Pixelogic - Daily Nonograms

These puzzles are great for practicing logical reasoning, while being enjoyable enough to have successfully replaced most of my social media with something better for my brain and mental health! This is one of the only apps I have ever been willing to pay for the premium version of, and it has been 100% worth it. I love the clean design and user interface. The developers also added soundtracks a few months ago and they’re the perfect soothing accompaniment to the game!

I would give this app 5 stars if the daily free play increased to 3. There are 2 dailies, a weekly, and a huge archive. The one time purchase packs are quite a bit for 20ish puzzles each. $1 would be more reasonable. The previous version (way back when) had a “+” version you could get for a one time purchase and included the entire archive. I would gladly pay about $5 to have permanent full access to even the previous 30 days of archive without limited daily “free plays”. Or a couple bucks ONE TIME to increase the daily plays to 5 or so. There are plenty of ways to get people to support a quality game like this one without a subscription. $15 a year is not unreasonable, but I do not like to support subscriptions if I can avoid it. I’d rather pay $15 for a year’s worth of previous archive that I can access and play at my own pace.

The new “app refresh” has ruined this game for me. It used to be relaxing and enjoyable and now is just frustrating. I find myself accidentally getting mistakes because the toggle tool does not toggle when I hit. Even after the update to make it more responsive, it still often doesn’t respond, causing accidental mistakes. Also it doesnt swipe smoothly between quadrants when zoomed in anymore. I end up having to zoom out then choose the quadrant I want now. Sometimes things are fine the way they are and don’t need to be new and fresh and updated. I miss the old version.