Pixel Games

Pixel is a look rather than a genre, and this set collects the games that wear it: blocky crafting and mining worlds, voxel shooters, chunky platformers and the flat, few-color art of games built to run anywhere. The style comes from where it always did — small sprites, hard edges, a short palette — and it survives because it reads instantly on a small screen. Expect building, survival and arcade action in roughly equal measure. If you came looking for one particular block-building series, what you will find here are the games it inspired rather than the original.