• Publisher: Sos
  • Release Date: Aug 27, 2012
  • Also On: PC
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges in an oldschool point'n'click fashion.The goal in each challenge is to prevent stuff from blowing up using available tools!You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Sep 5, 2012
    90
    An alarmingly bonkers point-and-click puzzle title which is positively bursting with originality and insane conundrums, McPixel is short but most definitely sweet.
  2. Sep 2, 2012
    90
    McPixel does perhaps the most audacious thing of all: embrace the idea that joy in gaming comes in equal measure from knowing what you're doing and having absolutely no clue. Betting big on the concept that games aren't simple tests of what you can already do, but tests to see how much you're willing to learn. And hey. It doesn't hurt that Sosowski packs every scene with video-game related in jokes, pop culture references, and intertextual nods to earlier characters, improbably crafting a world one twenty second scene at a time.
  3. Nov 16, 2012
    80
    It's like a pixel-based WarioWare on acid. [Dec 2012, p.29]
  4. Sep 11, 2012
    60
    The game's nonsensical internal logic and humor is a lot of what makes McPixel so charming. The downside is that failing a puzzle means repeating it until you get it right.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
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