Really fun little fluid dynamics game! I managed to beat it on normal. The difficulty feels well-tuned, you're constantly under pressure but you can deal with it with enough skill.

Seconding the person in the itch comments who compared it to the Dan-Ball Powder Game, haha.

I really enjoyed this. The music was hypnotizing! It was really tricky trying to guide the water around while saving everyone but I really enjoyed the challenge, especially on the harder difficulty. Great work!

Great game, loved so much about it. The music was awesome, the little air bubbles when you broke something underwater were cool and from my playthrough it seemed well balanced. On normal difficulty, I got to the lsat person just as water was starting to threaten them.

Nice job! I was considering using particles for my game too but I've went other direction. I hope you'll add some water level equalization someday to fully match the communicating vessels phenomena!

So awesome! Reminded me of some of those old DOS physics games I loved so much. Sim gets a little choppy later in the round, but even with that, the level of optimization you achieved on your fluid physics in 48 hours is quite impressive. Also didn't negatively affect the gameplay, which was a total blast. I got a perfect 18 on Really Hard. I'll keep this one on the hard drive for a rainy day.

Fun and simple idea. Music was also great!


Interesting idea. I didn't know that water physics is possible on pico8 :D. There were time that I thought I wouldn't make it in time but I did :D.

Thanks for the game

I love this! The music is great, and the water physics were surprisingly good. Very nice job overall!

Really cool game ! I could listen to the music for hours !
Amazed by the physics !

Loved it! The cave system looks great and particles work perfect. Adding those little people to save was a great touch to the underlying particle simulator! Well done!

I think the use of the theme was well done, rather than failure being inevitable you can still succeed/win with the inevitability being the caverns flooding.

In my run, I managed to drown 2 people as I hadn't known the water doesn't equalize from right to left. Outside of that no other criticism.

Very well done! :)

Great game! The playful music was a little weird with the context of saving people from drowning. Mechanic felt great and responsive, and the water and bubbles both looked really nice.

Where is my water? More like, where is my FLOOD!
The fluid dynamics you were able to achieve on the Pico8 platform is just insane!
Nicely done!!

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Really liked it. Worked smoothly, liked the music, digging mechanic worked well. 1 drownee quickly teaches you what you're going for.

I liked pretty much everything about the game. No new features or fixes needed

Wow this is really fascinating! Love the music!

Wow super impressive PICO-8 game, well done!

Fantastic. I only wish it wasn't made in Pico8 so it didn't slow down so much towards the end. Managed to get perfect win on very hard!

I could see myself coming back to this game over and over when I had some idle time at the computer. Plus that jam just makes me want to keep it playing in the background! :)

Very cool, fun concept

This game was very easy. Likely because I selected that for the difficulty. This was really cool! The graphics are good, but as a side effect of that, it started to lag a great deal as the water filled up. Good music, too. Overall, great concept!

awesome!! very nicely done! good physics and very fun!!

What a cute game! Loved the take on the theme, and the game loop is easy to understand.

I had a lot of fun playing this! The music was great to listen to, and didn't get annoying like a lot of 8-bit soundtracks can, and it was definitely a fun challenge (Also I beat Really Hard :) - it was a good challenge)

Great Game! The graphics are pretty cool and I love the fluid simulations.

Very simple but very cool. I definitely think that the strength here is the addictive fun gameplay. The primary loop is satisfying and engaging. The music was nice and complemented the gameplay. The graphics were cute. Fluid simulation was interesting, almost mesmerising to watch. Overall, quite fun!

Nicely done! Simple concept and nice execution!

I liked the music although it was a little loud. Maybe there is a way to adjust it in PICO 8 that I'm not aware of.

I did experience a bug towards the end of my game. I was trying to divert all the water down the empty left side of the board but half the water just refused to go that way :laughing: The poor guys on the right were getting flooded and there was nothing I could do about it.


I liked the mechanic and the game balance with the limit to use the mechanic :)

Managed to get a perfect! I love everything about this, while it's simple it still LOOKS, sounds, and plays good. If I had any complaint it's that late game there's quite a bit of lag.

One of the best entries here! The gameplay is simple yet it's so engaging!

Though, it does feel a bit sad since I keep losing 1 person in my runs on Normal.

