Cute as hell life sim with optional crime and deviance that breaks the boring cozy game mold.  It's a 2-in-1 game with an optional farming sim biome if you want.
I backed it on Kickstarter and have 30+ hours in so far.  Here's my TLDR:

😀FAVORITES
• INSANE amount to do: jobs, college, dating, farming, shopping, dancing, sports, music, thug-life 
• FREEDOM to do what you want, talents and goals to achieve as you like
• DREAM adds replayability and a personal "story"
• LIVELY city and countryside...I've met 117 Pixelians and counting!
• VIOLENCE is deliciously fun.  Knock out and loot Pixelians and run from the po-po!
• I married the hot doctor! ♥
• $15 for a HUGE life sim?  Yes please!

😕COULD BE IMPROVED
• Super grindy to level up talents and money.  Exercise mini game is brutal at high levels.
• Gangs and some quests difficult to complete, lack of direction (where to find and beat up Jimmy?)
• Needs a WIKI
• Controller WORKS but could be better (right stick acts like cursor)

So it's a bit grindy and won't hold your hand but has a lot of depth and combines cozy and spicy better than most any life sim I've ever played (exept maybe Longvinter).  Worth the 15 bucks for sure! 🥰

🌳Overview video:
https://youtu.be/XuL6dr4EAqQ

📝Tips video:
https://youtu.be/vIIZegZzveM

(TLDR at the bottom)

For a supposedly feature-complete game, I ran into so many small nuisances within the four hours I had playing for the first time that I simply cannot offer a recommendation. It's a huge shame because underneath it all is a really good game that desperately needs a round of player feedback to reach full potential. To Pixelia isn't across the finish line yet and people should know what they're getting into.

Overall, and from what I can tell, the game has some serious longevity if you don't mind grinding some slightly tedious gameplay loops to make progress. The game is clearly designed around slowly improving your skills and climbing your way to either fame or fortune (or both depending on your career), building friendships, relationships, family, and even rivalries along the way. I don't mind the grind personally as it adds a sense of reality to a genre that's otherwise saturated with idealised visions of the world. In To Pixelia you will be paying income tax, making rent every week, taking on debt, considering what services you do and do not need to meet your basic human needs, and generally be clutching your in-game wallet tighter than a first-year college student. It's great.

However, and as I said earlier, your overall experience can easily be ruined by any culmination of the minor oversights and bugs that could easily be ironed out if this was given even a small 1-year window of early access development. Aside from the very minor yet frequent grammatical issues, the most egregious of headaches is the painfully slow dialogue system that makes avoiding NPC interaction more preferable. For what it serves, this UI should be snappy and responsive, deliver quick, flavourful animations that add a sense of development with the character. The UI animation of the text tree unfolding is painfully slow and will not register the conversation as 'complete' until it's finished so you can click the next option for the chance of a measly +1–3 relationship points. It takes way too much time to do this a total of 8 or 9 times per person, and since the game clock is paused during this time, you're really only wasting the players' time.

This issue with UI persists in places like the casino where you have to re-enter your bet between every round and UI elements have to complete their slow fade-in animation before they can be interacted with. Overall it just needlessly slows the entire experience down and was my largest source of frustration. As a quick aside, the entire menu UI is a bit cluttered in places and makes use of very light pastel colors that can make distinguishing menus from sub-menus challenging at times and will certainly flashbang you if you're playing in a dark room and unprepared for it like I was. I also have no idea what that investment screen at the bank is attempting to convey, but it fails — What's wrong with a graph? All. Small. Oversights.

I haven't had much time to explore the career paths but two issue I noticed with the starting job as a waiter is that you don't have to take their orders or even show up on time at all. You can simply stand at the chef UI and wait for the order to be delivered to you telepathically and click on whatever dish gets a (1) underneath it. Really trivialised the whole thing, and I suspect similar logic gaps like this will appear in the other plentiful careers. Furthermore, jobs as a whole seem to be instanced minigames that offer no incentive to arriving on time. You get the same payout no matter when in your allotted time window you arrive, so you can literally arrive in the last 10 minutes of a shift and get a full day's pay depending on your performance in the minigame. How very EU-friendly of them.

There's nothing bad about a game releasing in early access when it's developed by a small or solo development team, and for what To Pixelia offers I would say has it more than 90% of other Early Access releases. I love playing and supporting small indie games like this and I will continue to play and probably flesh out this review more in time. To Pixelia offers a fun, casual and addictive experience that I really, really want to enjoy but actually playing it makes me more sour than it should for a genre of game that's meant to be intuitive and enjoyed casually.


- Gameplay loop is solid and enjoyable, if slightly repetitive.
- Plenty of gripes with UI and game logic that can make the experience sometimes more frustrating or disrupt immersion.
- Needs a few more months of development to iron out the minor issues I encountered.
- If you don't mind that or just really want a good life-sim game to sink 100+ hours into, I say go for it. Otherwise wait a few months or probably until the end of the year to get a seamless experience.

So far im enjoying the game , havent had any technical issues like other people claim to have had.
Good number of things to do and pick from.
Sure sometimes things can be a little grindy or slow but i dont mind that at all from a game like this myself in a way i actually prefer it.
Also keep in mind the issues will be patched and tons more content will be added in time.

for 11euro this is already alot of content and it will probably keep a solid spot on my laptop so i can play it on slow days at work and such. If u are into such style of games id definitly recommend giving it a shot