Piczle Cross: Rune Factory

[b]My Playtime:[/b] 107.5h (100% achievement, finished the game) [list][*][i]Black and White Nonograms:[/i] 60.8h [*][i]Colored Nonograms:[/i] 43.3h [*][i]Bonus Nonograms:[/i] 3.4h[/list] [b]Grindy Achievement(s):[/b] No. [b]Optional Achievement(s):[/b] Yes (~32 achievements). [b]Difficult Achievement(s):[/b] No. [h1]Intro[/h1] [i]Piczle Cross: Rune Factory[/i] is a [url=https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=rune+factory&category1=998&supportedlang=english&developer=Marvelous+Inc.&ndl=1][i]Rune Factory[/i][/url]-themed Nonogram game. It offers 952 puzzles: half black-and-white, half colored and available in varying sizes, from 5x5 to 25x25. [b]Pros:[/b] - 952 puzzles from 5x5 to 25x25 - Customizable difficulties [b]Cons:[/b] - Farm customization is not rewarding - Hard to differentiate similar colors in colored puzzles [b]Specs[/b] AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 16GB RAM, AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT [h1]Should you buy this game?[/h1] [i]If you enjoy Nonogram games, especially those that require you to think, buy this game.[/i] [hr][/hr] [h1]In-Depth Review[/h1] [h3]Visuals[/h3] For a Nonogram game, the game uses high-quality 3D models for its background. These models look similar to t…

I have never heard of rune factory and have no idea what it is, but it genuinely brings nothing to the game. The game looks like absolute dookie and the crossover/collab is just a gimmick, but the puzzles work how they're supposed to and that's the only thing that matters to me.

As a hardcore Rune Factory fan who likes to do nonograms, I love so much about this! This game features background music and a small encyclopedia that features at least 3 different entries of the series and honestly it gave me a blast! Beside that you can decorate your background using different assets from Rune Factory 5 after you've unlocked them with the related puzzle, which feels pretty minor though. The key feature of this game is solving different nonogram levels in two different modes (basic and color) and it does it's job okay-ish. The game is not well programmed. For a nonogram game it's buggy and overall badly optimized. Especially the hints are an absolute mess! For example in riddle RFN022 only 3/6 hints you get in the beginning are actually helping you. What am I supposed to do with the hints 1, 2 and 3 in a row or column of 14 fields? None of the fields can be filled in or crossed out with certainity. It's something that really bothers/kind of frustrates me as I'll sometimes quadracheck the marked row/column and feel lowkey dumb since I don't see what the hint wants to tell me. I also can't recommend trying to play it via touchscreen in handheld mode! It's playabl…

Like their other games which are picross/nonogram, They have a visual representation as you progress. While This one visually has more options and you can choose equipments unlike their Story of Season game. There's no indication on what each stage unlocks. Only spouse requirements are hinted. Even then that's not my issue. My issue is with most games the thing that shows the lines that can be solved isn't programmed correctly specially in their Guardians of Azuma added content, where it shows some stuff and when you cross out a square and then back again it might correct itself. In all of the picross games I played not from this developer this feature works correctly but, in all of their games I own it's not working correctly. As I like to use that feature when I want to solve stuff but, not look through each line (which is turned off anyways whenever you're in a monster/boss stage anyways) when I'm multi-tasking and need to turn off my brain off. Other than that I enjoyed the game.

It's Picross lol not much to say here. The story mode feels weird, but no the end of the world.

you dont have to have any idea what rune factory is (I dont) to enjoy this. there is an ungodly amount of puzzles, I am pleasantly suprised how many hours I manged to clock, this is a great game to turn your brain off for a while. well worth the price