CiniCross

中评。 肉鸽+数织，先上总结：两边不讨好……肉鸽选手苦于织，数织选手本职技能发挥不了多少……全靠天意！ 我自诩数织大王（因为外号都是纺织厂厂长来着~）想着这游戏我不得so easy！结果玩得也挺难受的…… 初期职业没解锁几个，走到3层都感觉吃力，随到特别大的图就很讨厌，不是织不出来，而是道具buff过于看脸，主要时间太紧，急促让人体验感很不好！！和计时还不一样，它到后面时间的速率递增有点离谱，大概15×15，给你一分钟这还算好的，有一些关是10×10，但是一关让你织4个图……boss里面我最恶心的是那个不能打×的，大图不能打x极其不爽！ 后来我用减时速+掉血自动答+堆血量过了15关（后面其实我可以无限继续打，有这三基本就是无脑过了，只是成就只到15关所以我收手了） 这个过纯靠组道具，和数织实力毫无关系，哪怕你很能织也不大可能比如一关让你织4张20×20的在那么短时间内，必须道具，因此数织失去了本身的意义。 后期我都是一顿瞎点（因为我靠伤血触发自动织）无聊的看满屏爆炸…… 成就党想全应该不太容易，而且没法随玩随停，只有打过单关的boss才有存档。 性价比一般，喜欢数织的朋友我反而不太建议买这个。

Making a roguelike out of a game like Picross/nonograms is a pretty challenging endeavour - the puzzles themselves have to be solvable without guessing, so the balance of the game needs to add challenge even for players making no logical errors. Unfortunately, I feel that Cinicross pushes too much towards the timer as the main balancing mechanic in a way that drowns out the rest of it. The once-per-floor nodes to buy items reducing the time multiplier place too many constraints on player decision making on the map screen, and tie up way too many resources to allow the player to meaningfully experiment with different builds. The difficulty levels on the puzzles also scale up really strangely - for most experienced picross players level 0 and 1 puzzles will be trivial, but level 2 puzzles scale up far faster and if you're getting unlucky on the map screen you'll burn too much time getting your time multiplier down anyway. More generally, the game feels indistinct - too many of the artefacts focus on generically good stats rather than changing the way you play the game, and the resource requirements to manage time mean you don't really get to use the reroll system to have much agency in what you're given. This is coupled with the item wheel, which again has very few ways to give you more agency. Past a certain difficulty level, it seems that you just get what you get. I'm of course willing to concede that [even having played a lot of picross and a lot of puzzle games] I'm just fundamentally missing something about CiniCross that opens up the entire experience. But it feels like at a certain point the game wants you to stop playing Picross and start playing CiniCross, and that transition feels pretty poorly handled. There's definitely some really cool pieces here - you can get some fun runs from the game, and there is some interesting resource management. There's definitely room for a punishing picross game. But at its core I think the game trades off too much player agency in exchange for its difficulty, making it very hard to recommend.

Will recommend because there aren't that many enjoyable games with nonograms. However, the game felt heavily skewed towards rng rather over nonogram solving skills. Some of the classes are a lot harder than others, felt aimless and time consuming at the end. Finished the whole game regardless.

This game is good but it could be great. The glaring issue for me it's using time as tax: it currently scales too harshly in higher difficulties, and having tested playing without it in peaceful runs makes the game too easy. It's probably not an easy thing to balance. Some power-ups are boring but coming up with power-ups for picross must not be easy. Overall I like this game and I think it's worth its price

This game is very fun, but the endless mode is terrible. Your abilities get so powerful that you can just randomly click cells and complete the puzzle without losing health or time. Additionally, the difficulty scaling doesn't actually make the floors harder, it just makes the boss way longer. As insult to injury, you only gain XP when you die, but once you get to a certain floor it becomes impossible to die. I think if the endless mode was fixed this could be a very fun game since the core gameplay loop is quite enjoyable.

Started out fun but the timer is enough to cause stress. The boss who kept removing tile solutions were just annoying.

A lot of fun, if you like Picross-style puzzles. I thought I was pretty good at them and getting kind of bored of clones, but the additional mechanics in this add whole new levels to the gameplay. It felt a bit like starting all over, in a good way.