1 Screen Platformer
This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.
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They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.
They Bleed Pixels is a platformer, difficult and lovecraftian game
developed and published by Spooky Squid Games Inc..
Released on August 29th 2012 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 2,523 reviews of which 2,102 were positive and 421 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 2.43€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 0.74€ on K4G.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP sp 3 or later.
- Processor:CPU 1.2GHz or Faster
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+, 2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable
- Hard Drive: 250 MB
- Controller Support: Any SDL 2.0 compatible controller (DirectInput/Xinput) including the Xbox 360 Controller.
MacOS
- OS: 10.9 Mavericks or newer
- Processor:CPU 1.2GHz or Faster
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+, 2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable
- Hard Drive: 250 MB
- Controller Support: Any SDL 2.0 compatible controller (DirectInput/Xinput) including the Xbox 360 Controller.
Linux
- OS: glibc 2.17+, 64-bit only
- Processor:CPU 1.2GHz or Faster
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+, 2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable
- Hard Drive: 250 MB
- Controller Support: Any SDL 2.0 compatible controller (DirectInput/Xinput) including the Xbox 360 Controller.
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I have put hundreds of hours into celeste and other precision platformer style games. The movement in this game though makes me feel like I'm 100 years old. My reaction time is never fast enough to respond to anything and muscle memory has to lock in before I get past even easy looking sections. I'm sure this gets easier the more you play. It's a pretty solid game, but I only recommend this game to people who are okay failing a ton.
"They Bleed Pixels" is a platformer with elite art, mediocre level design, and a fitting soundtrack to go along with it. The controls are some of the worst I've touched in a modern day platformer, 3 actions being performed with 1 button is atrocious. That being said, the game is well worth the $2 I paid for it. And it really checked that "rage game" experience I was looking for. 6.5/10.
They Bleed Pixels is a brutally difficult combat-platformer with a maximalist approach to challenge (i.e. "more is more") that is best suited for the truly masochistic people who fondly look back at masocore, but perhaps less so for everyone else playing in this modern era. First and foremost, I was forced to limit its framerate to 30fps in order to play closer to its originally intended speed and my review is based on that experience, although I'm sure that it may have had unintended negative effects on the game. For general players, They Bleed Pixels could be a serious challenge with its long sprawling +20 minute levels (but with plenty of checkpoint opportunities) to be finished once and moved on. In such cases, the contextual combat controls and sluggish 30fps responsiveness may be a slight nuisance but doesn't diminish too much on the challenge of it all. However its philosophy to just throw more enemies, environmental hazards, and platforming sections at you, it leads to increasingly common impossible to survive situations. So while checkpoints are plentiful, it definitely can start to sour the taste of victory towards later levels. Luckily it never gets so bad, unless... For completionist sickos (like myself), the later third of They Bleed Pixels can feel genuinely unfair. At a glance, the don't die, get S rank, and speed run challenges seem like a simple case of "get good," which would be fair except for the unreliability within this game. Sometimes it's an input getting eaten, a wonky unintentional physics moment, an enemy triggering early, or the subpixel miscalculation in distance, something would go wrong often enough that it felt like I was just restarting the level / checkpoint and rolling the dice until I could have an actual attempt at the challenge. The worst offender is attempting the S rank on Hallow's Eve for me, especially after getting softlocked in a room right before the finish line where a bomb is suppose to launch a strangler into an environmental hazard to unlock the gates. But it just blew them up instead. Had to quit and lose two hours worth of attempts and the associated progress made through checkpoints. Overall, I'd still recommend They Bleed Pixels for those nostalgic for a bit of masocore challenge. But given how much the design of difficulty in games has progressed past this "more is more" approach in the years since this game's original release, I think there are better choices for the modern person looking for a challenge.
TBP is an incredibly frustrating experience with later levels typically taking me over an hour to complete. As other reviews allude to, there is some jank physics and a questionable decision to map all different attack types to a single button when many buttons go unused but this isn't really why TBP is so difficult to complete; its unreasonable level design combined with floods of enemies that require impossibly consistent precision or the perseverance to get lucky. I give it a thumbs up because the game is beatable, there's no technical issues, and absurd difficulty is appealing to some. But potential players should be aware that this goes beyond a Celeste or a Super Meat Boy and, while there is a cool little silent story interspersed between levels, the game doesn't have much else to offer.
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Frequently Asked Questions
They Bleed Pixels is currently priced at 2.43€ on Steam.
Yes, They Bleed Pixels is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 2.43€ on Steam.
Yes, They Bleed Pixels received 2,102 positive votes out of a total of 2,523 achieving a rating of 8.02.
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They Bleed Pixels was developed and published by Spooky Squid Games Inc..
Yes, They Bleed Pixels is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, They Bleed Pixels is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Yes, They Bleed Pixels is playable and fully supported on Linux.
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No, They Bleed Pixels does not support VR.
They Bleed Pixels is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for They Bleed Pixels. Explore additional content available for They Bleed Pixels on Steam.
No, They Bleed Pixels does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, They Bleed Pixels does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, They Bleed Pixels is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Spooky Squid Games Inc.
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