Magic Pixel Picross Reviews

A basic picross game. You can't go wrong for the price really.

I can't recommend it because the list of negative aspect is greater than the positive one: Positive points: +I en joy the design of the tiles (corners cut, flag is embedded into the tile which is cute) +I like the little explosion of stars when you finish a puzzle Negative points: -There is a single sound track on repeat that I find annoying -The resolution by default is wide but the game only take the center part?! It looks like it was a game made for phones -Right click to cross tile is not implemented, you need to select the flag and do a left mouse click to apply it -Sometime, the final picture is flickering/glitching -Some of the 5x5 puzzles can't be solved with pure logic, I got myself caught while trying to complete 'horse' and the 's' shape. -There is no reset button, you need to go back to menu and found + click your puzzle again to retry it -'Smiling face' puzzle is not smiling :P -I can't seems to buy more stars int he shop -The fact that there is a shop to buy stars, to unlock more puzzle is a bit weird -I was not able to submit my drawing even though the label says 0/5 send today and there is no save button :'( -There is no menu to quit the game -There is no achievements

Terrible. The developer created pixel art with no concern over whether they function as picross. As a result, you are regularly left with multiple viable solutions and simply have to guess, fundamentally failing the most basic requirement of a logic puzzle. Beyond that, most of the puzzles inexplicably have to be unlocked, 1 by 1, with "stars". You can earn a maximum of 4 stars for a perfect solve, and the *minimum* price to unlock a puzzle is 5 stars... I'm sure you can see this is an inherently broken in-game economy, but the devs evidently could not - or, less charitably, they were planning this as a mobile game and intended to have in-app purchases, and wanted to make sure people were forced to pay in order to play. As I said - terrible. Don't buy, at any price.

How do I purchase more stars so I can keep playing? I try to do it from in the game, but nothing happens when I click on the Buy Now buttons.