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Overview

Pixel is the energetic cybernetic woman found along the Optimized Urban Thoroughfare in the Future era. Her current personal route includes eleven automatic encounters, three heart-to-hearts, two dates, daily Talk and Chocolate, an Improvisation lesson, and later Resistance army recruitment.
This guide gives the playable requirements and reward choices while leaving her past and the route's revelations to the game.

Quick Stats

Attribute Value
Age / era / alignment 23 / Future / Good
Ordinary portrait Optimized Urban Thoroughfare, 10 AM–6 PM daily
Additional later portrait Operations Center, 7–10 PM, after The Unoptimized Variable
Favorite stats Luck 75; Charm 75; Creativity 80
Special relationship skill Improvisation, teachable through her lesson
Talk 15 minutes; 1 actual base point; six positive talks daily shared across locations
Give Chocolate Known; 10 minutes; one Chocolate; 4 base points; four positive gifts daily
Improvisation lesson Friend; Creativity 16; paid access; 150 minutes; $150; Energy −30; Calm −10
Final personal scene / army recruitment In Love, after the preceding personal chain and Story Beat 31
Listed affection rewards are base points before the shared relationship calculation. Favorite-stat thresholds improve that calculation; learned Improvisation doubles the adjusted base. Ordinary affection, H2H completion, personal-story flags and army acquisition are separate progress checks.

Finding Pixel and Starting Her Route

Visit Optimized Urban Thoroughfare, 10 AM–6 PM, for Memory Leak, her once-only introduction. It has no affection-stage or numbered main-story prerequisite. Her ordinary street portrait also follows this daily window.
Continue the personal automatic chain by building the listed stage and visiting its next location. Several scenes occur away from her ordinary street portrait: Cid's Underground Modification Clinic, the Human Performance Optimization Lab in the Fringe Zone, the Sacred Anomaly Blessing Temple, and the Modified Historical Archive Facility.
After The Unoptimized Variable, Pixel also appears at Operations Center, 7–10 PM. This is an additional portrait, rather than a replacement for the street schedule. Its menu offers Talk and the Improvisation lesson; Chocolate, dates and the three H2Hs remain street actions.
  1. Complete Memory Leak on the street, then use Talk to reach Acknowledged for Walking Pattern Violation and Known for Notes to Tomorrow. At Known, add Chocolate to the daily routine.
  2. At Acquaintance, visit Underground Modification Clinic for Read-Only Eye.
  3. At Friend, complete Pocket Full of Tomorrow from her street portrait. Visit the Fringe Human Performance Optimization Lab for Optimization Candidate. Her first date and paid Improvisation lesson also open at Friend.
  4. At Close Friend, return to the street for The Missing Hour, then visit Sacred Anomaly Blessing Temple, 9 AM–6 PM, for Not Divine Enough. Complete When the Static Wins, after Pocket Full of Tomorrow.
  5. At Crush, visit Modified Historical Archive Facility for Disposed on Paper. Complete the street action Chosen Moment, whose conversation is titled A Memory Made on Purpose, after When the Static Wins. Her second date also opens at Crush.
  6. At Romantic, return to Underground Modification Clinic for No More Remote Access.
  7. At Intimate, with Story Beat 31 complete, visit the street 10 AM–6 PM for Return to Sender.
  8. At In Love, enter Operations Center for The Unoptimized Variable, finishing the personal chain and acquiring Pixel for the Resistance army.
The automatic chain does not additionally require her dates or H2Hs. Those have their own prerequisites for playing all of Pixel's content. The H2Hs are one-time conversations; completing the third does not replace the In Love finale.

Daily Talk and Chocolate

Talk to Pixel takes 15 minutes and awards one actual base point, despite the action's zero-point field. There are six positive uses daily, shared between her street and later Operations Center portrait.
At Known, give Chocolate from the street portrait for 10 minutes, one Chocolate and four base affection, up to four positive gifts per game day. There is no additional personal-scene gate for this gift action.
Six talks and four Chocolates take 130 minutes, consume four Chocolates, and give 22 base affection before shared bonuses. Her street window easily accommodates that routine when other visits and dates leave enough time. Changing locations does not reset Talk's shared daily count.
Over-limit conversations or gifts can lose affection under the shared escalating annoyance rule. A gifted Chocolate is consumed as the action cost even if the response is annoyed. She has no ordinary Flowers, Wine, Book, Teddy or Jewelry gift action here.

