Nonogames

Picross, nonograms, griddlers(apparantly) etc.

Nonogames are videogames based on Nonograms: logic-based puzzles where the goal is to reveal an image. Each row and column is marked with numbers indicating how many boxes are to be filled, but the location of these boxes within the row or column is up to the player to figure out.

Example play (of Mario's Super Picross) on Youtube.

Preferences

When I have the options, I like to tweak things as close to my ieal way of playing as possible. Jupiter's games are pretty good at this.

No punishment for mistakes
No hints
Automatically mark rows/columns when they're complete.

Examples

365 Puzzle Club
Anpanman no Oeka Kids
Color Cross
DS Puzzler: Numpla Fan & Oekaki Logic
- DS Puzzler: Numpla Fan & Oekaki Logic Wi-Fi Taiou
Descartes Enigma
- Descartes Rainbow
Drymouth
Essential Sudoku DS (includes nonogames)
FigurePic - 1994 Windows game https://archive.org/details/FIGURP05
Gemsweeper
Gnonograms
Kids Station: Oshaberi Oekaki Kikansha Thomas to Nakamatachi
- Kids Station: Oshaberi Oekaki Soreike! Anpanman
Logic Pro series.
ロジックパズルレインボータウン (Logic Puzzle Rainbow Town)
Magic Logic get
Mario's Picross
- Mario's Super Picross
- Picross 2
- Picross NP series
- Picross DS
murder_by_numbers
My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Numpla & Oekaki Puzzle
おーちゃんのお絵かきロジック (O-chan's Oekaki Logic)
- おーちゃんのお絵かきロジック 2 (O-chan's Oekaki Logic 2)
- おーちゃんのお絵かきロジック 3 (O-chan's Oekaki Logic 3)
おえかき Logic (Oekaki Logic)
- おえかき Logic 2 (Oekaki Logic 2)
Oekaki Puzzle
- Oekaki Puzzle 2
- Oekaki Puzzle 3
- Oekaki Puzzle 4
- Oekaki Puzzle 5
- Oekaki Puzzle Shuu
Oekaki Puzzle Battle Vol. 1: Yuusha-Oh GaoGaiGar
- Oekaki Puzzle Battle: Kaiketsu Zorori Version
- Oekaki Puzzle Battle: Mahin Eiyuuden Wataru Version
- Oekaki Puzzle Battle: Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh Version
picross_e_series
Picross S
PicrossST
- PicrossST: AC 2008 Edition
Picture Puzzle (PAL) / Oekaki Puzzl (JP)
2020 - Pixross get
PixelPics
Pixudoku
Puzzle Mate: Oekaki Mate
Sanrio characters Picross
Scriptcross (a nonogame made in PuzzleScript)
SIMPLE1500シリーズハローキティVol.02 Hello Kitty イラストパズル - Hello Kity themed nonogame by Tamsoft for the PSX.
Tripcross (made for a Glorious Trainwrecks event)
web_paint-by-number play
World Riddles: Animals
World Mosaics
- World Mosaics 2

3-D

Nono3D
NonoCube
Picross 3D
- Picross 3D: Round 2
Project Picross
Voxel Logic
Qube Qross https://polypolygames.itch.io/qube-qross

Variations

Mega Picross

Recommendations

3DS

The 3DS, especially a hacked one, is the best system for nonogram fans. Not only does it have the largest quantity of quality games, but the stylus is the best way to play them.

Club Nintendo Picross series
Two free games purchasable from Japan's Club Nintendo thing. Standard e series Picross with Nintendo characters. Translation patches for both games are available: Club Nintendo Picross, Club Nintendo Picross Plus

My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
A free game you can get as a My Nintendo reward, but thankfully not structured like a free-to-play game. Solid nonogame, the other thing that feels a little weird to me is that you toggle between the different mark types (including none), where I'm used to holding a button to enable.

Picross 3D: Round 2
Gosh I love this. Takes too long to get through the tutorials, but they do go over all the different logic techniques, so probably very handy for some people? Round 2 adds multiple colours, which is a nice extra element that occurs in some other nonogames. When puzzles are solved the cubes take some other geometric forms and you end up with some really charming designs :D

Picross e series
Very nice picross feel. Maybe the nicest. Almost feels like the tiles are being directly popped-in with the stylus. And they're a nice pink. The 'mega picross' has become my favourite nonogame format twist—it's actually a bit challenging! A ninth version was release exclusively in Japan, but there's a translation patch available if you need it, as well as a save to unlock the bonus levels you won't have access to unless you have Japanese versions of the rest of the series.

Pictlogica Final Fantasy ≒	also on: Android, iOS
F2P thing like Pokémon Picross, but maybe a little bit less shit? The only hassle so far is having to wait on a timer to unlock new areas, but that doesn't actually bother me. There are normal stages, then there are ones called 'quests' where you fight monsters with characters you've unlocked by quickly solving simply puzzles. The order you solve lines dictates the order the characters attack in, which effects which abilities are used. You also build meter which lets you use spells and things. Kinda fun! Translation patch available, but I highly recommend patches the ROM if you're playing on a 3DS rather than relying on real-time patching, as that brings some real tedious and frequent load times.

pokemon_picross
It's free! But as you get further into the game it takes a long time to make progress.

Android

So far I only have a few recommendations, others I've tried include: hungry_cat_picross (hints work weird), crossme_color_nonograms (required guessing), picross_survival (wants me to install some bullshit),

nemonemo_picross
Cribs a bit from the DS Picross and seems to work just as smoothly. Has ads. though. The largest puzzles don't quite fit on the screen, which is a bit fiddley.

nonocube
Decent rip-off of Hal's picross_3d, with some thoughtful control additions to make up for no stylus. There are still a few more Picross 3D-like games I have to try.

picross_fairymong
Pretty standard. Has some obnoxious ad. pop-ups post-puzzle every now and then.

DS

Picross 3D

Game Boy

Mario's Picross	also on: 3DS


picross_2

Super Nintendo

Mario's Super Picross	also on: 3DS, Wii Wii-U


Picross NP series

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