Gizmos: Spooky Adventures

A cheap, solid little nonogram game with a vaguely Halloween theme and a LOT of puzzles, promising hours of play. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the puzzles are 25 x 25, leading to very little content for casual players. Solving puzzles to earn hints for when you get too stuck is a nice mechanic, though there's also a "relaxed" mode where there's no timer and mistakes don't matter. You can decide how much actual challenge you want, which is great. There's even an optional "autofill" for blank squares on completed lines, which is handy. There's no marking system, but there is a counting feature by dragging with one mouse button then pressing the other mouse button to cancel it, though it's somewhat risky as it sometimes fails and ruins a puzzle by filling in counted squares. Also the English cut scene dialogue is hilariously poorly translated, leading to some unintentional lulz.

One of the better nonogram games on Steam. It has the features you need to properly play this game. Left click for a regular block, right click to put a negative block. You can drag accross the titles and it wont delete the previous blocks. It has a counter when you select multiple cells. And the biggest feature you can activate is that once the correct number of blocks are filled for a row or column the rest of the blocks are automatically put to negative blocks.

starts easy, finishes fiendish

Some points about this game, from most positive to most negative (#1 rates the recommend on its own, while #10 almost ruins that recommendation.) +++1. A LOT of picross/nonogram/griddlers in one package. If you're into them, this supplies many hours' worth of enjoyment. ++2. The price for the package is very reasonable. +3. Most of the nonograms (with one exception, to my experience) can be solved logically, without guesswork. +4. There's even a simple puzzle game from time to time. Skippable and not achievement based if you're not into it. 5. While it does give a lot of hours, mine might be inflated, as I have a bad habit of wandering away from the computer. 6. With a few exceptions, most of the nonograms only vaguely look like the image they're trying to replicate. Most nonograms have that issue, though. -7. Not that I'm very good at these, but the time achievements seem like something that while not impossible, would be accomplished by someone who is so reflexive to the game that I ...

I just love nonograms, man. I don't know why. I'm not even that good at math. But here I am, spending my free time putting together these puzzles. I skipped through all of the dialogue because I don't like the voice acting, so I have no idea what the story of this was. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this game and put 50 hours into it. If you like nonograms, try this one. Turn on easy mode and just enjoy yourself.

every time I update Gizmos: Spooky Adventures it comes up saying Disk Write Error, Is there a reason why it keeps saying this? Please help.