They Bleed Pixels
They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror. Rendered in a distinct visual style that blends pixel art with paper and ink textures, They Bleed…
They Bleed Pixels is an adventure developed by Spooky Squid Games, released 29 August 2012 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What They Bleed Pixels is
They Bleed Pixels is an adventure game developed by Spooky Squid Games and released in 2012. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on XNA Game Studio.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When a young girl arrives at the Lafcadio Academy for Troubled Young Ladies, she's unprepared for the violent nightmares that plague her dreams and transport her to other worlds. Worse yet, her dreams are intruding into her waking life, slowly altering her flesh into the demonic form of her night terrors. Can she destroy the mysterious blood-soaked book that appears to be the root of her troubles or will her transmutation from girl to clawed horror become complete?
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 150 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
They Bleed Pixels holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for CPU 1.2GHz or Faster, 512 MB RAM and OpenGL 3.0+, 2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
They Bleed Pixels launched on 29 August 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for They Bleed Pixels yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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