Math Pixels

Sweet little puzzle game, perfect to spend some spare minutes now and then. The trailer shows you basically the whole gameplay loop. If you like what you see, you get plenty more of it with the 200 levels and the random level generator. The developer is also very ambitious, listens to feedback and suggestions, delivers quickly updates with some nice improvements. From quality of life (more settings, level selector), bug fixes but also more content (random level generator). For that low price, you can't go wrong.

It's a good game. There are a few rough edges here and there that can get annoying at times, but in general this game has been a nice little brain twister while it lasted. Very math-heavy, but that is to expected from the title. The basic concept is simple: It's paint-by-numbers, where each color has a value to it, and you get hints at the edge of the canvas about the totals you have to achieve in the respective rows, columns, or parts of those. Apart from that you get to know exactly how many pixels of each color are in the final picture. Occasionally single pixels have been filled in already, like in a Sudoku. If you follow those hints, you slowly put together the image that has been prepared. There are 200 levels, in sizes 4x4 to 12x12, including a couple rectangular ones, and with anywhere between 2 and 6 colors. Once you are done with those, there is a level generator, where you can specify size, color count and pre-placed pixel count, and get a randomly generated level to solve. In general, I really like the concept. The hints are for the most part kept as minimal as possible, and you have to actually do some math if you want to know the numbers for certain sections. There …

Fun, relaxing and somewhat addicting! Had a fun time trying to solve each puzzle and finding out what the image is as I go on. Tried setting a limit to how many puzzles I'll do a day and often times not noticing that I've been doing more. Tried doing a max settings no hint puzzle on the Puzzle Generator mode and had such a challenge doing it that I'd want to go back to. A very nice first game from this developer.

I want to like this game, I really do. It feels like an interesting twist on the nonograms formula. Some of the puzzles are great, and some are easy but relaxing. However the reason I can't, in good faith, recommend this game to people who like pure deduction in their logic puzzles is because some of the puzzles have multiple solutions. In a game where the result is supposed to be an image, the puzzles which allow for multiple solutions can result in the art not looking like anything at all. If you're the kind of person who doesn't mind logic puzzles with multiple solutions, you might enjoy this one. I will probably still finish all the levels since some of the levels are actually fun, but I'd recommend to the dev in a future update perhaps having some of the cells filled in at the start to ensure unique solutions.

Math Pixels is a minimalist puzzle game where you solve logic and arithmetic-based puzzles to reveal pixel-art images. Each level gives you numbers around rows and columns, and you must calculate sums or fill decisions to colour tiles and gradually reveal a hidden picture. The game includes around 200 handcrafted levels for a full “campaign” of puzzles — from easy to fairly challenging

Solid puzzle game, but MAN it could use a "Help" or "Tutorials" menu that includes all the text, so that I don't have to go back through every level looking for the explanations again if I haven't played in a while.