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Downloading this game is a no-brainer. It’s basically Nintendo’s Piccross, but from Konami with Konami owned characters. Part of me wonders if the point of this is to keep up the copyright on some of these characters or something. Regardless, this is a real, fun, full game with hours of gameplay to enjoy. Initially I assumed when you ran out of “hints” that it would try to sell you more, but I’m not actuaries that it does, and even if it did, there’s dozens of hours here before it starts getting increasingly hard. (I’m at 85.8% complete and still making progress) If you like logical puzzles, or picross specifically, it’s absolutely worth grabbing this. It’s worth money, and is a real, full game...they’re just giving it away for free, so get it!

I love this game! This is the only one I have found that lets you work the puzzle without giving you a limited amount of errors, and making you start all over. I like the ability to work out the whole puzzle on my own. Some of the puzzles you can just breeze through, and some are killer hard. And I love that once you’ve completed all puzzles, there is an expert mode, or you can work the regular puzzles again. And if you just cannot solve it, you can request a hint every ten minutes. There are so many puzzles, you still find them challenging the second time around. I am a senior, and this helps me keep my mind sharp! Thank you so much!

I do agree with other complaints about the timer on boss puzzles. I like the suggestion of the timer getting shorter as you complete more and more of the non-boss puzzles. Otherwise, I am very pleased with the game. The puzzles are good and the nostalgic aesthetic is spot on. I appreciate the alternate control scheme (since I have shaky hands) and the option to hide the timer (although I would really like to be able to hide the finish times in the Collection too). The interface is also better than I thought possible for a nonogram game on a mobile phone (though I’ll always prefer a traditional handheld controller). I’m honestly confused. This game was free, has no IAPs, and I still haven’t found any ads. I love it, though. (update - Ads have recently been, ahem, added. Kind of ugly but not especially annoying.) If you ever added additional puzzle packs as IAPs I would definitely look into buying one. I’d also buy and replay this on the Switch if the ads and boss timer were removed (I feel they could be kept if the game were added as a free title).

Have been playing this since release. I went through the puzzles in the 5x5 and 10x10 sets fairly easily. When going into the 15x15 this is where I have usually stopped with other games. Not with this. There are so many puzzles to do it makes no sense. Almost like they don’t make games anymore and don’t care (Sigh). I’ve forced myself to learn how to solve these harder puzzles. For a while I thought some boards were impossible without the use of hints but after staring and making my placements with more cross checking I’ve become a better picross player. This is the game I have on phone and tablet and love playing through them again and again. Also. I feel I have played this a lot (since release) and have only made it 49.6%. There are a lot of puzzles.

I don't know how this is free, given how many cool puzzles are packed into it! I solved all the puzzles in both modes (the expert mode is killer) but keep coming back just to replay them. There are so many puzzles that when the game picks one at random for you, it feels new again. I would totally pay for additional content, given the hours of free play i've already gotten from this game.

This is my favorite game at the moment. Very fun and challenging. Best part is that it’s free with no ads. I would gladly pay for this game but I’m not complaining. 😊 Edit: reading reviews I learned there are ads when you use hints. Never noticed it since I never use hints as I love the challenge and each puzzle is not too difficult that I was forced to use them.

Good picross game. I beat all the basic levels and all the expert levels without guessing, which is a far sight better than most of the disposable picross games in iOS. No hints needed either. There are two main downers: 1- The forced timer between boss missions. 99% of the time it took to beat this game was just running out the timer. 2- The articficial difficulty of expert mode. It would have been much better to have more new, harder puzzles rather than recap the same levels without the x. The good news is when you get to expert there is no timer any more. So wait out those timers.

