by Jupiter Corporation has announced a new Picross entry to its growing lineup: Picross S Konami Antiques Edition. Launching on 30th April 2026 for the Switch eShop, the new game will introduce several classic Konami properties, including:
- GRADIUS series
- TwinBee series
- Castlevania series
- Ganbare Goemon series
- CONTRA series
Altogether, Konami Antiques will feature representation of more than 80 titles from the aforementioned series. Priced at $17.99 / €17,99 / £16.19, that's pretty good value in our eyes. A free demo will also be made available from 16th April 2026, so we'd encourage you to give it a shot if you've never experience Picross before.
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The Picross games have featured crossovers from all sorts of franchises, including Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Doraemon, Sanrio, Story of Seasons, and more. Add Konami to your quiver now, Jupiter.
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I enjoyed the Sega picross and even fully completed it. Whenever I next feel like playing Picross, I suppose it'll be this one then, since I love retro Konami stuff.
I enjoy how there are now so many Picrosses based on retro games, it's more interesting to nerds like me than the vanilla ones haha.
Fun! And mouse mode! I wonder if the music player is just a standalone mode or if you can listen to the tracks while you solve the puzzles. Or maybe certain tracks play for their respective boards?
this is a tough sell since konami technically already made a konami picross on mobile devices that was free. i think the only thing that was paid was getting rid of ads, but the ads were just konami ads, nothing else and i don't even think they were video ads.
Antiques?!
Is that the name for Konami's line of classic games, much like Namco and the Namco Legendary line?
I'm not really much into Konami, but I'm hopeful there are puzzles based on Antarctic Adventure. More nonograms are never a bad thing for me.
However, a little correction to the story.
Yes, there's a nonograms game based on Story of Seasons, but no, it's not Picross-branded and Jupiter wasn't involved in that one.
Why are they trying to make us feel so old!?
Shame there is no Hudson Soft rep but oh well, I still have a bunch of other Picross games I need to get through so I'm gonna skip this for now but I'll get to it at some point
I also wonder if they'll patch the previous games with mouse mode, probably not but it would be nice
Love to see another videogame-themed Picross coming and even more so since it's a Konami one (so cool to include a music player, too) - absolutely getting and playing it myself at some point!
I literally was looking on the eShop this week to see if there was a Picross with Konami sprites, because I saw the Sega and Namco ones.
What do you know.
Oh man, I really want this, but Picross S needs to do better with their music options. Even if that music player works while you’re playing (I assume it must) I only see ten tracks there. Better than the typical four, but these are tracks we’ll be listening to endlessly while we play. We really need a lot more music options and Konami has some of the best game music in history. And give us some remixes too; it would be criminal not to utilize Konami’s musical catalogue more fully.
If there ever was a game that would benefit from Switch 2 version, it would be this.
Among the dreams of RTS and point and click games that immediately arose after seeing the Switch 2’s mouse mode, was the dream of picross game with mouse controls.
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Nevermind. Just noticed it HAS a mouse mode! Yahoo! Sold!
At first I only saw mention of Switch 1 and saw clumsy console controller controls in the video and got a bit salty.
Hey, more Picross options is always nice. No complaints from me.
Mouse mode looks interesting even if I don't own a Switch 2 yet
Just bought a joycon mouse grip on Amazon since I saw this! Can't wait to try it out.
@HeroOfTime32 which one did you buy? I have been thinking about getting one too.
@Krlozgod "Hyperkin Joy‑Track Duo Ergonomic Mouse Attachment for Nintendo Switch 2 Joy‑Con 2, Mouse‑Style Controller Grip for Precision and Comfort"
There were a few to choose from, but this was actually pretty cheap! And it's from a name brand most of us know...and Prime could ship it to me as soon as tomorrow, haha. I compared the design to a lot of others, and I think many based their design off this. It doesn't have a lot of reviews, but we'll see!
What a good year to be a Konami fan
I like these themed Picross games.
Will get in a sale.
I'm interested in this.
We got Capcom, SNK, Namco, and now Konami. Pretty sure there wasat least one Sega one too. That leaves Square-Enix and Koei-Tecmo, and Arc as the next of the Daimo (SNK not really a Daimo again still, but Saudi money is getting them back up there. Slowly)
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Currently playing through Doraemon and F Characters edition of Picross and I have to say, it's my least fav by far of all the Picross games on Switch, the puzzles are almost all just faces from the show all of which are drawn in such a similar fashion it means most puzzles are incredible similar.
The Sega Megadrive one was a million times better because of all the different pixel sprite work.
I love picross but 17.99 seems at least 8 bucks high to me.
I have never played a picross game, I really don’t even know how it works. It sort of reminds me of paint by numbers. This I’m sort of interested in, it has a lot of good games in tow.
@BoilerBroJoe The music loops in the Namco picross were so repetitive and short. I wound up muting that game while I finished it. The snk and Capcom collections have random as a music option, so it'll rotate between the 10 tracks. This will probably do the same, but that doesn't mean much.
Oh, I almost forget. I started this as a sort of running joke, but considering how often Jupiter announces a new Picross game, I update the list from time to time to keep track of how many/which Picross-branded games are available on Switch and now Switch 2. Updating my comment from the last time.
