Pixross Reviews

I have mixed feelings about this one. I've loved Picross for years, and your options for Picross on PC are very limited, and I hate to dump on a game that clearly had a lot of love put into it and shows it. But there are some real issues holding this back. The good: Puzzles and controls all work properly. It's very inexpensive! It can be a nice, relaxing time filler. Very clean interface. Visual customizations available, though some of them look nice and some of them are just distracting and weird. Basically, what you do get here is good. The bad: Puzzles give information they shouldn't, by graying out numbers whose conditions are satisfied even if you don't know that they are (for example, graying out a 1 in the correct position even though you shouldn't yet know *which* 1 it is). Content is... I hate to say it, because 170+ puzzles does sound like a lot, but few of them are a standard/larger size (15x15 or larger), so it does feel light on content, and the puzzles never really get challenging. They talk about additional puzzle packs, but there aren't any available, and the game hasn't been updated in a few years (it came out in 2020, according to Steam). The game can only be played with a mouse, no controller or keyboard support. A bug was reported to and acknowledged by the developer in 2020, shortly after release, where often new customizations are not unlocked via the "lootbox" mechanic; it was never fixed. For $4, you can certainly do worse. But if you're an experienced Picross player, unfortunately the best stuff available on modern platforms is still the Picross S series on Switch, which unfortunately is not available on PC.