Right now about 80% of the content planned is already in Pixel Game Maker MV. It allows for the creation of platformers, top-down action and shooting games.

SystemNintendo, Xbox, PC, PlayStation Five Nights at Freddy's is typically a 3D horror gameplay experience with cameras, but with Into the Pit, the series goes for a 2D pixel art aesthetic.

Pixel games are both nostalgic and timeless. For anyone fond of this art style, these titles are among the best in gaming.

Studio PICO, a two-man developer based in Japan, is currently in the early stages of development on Grand Exile, a pixel art 2D action and shooting game hybrid planned for release on Switch and PC.

This 2D pixel-art action game requires you to master the art of parrying to defeat your enemies.

Both of these use pixel art — the chunky 2D graphical style that harkens back to the ’80s and early ’90s — and the upshot is that it’s okay for new games to look old again.

Russia-based studio Nunchaku Games has announced Moon Samurai, a 2D pixel graphics action adventure game set in a cyberpunk world for Switch, PC, and Mac.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is the connective tissue that bridges the 16- and 32-bit generations, and by extension modern gaming, with classic video game design.

However, he recognises that there’s an audience for 2D games and explains how Sonic Superstars is an evolution of that style of gameplay. ‘We look at the pixel art – it’s great – but ...

From the publisher behind Manor Lords and Against the Storm, a new Steam Viking game, available to play now, feels just like a 2D Valheim.