Literally Just Pixels On A Screen

Literally Just Pixels On A Screen

Released Jan 2025

Welcome to Literally Just Pixels On A Screen. In this "game" you get to collect pixels. That's it.

86% positive · 169 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Literally Just Pixels On A Screen is a free-to-play casual game that launched on January 31, 2025. The game's premise is intentionally minimal: leave it open, collect randomly generated pixels that appear as Steam inventory items, and optionally craft or trade them. The store description fully defines the game's mechanics — there are no announced expansions, DLC, or additional content of any kind. Following launch, the developer was active through late March 2025, shipping a series of quality-of-life and feature patches — including dark mode, a scoring system, cloud saves, crafting improvements, pixel gallery sorting, and a canvas mode — alongside several bug fixes. The most recent developer communication was on March 25, 2025. Since then, no further updates have been posted. The developer has made no announcements about future content, and the game's design is self-contained by nature: the entire content space (every possible 12-bit RGB pixel) is already defined and fixed at launch. The post-launch updates improved usability and added minor features, but none suggested a planned content roadmap. With no outstanding commitments, no unreleased DLC, and no developer statements pointing to future updates, the game is best understood as a complete product that shipped with its full concept intact on release day.
Evidence
Store description fully defines the game's mechanics — pixel collection via hourly drops, crafting, and Steam inventory/market integration. No future content, expansions, or roadmap is mentioned.
description · Jan 31, 2025 source content shipped
high
Customization Update added quick crafting, pixel gallery sorting, background colour options, and a pixel canvas mode — quality-of-life features with no indication of further planned content.
news post · Mar 21, 2025 source content shipped
medium

Media

Details

Publisher
pixelsonascreendev
Achievements
1
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

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.

Last evaluated Jun 19, 2026
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