Piczle Cross Adventure
BANGER · Action · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2020.
- Length
- 20.4h 24.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.05/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 301 positive
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Buy now or wait
It is 90% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
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About the game
Piczle Cross Adventure takes the classic nonogram logic-puzzle and turns it into something never before experienced in the genre: a story-driven, RPG-style 2D graphical adventure! Follow our heroes Score-chan, Gig and professor Matrix as they tackle their most daunting challenge yet.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 563 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 66 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Human Fall Flat ($19.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats OneShift ($0.79, scores 43).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $15.63.
More about Piczle Cross Adventure
Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 243 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
67% start to 33% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 19:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I've never played a game like this before, it could be me, but these puzzles don't make sense at all. A 4x4 grid is passable but they get much bigger like 15x15 and if you did it the right way it would take all day to do just one. Going over numbers like that will give you a headache. I have all the cheats on… There are a lot of options to toggle, and getting it set up takes a while, (not an unreasonable amount but...
2 more reviews
A nice nonogram game. The game is sadly lacking two basic features: [*] You aren't locked into a row/column when marking off multiple fields. [*] There is no undo functionality. This makes it relatively easy to drift off a row/column, without then being able to undo the resulting accidental changes. I therefore hope that future games in the series add these functionalities.
28% complete Update: I must say this game is way better thant I thought it might be given the pice I paid. The graphics are perfectly retro without pushing going overly pixelated. I am loving the puzzels that they have a purpose but also progressivly get harder/ larger as the game progresses. So far I would easy give the game a 9/10 and I would highly suggest anyone interested just buy it at what ever price it is as...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Piczle Cross Adventure scores 85/100 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/1215320/piczle-cross-adventureReviews 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.