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Mission in Snowdriftland

Help Chubby, the fearless little snowman, with saving important artifacts from video game history! Mission in Snowdriftland is a pixel-art homage to classic 2D platformers like Super Mario.

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December 1, 2021
4 years and 245 days ago
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Very Positive359 reviews96.4%

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About the Game

Chaos at the headquarters of the video game organization, UPIXO: the villain, El Pix, has stolen some important and historically valuable artifacts of video game history from the archive.

Help Chubby retrieve all the artifacts from El Pix's icy realm of Snowdriftland!


Mission in Snowdriftland is unique in its concept: Play it like a traditional Advent calendar, and select a level every day and let Chubby guide you through the cold winter days. Or play it like a classic platformer - any time you want.

Mission in Snowdriftland offers the right gaming experience for all players: younger and less experienced gamers can get off to a quick and easy start and jump right in to start searching for the artifacts, while core gamers will face a cool challenge as they collect all snowflakes per level.

Prepare to confront some wacky enemies like penguins in squirrel costumes, polar bear joggers listening to music, flaming fire bumblebees and many more.

Compete against four Minibosses, the subordinates of El Pix, who are standing in your way after every world. Defeat them to prove that you can face the big boss himself!


Explore Secret Areas containing strange Glitch Pixels in every level. Collect them all to solve the secret behind the odd Pixel Mass found in the newly discovered Hole!

  • Various, entertaining levels in 4 different Worlds

  • Giant (truly giant!) unlockable Bonus Level

  • Bizarre unlockable Glitch Level

  • Challenging final boss fight against the villainous "El Pix"

  • Mini boss battles in each world

  • Secret areas

  • Pixel art

  • Retro music

  • Full controller support

  • Speedrun timer

  • Achievements

    Coming soon:

  • Challenges, Highscore lists and more!

Chubby is on another mission...will you join him?

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