Frequently asked questions

Yes. All 73 games are free the whole way through. There are no paywalls, no subscriptions, no lives to wait for and nothing you have to buy to finish a game.

No. Every game runs inside the web page itself, so there is nothing to install on your phone or computer and nothing left behind on your device except a saved high score.

No. There is no sign-up on Plixoo at all. You open a game and play it, and no personal information is collected in order to do so.

Yes. Every game supports touch controls as well as a keyboard and is laid out for a phone screen, so the same game works on a phone, a tablet and a computer.

You need a connection to load a game the first time, but once it is open it runs entirely in your own browser rather than talking to a server, so a brief drop in connection will not interrupt a run.

Yes. Several games support pass-and-play, where two or more people take turns on the same device, including Ludo, Connect Four, Checkers, Dots and Boxes, Reversi, Tic-Tac-Toe, Snakes and Ladders and Pen Fight.

Pixels are the Plixoo player currency. You earn them free by playing games and spend them in the Pixel Shop on cosmetics: avatars, avatar frames, profile titles and colour themes for the site.

You get 1 Pixel for finishing a run and 2 for winning one, plus 5 the first time you ever finish a given game and 3 for a new personal best. There is also a daily streak bonus that grows each consecutive day you come back.

Not at the moment. No payment of any kind can be made on Plixoo. Pack prices are shown on the site as a preview of what is planned, but purchases are switched off until there are proper accounts with balances stored on a server.

No, and it never will. Everything in the Pixel Shop is cosmetic, so nothing you buy or earn changes how a game plays or how well you score.

Yes, there are daily caps so nobody has to grind: 12 Pixels per game per day and 60 across the whole site per day. Playing several different games always earns more than replaying one. The daily streak bonus is not affected by either cap.

In your own browser on the device you played on, using local storage. Nothing is sent to a server and nothing is tied to an account, because there are no accounts.

No. Because everything is stored locally, your scores, Pixels and unlocked items stay on the browser and device where you earned them. Clearing your browsing data for the site will also clear them.

Because accounts mean collecting and storing personal data, and the site works without doing that. It is a genuine trade-off: you get instant play with no sign-up, at the cost of progress being device-specific.

It is built to be. There is no account, no chat, no contact of any kind with other players, and nothing that can be purchased. No personal information is collected in order to play, and progress is stored on your own device rather than on a server.

No. There is no payment path on Plixoo at all, so no purchase can be made accidentally or otherwise.

No. There is no chat, no messaging, no usernames visible to others and no online multiplayer. Two-player games are played by sharing one device with someone already in the room.

The site is free and supported by advertising, but games are never interrupted mid-play to show something, and there are no fake in-game buttons or countdown timers dressed up as part of a game.