The Pixel War is back worldwide, but not on Reddit

A map of the earth with its coastlines, streets and borders. Hundreds of millions of pixels to color: this is the return of the Pixel War, but by Reddit. The WPlace site was launched on July 21, 2025 and Internet users who created Pixel works by Pixel are more and more numerous, especially since August 8 when the initiative began to be publicized.

R/Place de Reddit is back, on the whole planet

Do you remember the Pixel War on Reddit? There was the 2022 edition, then the 2023 edition. Since then, nothing: in France, the Z Event has a similar event, but that’s it. It is in this context that Wplace arrived this summer, with an immense canvas: a planisphere with all the earth to color. The promise: ” Paint the world ».

More than 4,000 billion pixels are available and ready to be colored. Most are oceans and allow players to create immense works, much larger than this was possible in the R/Reddit place. Success will undoubtedly be smaller than that of the Reddit event, which should leave the players more quiet to create their works.

Each player can ” poser (Change the color) a pixel every 30 seconds, choosing from a color palette. It is much faster than the 5 -minute delay of R/Place de Reddit. We can combine the ” charges », Namely the number of pixels that can be posed. Thus, each player who patients patients can place up to 62 pixels. What prepare big raids To create or destroy a drawing very quickly, especially if several players combine.

The game is totally designed for Twitch, since we can connect to the site from the platform. On Twitch, streamers will be able to mobilize their communities to create and protect drawings made of pixels. We can already organize lives around the game. There are also a lot of creations on the game: in the largest cities of course, but also in the most remote corners. Among them, many refer to the two previous editions of R/Place, with players filled with nostalgia. A button on the game allows you to be transported at a random place on the card to discover lots of paintings.

Wplace is an infinite game

Unlike R/Place, Wplace has a paid dimension with microtransactions. There is a virtual currency, droplets. One wins one by pixel colored and 500 per level won. To get more, you have to spend money, for example $ 5 for 25,000 droplets. They allow you to buy new colors to unlock.

To win levels, pixels must be colored. And the more levels we gain, the more the maximum number of pixels that can be placed increases. The most active players can pose up to several thousand pixels at once. There is also a system of alliances to draw with others. So many elements that make Wplace a game that will undoubtedly remain active for several months, even several years. For the moment, it is unknown if, as on Reddit, this gigantic fresco will be frozen one day.

Some players are already very motivated: the most active have more than 100,000 pixels colored on the map. As for the biggest alliances, they laid several million pixels, combining those posed by their players. Some countries are already very colored: France is top 11 with more than 8 million pixels ” posed »On the territory. Brazil is first by far and it is normal: the game was developed by Brazilians.