No Man’s Pixel

DIG IN. HOLD THE LINE.

Somewhere in the mud between two armies lies a strip of land no one owns. Your orders: hold it for six days.

No Man's Pixel is a real-time trench-defence strategy game in hand-made pixel art. By day you dig, string wire and fortify. When the whistles blow, waves of infantry, tanks and aircraft come for your line, and every metre of trench you dug decides who comes home.

HOW IT PLAYS

• Build your defence. Dig trenches anywhere on the map, lay barbed wire, place machine-gun nests and dugouts, and turn ruined farmhouses into strongpoints. One line won't be enough; a deep system of fallback trenches might be.
• Command, don't micromanage. Your squads take cover, choose targets and fall back on their own. Right-click to move or order an attack, and spend command points on five battle orders: artillery barrage, reserves, rally, repair, flares.
• Face an enemy that adapts. Every day the enemy picks a tactic: gas attacks, tank wedges, storm troopers, sappers tunnelling under your line, snipers, air raids, pincer moves, or sheer weight of material.
• Fight through everything. Rain, fog, gas, night assaults lit only by searchlights and flares, zeppelins, dogfights overhead and shell craters that reshape the battlefield.
• Survive the chaos. 52 random events mean no two campaigns play out the same, on procedurally generated maps.

EVERY MAN HAS A NAME

Your soldiers have names, ranks and stories. Survivors become veterans (6 ranks, 15 perks), squads chatter over the radio, and the music swells as the fighting grows heavier. When it's over, a chronicle remembers what happened and who didn't make it.

KEEP COMING BACK

• Campaign: hold for six days. Each victory unlocks new structures in your Engineer's Book (searchlight, minefield, anti-tank gun – more on the way) and raises the campaign level.
• Endless mode: how long can you hold?
• Tutorial: a guided first day teaches you the basics.

MOD IT

Change values, add your own units, squads, enemies, events and graphics. A full modding guide is included.

FEATURES AT A GLANCE

• Real-time trench defence with free-form trench digging
• Hundreds of soldiers on screen, tanks that tilt into trenches, aircraft and zeppelins
• Squad AI with morale, cover and retreat
• 8 enemy tactics, 52 events, dynamic weather and night battles
• Veterans, named soldiers and an end-of-campaign chronicle
• Unlockable structures and rising difficulty
• Dynamic soundtrack and radio chatter
• Modding with custom pixel graphics
• English & German

CONTROLS

Left-click: select / build · Right-click: move / attack · 1–5: battle orders · F11: fullscreen

STATUS

No Man's Pixel is in beta (0.10). Feedback and bug reports are very welcome in the comments.

The game depicts war violence and pixel blood. It is set in a fictional front inspired by the First World War.

EXE is not signed. Sorry! I'm soooo Indy Developer...

A NOTE FROM THE DEVELOPER

Hi, I'm the person behind Peevbyte. I'm a 42-year-old dad with a full-time job in medical technology, and for as long as I can remember I've dreamed of making the games I wanted to play. With AI assistance, I'm finally building them in the few quiet hours between work and family.

I know AI in game development is a controversial topic, and I don't take that lightly. That's why this page carries the AI disclosure. For me, it's the tool that lets me finally act on ideas that would otherwise have stayed in a notebook. The vision, the design and every decision about how this game should feel are mine.

To every full-time developer, artist and composer out there: thank you. I have the deepest respect for your craft, your skill and the years you've put into it. Your games are the reason I wanted to make one in the first place.

Thanks for playing, Peevbyte