = Worst, 5 = Best) • Graphic: 3 • Control: 2 • Music: 2 • Story: 2 • Entertaining: 2 • Kill time: 2.5
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →𝕋𝕠𝕜𝕚 𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕟 𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕥𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕥; 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕚𝕥 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕡𝕠𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕗𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕤, 𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕚𝕥 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕤𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 ℕ𝕆𝕋 𝕒𝕟 𝕖𝕩𝕒𝕘𝕘𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 This is a game from the Arcade that I really loved back in the day; it was hard but NOT impossible, I would beat it repeatedly after coming back from school on the way home in a local…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this at the arcades when I was young. Now I'm old, grumpy and slow on reflexes. Therefore I find easy mode not easy enough. Obviously in combination with no save-system whatsoever and limited lives this sucks... like a lot... Back in the day, I was cheated out of my pocket money because I was a stupid kid addicted to arcade games, now I'm going to get cheated out of the complete experience because I don't want to replay stage one a gazillion times before randomly managing to finish…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT! 🚨 #184 Cody & Eric have the retro news to us. Battle of the Systems is Mario Vs. Donkey Kong on #GBA vs. Toki Tori on #GameBoyColor Eric's Take: The ideal #Pico8 handheld? Tea Time with Tim: #VIC20 Homebrew overload! pixelgaiden.podbean.com/e/episode-18...
neutral · AI labelView post →Toki Tori is his name, and collecting eggs is his game! With a clever use and combination of items, solve more than 70 of the game's brain-teasing levels! Wii game number 152 "Toki Tori" is ready to be played right now as part of our launch line-up! retroachievements.org/game/34668
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghouls 'n Ghosts with apes, what could possibly go wrong ?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A brutal and beautiful arcade game that pulls nary a punch, then flips the tip of your nose whenever you think you're just out of reach of the knuckles. Only six levels, but it will take some heavy duty doin' to commit all the pseudo-prehistoric Edgar Rice Burroughsian hazards to memory. The gorgeous French comic book style suckered me in -- like, look at this here little monkey-man, magically born from some big beefy caucasoid jungle-man! I encountered such a spittin' hominid on MAME back…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay 7/10 Graphics 7/10 Sound&Music 6/10 +Achievements -Collectible cards -Short -Hard Result 7/10 Very Hard Game! This is an old-school game, from the time of NES, where any mistake leads to death, and the continuation evaporates before your eyes, until you memorize the level, but at the next level again all the pain will return to you. Therefore, if you are ready to close your eyes to the pain and suffering, then you will see an interesting world where technology and primitive people…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Toki is a remake of an arcade classic, given a new look with HD animations. It still retains the same challenging gameplay with constant barrages of enemies and one-hit deaths, as well as power ups that never seem to last long enough. However, with some practice, you too can beat the game! It comes with 3 difficulty options, and some neat extra features such as a comic detailing the game's story.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed the original on my Amiga, it was fun seeing all the stuff remastered especially the soundtrack. Jump now has a dedicated button instead of being up which will save many accidental deaths. However they also removed the auto fire feature. As it used to be you'd hold down the fire button and Toki would fire until you let go, now you have to click for every single shot(barring having some temporary upgrades). I got to the first boss before my RSI started acting up from constantly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Introducing Authors 1. Classics Toki Very Hard(Remake Hardest) 1cc Possible. 2. Toki Remake 100% Achievement Completion 3. Classics Toki Speedrun Possible. The Difference Between Classics And Remakes 1. a similar but different sense of play (The basic structure comes from classics, but the length of the stage is different, so the sense of performance is slightly different. Some enemy patterns are also different. Some bosses and enemies must practice anew.) 2. The part where it was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Harder than Dark Souls
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We're back for Episode 184 of Pixel Gaiden! In this episode Cody and Eric catch up on the news and cover The Dreaded Battle Of Puzzle Platformers: Mario Vs. Donkey Kong on GBA vs. Toki Tori on Game Boy Color pixelgaiden.podbean.com/e/episode-18...
neutral · AI labelView post →Toki is a relic of a bygone era that has not aged all that well. And let's not prevaricate here, even the original game was not that great. It was undeniably beautiful but one-hit deaths, cheap enemy placement and bland level design weren't exactly a recipe for exhilerating gameplay back then and they conduce to nothing more than a harrowing experience in this day and age. If you 're really intent on playing it, at least get it on a huge discount and prepare to be amazed at how much progress…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good remaster of a very hard old school platformer. The animation work is very very good
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a 30th anniversary update of the arcade cult classic Toki, one of just a handful of arcade titles from TAD Corporation (best known for a unique 3rd-person shooter called Cabal and a soft sequel called Blood Bros.) that is a challenging platformer about a hero trying to rescue his girl from an evil wizard, only he's been transformed into an ape that can shoot projectiles from his mouth and jump on enemies to defeat them...think Mario as an animal. The main core of this updated version is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is another Thinking Rabbit adventure game, this time ported by fellow mystery game developer Riverhillsoft. Like Toki wo Koeta Tegami, it features a small town, populated by many characters, all voiced, but not all relevant to the case. The character portraits are pretty great.
neutral · AI labelView post →Toki (along with Kisaki) was one of the main reasons this game caught my attention in the first place, and while the jury's still out on Kisaki, I'm so happy Toki has proven to be a hundred times more delightful than I could have possibly hoped for. #BowersArchive
positive · AI labelView post →Funny platformer i was playing this in amiga 500 30 years ago.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Difficult platformer that relies on learning the patterns of all the enemies. Recommended if you like the old arcade game or difficult platformers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of my favourite games as a child, both the arcade and mega drive versions. I remember seeing this was getting a new lick of paint treatment like so many other games have but then forgot all about it before it launched, so I jumped at the chance to buy it when it appeared on a steam sale! Under £4 too! Looks amazing in a hand drawn kind of way, sound is good and you can actually revert back to the classic arcade noises/music which was very nice. So why am I giving it a thumbs down? Well its…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is a nostalgic masterpiece ! Truly honoring the original arcade version, but adds a new look and sound to make it even better. It's definitely a challenge, but nothing a little practice cannot overcome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Same as the retro game from the 80s. You can change difficulty, which is nice, since this game is not easy, due to 1 hit deaths. Had a frametime problem which I solved by going into Nvidia Control Panel -> manage 3D settings -> Program Settings -> add Toki.exe -> changed monitor technology to ULMB. Worked perfectly afterwards.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it brings back so memories from the aecades, really good port
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No save. Checkpoints didn't seem to work, continue didn't seem to work.
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