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Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic cover art

Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic

The Bitfather · Headup · 2015-02-06

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Feb 06, 2015 (Mac), Mar 04, 2015 (Android), Feb 06, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 06, 2015 (Linux), Jun 15, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Feb 03, 2017 (Xbox One)

Enter the world of PIXEL HEROES and prepare yourself for a thrilling RPG/Roguelike experience like you have never seen before!

Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic is an Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2015, priced at $0.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 604 reviews).

1
playing now
75%
positive of 604 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
3.95★
PlayStation Store rating (109 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

"Listen! The end is nigh!! Hear my words and prepare! An ancient cult has set foot in our lands! They call themselves -The Sons of Dawn- and pray to some dark elder god. They have started recruiting people for their cause all over the country. I fear that they want to try to awaken something which should be left sleeping. Something dangerous and sinister! Something that might destroy us all. Spend your last of days wisely..."(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 15k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 604 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.64 at Fanatical (2025-11-03) · bundled 13×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 40 of 70 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520172026Week of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 03:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 5 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 7 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
470Jan 2015Oct 2025Jan 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2015 — avg 6 · peak 20Jul 2015 — avg 11 · peak 34Oct 2015 — avg 12 · peak 36Jan 2016 — avg 21 · peak 70Apr 2016 — avg 6 · peak 16Jul 2016 — avg 12 · peak 43Oct 2016 — avg 6 · peak 17Jan 2017 — avg 6 · peak 21Apr 2017 — avg 5 · peak 25Jul 2017 — avg 5 · peak 14Oct 2017 — avg 4 · peak 14Jan 2018 — avg 4 · peak 12Apr 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Jul 2018 — avg 5 · peak 19Oct 2018 — avg 4 · peak 15Jan 2019 — avg 2 · peak 11Apr 2019 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2019 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2019 — avg 3 · peak 11Jan 2020 — avg 3 · peak 9Apr 2020 — avg 3 · peak 20Jul 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2020 — avg 3 · peak 11Jan 2021 — avg 3 · peak 8Apr 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2022 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Jan 2023 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2023 — avg 3 · peak 8Jul 2023 — avg 4 · peak 14Oct 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Oct 2025 — avg 2 · peak 6
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.002015-01-012026-10-092015-01-01 — best price $0.002015-05-22 — best price $7.492015-09-15 — best price $9.992016-01-18 — best price $3.392016-06-03 — best price $2.492016-10-07 — best price $2.492017-02-06 — best price $5.992017-07-06 — best price $9.992017-11-29 — best price $9.992018-05-10 — best price $4.992018-08-21 — best price $9.992018-12-01 — best price $9.992019-03-18 — best price $9.992019-07-01 — best price $2.992019-11-12 — best price $9.992020-02-16 — best price $8.652020-05-21 — best price $9.992020-07-24 — best price $9.992020-10-04 — best price $7.892020-12-07 — best price $2.112021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-04-13 — best price $7.892021-06-06 — best price $7.892021-08-27 — best price $2.242021-11-20 — best price $9.992022-02-11 — best price $7.342022-07-15 — best price $8.592022-12-22 — best price $1.492023-05-11 — best price $7.022023-09-18 — best price $0.792024-02-08 — best price $0.992024-07-22 — best price $1.992024-11-21 — best price $0.992025-04-08 — best price $9.992025-09-06 — best price $9.992026-02-19 — best price $9.992026-08-03 — best price $0.792026-10-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

55
achievements tracked
55.5%
earned "First Blood"
5.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, German

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-07-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,4391%55
Xbox One (Xbox)4171%55

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGDwarfIndieRetroComedyFantasyAdventureRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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