To fix this and other issues, Kamiński has stated that he intended to rewrite the game engine to not use Adobe Air. Kamiński has stated on the Steam Forums that this is because the Adobe Air run-time can not be distributed via Steam. ĭuring August 15–22, 2013, McPixel featured alongside four other games in the Humble Bundle Weekly Sale ('Hosted by PewDiePie'), which sold 189,927 units.Īs of October 2013, a Linux version exists, but is not yet available on Steam.

The game was also the first game to be released via Steam Greenlight. Īs of September 2012, McPixel had sold 3,056 copies. Due to this event, McPixel became the first game ever to be endorsed by the Pirate Bay. He found out that McPixel was being torrented from a Reddit post. Mostly by Jesse Cox and PewDiePie.' Sos promoted the distribution of his game on The Pirate Bay to market it. The game's creator and developer, Mikolaj 'Sos' Kamiński, said: 'The largest force driving attention to McPixel at that time were 'Let's Play' videos. But it's stranger, grosser, funnier and far more blasphemous.' The Verge gave the game a score of 8 out of 10, stating ' McPixel is the step further, a parody of a parody. McPixel received positive reviews, with a critic score of 76/100 on Metacritic for the PC version, and 83/100 critic score for the iOS version.

The game was released on 25 June 2012 for Android and iPhone and as a computer game.

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