It also sticks well with the theme, and at the same time, defies it too, ensuring that delaying the inevitable, when done right, can mean defying it. One little minor critique would be the lag, but that aside, it's a great game!

My first 5/5 this LD. The simulation felt so good, reminded me of my obsession with the Creeper World games.

This would make an excellent iphone time-killer, well done!

Great concept, great execution, really addictive. The water physics is just good enough to be intuitive. Also what is this wizardry? How did you manage to implement this in pico-8? That's next level.


Wow! such a great idea. I love everything about it :) I got some lag towards the end but it wasn't a problem.

I drowned one person on my first try but managed to save 10 people on second try. It is about space and time management.
Nice short game, really fits the theme :)

What an experience! the game lagged a bit on HTML so I downloaded it. The audio really stood out for me, the way you mixed the music with the sound fx of the dig is so smart.

Really fun game, and most unique take on the theme so far.

Nice one!

great game! i always enjoy PICO-8 games, and this one was no exception! could do with a harder difficulty though ;)

Very nice entry and a lot of fun to play :smiley: Takes me back to some classic games with the pixel art style and the need to constantly monitor the situation across the map.

Best game so far! Did you coded the simulation yourself? gj! (also finished all three difficulties. so much fun

This is very neat! Love when pico-8 games condense the fun into a tight little package like this.

Very nice little game, great use of pico-8, I was surprised at how well the fluid physics worked

I REEEALY like sandbox games, so this was right up my alley! 😁 The unsatisfying feeling that I can't win is so fustrating, in a good way! I liked it a lot!

This whole game was really great. Nice job

Really adorable fun game, I love it! Great job on this^^

This is really good, but poor ol' PICO struggles a bit once there is a lot of fluid on screen

I love the gameplay and music!

Omg, I thought these all flowers... Who could knew it's all people dying...

VERY cool graphics. And simple and cool idea. Absolutely liked it

One of very few games that kept me engaged to play through it fully. Love the art and the mood as well :D

Really nice and original game mechanics. A great take on the theme. Audio felt a bit too sharp (is that a word?) for me but other than that it's great

I could play this forever. In fact, I'm gonna play some more right now.

Very fun liquid sim! Amazing that you did this in pico as well

I'm so impressed by that game... Made in pico 8, with water simulation, destructible environement... amazing gameplay...what else? Oh yes! the song... I could listen to it in loop for hours haha! (please upload it somewhere so I can do that :D haha)

I love that game, excellent work!

Very cool! The water physics reminded me a lot of the Powder Toy's water physics. I think it's very impressive that you managed to implement everything in the limited amount of time that you had. Big dub imo

Nice! Very engaging game with great replayability.

I experienced slight performance issues a bit into the game, but it didn't stop me from completing the round.

Well done!


This game really surprised me - I really loved my time with it, the music loop will be with me for a few days

Great Job on submitting

I thought the water physics were insane and then I noticed the air bubbles... Didn't know you could do that in pico8, great job!

Absolutely love this! Was just jamming out to the music but the fluid physics problem solving and planning was really interesting gameplay! It also look great, phenomenal use of the limited palette.

nice game ,I like the terrain destroy system and the water effect,saving people is little hard for me, can you add some shop for upgrade my dig ability

Holy cow! the perfect game! Great music, sweet pixel physics, engaging premise and tone! Thank you!

Unbelievably interesting concept. How did you go about programming the water fill?
This may be the winning game of the jam imo

Fun game. I like the idea of the game, plus solid soundtrack and good SFX.

This was really fun. It seemed so easy at first, and then... pain! So frantic. I learned late to the game that I could hold down the mouse button though. I'll save more than 9 people next time!

Really cool fluid simulation game, I love the bubble animations!

Wow that was amazing! The music got a little repetitive near the end, but I loved the gameplay loop. Such a simple concept done so brilliantly, managed to clear hard mode after 5 tries! Scared to try the hardest mode though, bravo!

This was really really fun to play! I love it! The water physics is really impressive, especially for a PICO-8 game. I did have a bug where sometimes the left half of where the water was falling wasn't flooding to the right, but other than that (and the occasional slowdowns), this is a great entry!

What a unique idea! The game felt really balanced to me in normal difficulty! Good amount of trade-off decisions I needed to make!

Simple concept with clean execution, loved it ! Music and art were quite pleasing with a touch of nostalgia to them, great work !

