Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 11:26 pm
Bloxels: Build Your Own Games – Adventure Game Review
Bloxels: Build Your Own Games is a Adventure/Simulation/Education game from Pixel Press Technology, LLC, first launched in 3rd August 2018.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 19,973+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bloxels: Build Your Own Games Stand Out
Anyone can make a video game with Bloxels.
YOUR CHARACTERS: Create your own pixel art characters. Give them special powers in the Character Lab. Customize power-ups to change their size, speed, and abilities.
YOUR ART & ANIMATIONS: Create your own pixel art to decorate your game worlds, or customize free-to-use assets, including pirates, ninjas, and even pigeons. Export your art to share it as a GIF!
YOUR GAMES: Build top-down adventures or side-view platformer games, without any code. Configure everything about your games with simple but powerful behaviors and blocks. Blocks include terrain, hazards, enemies, collectibles, liquid, power-ups, action blocks, and story blocks for adding dialogue. Create logic puzzles with doors and keys, triggers, warps, and more.
THE ARCADE: Publish your games to the Bloxels Arcade, and share the link to promote your game. Play any of the thousands of games in the Arcade for more inspiration.
FREE PLAY: Play any Bloxels game in the Arcade for free. Get a Bloxels subscription to build and publish your own games. A Bloxels account code is included in the Official Bloxels Build Your Own Video Game Kit. For more information go to bloxels.com.
Bloxels & Education: Are you an educator? Bloxels EDU plans include added features and resources specifically for education. Educator plans include access to the EDU Hub, where you can see and showcase student work, and access resources, including standards-aligned activities across subjects and grade levels K-12. Learn more at bloxels.com/education
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bloxels: Build Your Own Games is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd September 2025
Recent improvements include:
FIXED: Hazards do not hurt enemies by default.
2.12 NEW POWERS AND PERILS
• INVINCIBILITY: Charge ahead with this new power-up option.
• CONFIGURE HAZARDS: Make hazards do even more damage.
• STATIONARY ENEMIES: This Character Lab option makes for
new enemy types, like turrets and traps.
BONUS UPDATE: The improved LIBRARY now shows more items.
Download & Availability
Bloxels: Build Your Own Games is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Bloxels: Build Your Own Games on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Literally best app of all time, we played it probably like 2,000 hr but found ourselves deleting after we got tired of crashes. Whenever we log in while In the arcade it says something went wrong then closes. Also the moderation isnt the best, Ive accidentally stumbled upon MANY in appropriate games. Still it is very fun. (If you want to play our featured game look up Bumstronuat_52_52 and find Blue Dungeons). Great app, suggest it.
So we wanna make games and turns out we found a game engine that lets you make pixelated games! So it is AMAZING but the only thing that bums us out is the fact its subscription based. So we would if it wasnt. But overall its actually really good! Idk why most people are mad of it but again pls make it non subscription based and add custom attacks (If there is sorry about that one) but still again make it non subscription based. So we hope it reaches great heights. And devs pls read this and make it non subscription based. Thank you for reading this devs.
This game is super cool, being able to make video games just by putting blocks down and configuring them to do certain stuff its just super cool! Please keep up the good work, our one complaint is that sometimes when Im testing our game, we wont be able to move our character or use any of the controls, so we have to reset the app in order to fix it. It doesnt happen often but its kind of annoying. Regardless this app is five stars.
A thing says to restart but we dont know howwwwww.
Great game but we found a bug. We were testing our game and ran into a red block. We started running and we didnt take damage. Even if we stopped running it didnt affect our hitbox. Other than that, 10/10 app.
Ive been playing bloxels for five years now, and we can truly say it is a masterpiece. Almost everything is perfect, and there are limitless possibilities.
Bloxels is amazing. But there is like one or two things we have to say about it that Id like to be changed. 1. Maybe a melee attack/punch attack because we dont fully know what melee means. 2. Maybe actually we forget.
