Hidden Clues

While the detective theme has no substance, the nonograms will keep you busy for a while. The game puts you in the shoes of a team of investigators. Your task is to solve ten cases by gathering clues and identifying the perpetrator. There is no story because investigators merely make brief comments about clues and don’t talk much. Cases are handled by solving nonograms, a classic puzzle that’s very easy to learn. Each puzzle consists of an empty grid with numbers on the top and left side. Those numbers indicate how many squares in the grid need to be colored. If a row or column has two or more numbers, there must be at least one blank space between the groups of numbers. The game has two difficulty levels: casual and advanced. The distinction is that hints recharge automatically in casual, whereas advanced only recharges hints with correctly colored squares. There is no reward for doing things on your own, so you can utilize hints as often as you like. Especially since you can only make four mistakes. If you fail, you must redo the puzzle. Regardless of the difficulty, the game assists you by automatically filling in rows and columns with no numbers. After then, you simply mov…

Edit 6/29/2026: I've changed my rec to a 'thumbs down' due to undisclosed AI usage, and I'm going to try to get a refund, though it's been so long since my purchase, Steam probably won't let me... :( The review below will remain unedited from it's original publication. I wish there was a 'meh' option instead of just 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down.' But since there's not, I'm going to give this a tentative 'thumbs up' for the puzzles themselves (but nothing else.) I like nonogram/picross puzzles. A lot. I found the puzzles in this game to be a fun challenge. I also liked the multi-coloring mechanic. I don't think I've played any other digital nonogram games that do that. So, for me, that made this game unique, and it's probably the reason I stuck with it until the end, despite its other faults. Now for the things I didn't like: [list] [*] There was an odd bug in the game where every time you quit and then came back in, you had to do the first puzzle from the first case before you could go back to working on whatever case you were on. The first puzzle is very easy, so it didn't take more than a few minutes, but it was still annoying. [*] The artwork honestly feel…