Picture Cross Reviews

2023 update: nothing has changed. Still trying to unlock the arcade. But every two weeks there’s two new 100lvl packs. Each pack still takes over a month to finish due to token cost/limit. STILL can’t spend coins on tokens. STILL CANT play the game some days when the level costs 40+ tokens and your daily bonus is 5 tokens. How is this game still around?

2021 Update: There are still days you can’t even play one level because the token cost is 35+ for ONE PUZZLE. You can only get a max of 10 for waiting, so you literally have to wait days to play a single puzzle. Let me spend my 500K coins on tokens. There is almost no chance in ever unlocking the arcade at this rate because Devs add new packs of 100 puzzles but each pack takes more than a month to complete because of the time gating.

Original Review: Game starts out simple. Get green tokens. Play levels. Then the levels become too expensive. Either A) buy them with money or B) watch an ungodly amount of ads. Either way, the devs are making money, which I understand is the point. But man, sometimes you can’t even play ONE LEVEL some days because your daily reward reset and you only got 5 free tokens. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE increase the cap of tokens to 20 or something. I really want to delete PictureCross when I open it and see my next lvl costs 50 tokens, but I only have 10 when I wake up and have my coffee.

First of all the game itself is fun and addicting. The problem lies in the tokens.

They only give you a hand full of tokens and once you get far enough each puzzle costs 20 to 30 tokens. They don't regenerate very fast so unless you do the "quests" you can't play the game anymore unless you pay real money (lots of it). So you look through the list of quests and they look pretty simple. That's where the fraud comes in. I find one that says "take a 2 question survey for 38 tokens". So I click on it, take a 5 question survey and get 2 tokens. Ok whatever, let's go to the next. This survey says 4 questions for 60 tokens. So I start the survey and it starts asking for all sorts of personal info, but I go along with it. About 50 questions later (when PictureCross says it would be 4), I get a prompt that I have to actually order a product with real money to finish the survey. That wasn't what I agreed to so I skip it. I get zero tokens for that, but they took all my info. So basically don't expect to actually get tokens from the quests, they rarely actually give you what they say they will.

Between that and the constant barrage of ads, I can't recommend this to anyone. It's a blatant money grab game that will flat out lie to you in order to get you to click on things. It probably should be pulled from the store IMO

I love playing nonograms. I would consider myself to be extremely good at it. I play them 24/7.

Actually playing the game itself is fun. It’s just everything else that isn’t. The whole solve one nonogram to unlock the a part of the puzzle seems fine, and I can understand why some people like it. But I personally don’t, and it’s hard to zoom in on a certain piece you want to do. I would try and zoom in and accidentally press a piece I didn’t want to do and accidentally use my tokens to play it. I would much prefer have levels instead. Tokens itself are bad. For some levels, there’s a timer to see how long it takes you to finish the puzzle and you will use that amount of tokens for how long it takes you to finish. The “pause”button isn’t even a pause button. It’s literally the button that looks like the settings. The only way you know it’s the pause button is because it says pause at the top. The puzzles are deceptive. I would consider “hard” levels to be super hard. Most puzzles force you to buy hints too. You look at a puzzle at every single angle and there’s literally not even one move you can make without having to buy a hint. It forces you to use coins. The game mechanics could be a lot better too. I could keep going on and say at least 8 more problems but I feel like I’ve gone far enough. There’s definitely better nonogram games you can get.

Waaaay too token orientated with limited options for getting tokens without payment!!! Asking for money ALL the time !!!! A complete turnoff!!!!! Sure, you get some free tokens per day, but these are hardly enough to play even one game! You can watch ads for a few more tokens, but again, may not be enough to add up to playing a game! Although they offer ways to get tokens free by completing some vendor ad requirements- I've tried some of these & I NEVER received my tokens- so it was a waste of my time!!! All this particular game is designed to do it tease you with a little, so that you become a buying machine for tokens!!!! BUY, BUY, BUY MORE TOKENS!!!!! This is the mantra of this game!!! It's Especially irritating when you finally have enough tokens saved up for a game & the puzzle turns out to be a simple one!!! I enjoyed this game in the beginning, the designs are cute, BUT NOW ITS a TURNOFF. The coins are useless & serve no purpose for me, & you can't turn them into tokens- which are the only thing you can use to buy a puzzle! The tokens are too hard to get without payment, & even if you have tokens, the amount needed to open a puzzle is ridiculous!!! Frankly, there are too many other choices out there for pixal logic puzzles that don't have these issues for me to bother much with this particular version!!! Don't waste your time or money!!!!!

