Pixel Pixie

It was a very fun and addictive game. i love the slow progression and unlocking systems in place based on exploration, choices, and achievements gained.

Pixel Pixie is my favorite game played this year and worth getting at full price if you are a completionist. PP may not really be "the Fraser of JRPG roguelike autobattler hybrids" as its creator once said but it is definitely the king of this very specific niche. My main critique of it is that despite its genre the game does not deliver that infinite replay value that roguelikes or Final Fantasy 1 have. The issue is mostly a lack of depth in strategy and theory-craft. The game is very driven by metaprogression and starts wearing thin 10 hours in. I will recommend Pixel Pixie at 20% discount to all JRPG; roguelike and autobattler fans. It is a must play for all Final Fantasy 1 fans too! If you are a completionist who does not mind a good grind then you can expect some 30 hours of content that justifies buying it at full price. For casual play the game starts wearing even prior to its challenge dungeon. You may want to quit early or not commit to hardcore-mode. Beating that dungeon rewards players with a lore-dump that is the weakest writing in a game that usually has a funny; quirky; light and unique voice. (A mix of brainrot-references and cheesy puns one could call "gouda…

Solid RPG! I'm not a super fan of rogue likes in general, but I did like this one. It doesn't take very many runs to get what you need to put together a team to win, and the "ascensions" or difficulty boosting options are part of the game's progression. 100% all achievements in 11 hours, and a bit over 9 hours for the first main game ending. The auto battle system is simple but effective, and it's important to adjust your team per chapter. The only thing really needed is a good healer, with a great lucky collection of relics you can go without a healer but the safety factor of having one really make a difference in the final areas of the game and against [spoiler]non-Reaper[/spoiler] bosses. Late game with all the characters unlocked you can get ridiculously powerful. The meta progression systems all work well together. General party composition (basic classes), starting items and money, and stat buffs by using the grapes currency, unlocking of character classes via either completing "quests" (achievements) or by doing special events in the world, and opening up more events and possible relics to find using the currency from completing "quests" also works well. Runs …

Pixel Pixie is a fun little game if you like the auto-battler and rogue-lite genres. It's pretty simple and breezy, and the game isn't particularly difficult all told, even on the hardest difficulty, so long as you make semi-intelligent decisions on party composition. Most of its gameplay is about making choices between rewards after battles and trying to make a good team composition out of the characters you happen to find on the way. There are a pretty good number of characters so there are some good decisions to make. If I had any criticism, I'd say that some of the more interesting characters to play with are a bit too rare (one is bound to a random event which makes her even more unreliable to find, for example.) A lot of the game is opening up more options for things that can appear in your runs, which also ends up making it harder to actually get the composition you want due to the random nature of what you find. The game's tone is a little on the parody side, but I enjoy it as I personally enjoyed the humor. It's not a serious fantasy epic, so know that going in. Overall, one of the more interesting games I came across this year. Give it a good recommend for auto-battler…

Good time - not a hard game by any means, and not long, but it's got a unique sense of humor and the gameplay loop is fun enough to suck you in quickly.

Very fun auto-battler. Story is silly without being sophomoric.