Absolutely stunning game really enjoying playing this. So much content and amazing pixel art graphics. The developer is extremely active and happy to answer questions honestly and really quite quickly. All my time playing has been on steam deck and it's great😁 To pixelia runs and plays great on deck so i highly recommend it to fellow Deckers👍🏻. There is so much more to come as well and priced really fairly for such a high content game. So its a thumbs up from me!!!! In fact 2 thumbs up i luv it❤️

Game looked promising, lots of activities, lots of peoples to meet, heck, even own a farm and play a stardew valley clone.

BUT:

---Everything is so tedious for nothing, want to get a good job ? You have to study and wow.... Even Korean MMO are not THAT grindy.

You have to: Read news paper, wait till you're done..... Watch news on TV, wait till you're done.... Read a book, wait till you filled the bar and done, get a PC and train in coding, wait till you filled the bar and done.... get a student desk, learn to write to fill a bar and done. Now that you've spend like 20minutes CONGRATS !!!! you're now 1 point of intelligence smarter. Guess what ? 20 more to go ;) Rince and repeat till you're smart enough to get a tech job. Also it's the same for strenght: Smash Q & D till you fill bar on every gym's benches and get 1 Strenght.

What is frustrating, is my character is suposed to be a Bookworm and manage to be bored by reading book ! Imagine if Tony Hawk was bored by skating ?

---Musics are quite forgetable and tend to be few of them, leading to turn it off.

---Work: Most of them are quite not fun (duh it's work, you'll say) but the way it's played is not amusing/fun. Worse of all, some of them are bugged (butcher job is the worst, fellas) so you tend to stick to waiter, or cleaner. Tech job is too high demanding, you need to graduate, wich is quite boring (you make homework; grind Intelligence, be happy to get a good grade.... do that once a day for like a month) and require a high Intelligence stats explained earlier in this review.

---activities:
=> lockpicking is not easy, you have almost no real sign your making progress on the lock and tend to break lockpicks too easily (even with the costume)
=> Basketball is amusing a little, but clearly need more polishing
=> Hacking is boring, you wait till you're done, if you're not even 10 to 20 Intelligence, you'll be just having your crime level getting up. and lost 30seconds IRL to wait. At best you get a few dollars.
=>Painting is just a puzzle game
=> Cooking is useless, you have to do minigames with lots of ingredients to obtain a food that is not so nourishing, and cost a few bucks while you can order spaghetti and be nourished more for far less dollars. Also you have to buy all the cooking machines wich cost extra more cash.... when you can order a plate of spaghetti for 0.23% of all you need to buy to cook them up......
=> Music is tedious, the guitar will make you regret playing "Through the fire and Flames, Dragonforce" on guitar hero in hardest difficulty.
=> Fighting is meh, you have to trrain like to 20 Strenght points to manage to win the first few matches, hell, I even got beaten up by a old guy in the street like i was made of breadsticks.
=> Cracking safe is fun, you have to guess a correct combination with already fours numbers greyed out. 24 combinations possible then

Walking is slow, obtaining a vehicle require you to get a permit, wich cost a big amount of cash. Even when you get your car/bike, it cost a lots to get it upgraded and fully fonctional.

Renting the first house is nice, and it's quite easy to get enough cash to pay for your week of rent, but buying it is more complicated. Also people tend to forget to pay and get evicted. It would be better if you could manage your bank account to renew payment weekly.

Money.... well money is clearly not a problem. All you have to do is to gather 30000 dollars and play casino's slot machines. highest bid. Got two times jackpot and enough cash to buy me the fanciest home this game has to offer, and buy me a permit for my vehicles, enough spaghetti and booze so i never need to cook ever again, and be happy all the time (yup booze give mood boost)

Let's talk about moods: you need to eat, wash, be happy. nothing 3 plate of spaghettis, 2 bottle of wine and a shower can't fix. Do this regularely and you skip the mood part of the game. Play Casino multiple time and you skip the work part of the game.

Now all you got is the social experience, and it's probably the only thing made right. BUT. It's really looooooong. You want to chat, you have to clik, then click chat. Have to wait for the blablabla, then see a heart if win, or broken heart if failed. you can skip the blablabla by left clikcing, but even with that, the heart animation is long, and you have to wait for the whole talk menu to reapear and realign then ands only then you can re-click on the possible interaction.

You can also go on date, wich is nice, but if you're not smart/attractive/intelligent/funny enough you won't get good dices for the dices minigame where you have to reach a certain score to get a good date rating. The date system is nice in overall, but if you lack any of these stats quoted earlier, don't even think about it.

Getting married and having child is useless, your wife talk about her crush.... wait what ???? you can't interact with your infant.

But what I listed here, good friends, is not the worst the game had to offer.... No, no no no no.

What really was the worst, is the developper's lack of infos about the game, being in touch with his communities, showing ETA of the game while developing it.

We were fed breadcrumbs every like 6-7 months waiting an annoucement, game was delayed like 3 times for "polishing" and then no sign of life for 4-6 months bare minimum at least. Rinse and repeat, for the whole game development. While higher backers who where already playing the beta were saying to be patient... Felt like Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake.

Also backers who did paid just enough to get the game day one did not got their game day one. Some had to wait multiple days to at least get our key. Mine was apparently already used.... So everyone was playing it, while we were waiting. Felt unfair.

So nope, I don't recommand Pixelia, nor game produced by Pixeduo Studios (coucou Kaan) and so do you.

This game is EXACTLY what I've been wanting so long - a life sim RPG! And there is SO MUCH TO DO! I love the life sim genre but I'm not really into decorating or dressing up my character - I like the gameplay, like leveling skills and progressing through careers and befriending the other characters - and this game scratches ALL the itches!
Be warned though - it's still very new and there are bugs, things that don't really work the way you think they should, and a lot of QoL updates are needed. Some of the minigames are basically unplayable (I'm looking at you, guitar performance and arcade game #1) but I haven't found anything gamebreaking. The dev is doing an amazing job at updates and bug fixes so far, and clearly has a LOT of love and passion for this project. Once it's polished up, I feel like it could be the Stardew of life sims! <3