Because everything about playing is spectacular! I actually give this game credit for helping me quit smoking - kept me so distracted and occupied that I made it through the temptation! It’s challenging, problem-free, friendly interface, I love this game.

BUT - you earn barely enough tokens to play, nor enough coins. I did spend money along the way to buy tokens (considered it better than spending on cigarettes). And I have replayed most all the medium / hard puzzles countless times to get more tokens, and have endured the ads over and over again as well. But there’s just no way to enjoy this game unless you’re willing to spend money. As you accumulate tokens, It raises the cost of the games. It has all the silly quests etc., but you get virtually nothing for completing them, nor for completing a board. And having completed EVERY puzzle, I am in the situation where I can no longer play at all. I can’t earn coins anymore because there are no new puzzles, and without coins I can’t even replay puzzles.

So developers - Check my account - I’ve spent a considerable amount over the last few months. And you’ve effectively locked me out. Come off you’re greed just a notch or two and I’ll gladly give you five stars.

I have been playing Picture Cross for about 3 months now. I absolutely love it and would recommend it to anyone. I am just VERY frustrated about the tokens, like many others. According to other reviews, the cost of the puzzles accelerate. I agree with changing the way the tokens work and I also do not use my coins. But....the thing that gets me the most is the stupid TAPJOY. It says take a short survey for 53 tokens and I’m like sweet!! I spend 15 miserable minutes complete the survey, press finish, go back to picture cross, and get
0 TOKENS!!! I would like to earn my tokens when I complete things like that. Also I sometimes take a survey that uses personal information and then after like 15 questions it finally says: sorry but you have not qualified for any surveys! If these things were fixed, I would absolutely love this more. OOH last suggestion I think that you should be able to use whatever tokens you have. For instance, if this puzzle costs 20 tokens, but I only have 10, I could put in the 10 I have and wait until I have another 10 to complete the cost. If these things were fixed I would never stop them laying this game!!!
Also, question. Does the 10 tokens recharge every day or do you have to use them?

I overall love the game and are addicted to playing it. Only the problems I have with are some of great concern. First, the games level systems are completely weird, sometimes I’ll play an easy level which would end up being harder than a medium level and medium and hard levels are pretty much the same thing.
Second, occasionally when I get my daily tokens, it just doesn’t give them to me. This especially happens when it is at the bigger rewards. Take today, I go to get my daily tokens, the screen pops up and I press collect, the screen goes away and I haven’t gotten my tokens. This really is a problem as tokens are the only way to play a level.
Third, the levels cost way more tokens the. The. PictureCross gives us, without having to resort to paying with real money. As you go through the levels the start to cost more to play, so even go as high as 60 tokens, this usually wouldn’t be a problem for games but in this one it is because they only refill your tokens to 10. You have to find ways to gain the extra 50 tokens. As someone who can’t afford to pay for more, collecting that many could take a pretty long time for just one level.
Even with all it’s downsides I wouldn’t stop playing the game. I just wish they would fix them so I can have more of a good time, instead of a stressful one while playing.

