- February 6, 2015
- The Bitfather
- 73h median play time
Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic
Ultimately, the bland, dreary combat sinks the entirety of the experience and it’s with a heavy heart that I must warn you to avoid this title if you have any choice in the matter. Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic is a swing and a woeful miss.
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"Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic" is a humorous RPG/Roguelike game with procedurally generated content, ensuring a unique experience each playthrough. Choose three heroes from 30 unique classes, and embark on a journey to defeat evil forces and save the town of Pixton. The game features randomly generated dungeons, events, and loot, providing endless replayability.











- Pixel Heroes offers a fun and humorous take on classic RPG mechanics, with a variety of quirky characters and engaging dialogue.
- The game features a solid roguelike structure with permadeath, encouraging players to learn from their mistakes and adapt their strategies.
- The pixel art style and retro graphics evoke nostalgia, while the gameplay is simple yet deep enough to keep players engaged.
- The combat can become repetitive and tedious, with many encounters feeling similar and lacking variety.
- Inventory management is cumbersome, as players are limited to 20 item slots, leading to frequent decisions about what to keep or discard.
- The game can be punishingly difficult, with permadeath and random encounters that can wipe out a party unexpectedly, which may frustrate some players.
humor
73 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe humor in the game is widely praised for its quirky, cheeky, and often self-referential nature, featuring a mix of pop culture references and absurd character descriptions that elicit genuine laughter. While many players appreciate the lighthearted tone and engaging dialogue, some note that the humor can become repetitive over time. Overall, the game successfully combines its comedic elements with enjoyable gameplay, making it a fun experience for fans of retro-style RPGs.
“So many pros to this game, nice pixel graphics, nice combat arrangements, plenty of cool items with special abilities, nice soundtrack, nice humor and references to pop culture and a lot more fun and cool things to discover.”
“The game’s off-the-wall humor and lighthearted tone balance the difficulty perfectly.”
“It's charming, with biting humor and just the right amount of strategic depth.”
“Shallow, unfunny humor”
Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic Review
Overall Pixel Heroes: Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic is an interesting game. It brings a very familiar concept to the table and then randomises its attributes until it becomes something different, a less generic RPG with significantly increased difficulty. Its sense of humour, and fun systems and visuals make it well worth picking up for anyone in the market for a turn based RPG, or those who enjoy a bit of traditional tabletop dungeon crawling. For most, the jokes will mostly hit and will stave off the boredom factor, but for those that don't like referential humour, maybe steer clear of this title.
60%Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic Review
Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic seeks to ape Rogue and other randomly generated dungeon-crawlers. But it omits the elements that makes those games so appealing and falls flat as a result.
30%Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic Review
Ultimately, the bland, dreary combat sinks the entirety of the experience and it’s with a heavy heart that I must warn you to avoid this title if you have any choice in the matter. Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic is a swing and a woeful miss.
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