Pixel Gun Games

Ruined block cities with arena, zombie and gun-game modes on one menu — the biggest part of the shelf.

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Blocks, a crosshair and an apocalypse

A pixel gun game is a shooter built out of cubes. The map is stacked blocks, the character is a boxy figure with a square head, the rifle in your hands is a cluster of voxels, and the muzzle flash is a cube too. The look comes from the sandbox tradition that made blocky worlds familiar, but the play comes from the arena shooter: spawn, find a weapon, hunt whoever is on the map, respawn when it goes wrong. The label collects every title that says pixel gun, and the great majority of what it collects is a family of apocalypse arenas, ruined cities of blocks where you fight either other players or waves of blocky undead, with a weapon wheel that runs from a pistol to a rocket launcher. The shelf is honestly small, but it is unusually consistent: nearly every game here is a first-person shooter, and a player who likes one will like most of the others.

That consistency makes the neighbors easy to name. The first person shooter games hub has the same viewpoint with every other art style, the shooting games hub the whole wider genre including the top-down and side-on titles, and the gun games hub the weapon-first end of it. For the look without the shooting, minecraft games and pixel games hold the block-built worlds and the retro-pixel art respectively. The sections below split the shelf by what you are shooting at: other players in an arena, the undead in waves, or a ladder of weapons in a gun-game mode. They overlap, since most titles offer more than one mode from a single menu, but the mode a player picks first tends to be the one they keep.

Categories:Shooting

Arenas, waves and the weapon ladder

The arena mode is the default. A handful of players, sometimes real and sometimes bots that fill the empty slots, spawn around a compact map and fight until a time limit or a kill count ends the round. Maps are small on purpose, a few streets, a warehouse, a rooftop, so that a round never has a quiet minute, and weapons lie on the ground or come from a loadout you pick before spawning. The multiplayer titles put you in a lobby with strangers and belong equally to the multiplayer games and io games hubs; the ones with a shrinking zone and a single survivor are the blocky cousins of battle royale games. Expect the usual arena manners: campers on high ground, a rush at the rocket launcher, and a scoreboard that resets every few minutes so a bad start costs nothing.

The zombie mode swaps the other players for waves. Blocky undead shuffle in from the edges of the map, each wave larger and faster than the last, and the game is about ammunition, chokepoints and knowing when to fall back to a door you can hold. It is a survival loop as much as a shooting one, and the zombie games and survival games hubs have the same rhythm with different art. The third mode is the weapon ladder, usually called gun game: everyone starts with the weakest weapon, each kill upgrades you to the next, and the first player to score with the last weapon, often a knife, wins. It is the fairest mode for a newcomer, because the leaders are always holding the worst gun, and the most fun in a full lobby. A sniper-only variant appears now and then and is the slowest, quietest thing on the shelf, closer in spirit to sniper games.

Categories:Multiplayer.ioZombie

Mouse, keyboard and a word on phones

These are keyboard-and-mouse games. WASD moves, the mouse aims, the left button fires, the right button aims down the sight, a number key or the scroll wheel changes weapon, and the space bar jumps, which matters more in a block world than elsewhere because a single cube of height is cover. The first thing to learn is to keep moving; standing still on a blocky map is an invitation, and strafing while firing is the whole skill. The second is the map. Rounds are short and maps repeat, so after a few rounds you will know where the good weapons spawn and where the campers sit, and that knowledge counts for more than aim. Few titles on the shelf are built for a phone, and the ones that are use a virtual stick on the left and a fire button on the right, which works but is a step down from a mouse.

The shelf suits players who like an arena shooter but want a cartoon skin on it, and the blocky art does soften things: enemies fall apart into cubes rather than anything worse, and the tone is closer to a toy than a war. It is still a shooter, and a parent should treat it as one. Loading takes longer than most browser games because a map is a lot of geometry, and a title that sits on a progress bar for a while is building the world, not asking for an install. When the shelf runs out, the war games hub has the larger battlefields, the army games hub the modern-soldier end of the same fantasy, and the prison escape games shelf the block-built maps where the shooting is a means rather than the point. All three share the keyboard habits that pixel gun games teach.