Eleven Automatic Encounters

All eleven complete once, in the order of their preceding personal flags. The scene's own starting hours apply independently of her portrait schedule. Rows without a configured hour requirement can trigger at that location any hour when their gates are met.
Automatic scene Location Requirements Base reward
Memory Leak Optimized Urban Thoroughfare Alpha-7 No additional prerequisite; 10 AM–6 PM 3
Walking Pattern Violation Optimized Urban Thoroughfare Alpha-7 Pixel: Acknowledged+; Memory Leak completed; 10 AM–6 PM 4
Notes to Tomorrow Optimized Urban Thoroughfare Alpha-7 Pixel: Known+; Walking Pattern Violation completed; 10 AM–6 PM 4
Read-Only Eye Underground Modification Clinic Pixel: Acquaintance+; Notes to Tomorrow completed 5
Optimization Candidate Human Performance Optimization Lab Pixel: Friend+; Read-Only Eye completed 6
The Missing Hour Optimized Urban Thoroughfare Alpha-7 Pixel: Close Friend+; Optimization Candidate completed; 10 AM–6 PM 6
Not Divine Enough Sacred Anomaly Blessing Temple Pixel: Close Friend+; The Missing Hour completed; 9 AM–6 PM 7
Disposed on Paper Modified Historical Archive Facility Pixel: Crush+; Not Divine Enough completed 8
No More Remote Access Underground Modification Clinic Pixel: Romantic+; Disposed on Paper completed 9
Return to Sender Optimized Urban Thoroughfare Alpha-7 Pixel: Intimate+; No More Remote Access completed; Story Beat 31 - Under Siege completed; 10 AM–6 PM 10
The Unoptimized Variable Operations Center Pixel: In Love+; Return to Sender completed 12


Read-Only Eye, Optimization Candidate, Disposed on Paper, No More Remote Access and The Unoptimized Variable have no extra configured hour restriction. In particular, the finale can trigger before Pixel's later 7–10 PM Operations Center portrait exists.
The late Return to Sender needs Story Beat 31 in addition to its preceding personal scene and Intimate stage. Enter Operations Center becomes available at Cid's Underground Modification Clinic after Beat 31, with zero travel minutes for that action. The finale is not gated behind an unreleased later numbered beat.

Best scene rewards

Scene / date Fixed base Highest reward reply sequence Total base
Memory Leak 3 Flirty +3 6
Walking Pattern Violation 4 Caring +3 7
Notes to Tomorrow 4 Caring +3 7
Read-Only Eye 5 Caring +3 8
Optimization Candidate 6 Caring +3 9
The Missing Hour 6 Funny +3 9
Not Divine Enough 7 Caring +3 10
Disposed on Paper 8 Funny +3 11
No More Remote Access 9 Caring +3 12
Return to Sender 10 Flirty +3 13
The Unoptimized Variable 12 Funny +3 15
Neon Bazaar Date with Pixel 5 Caring +5 → Funny +5 → Flirty +4 19
Memory Arcade Date with Pixel 5 Caring +5 → Funny +5 → Flirty +4 19


The eleven automatic scenes total 107 base affection with their best choices; the two dates add 19 each. All offered replies complete their respective scene. No additional player Erotic XP or Pixel NPC intimacy XP is configured for these scenes or dates.

Three One-Time Heart-to-Hearts

Start from her street portrait, 10 AM–6 PM, using the listed action. Each completes once and has no separate money or gift cost:
Action / conversation Requirements Time / stats Best ordinary base total
Pocket Full of Tomorrow Friend; Read-Only Eye complete 75 minutes; Energy −15; Calm +5 76
When the Static Wins Close Friend; Not Divine Enough and Pocket Full of Tomorrow complete 90 minutes; Energy −20; Calm −5 92
Chosen Moment / A Memory Made on Purpose Crush; Disposed on Paper and When the Static Wins complete 90 minutes; Energy −20; Calm +10 104
Their round-two alternatives select special variants:
Conversation Special reply requirement Special round-two points Best total using it
Pocket Full of Tomorrow Learned Empathy 17, instead of 15 78
When the Static Wins Charm 55 18, instead of 17 93
A Memory Made on Purpose Learned Empathy 21, instead of 20 105
These special replies are optional; ordinary routes can still finish the conversation. Learned Romantic adds 25 final affection at H2H completion, separately from these base totals and separately from the Romantic relationship stage.
All three H2Hs have no configured player Erotic XP or Pixel NPC intimacy XP. A narrative kiss in the final conversation does not supply an extra numerical intimacy reward.

Best ordinary H2H answers

Pocket Full of Tomorrow

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 You built a way to keep looking after yourself. 12
2 Tell me how you want me to help, and I will follow that. 15
3 You never have to make the hurt entertaining for me. 15
4 I want to be someone your future self feels safe choosing. 17
5 Thank you for choosing me as part of the system. 17


When the Static Wins

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 I am here for the truth, not the cheerful version. 16
2 You can be quiet with me. I will stay. 17
3 I want you as you choose yourself, not as I could rewrite you. 19
4 I will stand beside your story, not write over it. 20
5 I choose the person standing here, gaps included. 20


A Memory Made on Purpose

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 I was hoping the crush might be about me. 18
2 You do that to me every time you look at me like this. 20
3 If tomorrow asks, I hope we both choose this again. 21
4 Then choose it with me. 22
5 Let tomorrow know we meant it. 23


Heart-to-heart choice points accumulate and use the shared relationship calculation at completion. The listed points are base values, not guaranteed final affection gains.

