Start with one pixel. Build up to screen-clearing chaos. PIXEL.EXE is a retro incremental clicker with explosive combos, automated drones, orbital lasers, and bosses lurking beneath the grid. Upgrade, unleash a nuke, and reboot for bigger rewards and tougher challenges.

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About This Game

There is one pixel. Click it.

It explodes. You earn a pixel. It comes back.

That's how PIXEL.EXE begins: an empty dot-matrix screen, a single target, and a handwritten invitation to click. What follows is an incremental game about turning that tiny interaction into an arena full of chain reactions, drone swarms, falling bombs, and orbital lasers.

One click becomes a chain reaction

Destroy pixels to earn currency and XP, then spend your earnings on more targets, faster respawns, and stronger payouts. Unlock critical hits, build combos, and turn your clicks into explosions that catch nearby pixels. Each new mechanic arrives in the shop waiting for your investment. Choose what to activate and what to upgrade next.

Put destruction on autopilot

Deploy drones to hunt pixels, drop bombs into crowds, and send laser beams slicing across the arena. Expand your arsenal with cluster bombs and twin lasers, summon storms of falling pixels, or charge a nuke and clear the board in a single blast.

Keep clicking alongside your machines, or let automation do the work. Once you've built your automated arsenal, it also earns limited offline progress while you're away.

Catch a little colour

Blue pixels boost your XP. Fleeting golden pixels offer a bigger payday, but your drones can't catch them for you. Catch a rainbow pixel to trigger a brief burst of boosted rewards as the arena lights up with colour.

Something is moving beneath the grid

Eventually, pixels aren't the only things you have to destroy. Take on bosses before they burrow back underground, upgrade your damage, and work towards a final encounter.

After victory, keep playing or choose REBOOT: start again with your earned feats intact and a permanent pixel-value multiplier, facing higher upgrade prices and tougher bosses on your next run.

Small pixels. Big feedback.

Chunky particles, rippling shockwaves, screen shake, and synthesised chiptune audio make every pop count. Behind the destruction, a dot-matrix landscape gradually takes shape as you level up.

Just one more pixel...

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

An AI-assisted algorithm was developed to procedurally generate music in real time during gameplay.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 11, 10
    • Processor: Quad core 2Ghz+
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 1GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 750 Ti, Radeon R7 360 or Intel UHD Graphics 730
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 11
    • Processor: Quad core 2Ghz+ from 2021 or newer
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 2 GB
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    Minimum:
    • Processor: Apple Silicon M1
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Processor: 2020 Apple Silicon
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 20.04
    • Processor: 4 hardware CPU threads - Intel® Core™ i5 750 or higher
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Storage: 1 GB available space