Awesome game, it's fun, you can play it again and again and water simulation is cool... it's just perfect!

Played on normal for now. Managed to save 9 people with 1 person dying. Great game all around with fantastic fluid simulation physics. Don't really have any complaints, other than that I couldn't really see the civilians until the first chance came to save 1 of them. Still, it's a damn good entry

Beat it on normal, very hard was too hard. I love the concept and how you made it work in such a short time, especially the diversity in rock types combined with the limited digging power works well. It would be good to give the player a fast-forward option, and the water mechanic is not always working as expected (I had a mountain of water piling up at the start that would not move left).

One of me people was drown because of a little droplet...shame on him. This game gives me a sence of achievement, as i could win the game indeed. Games about desasters in this session are always frustrating, cause they have inevitable bad endings, from this point, i love this game, it fits the theme but not make me feel hopeless.

It's so simple and entertaiment idea!

Very cool idea! The water effect was done really well! Keep it up!

Really interesting use of the sand algorithm! Simple and efficient, I liked it a lot. Would love to see a game like this with more detailed graphics. (as in, same resolution but distinguishable dirt, rocks, grass, maybe buildings, etc) The flowing water being drawn white is a very nice touch!

Damn that was spicy. Imagine if the water was flashing all different colours, now that would be cool. Very addictive game play. Nice work game-patriot. *thumbs up*

Really fun, reminds me a lot of that old mobile game "Where's my water?"


Almost, was my 3rd try in really hard, so that's fun playing a game. I really liked, the idea is pretty cool and unique. It was executed perfectly balancing drill power and rescues.

The only thing that bodered me was the lag, towars the end i think pico8 couldn't keep up with the fluid simulation.

Very unique idea, and pretty well made. I had much fun playing it.

Really cool and innovative! Loved how you converted the white moving water to blue unmoving water, and how the air bubbles would trickle up!

Excellent game! Had a lot of fun.

Nice, I'm really impressed by the water physics. They made for a really fun and interesting gameplay loop too. Played for multiple rounds and had a lot of fun with it :)

I drowned everyone on purpose :)

Really fun game. I love the water physics used.

Great game, the water physics are really nice and the game is fun.

This was really good fun, I've beat all the difficulties except for the last one. The water physics were cool but sometimes also a bit weird where the water would just flow in a direction that wouldn't make sense at the very start (wish I took a screenshot to show the issue), but I quite enjoyed the experience nonetheless.

Really cool mechanic, well implemented and nice water physics. Loved the art style, felt very polished. Great job!

Cool Game! I had some fps issues when diggin into alot of rocks but I love the game idea!

WOW 5/5 this is so cool and insanely impressive for a compo game! The fluid sim ran really well even in the WebGL browser and performance never impacted flow of gameplay. Music was really fitting and graphics too. Impressive this was all done on the Pico 8 engine as well. The balance felt good and I was able to beat the super hard difficulty after a couple tried. One of my favorite entries of the jam for sure, and definitely my favorite comp entry! Job well done for sure!

Yep. That's a very, very solid compo entry. Saved 18 people on very hard, wasn't too challenging as long as you can make sure to keep most of the water on one half of the map :)

Really fun! also the water physics is top notch, and in pico8, which is such a difficult challenge, well done!

super fun! managed to get a perfect on hard, but very hard was a bit too much for me. definitely one of my faves!

Real cool love the concept. The aesthetics was also nice and cohesive! My web game lagged a tad when I had a lot of moving water in the level but other than that no complaints. Nice entry!


Thank you for this game! I really enjoyed beating it, it was very satisfying to make every room possible for the water not the sink the people. I could play this for hours :D

Awesomely executed fluid physics. As others have mentioned it felt challenging without being too punishing (on normal mode anyways). The music / sound / graphics all fit together well. Nicely done!

Really smart take on the theme, and great to see more PICO-8 entries! :D Would be nice to iron out some of the performance issues but it was minor and really didn't detract from playing and enjoying the game in its current state.

Wow, this is great. Definitely the game I've enjoyed the most so far. It seems like a simple concept on the surface, but the amount of strategy you have to realize in order to do well makes it very deep

Great Game!!

Really fits the theme is a good way

My only feedback is as the game progresses it seems to get laggy, and it seems like its harder to "dig" the rock. it would be nice if it removed more than one pixel at a time.

