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Add to SafariWhen comparing Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic vs Bit Golem, the Slant community recommends Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes on Android?” Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic is ranked 27th while Bit Golem is ranked 49th. The most important reason people chose Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic is:
Graphics and fonts are pixel perfect.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
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
Pro A simple, binding-of-isaac-like roguelike
While there are no items, runes give you different power-ups, which is sort of refreshing. It keeps it simple.
Pro Fairly addictive
Coin collecting to get on the leader boards can be a lot of fun. Sometimes in a dungeon you have to risk your health for just one more coin.
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.
Con Not a lot of inventory space for storage of items
Con Not a whole lot of content
Could definitely use some more enemies and bosses, and perhaps some progression as you go to the next dungeon like harder enemies.
Con Art style
You can tell the dev is probably going solo for the art. It is fairly neat overall, but some sprites are sloppy.