So one thing thats annoying is that thee is no slope tile, we try to make slopes but you just awkwardly stub your toe whilst trying to walk up them. Tysm :).
As a kid played that in YEARS but why Wi-Fi.
Okay for starters we have to say Bloxels is and amazing game, but we have a big big problem, when we add a flying enemy to our game, every single enemy becomes a flying enemy and we have to restart the game, this basically means that we have no control over our enemy type and we cant have flying enemies. Also you should add a two player mode.
We love this game it is super fun and we had this game on the school iPad in k-2 grades. We had this app for a long time and we just recently found out that we still have this game. Thank you for reading.
We just wanted to make a game but it said we had to PAY to make an account, we dont wanna play games we wanna make one, its not fair bc some people arent allowed to buy stuff for games! Pls just make it free to make a game and account.
Really good but could you change how you have to pay to actually make a game.
It is so stupid that you cant make your own level without paying MONTHLY FOR A MARIO MAKER RIP-OFF IT IS SO STUPID AND GREEDY.
What if you could make or import you own music? We mean- that would change the whole game! We really like the music in Bloxels but- this would be an AWESOME change!! Instead of you hearing the same music over and over and over again, you get to hear different varieties of music! You could make your own retro music in Bloxels OR Import one from GarageBand or Medley or something This is just an idea, but yeah.
Once we were triying to make a game but in didnot let us move.
- 2 players 2. Bosses 3. Maybe cars or something 4. More enemy stats.
If you dont know how to make an enemy appear then you put the purple block and then place a character on top of it. How you get to the character is the second part you click on the spaces and then u use it. And u can also change your character by tapping on it.
It made it permanently Stop using Bloxels please fix pixel press.
We were so happy we actually found a good game just to see that it cost money we were so mad and sad but at least we can have play other peoples games but Im still so sad !!!!! Please change it so we dont have to do subscriptions please we beg youuuu.
Its just heaven on your phone.
Everything is good except amount of space to create a character or block sometimes it can be too small.
We love Bloxels and it makes the most amazing games like the ones above. It is a must have app and it is so cool. But a tip is to tap the button that looks like a screw and then tap a block. The white block can talk and also warp and also be an end point. The pink block is always a power up and you can make it give you lives or change you into a different character etc and the yellow is coins or collectible items. But overall amazing app for creating games and is so worth it for real.
Let's keep this short and simple: Love all of the amazing features The games are so fun!!! Brings back good memories Only wish you could make a free account where many options are limited, would be helpful to be able to like/save games we like without money Thanks for reading! And guys, this app is amazing definitely get it.
Ty for approving our game we're only 8 years old and we cant believe what happened also have a good day/evening/night.
Hey Bloxels we were really excited when we found out about warps, but was dissapointed when we found we had to publish every game we wanted to warp to, which upset us because the game we were making had spots we did not want players to just be able to jump to. Please help.
This is so easy to use, and even better than we thought. Everything works very smoothly, and the setup is so easy to get used to. The occasional problems it has are easily overlooked by the overall greatness of the app. Now, we have a couple suggestions. 1. Bosses, with more life than ordinary enemies 2. Projectile art, so that you can customize characters projectiles 3. Melee weapons, also customizable if possible 4. Destructible blocks that cant be pushed, and can only be destroyed by explosive blocks we put the suggestions from our most wanted ideas to our least. The last on really doesnt even matter, ai just threw it in because we thought about it. If none of this is possible, it is still a great app and we would definitely recommend it to people. Thanks.
We think its a good app overall but we dont think its great for one reason you have to pay to make a game that is really stupid !!! But it is a good app overall and you would recommend to anyone who wants to have a good experience.
The legendary lars they let you skip entire levels for just 2 dollars! You should make it optional or At least make it so it cant go through walls! A suggestion this may already be in the game but we to have more colours per frame its very difficult to create characters with only a few colours per frame. Saving would also be nice. Finally adding moving blocks and switches would allow for cars trains and many new gimmicks to levels. Really the only thing we want is you to nerf lars.
