Pixboy
Oaky Games · 2020 · Pixel Graphics, Retro, 2D Platformer, Precision Platformer, Indie
PC
8 user reviews88% · 8
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About Pixboy
Pixboy, a mad scientist, finally found a recipe for an ultimate potion. However, malicious dogs destroyed his dreams. Time for revenge!Feel the retro vibes, travel back to the past, enjoy chunky pixels and chiptune music!
Be agile!
Run, jump, soar and avoid deadly obstacles. Don't give up! You will succeed... eventually.
Leave no one behind!
Defeat enemies using your super-duper-powerful slingshot. Out of ammo? Jump on foes' heads to defeat them and to get extra bullet!
(If you feel like a pacifist, spare all the enemies on level and get a special Pacifist Badge! But beware: won't be easy!)Seek for secrets!
Find 'Em all! It's a piece of cake, really...
Only 150 secret rooms. Good luck :)
Small hint: look for different patterns on walls
Meet strange creatures!
There are 30 of them.
So for now, meet the Fluffy. Fluffy is full of surprises, figuratively and literally.
Tease your mind!
Each jump - every mechanism rotates.
Plan your way ahead, cause jumping on spikes hurts like hell.
And now the numbers!
- 4 unique worlds with different mechanics inside
- 40 hand-crafted levels
- 150+ secret rooms
- 30 different enemies
- 24 retro color palettes
- 4 bosses
- 4 challenges per level
- a Pacifist Badge for sparing all enemies
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game's retro pixel art style and substantial content offering, with particular appeal to fans of classic platformers like Rayman and Super Meat Boy. However, common complaints focus on the audio design having sharp, inconsistently balanced sound effects, overly aggressive visuals, and poorly implemented secret rooms that lack clear visual cues, forcing players to blindly test every wall rather than rewarding exploration skill and making 100% completion frustrating rather than satisfying.
-Pretty good visually, although a bit aggressive on the eyes. -The music is decent, but the sound affects are a bit sharp and can get annoying fast. Also some of the sounds are much louder than they should be. -Secret rooms the way this game implements them just result in annoying gameplay. Most platformers that have fake walls leading to secrets generally have obvious visual cues that let you know its a secret if you are actively looking for them. In this game there is zero indication that a wall is fake. So this means if you want to 100% a level you just need to run into every single wall in the level to see if it is fake, this results in a very annoying gameplay experience. -Level design feels a bit too simplistic and bigger than it really needs to be. Pair this with the really low difficulty of the game and the result is the game feeling like a chore to play. I ended up quitting about half way through world 2 out of 4. Im sure it gets a little harder later, but that would still mean at least half the game is boring.4 found this helpful
Great game, perfect for retro and pixel art fans - if you're one of them, you definitely need to try it. And I really like to explore levels to find all hidden rooms.3 found this helpful
Nice game1 found this helpful
This is a perfect indie game if you miss playing Rayman or Super Meat Boy and would like to try something in retro style. Plenty of content, challenges for completionists as well as speedrunners and bosses which require perfect jumps and dodges. Do you like what you see in the trailer? Or you're at least interested? This is exactly what you'll get.1 found this helpful
One of the best roguelikes I ever saw. Simple and a lot of fun Miau (^__^)
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