Literally Just Pixels On A Screen
pixelsonascreendev · 2025 · Casual, Idler, Sandbox, 2D, Parody
PC
Very Positive87% · 165
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About Literally Just Pixels On A Screen
Welcome to Literally Just Pixels On A Screen. In this "game" you get to collect pixels. That's it. Leave the game open and every hour you will be dropped a random pixel. Different pixels have different drop rates. Pixels will appear as items in your Steam inventory, are tradable, and can be bought/sold on the Steam Community Market.You can also craft 10 pixels into a single random pixel.Drop rates for each pixel:Each pixel is in 12-bit RGB color space and can be represented by 3 hex digits, one for each R, G, and B value. Each digit (0 - F) represents a number between 0 and 15.Each pixel is generated by essentially simulating a sequence of 45 coin flips. The number of heads in the first 15 coin tosses determines the R value, the number of heads in the next 15 coin tosses determines the G value, and the number of heads in the final 15 coin tosses determines the B value.This results in some absurdly rare pixels, like #000 and #FFF (the pure black/white pixels) that each have a probability of 1 : 35184372088832 to be dropped. The pixels #00F, #0F0, #0FF, #F00, #F0F, #FF0 also have the same probability of being dropped.Good luck collecting all the pixels.
What Steam players say
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Literally Just Pixels On A Screen is a deliberately minimal idle collecting game that turns one of the simplest elements of digital imagery into its entire progression system. Developed and published by pixelsonascreendev, the game was released on January 31, 2025 as a free-to-play title. Rather than surrounding its concept with unnecessary mechanics, it delivers exactly what its name suggests: players collect individual colored pixels. The result sits somewhere between an idle game, a digital collectible experiment, and a playful commentary on the value people attach to virtual objects. The core gameplay requires almost no active involvement. While the game remains open, the player receives a randomly generated pixel roughly once per hour. These are not simply cosmetic entries stored inside a private collection screen. Each acquired pixel becomes a Steam inventory item, allowing it to participate in Steam's broader trading ecosystem. Pixels can be exchanged between players and bought or sold through the Steam Community Market. This gives an otherwise extremely basic collectible an unusual degree of permanence and makes obtaining uncommon colors considerably more interesting than …1 found this helpful
Does what it says on the box. Has pixels. They're on my screen. 👍1 found this helpful
sometimes i worry this game is mining bitcoins on my pc or something but i really want every color pixel so i just ignore it
Would only recommend trying this if you've gone through every other free and paid game on every online marketplace, and this was the last "game" left on Earth... and even then with some reservation. At least the title is pretty self-explanatory. But you can't even consider this an idle game in the barest sense because there's pretty much no reward; you have to wait an hour per (random) pixel with nothing to speed it up, the clicker counter is literally just for show, and you can buy/trade more pixels should you have nothing better to do. I guess it's technically a pretty good Pavlovian experiment on the part of the developer, considering people are actually addicted to this crap.
ive discouraged at my father. anyway.
pretty fun game if you ask me
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