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Axel & Pixel cover art

Axel & Pixel

Silver Wish Games · 2K · 2010-10-06

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 06, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 14, 2009 (Xbox 360)

Axel and Pixel are trapped in a beautiful but dangerous dream world. If they plan to get out they must solve its mysteries. Drawn by hand and rendered in full high-definition, Axel & Pixel is a unique journey through an artist's dream.

0
playing now
73%
positive of 101 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Axel & Pixel is a point-and-click adventure video game developed by Silver Wish Games. The game was released on October 14, 2009 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service and on October 7, 2010 for Steam.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 63% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.0k–8.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 101 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2016-06-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$1.242015-01-012026-08-102015-01-01 — best price $4.992016-02-05 — best price $2.492016-07-04 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $1.242017-03-20 — best price $4.992017-10-18 — best price $1.242017-11-28 — best price $4.992018-02-15 — best price $1.242018-03-12 — best price $4.992018-06-21 — best price $1.242018-11-13 — best price $4.992018-12-20 — best price $1.242019-02-18 — best price $4.992019-06-26 — best price $1.242019-08-13 — best price $4.992019-12-19 — best price $1.242020-01-21 — best price $4.992020-03-12 — best price $1.242020-05-12 — best price $4.992020-11-25 — best price $1.242021-01-05 — best price $4.992021-06-24 — best price $1.242021-11-01 — best price $4.992021-12-22 — best price $1.242022-02-24 — best price $4.992022-11-22 — best price $1.242023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $1.242023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $1.242024-03-07 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $1.242024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-02-06 — best price $1.242025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $1.242026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $1.242026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-10 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

IndiePuzzlePoint & Click

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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