Pictopix
BANGER · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99.
- Length
- 38.5h
- Value
- $0.18/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Shader Model 2.0, 82 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Pictopix is a puzzle game where you use logic to color squares on grids in order to reveal pictures.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.54. That was July 2019. 59 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Mini Metro ($9.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Wayout ($1.99, scores 75).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $48.94. It costs $6.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 38.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 331 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 38.5 hours. Doing everything runs 98, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
97% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 38.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
44 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 02:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Pictopix is a fun nonogram game with a lot of puzzles ranging from easy to hard difficulty. The thing I love most about this game is its intuitive UI, making it easy to solve the puzzles as is. I always need my hit of nonogram after a while and I can say that this game does it for me. This is one of the best nonogram games on Steam, definitely recommended!
Honestly the best picross game I've played. Very clean and polished, with an expanse of content.
Its kind of like sudoku mixed with minesweeper, two games I don't like as much as I like Pictopix. Its relaxing and enjoyable to hunt for small gains around the puzzle, verifying valid squares. I've enjoyed it enough to get a simiilar game on my tablet. I would recommend anybody to try it out.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pictopix scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/568320/pictopixReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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