Picture Cross Color Reviews

Look, the gameplay is great, probably the best nonogram game I’ve played. The main problem (and boy is it a huge problem) comes from the fact that you need tokens to play levels. That in itself isn’t an issue, except that you can only auto generate tokens up to 10. After the first pack, almost every puzzle costs more than 10 tokens (even with the discount for the lock being flashy). This means to play more levels, you either have to watch ads for the tokens or wait until your daily reward, which gives you somewhere around 5 tokens, increasing by around 5 each day. There’s also spending real money on tokens, but I’m not doing that. The puzzles in pack two were already costing around 15 tokens each to play, so I can’t even imagine the costs of the higher packs. Wish the design wasn’t overall so money hungry, otherwise a fairly good game.

I actually really love the game and play it all the time. However there is a new bug that makes it almost unplayable. During game play I will touch nothing on the screen and then it will think I have tapped on the add and all of a sudden I’m in Safari. It almost seems like it pops into Safari whenever the add changes toma new add.

I also hate how the tokens work. I have actuaally amassed hundreds of them by only playing one game a day, gathering the daily tokens, and watching the add for the daily bonus tokens. Now if I want to binge play a bunch of games I can. But it really annoys me to pay 40 tokens for a Super Easy level that takes 30 seconds to complete. They should just all cost the same number of tokens. And there is zero point to the Coins. I have over 50,000 of them and will never use any of them. I wish I could buy Tokens with them.

I would also love it if you added levels bigger than 15x15 on the iPad version. There is plenty of space and there needs to be more of a challenge. I beat every level without blacking out any of the non-numbered spaces and try to do it in color order to add some extra challenge. More boxes would also allow better pictures since some of the pictures are pretty unresembling of what they are supposed to be.

The puzzles are fun. I really do like the game. I would gladly make an in game purchase to remove the intrusive ads, if it wasn’t for one big problem… The free token bank is capped at 10, which means you cannot have more than 10 tokens at once unless you buy more or get some by replaying old levels. The problem here is that most new levels cost more than 10 tokens to play. So, you must either pay or constantly replay old levels in order to progress. This is insane and saps all fun out of the game, at least to me. Update: I am reducing my rating from 2 to 1 because of the developer response. First, it took 2 months for them to reply. Second, the reply ignored my original review. I already mentioned how the game lets you earn tokens. I stand by my review that it’s insane. Who wants to replay old levels over and over and over (yes, many many replays are required) in order to unlock new ones? Not me. And the daily rewards only give you enough tokens for a single level, sometimes two if you watch an ad. One star.

I have music and sounds turned off in PictureCrossColor settings but as I was playing, listening to music, a horrible, very loud beep noise played through my headphones. I almost thought it was an amber alert but there was no pop-up or follow through. I looked at my media player and it said 'security alert' was playing. Alarmed, I googled it and found about it's a scam sound played by untrustworthy apps.

Lo and behold when I pressed on the part of the screen that usually shows the album cover and will bring you to what is playing the sound, it brought me back to PictureCrossColor. When I closed out PictureCrossColor completely the media player ended the sound display for 'security alert'.

I always thought the pushed ads were a bit much, but this didn't even happen during an ad. It is next-level shady and impossible to ignore. Too bad because I enjoy the art for the game, goodbye.

I love this game! Been playing it for what feels like years! Played original picture cross before this one came out and i like this one better! I cant figure out how to contact them to report the bug. So im leaving it in the review so that hopefully they see it. If they see it then i can change it to 5 stare because I 100% recommend PictureCrossColor. Anyways. When i have finished the last 2 colorful adventures packs within the 21 days they give you (i had 6 days left today and finished the balloons one today) i did not get the 50 tokens or the gold. Its not a huge deal but i worked so hard the last two months to finish both the world tour and the colorful adventures but im not getting the rewards from the colorful adventures when i finish them. I did last year but the one i got to finish in January which was caves i think and the new balloon one i did not get rewards for them.

I just finished playing a “super-hard” puzzle in “Paris Pack - Color!” in the original Picture Cross. It was a fully enjoyable experience. I have been playing Picture Cross for a number of years and can truly say it is one of my favorite games. When you added the color packs to the original game, I couldn’t wait for more. Needless to say, I was excited when you added Picture Cross Color. Alas! Although I do play it, I find it a less than satisfying experience. A couple of times I have almost deleted it. Two games with the same rules and same strategy; what is the problem? The problem is with the execution of the game. In the original game’s color packs the player picks the space and then fills it with a color or an x. One also has the use of the pin tool in order to fill multiple spaces or even rows. I have never accidentally erased previous work and the play runs smoothly. In Picture Cross Color, I frequently accidentally erase previously filled spaces. Also I am frustrated because the last move may have finished several adjacent rows but I can’t finish adding the x’s all at once. Please consider changing the play in Picture Cross Color to the same technique as the color packs in the original game. I can guarantee that it will become one of my favorite games.

