Trail Mix
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Note: For anyone playing on MacOS Catalina who is having trouble launching the game:
- run chmod -R +x "Trail Mix 1.51 Mac.app" in the terminal
- right click on it and choose "open", it should give you dialogue with an option to launch the game.
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Trail Mix is a Local Co-op Puzzle Platformer focused on facilitating teamwork andcommunication between two players. The two players must gather their lost campers and traverse the wilderness. Collected campers attach to the players and form strange shapes, which can be used to navigate the wilderness and solve challenging puzzles.
THE FULL GAME IS NOW RELEASED, COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY FOR FREE!
FEATURING:
- True, Unabashed, Friendship testingco-op gameplay
- 15 Beautiful, Mysterious, Challenging Levels
- Hilarious, charming,hand-drawn aesthetics
- Immersive,AdaptiveAudio
- Secrets! Lots and lots of little secrets and details.
- Save Files, tracking completion, collectables, fastest times, andmore...
- Experimental, mind melting design. Seriously, it gets weird folks.
You can also play single player, switching between characters with the shift key or select button, but only co-op will provide the true experience.
Trail Mix is a game developed by:
JohnLee Cooper,Michael Guattery,Marty Daniels, andRachel Theil
With sound by:
Ryan Maxwell,Patrick Flattery, andColman Xie
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| Updated | 16 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux |
| Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (42 total ratings) |
| Author | PuzzSoft |
| Genre | Puzzle |
| Tags | 2D,Co-op,Difficult,Hand-drawn,Local Co-Op,Local multiplayer,Puzzle-Platformer,Unity,watercolor |
| Average session | A few seconds |
| Multiplayer | Local multiplayer |
| Player count | 1 - 2 |
Download
Install instructions
Unzip and play!
Can be playedmultiplayer with2 controllers or 1 controller and 1 keyboard.
NEW: Can be played be played 2 player 1 keyboard, though it can be uncomfortable or run in to key ghosting problems.
Can be playedsingle playerwith1 controller ('select' switches which character you control) or 1 keyboard ('shift' switches).
If you don't have controllers and the title screen wont work, make sure you dont have anything running that might be considered a virtual controller, like vJoy.
NEW: slow down time with the - key, speed up time with the + key. This is for debugging / accessibility purposes. the 0 key resets the game to it's intended speed
Enjoy!
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So glad I found this on Itch! I had it on Kartridge (Kongregate's failed desktop launcher) and when Kartridge was shutdown in the week I didn't check it, I thought I would never be able to find and play Trail Mix again! (It is unbelievably difficult to google "Trail Mix" and get the results you want)
I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out the lyrics for that AMAZING theme song and this is what I got: (PuzzSoft, would you mind telling me if I got anything wrong?)
Trail mix! (With chocolate!)
It's filled with junk, and fun, you can only have one,
It's trail mix!
The perfect snack on a trail, on a saturday tale,
It's the trail mix! (With chocolate!)
If you're lost in the woods, sit back and eat the goods.
It's the trail mix!
What will you add next?
(Cashews!)
It's trail mix! (With cashews!)
It's filled with junk, and fun, you can only have one,
It's trail mix!
The perfect snack on a trail, on a saturday tale,
It's the trail mix! (With cashews!)
If you're lost in the woods, sit back and eat the goods.
It's the trail mix!
What will you add next?
(Raisins.)
Trail mix! (With raisins!)
It's filled with junk, and fun, you can only have one,
It's trail mix!
The perfect snack on a trail, on a saturday tale,
It's the trail mix! (With raisins!)
If you're lost in the woods, sit back and eat the goods.
It's the trail mix!
What will you add next?
(Chocolate.)
The "on a saturday tale" part is really hard to decipher and i have no idea if that's actually what they're saying. Help?
ye so it should be showing the keys to press when you walk in front of the door! it's right shift and 6.
The controls for two players one keyboard are unfortunately really weird because we have a lot of holding down keys in our game, and most keyboards have a really hard time reading a bunch of inputs at once, so the 2 player one keyboard keys are made to avoid that problem as much as possible. Unfortunately that makes for some pretty unintuitive controls, i'd highly recommend playing with a controller for one player if you at all have the option.
The whole 2p1k controls, if this helps, are:
player 1: wasd, 456, space
player 2: arrows, ./rshift, enter
LOL uhh ibb and obb is kinda a similar vibe, boxboy + boxgirl i havent played but its mechanics are very similar. Hello Kitty Cube Frenzy for PS1 is a big influence.
I have no idea whether or not any of these will run on a 32bit pc tho lol. I can try making another 32 bit build of Trail Mix tho if you wanna test it?
woah! an admirable effort to try to clip your way towards the cigarette, but that's not how I would get it, so I'm not sure if it'll work. There's a very different approach that will work where you don't have to deal with those walls at all. It might be tricky in single player, but it should still be possible.
My friend and I have solved the first several levels in an hour.Then we spend even more time exploring the brilliant and hidden mechanisms by which we are truly amazed.
However,it is not often that we are available to get together and play along.So,the lack of saving IN the level frustrates us a lot.If you can fix this,we'll be grateful and more motivated.Thanks again!
on windows you unzip and then run trailmix.exe.
On Mac you might have to do some annoying workarounds to get it to run:
Note: For anyone playing on MacOS Catalina who is having trouble launching the game:
- run chmod -R +x "Trail Mix 1.5 Mac.app" in the terminal
- right click on it and choose "open", it should give you dialogue with an option to launch the game.
edit: link updated for 1.5
Weird, you're the second person who's had trouble downloading, I have no idea why that would be, I can download just fine in browser, though I don't use a download manager. I'll see if I can get it figured out but in the mean time, here's a google drive link to the same file, let me know if this works.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FCM7INwQ-RGw4H_3jYGooBRkHxuZdUWL/view?usp=shari...
Hi i made an account just to comment on how great the game is. My girlfriend and I played this game and she is not a gamer but loved the puzzles and thought the game was very cute (like how the two players smile at each other but are sad when over a screen apart). The puzzles are challenging just the right amount, definitely not too easy and not so difficult that we get stuck for hours. Visuals are great, experienced no problems or glitches, can't find any other kinds of faults. Music is good, can't say I love it but that is personal preference. Perhaps some feedback is we found some levels where it is quite difficult to tell what is background and what is platform. I would rate this 9/10 as it was such a fun experience to play through. There was even a moment in one of the levels where we were trying for about 15 minutes to set up to get a lipstick, for us to burst out laughing out of sheer frustration when she was meant to catch a camper but instead threw one off the ledge. Definitely a moment to remember. Thank you so much for your time and effort in making this amazing game, and helping random people around the world like us smile.