According to my previous comments and depending on how you look at it, there will be
2324 or3233 Picross games on Switch and Switch 2. Maybe even 25 or 34, see below.(Copy-paste of my previous comment)
It goes without saying that there are now more Picross games on Switch/Switch 2 than there were on the 3DS, and that's including Picross DS, Picross 3D, Picross 3D: Round 2 as well as the Virtual Console versions of Mario's Picross and Mario's Super Picross.
I'm gonna say this as a Picross fan; with the amount of games there are, it's probably best to stick to the branded ones that appeal to you, the Picross e9 DLC in S+, Picross X, Logiart Grimoire and maybe the occassional S game.
One day I'll get the grand total of puzzles between different games.
Good value?!
These cross-branded ones, as welcome as they are, are ludicrously overpriced. I'm waiting on a sale on all of them before I bite. I've already spent way too much money (and time) on these games as it is, and they've released so many that I can no longer keep up.
Pokémon Picross on 3DS was perhaps the worst culprit as I remember paying about AU$39 to essentially "unlock" the full game so I wouldn't have to endure constant cooldown periods.
@SillyG I agree. Happy to pick these up for a tenner or less, but 17,99 seems like a steep price.
@HammerGalladeBro Thanks for the list! I didn't even know there was a Capcom themed one!
You are paying double for the license. And the Capcom, SNK and now this one is much more expensive than the Sega and Namco releases was. So there has been an obvious price hike. Sure, there is a new mode (time attack) in the 3 recent releases, but that does not warrant a much more expensive price.
I love Picross, but these recent ones are overpriced.
@HammerGalladeBro still as a picross fan, do you see this releases like a puzzle book which had a new edition full of nonograms (the puzzlemagazine's word for them)... I must say I still to have some many picrosses (zelda on the 3ds, with nintendo club points).. i don't really see a point in buying a new one myself... eventhough i like picross quite a bit
would like me some logigrid/logigram puzzles though/ one step further
Picross games will survive the entropic heat death of the universe.
@-wc- I think I paid $9.99 for SEGA Picross, so these new ones, including the Capcom game, are almost twice as expensive. $9.99 was good impulse buy pricing for me on these, but I won’t pay $18. I like a puzzle game now and then but it’s not one of my main genres.
@TYRANACLES
It's one of the all time great puzzle games! about as basic as you could get (you could easily make picross puzzles with pencil and paper and it would be the same thing.)
essentially, the numbers tell you how many filled in squares are in each row or column, but not precisely where, and you use deduction to figure out where. the payoff is when you reach a tipping point and it becomes obvious where the remaining squares are on the board.
I would recommend trying a cheap version on sale, to see if you even like the puzzles, because this will be pretty much exactly the same but with Konami characters, and way more expensive. I'd say unless someone is a mega Konami fan and just cant WAIT to get their next Picross fix, 17.99 is way too high and this is a definite "wait for a sale." my 2 cents! ✌️
@HammerGalladeBro there is also "Picross™ : Juufuutei Raden™'s Guide for Pixel Museum" from Jupiter
There are so many games whose existence you start to wonder if you maybe dreamt them up. Then they get mentioned in a trailer like this, and you realize that you are actually sane.
40 x 30?! I was wondering how they'd make SNES games work.
Picross Bygone Fossils Edition: If You Remember These, You're An Ancient Geezer
Looks pretty good though.
@krupkat What they hey? Talk about an obscure game, I swear it didn't pop up for me* when I browsed the eShop when the Capcom and SNK games were listed there. Apparently it came out at the same time as the Switch 2, adding it to the list.
*Looks like it's only available in the select countries for some reason. When I clicked the links on the game's official website, the Playstation Store and Steam pages gave me errors, most likely due to my location in Mexico. The Xbox link is removed, though. Sure enough, I browsed the Mexican eShop again and it still doesn't show up.
Surely some Metal Gear Solid related levels?
Deep cut- The game, 映画 すみっコぐらし 空の王国とふたりのコ あそぼうキャラクロス, only released in japan, has an entire Picross mode developed by Jupiter.
People I also recommend checking out Konami's Pixel Puzzle Collection for Android (don't know if it's on iOS). It's their own Nonogram game. It does have ads but they're not really intrusive and it's absolutely free as in no microtransactions. This game covers their classic library of games, like this one will. On top of that, they have nonogram puzzles classed as bosses which do time out for 3 hours I think it is, when completing one.
Keep the Goemon love coming. Now I just need that Goemon Collection here in the west.
@-wc- very helpful and I think I have all I need to give Picross a crack now. Thanks for that.
@TYRANACLES
you're very welcome 😊 I hope you enjoy! please come back and let us know, if you think of it. ✌️
fwiw I've been playing one puzzle a night on Mario's Picross for gameboy before going to sleep. generally, it's a bit hard to stay awake through the whole puzzle, but that's kind of the point. it's possibly the least stimulating videogame imaginable, in a good way. 😂 no graphics, no story, no action, no words. 👍
@-wc- I get that. After a play through of RE Requiem, I could probably use a little peace and quiet. That game is so unnerving at times!
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