Launching later this month on Nintendo Switch is Depixtion, a Picross-like puzzler full of colour and creativity.
Just like Picross, you'll be completing a series of nonogram puzzles which will slowly but surely take the shape of a variety of images when finished. Depixtion mixes things up a little by adding a "never before seen colour mixing mechanic, generating the largest colour palette in a nonogram game to date".
Essentially, instead of beating a single monochrome puzzle, you'll need to complete three separate coloured puzzles. When finished, the three will blend together to create the final image. The developer says that this gives the player "a higher degree of artistic input on the final image, alongside a higher verticality of challenge from the puzzle itself".
Features:
- 96 Depixtion Images – 288 Picross Puzzles
- Sizes range from 4×4, 8×8, 12×12, 16×16, 20×20, and 24×24
- Largest colour palette in a Picross game to date (27 different colours!)
- Hand-crafted puzzles, truly solvable with logic
- Beginners & Advanced Tutorial. Easy to learn, hard to master!
- Autosaving. Don’t worry about any losing any progress
The game is set to launch on Switch on 28th February and will be available for $7.99.
Are you a keen Picross player? Does this look like it might provide you with a nice new challenge? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
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May give it a go, although am still going through Hungry Cat Picross on the phone. But you can never have too much Picross.
Red, Yellow, and Blue is a strange choice of layers to blend.
Normal colour theory is additive colours using red, green, and blue, or subtractive colours using cyan, yellow, and magenta.
Most digital displays are RGB colour channels.
I'd massive willing to give it a chance if it has touch screen controls, as the lack of them is my major complaint about the Picross games on Switch.
I thought Picross was a brand name? Seems weird that they're using the name instead of the usual 'nonogram' term?
I really like the idea of layering up the RGB (well, RYB in this case I guess) values to build the image, that's very nice. Wish they hadn't used the default swatch colours though, it's very harsh on the eyes and could have easily been tweaked to be much more appealing.
@Ogbert They have nintendo's permission apparantly.
Mh, on the one hand I really like the concept, on the other I really don't like the pixel art shown in the images.
That Picross game with rpg elements had really nice pixel art, though.
Where is Picross S4?
This seems nice, but I’ll get my Picross fix with “Murder By Numbers” next month.
@BenAV exactly what I was going to say!
It blows my mind Picross doesn’t have touch controls and has stopped me buying them. Will get this if it does...
I really like Picross so I'll probably check this out.
Color Picross is one of those things I always thought I wanted, until I got it, then I realized it’s way too easy and monochrome Picross is actually superior.
I will likely get this. I'm playing the RPG x Picross game on Switch right now and the fights are infuriating. I'll go 25 minutes into a match only to lose by the enemy I'm "fighting" to tell me my times up by KO after a full heart critical hit 😤😭
@geo-shifter Aaah I'd forgotten about that one! Thanks for the reminder!
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