Arizona Rose and the Pharaohs' Riddles

Arizona Rose and the Pharaohs’ Riddles, developed and published by Anawiki Games, is a puzzle-focused adventure that builds its entire experience around nonogram-style challenges, supported by a light narrative and a handful of additional gameplay diversions. It presents itself as a treasure-hunting journey through ancient Egypt, but in practice, it is primarily a logic puzzle collection framed by an archaeological theme. The result is a game that is easy to approach, consistently engaging in short sessions, and clearly designed with casual puzzle players in mind. At the center of the experience are the nonogram puzzles, which form the foundation of nearly every level. Players are given grids with numerical clues that indicate how cells should be filled to reveal hidden images. These puzzles start off simple, introducing the logic in an accessible way, but gradually increase in size and complexity, requiring more careful deduction and attention to detail. The satisfaction comes from the process itself—slowly narrowing down possibilities and watching an image take shape as each correct decision builds on the last. It’s a well-established formula, and the game executes it reliably w…

I liked it. The approach to the press-and-hold mechanic was nice. Instead of revealing the tiles as you drag your mouse along, they're revealed after releasing. It allows for a chance to spot mistakes before you make them, which is always welcome in a genre such as this one. Could've done without all the story elements though. Those seemed to drag out far much longer than they needed to. I also wasn't a fan of the pop-up ad. You can decline and have it never ask again, but it made it feel akin to a mobile game. The way the game's displayed is a bit odd too. Felt stretched no matter what I did. I eventually settled on windowed mode since that was what avoided my monitors flickering when tabbing out. Not much of a fan of the power-up related achievements either. For the last power-up, it dragged out a 10x10 board to take like 15 minutes. For these reasons, I can't recommend. Anyway, +1 perfect games!

Good picross with hidden object scenes and geometrical Tetris type puzzles. The cursor should change between functions though (select/deselect tile) and the select/deselect buttons should be much larger to prevent redoing picross puzzles over.

Combo of many different puzzle games. Interesting plot. Recommend.

The game is fairly well polished, but I still cannot recommend this game to anyone. Normally picross games have you fill in an outline of a picture. This game has you fill in a complete picture, so a majority of the squares will be filled in. This not only reduces the challenge significantly, but it means that larger puzzles are so boring to start out because you have to spend time filling in at least 20 rows/columns that are 80% filled. At least this game didn't suffer from the horrible board design (squares and background) of its predecessor.

its as good as the other one