Hello Puzzsoft Friends! We wanted to make a quick post for two reasons:

1. 20,000 downloads!!

To celebrate 20,000 downloads! Thank you so much for all of these downloads, and I hope you are enjoying the game! We never thought this game would get this many downloads, so it's cool to see. A lot of these most recent ones are likely from the PCRF Charity Bundle and we thank you especially for donating your money to those in desperate need! Trail Mix is and will always be a free game, but your donation also grants you access to many amazing indie games that are not free, like Elephantasy Flipside, A Monsters Expedition, and Anodyne. If you like Trail Mix you'll probably like those, so if you're here and you haven't got the bundle yet, go check it out!

And speaking of charging you for a free game, please also consider the...

2. Trail Mix Physical Edition Tape

You can now buy a 10 dollar physical of Trail Mix, released through the Pizza Pranks Videogame Tape Market! You can consider purchasing this sort of like a donation too, since again, Trail Mix is still free, but the donation money instead goes to Us (the 4 broke indie devs who make up the massive game corporation PuzzSoft) and to Andrew Pizza Pranks, the guy behind the incredible indie game curation and funding project INDIEPOCALYPSE!

In return for your 10 tasty American dollars you get:

• A cool cassette tape case with a nice cover I worked hard on
• A convenient package of Trail Mix and other Puzzsoft Projects on a lil usb, a perfect gift for a potential puzzhead or co-op partner
• You can keep the usb stick afterward and use it for whatever else you want
• An exclusive exe of the original "Puzz For 2" Alpha project that eventually became Trail Mix
• A buuuuuunch of other fun bonus files including songs, game design documents, and other cool stuff

3. Hidden Objects

And lastly, as a little fun project, I hid 4 of these physical tapes across Lil Libraries in Toronto. Maybe they've already been found, maybe not, I don't know! I like to think some old couple slipped it into their old pc and are getting their minds blown by Trail Mix, the first videogame they've ever seen.

I realize this is a very unlikely and big ask, but if anyone who buys this tape out of support is willing to part with it after copying the files, I think it would be the coolest thing ever if other people hid Trail Mix tapes in similar places in their cities, and thereby spread the game as physical freeware. As I'm sure is clear, much of the inspiration behind the mythos of Puzzsoft and the design decisions in Trail Mix was a love for the bizarre mysticism and unhinged "cool" corporatism of 90s videogame reality. The idea of Trail Mix appearing mysteriously in someones library or game store or cereal box, in a cassette tape no less, just makes me happy.

Thank you all so much!

Cheers,

-The Puzzsoft Down To Earth  Realtalk Department Ltd