Pikuniku

Pikuniku is a puzzle and adventure game where the player controls the protagonist Piku through levels and solve puzzles to progress. The majority of puzzles involve kicking and pushing objects onto switches to open doors and access rooms, allowing the player to proceed through the level. Throughout the game, the player encounters villagers, whom they can interact, and spend coin currency earned in the game's levels on items such as hats.Piku can lasso his legs to swing from hooks and zip lines and curl into a ball and roll. He can also ride on minecarts and go into pipes. These abilities allow the player to move around faster and reach higher or previously inaccessible areas.

The game also features a local co-op mode with 9 levels. The second player controls Niku, an orange creature similar to Piku. Both of the players must cooperate to navigate themselves to a boat at the end of each level.

The game opens with a commercial in which the character Mr. Sunshine, a pink creature in a top hat, offers to give the island's citizens "free money" in exchange for their "junk" that he collects using his giant robots.

Afterwards, Piku is awakened by a ghost in a cave. The ghost tells him that he needs to leave the cave. After Piku comes out, he discovers that he has been erroneously painted by a legend as an evil beast, and after accidentally breaking the Mountain Village bridge, he is put in a cage by the frightened inhabitants of the village. However, Piku agrees he will fix the bridge, so the villagers decide he is harmless and release him.

Consisting of four staff members, Sectordub is a collaborative studio composed of Arnaud De Bock, Rémi Forcadell, Alan Zucconi, and Calum Bowen. The game was published by Devolver Digital.

The beta version of Pikuniku was revealed during development in 2017. However, the version of the game was not published, and the final game had gone through various changes on release.

Pikuniku received "generally favorable reviews" on the Nintendo Switch and "mixed or average reviews" on the PC version of the game, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Jeuxvideo.com stated that the game was "very short (less than 5 hours of play)" though having "a pretty good mix of platforming and puzzle". Pikuniku was given the rating 14/20.