Legends of Pixelia

I've only played the Knight so far but two things just stand out from the first room:
- Controls are super smooth and accurate.
- Pixels and collisions and other hit-boxes are spot on.
This leads to a super fun gameplay.

Character progression is pretty simple but helps customize your hero between floors, just like upgrading your gear by spending your well earned coins.

One big negative for colourblind: Enemy shields are colour coded, like the four main buttons on your controller. You need to match your attack to the shield's colour in order to destroy the shield.

Looking forward to shared screen co-op and solo runs.

legend of zelda meet atari such an adictive lil gem i am amazed is not more know

Good. good

There is a surprising amount of depth to the gameplay. Combos feel good, enemies are varied, there's a shocking amount of thought required for positioning and timing.

That said, I'm not sure if I'm going to enjoy this game for all that much longer. You have a fixed, and fairly limited, set of abilities for a given character, so progression doesn't feel all that great, and I get the feeling things will start to feel samey before too long.
Also, the art's pretty bad, but that should be obvious from the screenshots.

It's probably worth about $2, which is about what I paid for it. So, it gets a lukewarm recommendation.

I'm not going to give this game a thumbs down because it has a small player base and viewcount. I don't want to run around quashing budding developers before they get a chance to shine. At the same time, I actually wouldn't recommend this game.

It has many, many issues. For starters, it has problems with the controls. As solid as the hitbox detection is, the entire game feels pretty clunky. I'm used to hack and slash style gameplay, but the minimalism hurts this game quite a bit. The lack of direction in your attacks combined with the lack of differentiation between each character makes it lack depth. That's my real issue.

Most of the 'difficulty' comes from colored enemies that own shields. These enemies are invincible to every kind of damage until you break their shield using the correct, coinciding color of attack. This means if you miss the specific subset of attacks you need to use to hit the enemy, you have to run around and wait until your ability comes off cooldown. In fact, most of the game's 'correct' style of gameplay is just that: run around and wait for your cooldowns.

This gives the game a very, very slow pacing. You're given very little in the way of options with your gameplay. You just...have to hit the specific move at the right time. I understand that some people enjoy this simple albiet punishing gameplay style. For me, it feels very dated at this point, and I expect a bit more dynamism from the titles I frequent. Compared to dozens of action RPG's or roguelites, this game is lacking in many respects.

The visuals are also minimal and to the game's detriment. I understand having limited resources for the game. That's fine, and I don't expect life like detail in my games. At the same time, games like Shovel Knight circumvent these restrictions in the chosen art style by having solid art direction and variety. This game doesn't craft different atmosphere's with different feels to them. They blend together, all variations of the same monochrome.

That isn't to say this game is without its positives. Its music is pretty good, being easy to listen to. The same could be said for the ability to combo and chain moves together. It requires precise timing, and that takes time to master. There's some depth there; it doesn't change the limiting factors I mentioned earlier however. Chaining attacks is irrelevent if that first colored attack misses. All the other attacks don't matter, and you must wait until you try again. And again. And again ad verbatum.

Regardless, this could all be fixed with a bit of polish and refinement. Adding some variation to the attacks would help tremendously. Perhaps the barbarian gets a leaping slam that makes enemies prone? Maybe give him bonus execute damage on his slam? Giving the knight a quick block that counters the enemy and lets you slip in an empowered attack would be nice. Maybe giving some kind of slow to the mage.

Either way, I wish the developer good luck, and this isn't a bad effort for a game by any means. It simply needs more polish and it'll be a load of fun to play.

An amazing game, truly underrated. Fun to play solo or with friends, and with a versus mode which compliments the game perfectly. Adventure is fun and chaotic with friends, with a nice pace. I only encountered one minor problem, and that was my keyboard controls sometimes reverting back to the original scheme for seemingly no reason, but only on booting the game up, never in the middle of a round of versus or adventure. Controller compatibility works fine. I love this game.

Really good game. Only wish that online multiplayer would be an option, so i could play this great game with my friends!

