PIXELMAN

Released Feb 2018

PIXELMAN is a retro styled, action-filled, high-score chaser arcade game, where you control the title character in his mission to rescue the citizens of Pixville from the evil Baron Von Pixel and his contraptions.

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Evaluation

PIXELMAN launched on February 28, 2018, graduating from Early Access into its full 1.0 release. The 1.0 launch was the culmination of over 7 years of development and delivered the complete package: Arcade Mode, all three Endless levels (Countryside, City, and Space), multiple playable characters (Pixelman, Pixelgirl, and PixelNinja), and Spanish localization. Following launch, the developer shipped two small feature updates — the Cowboy Hat Update on March 12, 2018 and the Competitive Update on April 5, 2018 — adding cosmetic touches and leaderboard enhancements. After April 5, 2018, all developer communications shifted to promoting a separate game, Shikon-X Astro Defense Fortress, with posts in May 2020 and June 2022. No further content updates, patches, DLC, or roadmap items have been announced for PIXELMAN. There are no unreleased DLC listings on the store. The developer has not announced any future content for PIXELMAN, and the game appears to have launched as a complete, finished product.

Evidence

PIXELMAN officially launched out of Early Access as the full edition, delivering Arcade Mode, all characters, and Spanish localization after 7+ years of development.

news post · Feb 28, 2018 source content shipped

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Developer's most recent post promoted a Shikon-X livestream — the last official communication on PIXELMAN's Steam page, with no PIXELMAN updates mentioned.

news post · Jun 18, 2022 source development ending

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Details

Developer

Kindermann Corp.

Publisher

Kindermann Corp.

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

Action Indie Casual Pixel Graphics Retro 2D Arcade Comedy Funny Parody Score Attack Colorful Cute Controller Flight

About this game

PIXELMAN is a retro styled action-filled, high-score chaser, where you control the title character in his mission to rescue the citizens of Pixville from the evil Baron Von Pixel and his contraptions.
In PIXELMAN you need to keep your combos going to be able to make it into the online leaderboards!

PIXELMAN's gameplay harkens back to a time where every token counted, as was the case with games such as Donkey Kong, Galaga, Moon Patrol and others from the golden era of arcades. You have simple controls and goals, and the difference between being a regular Joe or the king of the arcade is your ability to completely master them.

The citizens of Pixville are counting on you!

How to Play

Controlling PIXELMAN is very simple: you press and hold to go up, release to go down, and you can also use the pad to move faster (but with less accuracy!) Your goal is to rescue the citizens (humans and their pets!) to keep your heroic energy up, and also avoid crashing into buildings, traffic, and Von Pixel’s weapons and traps.
If you don’t rescue anyone for a while, your heroic energy will go down; and if it reaches zero, you´ll lose your powers and fall!

XBox 360 Controllers, Mouse and Keyboards supported (We truly recommend playing with a controller).

Combos

Every time you rescue a Pixelian, your combo meter will go up. Once you’ve rescued 5 in a row, your score will start to multiply! BUT, if you fail to rescue a single soul, you meter will deplete, and you’ll have to start all over again. Keep the combos going for maximum high-scorage!

Power Ups

From time to time, you’ll come across a shield. If you grab it, you’ll activate the power up mode! In this mode, your score and combo meter multiply, your speed goes up, and you can’t get hurt! The bad thing is, it only lasts for one hit, so you better watch out!

Grab an atom and get the power to shoot fireballs! You can accumulate up to 4, if you do, you'll get a super shot! That super shot can destroy everything in its path and do extra damage to the bosses!

PIXELMAN

He’s Pixville’s senior superhero, his superpowers are flying and untying knots really fast. He also loves podiums! His main weaknesses are buildings, bombs, lasers and missiles… nothing that a good power up can’t fix!

PIXELGIRL

She’s Pixville’s new superhero! She’s pretty much like PIXELMAN, but faster and cooler! Once you learn her quirks, she’ll start racking up points like nothing!

PIXELNINJA

He's very mysterious, we don't know anything about him.

Baron Von Pixel

PIXELMAN’s main antagonist is a mustache-twirling villain who hates everyone in Pixville. He managed to buy a few rusty WWI weapons on Craigslist, and he’s not afraid to use them! His main hobby is to tie people up and leave them on top of buildings, trees and cars. Only PIXELMAN can stop his devious schemes!

Podiums

What’s a superhero without a podium to stand on? In PIXELMAN you start on top of a sad soapbox, but to show their gratitude after being rescued, the Pixelians will start building new podiums for you! Can you unlock them all? Are you the hero Pixville needs? Or the hero Pixville deserves? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Online Leaderboards

The game doesn’t have an ending. You can play until your eyes bleed or the speed goes so far up that you can’t control your hero anymore! The goal of the game is to make it to the online leaderboards. And in order to achieve that, you need to maintain your combos going. If you have a high combo and you manage to get a power up, you can make over 1000 points for just one rescue!

Achievements

Can you slalom between 50 rockets? Can you survive over 5 minutes in one gameplay? Can you reach over NINE THOUSAND!!!™ points in one game? If the answer is YES, this is the game for you! We have 28 achievements ready for the hardcore PIXELMAN players to show their skills!