Two Dates — Actual Starting Windows

Both start from Pixel's street portrait, complete once, and have no paid-version requirement:
Date Relationship gate Action window Actual usable street starting window Cost / stats
Neon Bazaar Date Friend 4–10 PM 4–6 PM 120 minutes; $80; Energy −35; Calm +5
Memory Arcade Date Crush Noon–10 PM Noon–6 PM 120 minutes; $150; Energy −35; Calm −10
Her portrait leaves the street at 6 PM, so the action's later listed hours do not create a late-night street portrait. Neither date is offered at Operations Center. These windows describe when to start, rather than requiring the entire date to end before the portrait's departure.
Neither date needs a specific personal-scene flag or completed H2H beyond its own stage and not already being completed. On both dates, choose Caring → Funny → Flirty for 5 + 5 + 4 choice base, plus 5 fixed completion, totaling 19 base affection.

Exact highest-reward scene and date answers

Scene / date Choice Highest-reward answer Base bonus
Memory Leak 1 Nice enough. But I'm more interested in whether you'll remember me tomorrow. 3
Walking Pattern Violation 1 You understand this street better than the system understands you. 3
Notes to Tomorrow 1 A missing memory does not give anyone your consent. 3
Read-Only Eye 1 We protect the person you are instead of gambling her on a cure. 3
Optimization Candidate 1 We copy the intake record and make sure this candidate is warned. 3
The Missing Hour 1 Then I will hold the jokes until they pass inspection. 3
Not Divine Enough 1 Their calculation describes their cruelty, not your value. 3
Disposed on Paper 1 Funny (highest-reward reply) 3
No More Remote Access 1 You protected tomorrow without erasing today. 3
Return to Sender 1 Watching you choose yourself is dangerously attractive. 3
The Unoptimized Variable 1 We will add a tactical snack classification immediately. 3
Neon Bazaar Date with Pixel 1 You deserve places that make room for how you move. 5
Neon Bazaar Date with Pixel 2 The notebook. The algorithm insulted us with frightening accuracy. 5
Neon Bazaar Date with Pixel 3 I hope you keep the part where I could not stop watching you. 4
Memory Arcade Date with Pixel 1 You do not owe this place a performance of being fixed. 5
Memory Arcade Date with Pixel 2 Unsaved and unsupported. Finally, a product honest about its features. 5
Memory Arcade Date with Pixel 3 Carry this: when you stopped beside me, I wanted you there. 4


Learn Improvisation

At Friend, with Creativity 16 and paid access, select Improvisation from her street portrait, or her later Operations Center portrait. It costs 150 minutes, $150, 30 Energy and 10 Calm and grants the player Improvisation, plus 10 base Pixel affection.
The lesson disappears once the skill is learned. It has no additional H2H, date or personal-story gate at the street portrait. For the Operations Center version, Pixel's later portrait must first be unlocked and present 7–10 PM.
The current NPC lesson's actual stat gate is Creativity 16. The general skill catalogue's different threshold is not a second check performed by this lesson. Improvisation then improves ordinary affection rewards with Pixel through her special-skill multiplier; learning it does not itself recruit her army unit.

Resistance Army Recruitment

Complete The Unoptimized Variable at Operations Center, at In Love, after Return to Sender. The live completion handler acquires Pixel for the Resistance army. There is no additional H2H completion, cash purchase, crafted gift or equipment ownership requirement for that acquisition.
The scene awards 12 fixed base affection, plus its reply bonus; Funny adds three for the best 15 base total. Her hero acquisition and the new evening Operations Center portrait follow the completed finale. An EXTRAS replay does not acquire another unit.
Use the Barracks roster and army equipment systems for her recruited hero. Pixel's hero progression is distinct from ordinary affection and her player Improvisation lesson. The base unit has Health 66, Power 3, Accuracy 80, range 310 and attack speed 1.4, before equipment and hero training. Its deployment cost is 15 Ammo and 40 Command, zero Salvage; recruiting the character is not itself a paid deployment.

Completion and Troubleshooting

  • Next personal encounter missing: complete the preceding personal flag, meet its relationship stage and visit its own location and hours. Standing at Pixel's street portrait does not trigger clinic, archive or temple scenes.
  • Temple scene missing: finish The Missing Hour, reach Close Friend and visit Sacred Anomaly Blessing Temple, 9 AM–6 PM.
  • Chosen Moment missing: finish Disposed on Paper and When the Static Wins, reach Crush and use the street portrait. Its internal conversation title is A Memory Made on Purpose.
  • Date unavailable late in the evening: use the actual 4–6 PM / noon–6 PM street windows; Operations Center has no date action.
  • Lesson missing: check Friend, Creativity 16, paid access and not already knowing Improvisation.
  • Return to Sender missing: check No More Remote Access, Intimate and Story Beat 31, then street 10 AM–6 PM.
  • Operations Center portrait missing: finish The Unoptimized Variable, then return 7–10 PM. The finale itself does not require that portrait to exist beforehand.
  • Army entry missing after only dating her: complete the In Love finale; the dates and H2Hs alone do not recruit her.
Her current route has no separate ordinary apartment invitation, intimacy movie, pregnancy continuation, Kupie album, venue-invite minigame, numbered brothel-worker training, resort vacation or personal Christmas scene. The eleven automatic scenes, three H2Hs, two dates, daily actions, lesson and army finale are the authored personal route covered here.

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