Picross.io

TL;DR - a decent picross game, brought down by UI display problems. Row and column information on large puzzles will be covered up by UI elements, puzzle groups in level select will be positioned offscreen and thus, unplayable, and the combo counter interferes with making marks.
The game is somewhat barebones in terms of features. It will highlight incorrect squares, with no option otherwise. There's no option to automatically fill trivially-solved columns and rows, but it will automatically fill in Xs when you mark off the borders of every group in a row or column. If you want to play a harder mode where you can't place Xs, it'll have to be self-imposed. The timer counts up, so you can't fail from taking too long, and as a result, mistakes adding a minute to your time doesn't really mean anything. There is no music, which is fine, since you can always put on your own or watch something while you play. The game does not offer resolution options outside of your monitor's aspect ratio, even in windowed mode.
The main problems I have with the game have to do with the UI. It might have to do with playing the game on a monitor with a 4:3 aspect ratio, but the timer in the upper left will block off the leftmost column and the topmost row information, so you need to work with what you can in the rest of the puzzle, which is not always enough. The game has a combo counter which increases as you consecutively draw in squares correctly, but the display for it interferes as you try to mark in multiple squares in a column, since you can't click under a combo notification. What's especially irritating is that I was only able to play 165 out of the store page's claim of 224 large (15X15) puzzles, because the rest went offscreen in puzzle select.
The game's okay if you just want to play picross, and if it's on sale.

Steam User 1

Reviewed 12.2020

would like it if when you marked an X you would not be able to mark that spot as blue until you removed it, would also like an option to force click and drag to a straight line but other than that I enjoy it
Steam User 2

Reviewed 02.2020

TL;DR - a decent picross game, brought down by UI display problems. Row and column information on large puzzles will be covered up by UI elements, puzzle groups in level select will be positioned offscreen and thus, unplayable, and the combo counter interferes with making marks.
The game is somewhat barebones in terms of features. It will highlight incorrect squares, with no option otherwise. There's no option to automatically fill trivially-solved columns and rows, but it will automatically fill in Xs when you mark off the borders of every group in a row or column. If you want to play a harder mode where you can't place Xs, it'll have to be self-imposed. The timer counts up, so you can't fail from taking too long, and as a result, mistakes adding a minute to your time doesn't really mean anything. There is no music, which is fine, since you can always put on your own or watch something while you play. The game does not offer resolution options outside of your monitor's aspect ratio, even in windowed mode.
The main problems I have with the game have to do with the UI. It might have to do with playing the game on a monitor with a 4:3 aspect ratio, but the timer in the upper left will block off the leftmost column and the topmost row information, so you need to work with what you can in the rest of the puzzle, which is not always enough. The game has a combo counter which increases as you consecutively draw in squares correctly, but the display for it interferes as you try to mark in multiple squares in a column, since you can't click under a combo notification. What's especially irritating is that I was only able to play 165 out of the store page's claim of 224 large (15X15) puzzles, because the rest went offscreen in puzzle select.
The game's okay if you just want to play picross, and if it's on sale.

Picross.io

Game Discussion

Anonymous

Steam User 1

Steam User 2