
This gave the game a lot of publicity, which TPB's organizers helped along by modifying their logo to resemble McPixel's. Digital Piracy Is Okay: The developer even handed out promo codes for the game on a torrent page on The Pirate Bay.Detonation Moon: One of the stages is on the moon.Only the outcomes on each of the rooms is different. Cut and Paste Environments: Chapter 4's special stage is all the same room.Comedic Sociopathy: McPixel's task is to make sure the bomb doesn't blow up, no one said anything about making sure bystanders don't get hurt or used as battering rams.Cloud Cuckooland: McPixel is just the tip of the iceberg don't expect anyone-or any thing for that matter-in the game to act in any sort of logically predictable manner.
McPixel gets hammered off a drink that's 1% alcohol and Groin Attacks Guy Fawkes.
Can't Hold His Liquor: Chapter 4, Round 1, Level 4. The promotional video about the non-existent McPixel 2 contains cameos from several people who worked with Devolver Digital in the past (Daniel Mullins, Bennett Foddy, Goichi Suda.). PewDiePie, the Bro, Stephano and a Barrel appear in the same DLC set. The Cameo: A "Space Butterfly" level that was added at the request of Jesse Cox. Butt-Monkey: There's a certain old man who appears at least once in every chapter that gets abused in various upsetting ways, such as being thrown off a bridge, out an elevator, out of a train, or having McPixel climb inside of him to safely detonate the bomb.
Getting a gold ranking requires you to do every single thing you can do within a scene.
100% Completion: Clearing a scene only nets you a silver ranking. A sequel, McPixel 3, published by Devolver Digital, was released in 2022. In this cross between WarioWare and Leisure Suit Larry, follow the adventures of adventure man, jack-of-all-trades and general vandal McPixel as he finds himself in various cliffhanger situations, and has only 20 seconds to save the day with a mixture of cartoon logic and wanton destruction.Īvailable here and through Steam. There's a bomb somewhere in the building/house/deserted island/whale/castle/school/outer space/(insert location here)! You've got twenty seconds to defuse it! What would you do? McPixel is a 2012 video game developed and published by Sos Sosowski.