Pixel a Day
@pixeladay.bsky.social
Youtube video essays critically analysing games and how they make us feel (youtube.com/pixeladay). Articles published in Uppercut, Into the Spine, Kritiqal, Gamers With Glasses. She/her. Support: patreon.com/pixeladay
I'm crying today because I can't believe I got to see one of my favourite directors adapt one of my favourite stories. Frankenstein is everything it needs to be: grotesque, beautiful, unbearably heartbreaking, dramatic but not melodramatic. Del Toro nailed every fucking thing.
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I'm crying today because I can't believe I got to see one of my favourite directors adapt one of my favourite stories. Frankenstein is everything it needs to be: grotesque, beautiful, unbearably heartbreaking, dramatic but not melodramatic. Del Toro nailed every fucking thing.
Time for me to finally...Playdes
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Time for me to finally...Playdes
I finished Promise Mascot Agency last night, and @kaizengameworks.com have once again absolutely cooked. What stuns me about their work, from Paradise Killer to PMA, is their ability to create the most bizarre worlds and then completely commit to those worlds with their entire heart and soul.
November 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I finished Promise Mascot Agency last night, and @kaizengameworks.com have once again absolutely cooked. What stuns me about their work, from Paradise Killer to PMA, is their ability to create the most bizarre worlds and then completely commit to those worlds with their entire heart and soul.
Literally the same day I published my Ghostwire: Tokyo article complaining about how the game fails to interpret kappa and other yokai in any kind of interesting modern way, Promise Mascot Agency came into my life @kaizengameworks.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Literally the same day I published my Ghostwire: Tokyo article complaining about how the game fails to interpret kappa and other yokai in any kind of interesting modern way, Promise Mascot Agency came into my life @kaizengameworks.com
Have you read my new article on Ghostwire: Tokyo? You should! It is good and contains several ball-related jokes bit.ly/pixeladay_gh...
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Have you read my new article on Ghostwire: Tokyo? You should! It is good and contains several ball-related jokes bit.ly/pixeladay_gh...
Between Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Hellblade 2, Still Wakes the Deep and now this, I'm starting to think indie / AA dev studios shouldn't branch out into making AAA games
It is unfortunate for Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 that I binged AMC's Interview with the Vampire series before playing it. One of these is a masterful, frightening, sexually charged and deftly comic reimagining of vamp mythology. The other is *okay*.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 review – an interestingly toothless piece of noir fiction
Arriving more than two decades after the original, this sequel was mired in development disaster – resulting in an interesting almost-failure
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Between Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Hellblade 2, Still Wakes the Deep and now this, I'm starting to think indie / AA dev studios shouldn't branch out into making AAA games
Reposted by Pixel a Day
Loved reading this article by @pixeladay.bsky.social, about the shallow version of mythology that permeated Ghostwire: Tokyo.
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Full of Spirits, Devoid of Soul — Ghostwire: Tokyo is Haunted by the AAA Design Curse
The only haunting thing about this game is the potential it squandered
kat-pixeladay.medium.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Loved reading this article by @pixeladay.bsky.social, about the shallow version of mythology that permeated Ghostwire: Tokyo.
kat-pixeladay.medium.com/full-of-spir...
kat-pixeladay.medium.com/full-of-spir...
I see that people are noticing, and now asking about, the fact that I haven't released a video in over 5 months. I take this as a positive sign that people miss my videos and are eagerly waiting for more. FYI, I've been working on a huge video since May, but this year has been...A Bad One.
October 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I see that people are noticing, and now asking about, the fact that I haven't released a video in over 5 months. I take this as a positive sign that people miss my videos and are eagerly waiting for more. FYI, I've been working on a huge video since May, but this year has been...A Bad One.
Hell is a perpetual floating quest marker, and I'm already there. Here's my BRAND NEW ARTICLE, about the many failures of Ghostwire: Tokyo bit.ly/pixeladay_gh...
Enjoy! <3
Enjoy! <3
Full of Spirits, Devoid of Soul — Ghostwire: Tokyo is Haunted by the AAA Design Curse
The only haunting thing about this game is the potential it squandered
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hell is a perpetual floating quest marker, and I'm already there. Here's my BRAND NEW ARTICLE, about the many failures of Ghostwire: Tokyo bit.ly/pixeladay_gh...
Enjoy! <3
Enjoy! <3
Stop everything and play this freaking game
Alan Wake 2 is available on PlayStation Plus!
Premium, Extra, and Essential PS+ subscribers can access the game starting today. #AlanWake2
Premium, Extra, and Essential PS+ subscribers can access the game starting today. #AlanWake2
October 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Stop everything and play this freaking game
Hopefully it will also make it easy for me to instantly recognise you as a douche so I can mock you relentlessly
September 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Hopefully it will also make it easy for me to instantly recognise you as a douche so I can mock you relentlessly
Hiya! I wrote a new article, about Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Read it here: bit.ly/pixeladay_ba...