First let me start off by saying I absolutely love this game. It’s challenging so it keeps me occupied but it’s not impossible to beat which is how a game should be so good job on that. I do have just a couple of suggestions for improvement though. 1) I think it would be great if y’all could add a way to zoom in or something because on my phone the squares are really really small so it’s easy to accidentally tap the wrong one. 2) I think that for playing levels you should earn tokens more often instead of coins because the game requires tokens to keep playing and coins are only used for hints, which I never use. I have like 16,000 coins and hardly any tokens, which is aggravating because I never use coins. Or something y’all could do instead is make a way to buy tokens with in game coins that you’ve earned so that I can actually use my coins. 3) There are a few too many advertisements. Every time you click on something in the game it brings up an advertisement so I think that if there are going to be that many advertisements there should be a reward for watching them. Overall though this is a really great game and I really love it, I just think it could use a couple improvements.

I love this game. People are complaining about having to use real money to buy tokens are wrong. You can replay any level which will now cost “coins” (which are plentiful). Once you complete the replay you can receive up to 3 tokens each time. Even if you replay the puzzle it is still a challenge as you can hardly memorize an object and it’s squares so it is still fun and a good time filler. Some levels have certainly been difficult and occasionally have stumped me but you can solve all of these using logic and process of elimination. A hint is never required to solved. I only give this 4 stars because of course there are numerous ads as with most free games. I do opt for extra ads to gain more tokens and/or the occasional free level. However sometimes the tokens do not appears as stated in some reviews. It is frustrating and happens more commonly than I would expect. The biggest downside I have noticed is the game does not seem to sync across devices. I have started playing on my ipad primarily because it isn’t as small and my progress is not saved on my account and therefore cannot continue from where I left off if I were to switch to my phone. Lastly, I would love to see more achievements and challenges as they only can be achieved within the first puzzle pack and I am beyond that point.

Love love love this game, it's the only one I've seen that matches seemingly endless puzzle packs with an "in game currency" situation that only requires you to buy into if you want to binge a TON of puzzles in one sitting. Usually I do a few or log in just to spend the free 10 you get so that it can refill over the next half-hour. Every 4th or 5th puzzle will give you 10 tokens plus another 10 if you watch an ad (always worth it). My tip—once you get to 10, spend them immediately so it refills again (you don't need to finish the puzzle, just start it), otherwise you're missing out on freebies. And if you have 20+ sitting around, search for the most "expensive" puzzle you can afford so it won't be a headache later.

Also, find an easy-ish "hard" puzzle to memorize and farm for 3 tokens each time you redo it. If that's too boring, go back and replay a pack you've already completed, as once you complete them it costs coins (which you should have plenty of) and instead rewards you with tokens you can then use on the new packs. Hope this never changes!

Happy puzzling everyone, and huge shoutout to the team who made this; it's gotten me through a lot of sleepless nights, long poos, and awkward moments where I've needed to just do my own thing for a bit. <3

This is a funny story, trust me. So I downloaded Picture Cross about six months ago, and at the time I was in a relationship with this guy who treated me terribly, but love is blind so I was still with him. When I downloaded this game, I played it constantly. I mean, if I was on my phone I was on PictureCross. It was addicting, and I lost track of time almost every time I played. Well, this meant that I didn’t respond to my boyfriend until hours after he texted me. For about a week I was on this kick of only playing Picture Cross, and my boyfriend had had enough. We got in an argument and he asked why I hadn’t been talking to him. Too embarrassed to say I had been solving puzzles all the time, I brought up an old issue and we ended up breaking up. Now, about five months after that, I’m happier than I ever was with him and it was probably the best thing that could’ve happened for me. Then, I told this story to my cheer coach and we bonded over it and I ended up being voted captain of the varsity squad. So yes, I love this game and it has only had positive impacts on my life.

I have been playing daily for years. The puzzles are all able to be finished with absolutely no guessing or having to think 2 or 3 moves ahead to see if a spot works. No penalty for placing an X or square in the wrong place. It’s simply that the puzzle won’t complete. You can always go back and replay puzzles by spending coins and earn tokens. You can stop in the middle of as many puzzles in a section as you want and go back without losing your progress. There is a monthly “event” that keeps things fresh. The only issue I have with it is that it says “Event ends in dd:hh:mm:ss” and then the new section becomes available for you to unlock and play new puzzles. Before then, you have to pay $10 for the “premium rewards” and the puzzles in the new section will unlock with no tokens. No problem, but when the time expires, it adds “Bonus time” and you have to wait longer if you haven’t paid. That is frustrating. I’d like to see them available for play by spending tokens at that point, but still allow players to have the extra time to collect their rewards.

