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Toem is a game that lets you play amateur photographer to help solve puzzles

Oct 14, 2021 by John Aldred Add Comment

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This seems to have become a big thing lately. Computer games foregoing the usual plain old boring screenshots and offering in-game “cameras” to let you position and compose your shot for a more pleasing image. Hell, even Mario Kart Tour has one. But what we’re starting to see now are games that are entirely based on shooting photos.

We featured one recently that’s actually a Photography Simulator (at least that’s the name of it), but Toem is a game where you play the part of an amateur photographer, going on expeditions and helping to solve problems by “snapping photos in [a] hand-drawn adventure game”. And it’s not for smartphones. This one’s actually for the PC.

This game is purely for fun. It’s not going to help you get better at photography – except perhaps for composition and how to work for exposure achievement stamps. As you explore around the world, you’ll come across people that have puzzles for you to overcome, which you’ll do by utilising your camera to help them identify the solution to their problem.

It does look quite fun and the reviews are overall very positive. It’s certainly a new idea when it comes to photography and games and it has a great message. Get out there with your camera (in the real world) and go shoot a bunch of pictures!

Toem is available on Steam for Windows and Mac and it costs $19.99.

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John Aldred is a photographer with over 20 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter - and occasional beta tester - of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.

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