Pixel-level digital art, every placed pixel has importance in creating the envisioned graphic.
- FEZ - Explore a 2D retrofuturistic world by rotating in the third dimension. The minimalistic style, bright vibrant colors and dynamic lighting bring the 16-bit era into the future.
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP - Laid back adventure in a bronze age mountain wilderness. Dreamy soft colors in a living world affected by moon phases.
- Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove - Classic action adventure with an 8-bit retro aesthetic, taking the looks of a modern NES game.
- Hyper Light Drifter - Top-down action in a sci-fi world that radiates light and warmth. Using a colorful palette and kaleidoscopic neon yet setting a grim ambiance.
- Owlboy - Explore a detailed steampunk world in the clouds. With it's range of endearing animations and expressions the world and it's characters come to life.
- Paul Robertson - Australian, creating cute, sometimes cosmic and psychedelic, and sometimes weird nightmarish pixel art.
- Syosa - Japanese, girlish style using bright and organic color palletes creating cute humans and animals.
- Thomas Feichtmeir - Australian, dark and mature: fan of knights, dinosaurs, pirates, epic beasts, anatomy and history as well as everything twisted and weird.
- Toyoi Yuuta - Australian, capturing small animated scenes of everyday life in unsaturated colors.
- Aseprite - Open source, paid with trial, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Awesome UI with a lot of nifty tools to ease pixel art creation.
- Pixen - Paid, works on macOS and iOS. Superb OS integration, create pixel art on a tablet using pressure-sensitive drawing.
- Pro Motion - Paid with trial, works on Windows. Advanced features tailored to creating pixel art for games.
- GIMP - Open source and free, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Not specifically for creating pixel art but is more than capable to do so.
- Piskel - Open source and free, works in the browser, on Linux, macOS and Windows. Easy to try out in the browser saving sprites online.