App Profile: Pic-a-Pix

Peartato59

Rating: 2/5

The game is fun for a while and the color puzzles are a really nice idea, but the interface is just so clunky, it becomes unplayable sometimes. Particularly on any puzzle taller or wider than 10 blocks, where scrolling is required. Not to mention the bad translations/spellings, repeated puzzles, etc. mentioned by other reviewers. I've also done puzzles where entire lines are unused; they're just there to take up space and force me to scroll. Maybe make the grid take up more of the screen so you don't have to scroll over when doing puzzles? If this stuff gets fixed, the app would definitely be worth a purchase. Until then, I'm sticking with Picross 3D.

brothamannp11911

Rating: 3/5

There are a few bugs. Sometimes when you finish the puzzle, the game doesn't recognize it. I found the easy fix is to erase one square and then fill it in again. Some puzzles are not solvable with the given information. At the beginning it's not too bad. You can usually make a pretty good guess by looking at the picture. But puzzle 14 is ridiculous. Without the hint button, this one would be practically impossible. I've been doing these kinds of puzzles for over 6 years and have worked on some that are so large and complicated, it took a week to solve. This has nothing to do with the difficulty of the puzzle, it was just a poorly designed one. Sometimes the game doesn't clear a number that you already have filled in and sometimes it fills it in when it shouldn't be. Puzzle 15 is a prime example. Be sure to watch for this. I would like to see it fixed so that the user crosses off the numbers instead of it being done automatically. I got this app for free, and as a free app, it's good. However I wouldn't spend any money on it until the bugs are fixed. I would also love to see larger puzzles and more color.

i9q3jklsjf

Rating: 3/5

I have been having problems with it crashing. I don't find the ads annoying but it's possible they are slowing the game down a bit - it is pretty laggy. Sometimes the pictures are incorrectly labeled (i solved a picture of a butterfly and the app said it was a "mobile"..) One of the color puzzles with multiple colors to fill in is missing the option to use all the colors, so I can only fill in two colors when there are four; it's unsolvable. The app is fun and challenging, and I love that we get the option to get hints and check to see if what we filled in so far is correct. Still, there are some very noticeable flaws in it that should be corrected.