Pictopix

The best picross/nonogram puzzle game on PC, Pictopix, just got a free update on its first anniversary. It's added in another 45 large-size puzzles, pretty much doubling the play-time of the whole game. So I've gone back in, and argue once more why this is the sort of PC game our industry is sadly failing to celebrate.

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The PC is oddly bereft of decent Picross/Nonogram puzzles. Could Pictopix [official site] finally be the version that lets us put down our 3DS? Here's wot I think:

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