Great but has too many glitches and bugs.
The game is awesome but when we try to publish a game that warps and we test it it never works!!! Even if we publish the warping game!!! It just says game not found.
We would rate this a 5 but we downloaded and just to build a game you need to pay money. We typically never liked paying money for a game and plus, why make the game download free but the game itself not. Doesnt make sense.
We deleted this for some reason and bringing it back was a great choice.
We would rate 5 if it would be free to make games.
Its hard to get your game plays or attention at all. A lot of games with no effort put into them make it to the New Games tab even under moderation. Then we have games with a lot of potential (like ours) that get 1-3 plays. There need to be a better way to get games attention and popularity.
How do we sign in? (LET ME MAKE A SONC GAME).
We went int the app, but it said we had to play 4 dollars a month to make a level. We could play with other levels, but it isnt half the same experience as making it, which was the whole reason we downloaded the game in the first place. We highly recommend getting Level Maker, which we are using as a game maker app (as of now). Even though you have to play levels to are levels, it is better than having to PAY to make. We give this game 3 stars. Im giving half the stars because we only get to play half the GAME. (And the not the good half.).
Its really fun trying peoples levels but when we wanted to build our own game it said pay three dollars a month.
We downloaded this to make our own games and published but it seems you are more likely to do an subscription rather than do it all for free so the people like us who want to share their ideas are upset cuz of this you put up we might delete this app cuz we dont want to do a stupid subscription for two reasons 1 we dont want to have the rejection just for a stupid subscription to make a game and 2 there are other programs that dont do subscription like kocho and Struckd so why get this when there are more game making programs that we can use without subscription so have fun getting sued one day you get this well deserve you jerk.
So the games are pretty good but we cant figure out how to use the picture thing oh and also ON THE BOXES SAY The game requires a subscription to play IN BIG TEXT.
We cant play it cause it said s no internet connection available.
The old game didnt make you pay for it and we have already bought the board(waste of money).
We guess Bloxels is OKAY. We think that people should add more games and make more stuff free. But we do like Chillslys world demo. And Im typing this on our brothers iPad.
If you want to make a game you have to pay but why BTW yall are just greedy for MONEY just make it free.
Good game we have always wanted to play this and we thought this was free but once we tried to create our account, you have to pay, if the bloxels creators are reading this, please make it free for everyone so they dont have to pay, thank you and we hope you do that.
We thought we were gonna be able to make our own game but you need a subscription so what's the point in building if you need a subscription for it that's not fair.
Hello, this is AA Tootsie AKA Toot writing this review. We came here to describe the most STUPID things about this game you made and what YOU NEED TO FIX. 1. Im not a coder but, we only got this game so we could create our own video games at home, but you just HAD TO make it for schools and WE WANT IT TO BE FOR PERSONAL USE 2. You HAD TO force us to log in?? That pisses us off This is why we dont have your game anymore, we hope you read this WHOLE review.
We loved it it was fun and silly and we really wanted to make our own game but it costs money if you change this no doubt there will be truck loads of players joining every day but the fact that you have to pay money to make a game is just disappointing.
We need! To pay for a account.
See, we were looking for a cool app where we could make our own games with ease. We get in the app, and all is well. We press build by see we were really looking forward to making our own stuff. And what happens? SUBSCRIPTION. See, in order to build or make ANYTHING, you have to either pay 4 bucks a month or 13 bucks a year. This just PROVES that the devs of this game were getting a little greedy when making the game. Dont download this. PLEASE. If you want to find an app where you can make games, just go fund an app where you can make games. NOT THIS piece of TRASH. This game is a nail in its own coffin.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.12.1
- Size: 223.69 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Pixel Press Technology, LLC
Last updated: 23rd September 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Simulation | Developer: Pixel Press Technology, LLC