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Feels Like a Haunting from Game Design’s Past
I feel like a spectre caught between 2024 and 2012
bit.ly
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hiya! I wrote a new article, about Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Read it here: bit.ly/pixeladay_ba...
I had so much fun playing Pim's therapist in their new video on Silent Hill Shattered Memories. Go check out our work! <3
❄️!!NEW VIDEO!!❄️
In which I take the help of my fake therapist @pixeladay.bsky.social to figure out the overlooked lesson hidden within Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
youtu.be/VFLTTNezT-Q
In which I take the help of my fake therapist @pixeladay.bsky.social to figure out the overlooked lesson hidden within Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
youtu.be/VFLTTNezT-Q
August 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I had so much fun playing Pim's therapist in their new video on Silent Hill Shattered Memories. Go check out our work! <3
"I give it a reward"
just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
August 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"I give it a reward"
My mates are doing a neat thing this & next weekend for a friend in need. Show em some support and throw them a few bucks if you can!
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!
On Saturdays July 5th and July 12th, @zeitgeistmistress.bsky.social and I are hosting 24 hour streams with tons of SPECIAL GUESTS to help raise money for a trans friend to escape a TERFy town to safety!
Join us for a blind, chaotic playthrough of DISCO ELYSIUM! Info below:
On Saturdays July 5th and July 12th, @zeitgeistmistress.bsky.social and I are hosting 24 hour streams with tons of SPECIAL GUESTS to help raise money for a trans friend to escape a TERFy town to safety!
Join us for a blind, chaotic playthrough of DISCO ELYSIUM! Info below:
July 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
My mates are doing a neat thing this & next weekend for a friend in need. Show em some support and throw them a few bucks if you can!
If you're a fan of games like Her Story and Obra Dinn, do not sleep on this one william-rous.itch.io/type-help
Type Help by William Rous
The Unsolvable Mystery
william-rous.itch.io
June 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If you're a fan of games like Her Story and Obra Dinn, do not sleep on this one william-rous.itch.io/type-help
Voting for the Rising Tide Challenge is still open! Register on the website to vote on your favourite indie game concept trailers.
The Rising Tide Challenge is now
🌊OPEN for public voting🌊
For the past month, thousands of indie devs from around the world have been working on concept trailers for their dream games. Now they need YOU to validate their concepts for a chance to win up to $300k in funding!
🌊OPEN for public voting🌊
For the past month, thousands of indie devs from around the world have been working on concept trailers for their dream games. Now they need YOU to validate their concepts for a chance to win up to $300k in funding!
June 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Voting for the Rising Tide Challenge is still open! Register on the website to vote on your favourite indie game concept trailers.
Drafted a corridor room today. #BluePrince
May 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Drafted a corridor room today. #BluePrince
I have an idea for a hack-and-slash action-adventure narrative roguelite with tile-laying and exploration-based puzzling
Blue Prince of Persia
Blue Prince of Persia
May 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I have an idea for a hack-and-slash action-adventure narrative roguelite with tile-laying and exploration-based puzzling
Blue Prince of Persia
Blue Prince of Persia
Feeling very triggered rn
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Feeling very triggered rn
You know who thinks you should watch my latest video on Amnesia: The Bunker? Someone who made it 👀
May 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
You know who thinks you should watch my latest video on Amnesia: The Bunker? Someone who made it 👀
***New video is out!***
youtu.be/GIybYyhfRmo
In Amnesia: The Bunker, everyone has their own war story. This is mine. @frictionalgames.bsky.social
youtu.be/GIybYyhfRmo
In Amnesia: The Bunker, everyone has their own war story. This is mine. @frictionalgames.bsky.social
Ruminations on...Amnesia: The Bunker
YouTube video by Pixel a Day
youtu.be
May 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
***New video is out!***
youtu.be/GIybYyhfRmo
In Amnesia: The Bunker, everyone has their own war story. This is mine. @frictionalgames.bsky.social
youtu.be/GIybYyhfRmo
In Amnesia: The Bunker, everyone has their own war story. This is mine. @frictionalgames.bsky.social
Anyway, new video this week
When you're a video essayist, "I need you to film me lovingly stroking a brick" is a normal thing you might say to your spouse on a Sunday
May 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Anyway, new video this week
When you're a video essayist, "I need you to film me lovingly stroking a brick" is a normal thing you might say to your spouse on a Sunday
May 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
When you're a video essayist, "I need you to film me lovingly stroking a brick" is a normal thing you might say to your spouse on a Sunday
Bump for the new vid :) Please share it round!
***New video is out!***
How did one Youtuber go from disliking Control, to being an all-out fan??
Video here: youtu.be/NdOOm7GooFA
Support me here: patreon.com/pixeladay
How did one Youtuber go from disliking Control, to being an all-out fan??
Video here: youtu.be/NdOOm7GooFA
Support me here: patreon.com/pixeladay
Ruminations on...Control
YouTube video by Pixel a Day
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Bump for the new vid :) Please share it round!