Factsheet

  • Developer: Purple Sloth Studio e.G.
  • Release Date: 29.05.2025
  • Platforms:
    • itch.io, Steam (Win, Linux, Mac)
    • Google Play (Android)
    • App Store (iOS)
  • Website: purplesloth.studio

Contact

Inquiries

trails@purplesloth.studio

Bsky

@purplesloth.studio

Instagram

purpleslothstudio

Web

purplesloth.studio/

Deutsch Game Page

Presskit: TRAILS

Description

TRAILS is a cozy puzzle game in which players guide sandships across a crumbling desert to reach isolated outposts.

Players draw lines on a grid in order to plot the movement of ships that cannot selfintersect or visit a tile twice. When done drawing they can start the simulation and see the outcome their routs produced. If the ships reach their goal without collision and while satisfying all victory conditions they win and advance to the next level. Over the course of the game more and more interacting mechanics get added to the game, requiring players to supply outposts with vital cargo, unlock new passages, juggle items, avoid hostile drones and support allied ships.

Features

  • more than 70 unique levels
  • increasing amounts of interacting mechanics such as outposts, resources, hazards, hostile Drones, friendly NPCs and ship upgrades
  • formidable optional challenges
  • translations to 11 languages, including the conlang Toki Pona

Press Releases

Press Release: Trails Release Date Announced

Press & Reviews

While Trails starts easy, it doesn’t stay that way. I was impressed by the game’s gentle yet firm difficulty curve. Though it introduces mechanics one at a time, it starts combining them in devilishly tricky ways.

david.reviews: Trails blazes a path through a puzzle-filled desert

I’ve enjoyed my time with Trails so far. Developer PurpleSloth gradually teaches you how to play through trial and error, and it adds new hazards and mechanics at a nice pace, though the puzzles do become quite tricky.

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It’s that gradual difficulty curve that speaks to the strength of Trails’ design; I never felt that I was looking at a puzzle I couldn’t solve, I just couldn’t see the answer right away.

For puzzle fans worried their grey matter won’t get enough of a test, Trails has several tougher side levels you unlock as you progress along the main path.

Gamer Social Club: Trails Review

Monetization Permission

Purple Sloth Studio allows for the contents of TRAILS to be published through video broadcasting services for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of videos created containing assets from TRAILS is legally & explicitly allowed by Purple Sloth Studio.

Trailer

Logo & Title

  • logos/0_TRAILS_Title.png
  • logos/1_TRAILS_Title_inv.png
  • logos/3_TRAILS_4k.png
  • logos/4_TRAILS_SHIP_side.png
  • logos/5_TRAILS_SHIP_front.png
  • logos/6_TRAILS_Vertical.png
  • logos/7_logo_toki_pona.png
  • logos/8_4ktitleart_toki_pona.png

Images

  • Introductory level featuring 2 ships and drawn paths.
  • Night biome level featuring 2 ships, 2 drones and volatile tiles.
  • Lategame level featuring 2 ships, several ressources, firepits, a button, a wing and a village.
  • Lategame level featuring 2 ships, volatile tiles, an allie, wings, ressources and a village.
  • Lategame level featuring 2 ships, volatile tiles, an allie, a key, ressources and villages.
  • Optional level featuring sources, a village and a coin.
  • screenshots/lvl_screen_15.PNG
  • Early level featuring water ressource and village.
  • Mid game level featuring 2 ships, water source and village.
  • Night biome level featuring 3 ships and volatile tile.
  • Mid game level featuring 2ships, multiple ressources and villages.
  • Optional level featuring 2 ships, keys and gates.
  • Midgame level featuring 2 ships, keys and gates.
  • Midgame level featuring 2 ships, sources, villages, fire pits and buttons.
  • Midgame level featuring 2 ships, a drone, a key and a gate.
  • Overworld Map
  • Overworld Map in dar mode

About Purple Sloth

Purple Sloth Studio is a collective Indie Game Studio, formed in Berlin in early 2018, with the expressed purpose of creating video games (and related media) with a political subtext in a safe and supportive environment.

We aim to bring people together in the development process and form a structure that is able to release games commercially as well as non-commercially. You can find out more about us here.

Purple Sloth Studio is organized as a worker cooperative (legally: Genossenschaft) and founding member of the Berlin Game Worker Cooperatives network. BGWC is an initiative of several game development cooperatives and interested individuals from Berlin and Europe.