Hex Picross

The game is currently half-complete and abandoned. Most of the easy puzzles are bad and the harder ones are not implemented at all. Here's what happened. 1. Game gets released. Despite its name it is a different kind of puzzle without Picross mechanics. 2. People leave negative reviews because they expected a hexagonal Picross. 3. The developer deletes all levels, removes the old mechanics and implements actual Picross. 4. He starts adding new levels for Picross gameplay, but most of them are not good (a lot of symmetry, sometimes guesswork required etc). 5. We report it all and the developer starts adding better levels (the 7x7x7 pack is decent but still pretty small and quick to solve). 6. But then he stopped adding levels, working on the game, or communicating. The last packs are still missing and the early packs still suck. If the developer comes back to actually finish the game I'd be happy to change my review again.

Game is incomplete and abandoned by the developer

Innovative idea ruined by lack of creativity and levels where you have to guess instead of using logic. Save your money. I'll start with the bad stuff. There are several (I don't actually know how many because I didn't bother to complete the entire game) levels where there is no logical way to start, you have to guess. How can they call that a nonogram/picross puzzle if you have to guess? You can't get all the achievements. The developer never completed the game. The last size of levels just says "coming september something". Comments on the discussion board say it's been long time and no response from the developer. The game has been abandoned. Completed pictures are just geometric shapes: triangles, circles, etc. That gets boring. There are many different size puzzles to do but they are just bigger images than the smaller ones. I've never played a nonogram/picross game where the image is not an object or living thing of some kind: animals, flowers, people, telephones, etc. That's part of the fun of the puzzle, seeing what the finished image is. To just see more triangles in a different arrangement is disappointing and discouraging. One final negative: there is no music in the game at all!!!!! You do puzzles to complete silence. What, the dev couldn't find some free music out there to put in the game, are you kidding me? Now some positive stuff. This is an innovative idea of now to do a nonogram/picross puzzle. Instead of blocks making a grid there is a hexagram and you have to work from all sides instead of just columns and rows. If the developer had done pictures of animals and things then this game would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately that not the game we got. One more positive thing, although each level has to be unlocked by completing the previous one the size of levels is not locked. So you can do some 4x4 puzzles, then try out some 5x5 puzzles and 6x6 puzzles. You're not completely locked in. That helps when you run into a puzzle that can only be completed by guessing and you've tried 5 times and are ready to punch your monitor/screen. Just skip it and go to the next size up. Oh, and yes there are achievements (but you can't get 100%). Final words: I rarely do negative reviews so that should tell you something. Only buy this game if it is really really really really cheap and you're a die-hard nonogram/picross fan and want to check out hexagram puzzling. Otherwise, save your money. You have been warned.

The 11x11x11 levels do not exist and never will. You cannot get all achievements because of this. Disgusting.

Pretty disappointing. I was expecting a puzzle game with a bit more logic. Puzzles are essentially random as there are multiple solutions, so no picture is produced. The rules are too open, so you cannot actually deduce what should be done.

Currently incomplete, will revise when the missing levels are added.

The game is incomplete, the 11x11x11 levels are still missing 2 years after the release, and some achievements are unachievable.

I love picross and this looked like a fun variation but this just wasn't doing it for me. [strike]I expected each number to match with 2 rows but that wasn't the case. Every number has their own single row, which just makes the game work near identical to the original picross, just a different shape in an odd angle.[/strike] After testing, my expectation would have made for a more boring game so I'll have to check back on the game with a more accurate expectations.

2022/9/2に大幅アップデートが有り、全く別のゲームになりました。 こんな変わったの始めて見たよ… 変更前の六角形だけれど2方向しか数字がない、が、3方向の数字が表示されるようになり、 その数字の意味も、いわゆるロジックパズルと似た意味(順番が決めれれていないことが違う)になりました。 また、完成図が、なんとなくそれなりの図形っぽいものになるようになりました。 とはいえ、複数の解答があり得る問題が出るのは変わらず、また問題が、 解いてて楽しい感じはしない適当感があり、おすすめはしにくいです。 以下は2022/9/2の仕様変更前のレビューです。 三問目でもうやる気を無くしました。 HEXであっても、実質方形と同じく2軸しかないということも気になりますが、 論理パズルとしては、解答が複数存在するという時点で話になりません。 この価格でもおすすめできません。

2023/1/7 不推荐，理由如下： 1. 谜题设计失败。简单的题目过于简单，几乎就是由完全的对称组成的，而且重复性很高，此外，由于游戏没有拖拽涂色的功能，所以还得一个一个点，非常费时间，让人厌烦（实际上我都是使用变速齿轮玩的，因为原速哪怕是休闲游戏也太慢了）而复杂的题目必须靠猜才能完成，这大幅破坏了游戏体验，因为picross类型的游戏靠的是从一点循序渐进推出全图的过程，而不是猜半天发现错了从头开始。 2. 交互和界面设计失败。第一，游戏为未处理、点亮、熄灭三种色块的区分度很差，第二，还是上面说的，游戏原速进度太慢了。 3. 游戏尚未开发完成，并似乎遭到放弃。11*11的内容至今尚未发布，声称9月会"coming soon"，我也不知道是哪年的9月。 4. 以上问题并非无法解决，也不是游戏设计层面的问题。希望作者能够处理，届时我将修改评测（不过我对此持悲观态度）