Pixel Maze

[b]2024 edit:[/b] 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...

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.

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.

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