Разработчик: Catnip studio
Описание
Pixel Maze is not a simple coloring game. The game is quite difficult. The game fills the color with digital hints. All the numbers are interlocked. Every step must be patiently calculated to finally break the maze. If you like puzzle games, want to challenge and have a lot of time, try Pixel Maze!
game introduction
·Each number represents the number of grids to be filled in the surrounding 9 grids (including itself), and the color of the number is the color to be filled by the grid. When the number of fills meets the numerical requirements, a black dot appears on the upper right of the number, and the level is successful after all the numbers meet the requirements.· The tools on the right side of the game can help you quickly find numbers that don't meet your requirements, zoom in, zoom out, and directly decrypt 9 squares. Click the color swatch on the right to switch colors, or click the selected color again to change the current color.
· All the numbers in the game are interlocked, and every step must be patiently calculated. All the labyrinths can be solved by guessing! Don't guess! ,
· Each labyrinth of the game has a theme, with a variety of rich themes such as classic games, movies, and TV shows to see how much you can recognize.
· There are more than 200 levels, the size is increased from small to large, I hope to bring you a quiet time.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP or later
- Processor: 2.0Ghz+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Shader Model 2.0+
- Storage: 120 MB available space
- OS *: Windows XP or later
- Processor: 2.0Ghz+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Shader Model 2.0+
- Storage: 120 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
There's an absolutely massive amount of content for $1. If you're a fan of minesweeper/nonograms or similar logic-based puzzles then this is a great title to pick up.
There seems to be a save bug where if you save a puzzle, close the game, open it, and load the puzzle, then you won't be able to save the puzzle again properly. So you either finish it in the second session or lose your progress. The other reviews here seem to see that as a deal-breaker, but it's really not that hard to just finish a puzzle within two play sessions...It would be really nice if the developer had fixed it some time over the past year though.
I've almost finished the game and have yet to see any other bugs related to the saves or anything else. The UI is smooth and responsive, and I haven't had any issues with it either.
2024 edit: price went from $1 to $4 in october 2023, years after the game came out, but still no patches or fixes. despicable.
a very difficult fill-a-pix puzzler with color images. you get a blank canvas with a bunch of numbers and a 3x3 cursor, and you have to figure out which square gets which color. the result is a picture and a sense of accomplishment, as guessing is not necessary.
216 levels from 8x8 to 59x59, no timer, no ratings, zoom in/out, and it used to be unbelievably cheap even at full price until 2023, but that's all there was on the positive side, with several things outweighing it on the negative, unfortunately.
first of all, the game starts up in chinese, have to change it in the settings (unless you know chinese, of course), where you can't find any volume sliders, just on/off for music and sound, but since it was made in unity and the launcher is enabled, resolution options and windowed mode are available on startup.
there are a lot of typos, and it's got nothing to do with not being a native speaker, it just reeks of laziness when there are no spaces where they should be and half the level names start with capital letters while the rest don't. I posted a somewhat better english translation in the guides section.
the worst thing and the major dealbreaker is how saving and loading works, or most of the time doesn't work. if you quit a level, it doesn't save your progress, you have to do it manually to one of the 3 slots, which is something you can get used to, and at least there's more than one slot. if you want to continue, you can only do so by going back to the main menu and load ('read') that puzzle, because if you simply open it again from level select, it's gonna get reset.
this would all be tolerable, especially for such a low price and such a huge amount of content, except saving and loading is buggy as hell. the only thing that works is the save getting deleted when you solve the level. you might be able to load your progress from the last session, but even then it's not sure if you can save it again. if you do each puzzle in one sitting, it's not an issue, but for some reason I find this game really difficult, and I normally do fine with nonograms and the like, so even a 15x15 level can take a considerable amount of time, and I have no idea how long (and with a limited amount of time, how many sessions) a 50x50 would take, but proper saving and loading is essential in any video game anyway.
there's a hint button that solves a 3x3 square, but it can only be used once per level (twice for bigger puzzles), though it resets if you load the level again (if you can, that is), so if you're really desperate, there are ways to get more hints.
and while it's not a huge deal for me, achievements are also iffy. I finished the first 3 pages, loaded the first level on page 4 and I still only had achievements for the first 2 chapters, 3 and 4 only got unlocked after reaching page 5.
as levels go by, their size increases, and while zoom is an option (and most welcome, especially when playing in windowed mode), moving the picture around easily is not. another huge oversight. there is a button that lets you cycle through incomplete numbers, so you can click that a few times, zoom in, etc. but it's awkward and there's no way to center the level after that at all.
I really wanted to recommend this game, but in such a broken state, and with only a single patch a few days after release, so no real chance of it ever getting fixed, I simply can't. I hope more similar games will come to steam eventually, there are a few link-a-pix titles, and of course plenty of nonogram/picross games, but nothing like this.
Flipped my review after further playing. The underlying mechanic (basically fill-a-pix) is great, a step-by-step pure logic puzzler with lots of pretty colors. The interface, however, is a mess. The English translation desperately need a thorough edit; the color palette behaves in lots of odd and non-intuitive ways; it's far too linear; and the level save is not only clunky, but eats saves.
I desperately wanted to make it work, as I love the mechanic and there's very few similar games on Steam, but after struggling to get through a bottleneck and then having two level saves eaten simultaneously, I give up.
Runs great on Steamplay (Mint 18.2, Nvidia proprietary), which is only good thing I can say about it and most of that credit goes to Unity3d.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Catnip studio |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 18.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 33% положительных (3) |