This game is very intriguing, and has puzzles that get your mind active. There are different difficulties of puzzles, and many to choose from. This game allows you to play any puzzle, as long as you have enough tokens. Now, for someone who constantly plays games on their phones, this might be restricting as you have to wait for the tokens to build back up over time. But for someone like myself who only plays a little bit at a time, it is a perfect system. I don't always play, so my tokens have built up to the point that when I do play, I can do any level I want and not have to worry about needing more tokens. Furthermore, if you're in the middle of a puzzle and need to stop, you don't need to worry because you can come back later and the progress you've made on the puzzle will save. You can also restart puzzles if you've messed it up too much, and it doesn't consume tokens. Overall, I would recommend this game to those that need a good game that will keep them concentrated and thinking for a short break in their day. An addition: you can change your time for more tokens. Easy quick way to get them, never pay.

What’s so amazing? Well, I’ve played hundreds of these “nonogram” type puzzles, and it seems, eventually, you’ll find a puzzle in a series that you will be forced to use a clue or two in order to solve the puzzle. In Picture Cross, I completed every one of the summer puzzles without ever needing a clue! That doesn’t mean I didn’t have to start over from scratch a few times; I’m not saying I don’t make plenty of errors, but when I patiently went back and reworked the puzzles (often more than a few times!) I found I could complete every one of the puzzles from the simplest to the trickiest without resorting to any kind of clue whatsoever! That, to me, puts this game way above all others in this category.
The only change I would like to see is for the Xs (that you put in the squares) to be either much thinner or greatly toned down to like a 30% value. The bold dark brown Xs as they stand are just a bit too distracting. It would be nice too if we could change the color of the boxes as well. Brown is…well…brown.
But my thanks to the developers for making this game so enjoyable, challenging, and somehow always solvable*. *well, as far as I’ve gone, this is what I’ve found to be the case, anyway.
Edit: I’ve now completed the “winter” puzzle and still have had no need to resort to the use of hints.

I dont usually write reviews, and by usually I mean never this is the first one I’m writing, but it said to write a review if I’m enjoying the game, and I’m really enjoying the game. I don’t even know how long I’ve had this game but I absolutely love it. I didn’t think that a puzzle game would ever not be boring, but somehow I’ve never gotten bored of it. I love how the packs are themed and it makes a big picture that goes together. I’m really surprised that I’ve had this game for so long, I usually get bored of games within a week but according to the stats thing I’ve spent almost four full days in the game. The ads aren’t even that bad, you can skip them after 5 seconds. I usually get really annoyed by ads but they aren’t bad. I really like how you can watch ads for one puzzle, but I wish the option came up more often. I wish it were easier to get tokens too but then I guess it would be boring because you could do them all at once. This is a lot longer than I intended it to be but basically, this is a GREAT game, and I’m obsessed. The only downside is I have to wait for tokens which is why I’m writing this but I’m not complaining about the tokens, it makes sense. I guess that’s it. Awesome game!

This game really helps keep my mind occupied and it's what I need sometimes. It's always an app I go back to. Seriously, out of any game that is like this, this is the ONLY one I play. It's easy to do yet also makes you think. Some can take less than 10 seconds, while some I can be sitting there thinking where things go and that's what I love about it - they're not all impossibly hard. Oh my god, and the fact you can walk away from that one you're having issues with and then go back to it and your progress is still there? FANTASTIC.
Here's my negatives though; not a lot free tokens, can only do 2 pictures at most (but keep in mind I'm thankful for those tokens do not get me wrong). I also wish there was a way that if I wanted to start over, have it where I can restore my previous purchases. I also kinda wish I could zoom a little when it comes to on my phone (but that I'm not quite sure how it'd work, I think it's just better to play with a bigger screen), but typically I play on my iPad (not at the moment due to me wanting to start over but don't want to lose the money I put into the game).
My positives outweigh the negatives, please download this game