I love this game but you don’t get enough tokens to play when you want. I do t want to delete but I want to find a game I don’t have to pay to play. They also need to add a clear button so I can start over with a screen when I want to. It’s too bad they set it up like this. Discouraged

Also, your constant response to everyone about the many ways to earn tokens is redundant and not what we want to hear. It’s a pain to wait and there are NOT many ways. Stop making us buy tokens. At least make the winnings pay for the next game. The truth is I love this game but your making it difficult for the dedicated players to keep playing. Try making your dedicated players happy and actually listen to what they are saying.

The game is nice, one of the better color nonogram apps I’ve played, but the tokens are an issue. Autogenerate 10 tokens only to have the next puzzle cost 15, even with a discount? I’m not watching 5 ads, and I’m not spending money. You either wait for the daily reward to give you more tokens, or you suffer 5 ads. Then when you finish a puzzle, you usually get coins, not tokens. I, personally, don’t really use hints, I like to figure it out myself even if it takes forever. I’m never gonna use these coins if their only use is for hints. Why can’t I buy tokens with coins? Why don’t I autogenerate, say, 20 tokens? If I can only ever generate 10, why not keep the costs of the puzzles lower than 10? I just don’t get it. I want to do multiple puzzles a day, but I’m forced to do one, maybe two if they happen to be cheap.

Enjoying this game. Good variety of challenges. Maybe these are already features and I missed them. But I would like to have a way to erase the whole board and start again. Also a way to lock rows or columns that I know are correct. It is easy to touch squares in place and not mean to, especially on the 15x15 grids. When using coins to get a hint for rows or columns, it should either lock or be indicated as finished in a different color. I have accidentally erased a row that I spent coins on… If the game had these features, it would be a 5 star for me. I do like the pictures and themes, and so far have not duplicated any pictures. So nice job on the variety!

I’ve been playing picture cross for over 5 years now, and down loaded picture cross color probably a year ago. I absolutely love them EXCEPT, now there is a huge square that appears when you don’t have enough coins to play the square you selected. It is absolutely annoying!! You have to click on the squares to see if you can or want to play it. That square is completely unnecessary. I’ve found myself leaving the game after it pops up because I have limited time when I play, and it seems I spend most of it closing out that ridiculous square. Please remove it! Anyone smart enough to play this game, should be smart enough to figure out if they have enough coins.

It gets extremely easy, even the most difficult levels, after some time. I’ve gotten to the point where I can complete every level without using any “X” to mark off spaces. If they expanded to puzzles larger than 15x15 I’d give a 5star. I don’t see why, after 100’s of puzzles, why the max grid size is 15x15. Not trying to throw shade but if you did the puzzles yourself you’d understand that after doing 100’s of these, players are going to want more of a challenge now that they’ve graduated from the first couple 100 puzzles and understand algorithms. Moved onto a different game that has more challenge to it but once you add more challenge I’d love to play this again considering it’s one of the most polished of its genre.

Definitely a fun game. Waited a while to post a review so I could be accurate :). So, right off the bat, Make a purchase. Doesn’t mater how small, do it. ANY purchase removes the unsolicited ads (you can still watch them for extra or free tokens or coins). Other then that, it is definitely a game you don’t have to pay for to play at all. (But save the headache, definitely was worth the couple bucks.). Now, i wish the tokens and coins given as rewards were more even instead of way more coins then tokens…. But still being able to turn around and use the coins to replay levels for tokens is working just fine. The daily token rewards are great especially when you log in daily even if just to snag your daily rewards. I liked that they seem to have events pretty frequently giving you more levels to complete, which brings me to my second complaint…. I had to wait several weeks for new levels to unlock, (but when they came out with more, they opened two new stages of levels so that was cool), but i was able to rack up all those daily tokens during then. Definitely worth the download though for sure. It’s never really given me any issues or had any glitches.

