Super Life of Pixel
Skip · Short indie · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$9.99Skip
On its price record
$3.16Fair
- Length
- 3h 16.4h to 100%
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 377 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.16 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2544 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Join Pixel as he quests through gaming history, teleporting across the most iconic video game systems of generations past. He’ll have to jump, dodge and play smart if he wants to survive all the traps, puzzles and enemies waiting to take him down at every turn.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
24 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 363 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 32 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Castle In The Darkness ($9.99, scores 43) outscores it, and so does Axiom Verge ($19.99, scores 51). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Super Life of Pixel
3 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.5 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
31% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Alright so for some reason I actually got 100% on this old Indie platformer despite the TONS of issues it has. So I have a lot to say about it. The hitboxes are very clearly perfect hitboxes which usually leaves you thinking you shouldn't have died in many situations. Some of the later levels (Especially the "Special Consoles" section) are absurdly unfair to the point this feels like a troll platformer game. A lot...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
a wonderful history, and a great practical journey of the evolution of game play over the decades. Any enthusiast or designer should play this end-to-end.
I've had my problems with this game, and the more I play it the more ridiculous it gets. First off, early on in the game there are some areas where you have to be pixel perfect to make the jump, and if you are off by any amount you fail. The difficulty on some of these levels are just ridiculous! You know what will help in a platformer like this? Checkpoints. There is not a single level in this game that has...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Super Life of Pixel scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/327260/super-life-of-pixelReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.