Pictopix

There is absolutely nothing that will make you want to pull your hair out more than spending an hour on a 40x40 puzzle to realize you made one cascading mistake you cant trace back.

10/10, no more hair left.

I don't know why, but it's fun.

Easy to use, clean to look at. User submitted puzzles and the ability to upload your own means that content is extensive. Well worth the low price.

A calm and fun logic puzzle game about filling in a grid to make pictures.

If you've played Picross, this is more of that. If you enjoyed Picross, you'll enjoy this. If you've never played Picross and are unsure if you'll like this, you can play "PIXEL PUZZLE COLLECTION" from Konami on iOS or Android as a demo. This however is far superior as it does not have any free-to-play nonsense.

A perfectly fine Picross game.
It takes quite some time to get any sort of difficulty from it, due to the large amount of low-level puzzles, but the later ones can definitely give you some trouble.

One thing I REALLY do not like however is the existence of the ranking system, and how it's implemented. Now, it's already a silly thing to put in a Picross game, of all things, but not only are the criterias for full score ill defined and frankly, dumb, it also punishes you for using hints or just straight up QoL features.
If you enable column hints + auto-column greyout, you can only ever get one crown out of three, which is VERY annoying since I don't think the devs realize how incredibly TEDIOUS it is to grey out numbers by yourself. And trust me, it doesn't help you solve the harder puzzles (it's even wrong or just unreliable sometimes), but it does allow you to see when a section is wrong which is nice, I like to have my time respected.
Well except that for the last page of the levels, they completely disable any sort of aid or QoL. This is a level of idiotic I can't fathom. What's the point of putting a difficulty system if you're just gonna fuck over people that play on anything else BUT Expert ? Made me give up since the tedium of having to cross and grey out every single thing on a 40x40 grid is the definition of a shitty time.

Apart from that, the game has a good amount of content, even some side stuff like mosaics.
If you like Picross, it's an alright time, especially with the workshop that'll give you a lot of extra levels beyond the base game.

pictopix

spending 20 minutes on a puzzle only for it to turn out to be the humble toad or little duck

Fun, relaxing game with chill music. Nice to use at night to help go to sleep.

Perfect Picross game. Good and clean interface. Well executed.

Just a fine picross game. Its picross, you get what you expect.

good game

Very good pircross game