I would beg the developers to not use different hues of the same color as the only color in the puzzle. If your eyesight isn’t perfect, it’s extremely difficult to distinguish between them.
Please use different colors!
My other major complaint is with the underlying pictures. The puzzles are great, although recent packets contain a few almost impossible to solve, but the pictures are terrible. “In a garden” makes you think of vegetables and flowers but what you get is green grass and a lawn mower. There’s no motivation to keep on solving when you reveal pipes, trucks, sky and dull mountains. Very different from the monochrome version where theres always something interesting underneath the puzzle. And the animation adds nothing to the puzzle. It may be fun for the developers but it’s just plain irritating to the solver.

About the only thing I don’t like are the “Punisment Ads” when completing a puzzle. These frequently pop up as soon as you finish a puzzle. Generally they take at least two clicks and a minimum of 10-15 seconds to get through, before you are sometimes offered the opportunity to watch an ad for a free play or tokens.
Oh! Also hate that when first opening the game on a new day, there is normally the opportunity to watch an ad for additional tokens. Unfortunately these ads can take up to 2-3 minutes to become available. Highly suspicious when all other ads are instantly available (or unavoidable).
New puzzle books are added frequently to keep your interest, making this a great, long term option for new Nonograms.
Easy to use interface for problem free gameplay, and easily replinshed game coins for hints if needed.
Over all, a great option for Nonogram play that is well worth the install.

The pixel art style of the game and interface is very nice. The puzzle interface is not feature rich, but decently functional. When you’ve filled all blocks in a row or column, you can tap on the list of that column or row to fill in Xs. It would be nice to be able to mark that only specific colors won’t go in that square. The game uses key gems to unlock puzzles, but while it is ad supported, if you are low on them it will give you more to unlock the next puzzle, rather than locking you out like other apps might. UPDATE: this only happened for me in the first chapter grouping. After that you can get 1 gem for waiting 3 minutes, or wait for the next daily reward. I have an iPhone 7. PictureCrossColor can take a long time to load. Maybe 30 seconds? I haven’t timed it. I have also had multi-second freezes while in a puzzle. It’s an older device, but games like Sky still work pretty well on low settings. There is plenty of optimization to do for a pixel art UI. Also, if it offers you key gems for completing a puzzle, or more if you watch an ad, but then it can’t find an ad to serve you, it will lock up and you will need to restart PictureCrossColor .

I have a problem my hands where I frequently touch my tablet when I’m not meaning to. In fact I’ve had to write this review over several times because I keep accidentally tapping out of it. When I am tapping on a row or column to fill the line with x’s, sometimes I will accidentally touch the one next to it which automatically gives me the answer to that line, also spending all my coins in the process. I wish there was a way I could turn that feature off so I don’t have to worry about accidentally touching the screen anywhere. Is there anything I can do???

I enjoy the game and some boards can be a bit of a challenge but you only get up to 10 gems by waiting for the timer but most boards take more than 10 to play. You can only watch a couple of ads a day for additional gems which means you have to pay, jump through a bunch of hoops for free gems, or wait for the next day when you get more gems. I found I can only play 2-3 boards a day and then I’m stuck at only 10 gems again with no way to get more without wasting a lot of time or spending money.

Good game but I may be deleting soon just because I can’t play it when I want.

I love puzzle games. This Nonogram is very well designed, even if it’s a tad easy. I like the use of colors - that gives it a challenge. The grid varies between 8,10,15 so far. Solving the group of puzzles will reveal a jigsaw type picture. Each game holds to a theme, like the forest with acorns, bears, etc. it’s easier to play on a tablet. I’m playing on my phone which makes it harder to fill the correct columns, fat fingers and my readers don’t help with the focus. All in all, enjoyable, fun, pleasing, gets you using the old brain. Cost is free, some ads, but they’re short and amusing. I recommend this game for the casual player.

I have downloaded a LOT of Nonogram/Griddlers apps and this is by far my favorite. The ones that don’t allow you to make mistakes (three hearts) get deleted right away - or not downloaded at all. I love the mono-color Picture Cross, but the color one blew my mind! I’m done with all the puzzles, not so patiently waiting for more packs to be released. I even bout something through a tapjoy link so I could play non stop. Ummm, so I finished the Wizard and Bakery pack in two days. I would love an advanced pack, (Red and Orange puzzles only). I do Green and Blue ‘only when I have to’. Excited for more packs to be released! — Color Lover

Ive inly been playing for about 2 hours but so far i absolutely love it. Ads aren’t constantly popping up and being annoying thats wonderful. I like that i can pretty much play as much as i want in one setting and not have to wait hours for 5 minutes of playtime. The pixel art is adorable and i feel like im actually getting a good reward for completing puzzles. The puzzles themselves are the perfect amount of challenging. Overall i love this game and would 100% recommend it