Pixel Pete · year in review

2026

39 logs, 39 rated, mean 3.77. 16 films, 3 television, 1 book, 4 albums, 15 games.

The year in five lines

Pixel Pete logged 39 titles and rated 39, averaging 3.8★; 6 got five stars.
The year in one title: Celeste (2018).
Kindest to Up, 1.0 above the crowd; hardest on Baldur's Gate III, 2.3 below.
September was the busiest month, with 10 logs.
Maker of the year: FromSoftware, 2 titles.

Everything below is the long version.

Their year, in one title
Celeste 2018★★★★★
Our pick: the title that best explains everything else you loved.
The surprise
Hollow Knight 2017★★★★½
Runs against their usual leans, and Pixel Pete loved it anyway.
Kindest call
Up 2009★★★★★
1.0 stars above the crowd.
Harshest call
Baldur's Gate III 2023★★½
2.3 stars below the crowd.

Maker of the year

2 titles this year.

Blind spot of the year

raw

Nothing Pixel Pete loved this year went far toward raw (craft attention).

By the numbers

39
rated
33 h
in films
33
days with a log
3
reviews
81
words written
5
rewatches
6
five stars
3.5★
most common rating

Month by month

September was the busiest month, with 10 logs.

Ratings

mean 3.77 · 0.5 stars harsher than the crowd

Genres

Adventure15 · 3.8★
Drama8 · 3.3★
Action8 · 3.2★
Role-playing (RPG)8 · 3.9★
Crime4 · 3.5★
Thriller4 · 3.4★

Decades

1950s1
1960s1
1970s1
1980s1
1990s5
2000s5
2010s19
2020s6

Fun facts

The oldest thing Pixel Pete logged was Sunset Boulevard from 1950; the newest, Baldur's Gate III from 2023. That is 73 years of range.
The longest sit was Pulp Fiction at 2 h 34 min.
The year opened with Rumours (4.5★) and closed with Portrait of a Lady on Fire (3★).
33 hours in films: 1.4 full days of the year.
Pixel Pete logged across 5 media this year. Omnivore territory.
5 returns to things already loved. Comfort is a taste too.

Five stars