On the surface, Thomas Was Alone is generally unremarkable. 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. To reiterate: Thomas Was Alone is a platformer starring a cast of little, colored blocks.

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.