
Cubes can be stacked, laid out in a line, repainted, destroyed or even placed floating in mid-air depending on your builder of choice. The child gets to take control of the game’s six adorable mechanical robot-like creatures, placing cube-shaped blocks anywhere on the large parquet floor-like gridded island the Toca Builders inhabit to build shapes, patterns and structures.

While this less structured style certainly does not work for all children, my girls thrive in this type of environment and letting their imaginations run wild often leads to some pretty cute and creative and funny ideas. Toca Builders is more in the vein of Toca Boca’s other open-ended titles like Toca Hair Salon and Toca Train, where there aren’t any specific tasks that need to be accomplished, it’s more of a “here is this world we’ve created, now go and play and have some fun” mentality. The developers have said the app draws inspiration from Lego and Etch A Sketch and that is a rather apt description. Toca Boca’s latest, Toca Builders is a sort of construction / coloring game set in an open sandbox environment to let your kids use their imaginations to build, destroy, color and explore.
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Then there is the all-important Toca Boca splash screen…what will that smile morph into this time? Finally, it’s onto the app. It is easy to tell whenever there is a new Toca Boca app released, as the excitement in our house is almost palpable, with both myself, and my 6 and 3.5 year-old girls equally as enthusiastic.įirst there is the build up as we try to guess what the game play will be like and what new characters we’ll see.
