Opus Cortex: A Nonogram Puzzle Story

“Opus Cortex” is a nonogram puzzle game (a picture-logic puzzle, in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the edges of the grid to reveal a hidden picture), with a backstory in the form of visual novel dealing with the topics of AI evolution and its risks. Puzzles themselves are well designed, with a rather steep difficulty curve, and you can use both mouse and keyboard controls for interaction. Story itself is plain and simple, targeted more towards the young-adult audience, with illustrations in manga-style, and music that is… well, a bit annoying at times, I just couldn’t attune to the melodies and instruments. But overall this is a good puzzle game, at least if you’re into this type of puzzles.

i love it when nonograms /picross games have a story, it makes more enjoyable and feel more like I accomplished something , which this games does well .some the end game puzzles were quite hard at first ,but the developer listened to feedback for various things so by the time i got back to it later is was changed/fixed and i was able to finish the game.

It was my first time playing a nonogram-type game, and it was really fun! I definitely recommend it.

A couple puzzles can’t be solved without guessing, and also exiting a puzzle in the middle of it causes it to be cleared completely, without any warning! Also the game sometimes crashes and forgets your progress, I had to restart a (big) puzzle I had finished :(. Still recommending the game because I enjoyed it overall, but you have to keep these issues in mind.

If you want a nice casual puzzle game, this is definitely a good choice. A bit like sudoku, in that you have to work out sequences from number clues, but otherwise nothing like sudoku. Good logic game. The only downside, the music is a bit repetitive, but for the price completely acceptable, you can turn it down and listen to your own tunes, their is no voice acting.

A fairly short game, taking roughly 4hrs to complete from start to finish. The puzzles themselves are pretty bad, but I really enjoyed the story and the way the levels were presented. The puzzles were integrated into the story, in a way I haven't encountered in many "story & puzzle" games. I found the story interesting, and would have loved to see a more fleshed out ending. It starts off as a mystery, but once you find out what's happening, the story just sort of gets dismissed and has the ending you would expect. Back to the puzzles and why they kind of suck: - There is no penalty for clicking the wrong square, which you'd think would make it easier but it doesn't, because it means there's no indication when you make a mistake. - There's also no way to check if you're right as you go. Some games have "check if correct" buttons, or hint buttons... this one has nothing. - There are several puzzles where you need to guess, sometimes a large portion of a puzzle requires guesswork, because multiple squares could fit the number clues. I had to use a guide for a few of the later puzzles as I found them impossible without it. - The number clues don't change in any way as you go along, …