When comparing Barony vs Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic, the Slant community recommends Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes/roguelites on PC?” Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic is ranked 47th while Barony is ranked 83rd. The most important reason people chose Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic is:
Graphics and fonts are pixel perfect.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Incredible variety of player combinations (with DLCs)
The main customization in the base game of Barony is choice of class, however with the DLCs (which also add extra classes too) you can also choose a race. The number of combinations (189) of styles is huge, and to a large extent many many of the combinations actually feel actively different because of how both classes and races alter the way you play so much.
Pro Available mod that more than doubles the amount of game
In the base game there is a single route to the bottom passing through the same 5 themes with a single optional side-theme/alternative mid boss. But there's a mod on the steam workshop (called Wicked Rendition) that adds an entirely new parallel route with 5 new themes on, 2 extra themes adding a sub route, every theme has new tiles generation, new enemies, new hidden areas, new rooms, basically new everything.
But not only does the new route add new areas and enemies, but the new route ends with a brand new challenging end boss, has heaps of new items, some extra rare enemies for the bae game, and 4 new classes.
And what's most incredible in my opinion is that none of this content feels out of place in the game, everything from the enviroments, to the enemies, to the items, to the end boss, feel like something that was always a part of the world of the main game.
Pro Extremely low system requirements
Despite the Steam store recommending an i3 processor, you don't even need that much to run Barony. I have been able to play on my Chromebook through the linux virtual machine which has a Intel Celeron N4000, where I only suffered some minor lagging in the last few levels.
Pro Tough but Fair
Barony is a fairly difficult game, especially for beginners, but as you play the game and learn how to deal with everything the game throws at you will realise that everything is within your control to survive, even things that initially feel random and unfair become manageable with experience.
Pro Pixel perfect
Graphics and fonts are pixel perfect.
Pro Retro look, sound & feel
Authentic 8bit visuals, sound & music. Also with authentic low screen resolution.
Pro Quick save
A feature that should be necessary for all mobile games, quick save allows the user to set the game down at any time by saving quickly, making for a game that can be played in plenty of short bursts without loosing any progression.
Pro Humorous with nerd culture references
The game has a good sense of humor with many inside jokes referencing things such as Tolkien, Lovecraft as well as modern day dev. culture.
Pro Tons of loot
Cons
Con Limited starting characters
Starting characters are limited and random, which can be frustrating, especially when the game is centered around restarting many, many times.
Con No roguelite features
Pixel Heroes subscribes to Roguelike rules where there is zero carry over from previous playthroughs. When compared to the small amount of progression seen in Roguelites this may be a turn off for some users.
Con Status effects overpowered
Status effects have too much of an advantage over the player, which means a focus has to be on countering them, leaving other elements to not be focused on due to being under-powered in comparison.