As a Picross fan, I love flying through these puzzles. I enjoy the random selection of the puzzle as well, wondering what category I will get next. The old songs are awesome, especially when I hear Contra’s stage 1 or Bloody Tears. It would be a five star game if it was capable of notifying me that a new boss puzzle attempt was ready. I don’t want to have to set a timer, especially if I can’t get to solving it right away. Controls could be improved as well. I like the controls from some of the other Picross games out there on mobile devices that allow me to drag the cursor around from touching anywhere on the screen and tapping to swap between blank, X, or filled in. Tap and drag can be used to fill in multiple blocks or Xs as well. Cursor controls don’t make sense on a mobile device and direct taps on the puzzles get difficult on large puzzles. Zooming is inconvenient because it is important to be able to see the entire puzzle. With a couple of tweaks, this will be a five star game. The fact that the entire game is free is amazing as I definitely would have paid to get my Picross puzzle fix. Thank you for this wonderful puzzle collection, Konami!

As you work on a row or column, entries in the list of digits to the side/top get crossed out as the game detects that you've finished a particular block of numbers. Unfortunately, there seems to be an error in the algorithm so that incorrect information is given rarely on incomplete lines. For instance, the game may cross out a "2" indicating that the block of two on the line you're working on is finished and is supposed to be part of a block of 2. It can happen that it is actually supposed to be part of a larger block, or a different block than is indicated. I have concrete evidence of this happening precisely twice in two puzzles (with 40% of puzzles completed), but I suspect that it happens with a higher frequency (since restarts due to mistake are much higher in this game compared to other Picross games I've played). In short, be careful - you cannot trust the clues given by the game about your progress.

I’ve loved picross for years, and this is simply a wonderful presentation of my favorite puzzle game. The music is SO GOOD, and the controls work well for me. I like that you can toggle auto-completing X boxes, though I like the autocomplete off for smaller puzzles and on for larger ones. Maybe a toggle for each size would be good? I’ve only done up to the 10x10 puzzles, which is kind of my sweet spot for these. My biggest criticism so far is that the 10x10 puzzles don’t take up enough of the screen, and it would be nice for them to be bigger by default. Using an iPhone 6 over here, and the puzzle/its numbers don’t stretch t the edges of the screen. Hopefully this can be tweaked in the future. Thanks for making such a stellar picross game! Highly recommended.

Rating this 4 stars only because I beat all of the normal puzzles, and now have 81 boss puzzles yet to play but I’m still restricted to just 1 boss puzzle every 3 hours. But that said, I’ve played all of the normal puzzles over the course of about 3 weeks. The game and puzzles are highly addictive and I just wish I could play the rest of them without waiting.

The music, themes, and end results are all handled very well with a ton of content from games of the pixel area. Unfortunately two major problems exist: 1. Every 15x15 board is shrunk and off-center to account for 6 or 7 number hints when most boards don’t have that many making it borderline too small even on an iPhone X. Every board should be sized according to an axis’ highest number of hints. There is a zoom function but without the ability to scroll it’s very unintuitive ensuring I never used it. Update: I was mistaken there is now a scroll feature. 2. Once you finish regular and mid-boss puzzles you’re stuck waiting every 3 hours for a boss puzzle. With ~75% completion I can’t play anymore until the timer is done. They really should’ve just started letting boss puzzles be available when you complete everything else. High chance this’ll be uninstalled before I can even complete it because of the pointless waiting mechanic.

Music is great. Aesthetics are great. Ads are fine, although I wish I could pay to turn them off. But why is the puzzle so tiny?! There’s so much unused space around the puzzle, which is shrunken into the lower right. No idea what they were thinking. And they know it’s too small, because they allow you to zoom in on larger puzzles. Even then, though, you’re just zooming in on a section of the puzzle—in what universe is that helpful for a nonogram?! What a head-scratcher, this one.

This was easily a 5 star app until the last update. Unfortunately, ever since that update, the game will not run if Apple’s Music app is also running. The last update also introduced ads. This game has been ad free for a few years without charging a cent, so I’m not against them adding in ads, especially since the ads are only for Konami’s other games and they are not visible when actually solving a puzzle. The only part I dislike is the near-full screen ads that you have to close in order to do anything on the main screen.