Puppy Cross
BANGER · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 6.8h 15.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 300 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Nonograms and cute dogs, welcome to Puppy Cross!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. 19 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pictopix ($6.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats My Suika – Kyo’s Fruit Merge ($0.99, scores 72).
$6.64 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Puppy Cross
6.8 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
82% start to 25% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
You get more puppies for your puppy garden when you beat more nonograms! I cannot think of a better gameplay loop, 11/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's cute! you can pet dogs!!! The dalmatian mode is insane.... I don't regret that I bought it at fullprice, was a nice little game when there was no time for a bigger one. Nonograms never get old or boring :) And let's be honest: Pixel are underrated!
Loved the concept but the UI needs refinement. The grid/number colors are extremely hard to read and/or get "highlighted" so that you can't see them. The puzzles are forgiving, thankfully, but after getting to world 4, I just didn't see any compelling reason to continue. The dog unlocks are a great idea but they add very little to the overall game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Puppy Cross scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1183500/puppy-crossReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.