Whew... I held off writing a review for this game for a small while, even though I have actually spent a good amount of time playing the game. Tonight, I bought a game-pad controller, and I did find the gameplay much more pleasant. So, I am going to try writing my thoughts, because I have had some fun times. Would I recommend this game? I am going to say yes - but do your research first, simply because the game does a good job at what it says it is going to do. And it does it very well but not much more.

Folks, this is a what-you-see is-what-you-get type situation. The nes-zelda gameplay feels right out of nes-zelda, but that is all the gameplay you will see. In fact, there is not even any story. And are there items and skill upgrades? Yes, but they are stripped down to just numbers on the screen. Even me - who loves the minimalistic approach - is a bit taken back by the lack of flourish here. But if you want nes-zelda type gameplay, and you want to jump right in and have lots of control with your upgrades, then maybe you will be right at home here. I know that Legends of Pixelia will remain on my recently-played list, because it is just so easy to pickup and to get back into playing. I can see myself playing this years into the future, because the gameplay is - of course - timeless.

There is also a multi-player mode. I imagine that is a pretty good time, but I did not get to experience it. Might be another plus for you.

Works great on Ubuntu Linux. The game uses the Unity game engine, and it recommends a gamepad controller.

This is marked as "Full controller support". Steam Controller does not work at all for this game, at least not on macOS. I spent about an hour trying to get it to work with various different configurations and had no success. In fact, on multiple attempts the game became almost completely unresponsive to keyboard, mouse, and steam controller, with only the up and down inputs on the joystick being recognized. Very disappointing. Don't waste your time like I did.

great coop game with good progression in difficulty and fun combat

A very simple oldschool hack'n'slash RPG with an easy to understand color-coded cooldown-based skill system, procedurally generated dungeons, and a decent cast of different character classes to choose from.

The colors correspond to the colors on an X-box controller. The game can be played in softcore or hardcore modes, with the hardcore mode being a roguelike mode.

The game honestly looks pretty if you're into this style of graphics. It plays smoothly. When you die, you can be pretty sure that it's your fault. There are a nice variety of enemies that get stronger and more varied as you progress. Each dungeon has its own unique theme and 3 floors with a boss at the end of each floor.

If you're looking for something simple and fun, it's a great game. For deep complexity, you may want to look elsewhere.

An easy recommendation for those who enjoy dungeon crawlers of this variety.

The thing I like most about this game is the concept of champions for pvp where the characters are preset and equal. A concept desperately missing from the cash grab game industry where a level 50 with stacked gear fights a level 20. This feels like a game created by fans for fans. Now just make a Bruce Lee style character with punches and kicks so Ican continue my commodore 64 flashback.

I fell in love with this game in just 20 minutes into it ..The gameplay is fantastic and the pixel art is retro beautiful..It may need better support for mac keyboards but I think the game is better suited for a gamepad..Any way great game ,would love to see more games like this.

Played it with my gf.

You kill, lvl up, and get gear. Simple and not so easy combat.

I liked it. Definitely made for local co-op.

I got some problems using ps3 control as gamepad and I hope they make a solution for this

This game is very fun but also can be sort of fustrating if you're not very patient. Took me a while to get use to the controls on keyboard and aren't bad with a controller. You can't really change the keybindings, there are 2 presets. The keybindings use the WASD and arrow keys as preset A and NUM keys with WASD keys as preset B (keyboard).

Playing for about an hour at the time of the review, there's not a large variety of monsters, but there could be many I haven't got to yet. The two bosses I've been at right now seem to have familiar tactics and AI. But that hasnt stopped them from being unique from each other. (Of course) They are different creatures, but are the same as the smaller versions of them around the dungeons.

The replayability is there, but may get old if you keep dieing. The dungeon will not change for a while until you die around 3-5 times before changing. Each time, you can get an item from (I'm going to call it the Chest) the Chest that makes you stronger. You can also upgrade the items with coins you find around the dungeons.
There are two modes you can choose from when creating a character, one will only make you lose XP when you die and the other deleting your character completely. If you are into rouge-likes, hardcore is for you. but if you just want to play and enjoy the game for what it is, softcore is what you'll want.

This game is interesting and would definitely recommend you to try this.