Grade: C
Mini-games to earn coins and adventure in a pixelized medieval kingdom
Pixelry is a set of lightweight mini-games strung together. You start out on an overhead map and can explore five sub-areas. The tavern is where you fight rivals. At the forge, you can upgrade your equipment and work. The barn is where you can race horses or customize your steed. At the store, you can buy upgrade potions and do sorting challenges.
If you beat enough of the opponents and raise your rank, then you can unlock areas and get to the end game.
You also have the option of customizing your heraldry. That’s where I spent most of my creative efforts. Why has there never been an angry face heraldry in medieval times?
Jousting is all about lining up lance and shield.
The main game in Pixelry is jousting. You have a shield and lance. You have three positions for your lance (high, middle, low) and the same for your shield (high, middle, low). When you crash into the opponent, you are trying to put your lance where their shield is NOT and put your shield lined up with where enemies lance IS.
You can also slow down or speed up your horse and use potions. The jousting game is fine, but you’d have to grind a lot to get enough coins and equipment to progress to the locked areas. It didn’t hold my attention enough to play through to the end game, but it was a perfectly acceptable distraction for a few hours.
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