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PixelKin: A Retro Creature-Collecting Adventure (Trailer)
PixelKin is a retro, handheld-style creature-collecting adventure, free to play in your browser. Catch and raise over 150 original creatures, battle the eight Lampwardens and relight a sky gone dark, one constellation at a time.
Night fell over Vesperholm and never lifted. In PixelKin you play a young lamp-tender setting out from home to bring the light back: exploring fourteen lamplit regions, befriending and raising over 150 original creatures (the game calls them kin), and winning a Gleam from each of eight Lampwardens to relight the constellations one by one.
It’s built to feel like the handhelds of the late 1990s: chunky pixel art, turn-based battles across ten elemental types, a chiptune soundtrack with a remastered alternative, and a gentle, cosy story where even the dark has its reasons.
PixelKin is free to play in your browser at pixelk.in, with no install, on desktop and mobile. It was designed and built by Scorchsoft. Every frame of gameplay in this trailer was recorded from the real game
Transcript
[Music: a quiet, foreboding theme. Constellations fill a night sky.]
NARRATOR: Once, the night sky over Vesperholm was full of lanterns.
[A star gutters out.]
NARRATOR: Then, one by one, they went out. They call it the Long Dusk. But someone has to relight the sky.
[The title theme. The PixelKin logo.]
NARRATOR: PixelKin. A retro creature-collecting adventure.
[On screen: “Your journey begins at home.” Gameplay of a lamplit coastal town. “Choose your first kin”: Vulpyre (Ember), Brinix (Tide) and Cloverkit (Verdant). “Explore 14 regions”, then “New powers open new paths” as the player swims.]
[The battle theme. A wild battle: “Turn-based battles”, “10 elemental types”, “It’s super effective!” A catch: “Catch them with your lamp”. A wall of creatures: “Over 150 original kin. Every one designed from scratch.” A creature evolves: “Raise them. Watch them kindle. (That’s evolve.)” A Lampwarden appears: “Challenge eight Lampwardens, the champions of each valley.”]
[A fanfare. Eight constellation badges light up.]
NARRATOR: Win a Gleam, and relight a constellation.
[Characters Wren, Fenn and Warden Còr.]
NARRATOR: A cosy, gentle story... where even the dark has its reasons.
[The game on a phone.]
NARRATOR: Free to play, right in your browser. On desktop, or mobile.
[Dawn breaks over a village.]
NARRATOR: PixelKin. Play free at pixelk.in. A game by Scorchsoft.
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