Really Fun! Great Job!

Music is really catchy. You did a good job in how it relates to the theme too. I also like seeing more PICO-8 entries here.

One of my absolute favorites this year!
Great music, great game mechanics, good strategical vibes.
Loved that there are different difficulties.

Awesome! This would make a great mobile game. Everything blends nicely, but I'd like the option to turn music down slightly.

Notably, I encountered an issue where the flow in from the top blocks water from flowing between left and right, acting as a wall, which can cause the flooding to spill into one side, even though there was plenty of space on the other. Other than that, really good.

Really cool water mechanics in this and I love the interpretation of the theme where being to 'delay the inevitable' doesn't feel futile. :)

I've posted a review too: https://youtu.be/qxkNPOozqCE

Very neat game ! Perfect fit for the theme. very simple & addictive gameplay. well done !

at first it was comfy, then it got really stressful. very fun game, good job!

Fun game. Won on normal difficulty fairly easily - but still had a good itme :D

very very nice application of fluid simulation as a game mechanic, and extremely on theme! really enjoyed this one!

Nice game! I really love the mechanics and art!! Good work!

Had a lot of fun! I actually feel for the little pixels on the screen. It has a lemmings vibe (:

This is very neat.

Making this work so smoothly on pico8 is clever enough, but also making it fun and gripping as a game is even more impressive.

The difficulty level seems very finely tuned. I played a couple of games on `Normal` and `Hard` before going on to `Very Hard` and was able to beat it first try, but only by the skin of my teeth, and with a couple of close calls.

This is the kind of game I can see myself coming back to from time to time, which is a level of quality that's hard to achieve in just 48 hours.

Really nice game! Loved the pixelated water physics. Presentation super solid, nice one!

It's a really innovative game. Has a ton of replay value!

Gj bro! I did couple run. That was fun.

Very unique, doubly so for a pico-8 game with quite inuitive, strategic gameplay! The fluids system immediately reminded me of Terraria :D Awesome entry!

I love sand games, this was great, it got me addicted. The audio track really complimented the cavern aesthetic.

A super solid experience, I feel like you could take this to mobile without too much effort. I would pay you money for a game like this. There are so many cool venues you could go too, like undiggable terrain, monsters, weather, etc.

An all around fantastic game! I played it 3 times, beat hard mode! enjoyed the chipper tune and crunchy sound. Reminded me of the old falling sand games, a big nostalgic nugget.

Good idea ! It looks great and is fun to play. Congrats !

Floods are an obvious, but very fitting take on the theme (I had the same idea), and this feels like the most distilled version of this idea. Simple but addictive.

Really cool, I'm impressed of your fluid simulation and the gameplay is solid.

Great work!


Very cool idea, simple and fun.

:) Wow, this was so much fun to play! After a while, it made me feel like I was popping bubble wrap. Very soothing. The dirt-popping sound-effect really helped with that vibe. And it wasn't too hard! I saved everyone on the hardest difficulty on my first try. I love the randomly generated dirt (I assume random?), and the fluid simulation was really nice. Great pixels! Nice music!

Very neat and inventive little game! Altogether felt like a very complete package, and I enjoyed the balance between chill gameplay and strategy to keep my people from drowning.

Amazing game! Really satisfying. I was able to win on the hardest difficulty setting with plenty of time to spare :)


Very nice game, especially taking into account that it was made on the pico-8!
The water physics were well made, and the music was bouncy and fun! Difficulty was well tuned as well (I beat it on normal on my first try.) The only thing is that the game has a tendency to lag, but that's more an issue with pico-8 than your code, great job!

Nice pixel game that has a good 8 bit audio. I enjoyed that you can play it on a mobile device. Good puzzle elements.

Awesome job with this game! It's so satisfying just watching the water flow and fill up the spaces. Music was awesome! I thought the digging was actually playing on the beat, but I was just clicking in time lol. I felt like there was a missing audio cue when the rescue was ready, but other than that great job!

Nice to see a pico8 entry with a mouse support! Interesting use for fluid mechanics. I had fun. Art is good and music works. Well done :)

Beautiful game! The music is simple but catchy, and the gameplay is really fun. I somehow managed to perfect the game on the highest difficulty, and man was it intense.


(chuckles) I'm in danger!

Beat it first try on really hard B)

Simple and fun.