Apple user since 08 but have never left a review so here we go... I have had this game since May 2018. It is September 2019 and I’ve done over 1500 of the puzzles, never using any real money to play. I’ve seen a lot of people complain about having to buy tokens. With enough patience it’s possible but I do have to agree that the tokens to coin ratio is a bit of a smudge on an otherwise phenomenal game. Right now I’m sitting on over 105,000 coins and have completed all of the packs but like 2 of them but now I’m to the point where I can do one puzzle a day most days and that’s really disappointing, unless I open one a day and then don’t actually play for about a week. I appreciate the daily prizes and the doubles for watching the videos, but on the Paris and New York packs, you have so few 10 tokens or below, it takes you months to get enough tokens to cover them all. I have to say, I enjoy the color ones even more than the black and white one and I hope you guys release more of those levels. You guys have done a great job with this game, and I’m not sure what’s different about this game in comparison to the other nonogram games, but this is my favorite. Keep creating more level and I will continue to keep playing!

For a while, I found these types of games almost impossible to do because I just had a hard time learning strategies to use while playing them, but now that I know a few tricks I absolutely love them! This one in particular because there are so many that range from super easy to super hard and you can just play forever.. That is if you have enough tokens, which is one of my minor complaints about this game. You can earn hundreds of coins in a short amount of time, but hardly any tokens which you need to unlock each puzzle. It’s kind of annoying because I would play these all day but I constantly run out of tokens and have to wait until the next day for the daily reward or watch a bunch of ads for one token each and you can only watch 8 ads per day as a way to earn tokens. There’s packages you can buy but I play free games because they’re free, not so I can spend money. Especially with how fast the tokens go. The puzzles don’t all cost the same amount of tokens to unlock so they can go pretty quick. So I just open the game every day and earn my tokens to save up for a bit and then play until I run out, and then do the same thing over again. Other than that I love it! If you like these types of puzzle games then you’d really enjoy this game.

The biggest issue I see is that the developer is not even trying to keep current. It’s been months since they added a new puzzle. Once they have you hooked, they don’t seem to care if they keep current with their puzzles. It’s VERY discouraging. If they regularly added new puzzles, this would be a five star game, but two new puzzles in as many years just won’t cut it. The first two puzzles are fun and challenging. Then you get to three and four. You can spend your coins, rework a puzzle to get more tokens, but instead you get fewer coins than you just spent --- and NO tokens. That makes it nearly impossible to finish the last two puzzles and it takes weeks...unless, of course, you want to spend cash to buy tokens. I wonder what's in store for future puzzles? All cash for tokens? I smell a rat. This new version seems to be much improved. At least they've got more puzzles and offer more tokens. I still wish you could use you coins to buy tokens. Maybe future updates will include that option. I'm cautiously optimistic. The two additional puzzles are nice, but now what? Once you finish them you’re left with no additional puzzles, and so ,again, you either quit the game or redo the old ones. Disappointed again,

My dad discovered this game a few years ago and got me hooked. I played religiously and never skipped a day. It took me about a year to complete all available puzzle packs and then I would patiently wait for new releases by playing old puzzles and saving up on coins and tokens. Just a couple weeks ago, I went into PictureCross to watch my daily videos for free coins and tokens when all of my progress was lost. I immediately panicked and started crying. Definitely an irrational reaction to such a thing, but I had dedicated so much of my life to this game and it all came crashing down. I had over 10,000 tokens and close to 1,000,000 coins. Multiple years worth of work gone for absolutely no reason. Nothing I tried brought my progress back. I’m not sure if it was a glitch in the game or if it was caused by my stupid phone. Either way, I’m devastated. This is an incredible game and I highly recommend it to everyone. I wish that I appreciated it more when I had it. I considered starting from scratch, but this is my official retirement from Picture Cross.