Pepper's Puzzles
Worth it · Short indie · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99. Typically $3.14 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.21/hr
- ReviewsA
- 96% of 201
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Short indie
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 33.9h
- To 100%
- 42.6h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 53 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.04 December 2021
- Sale every
- 52d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 25% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
69% start to 19% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 03:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
53 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Coloring Game 2 (free, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Crayon Physics Deluxe ($19.99, scores 43).
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.14 (55% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Nonograms with a heaping spoonful of humour. There are tonnes of traditional puzzles, two large mosaics, and a trio of timed ones. First off, the music is fine, but the one timed track is infuriatingly grating. I ended up turning the music slider to 0. Timed puzzles -- well, the 7x7 set -- are also annoying due to a baffling oversight: this game lacks the ability to wrap from one side over to the other. There's one...
2 more reviews
Good Picross. Some minor frustration when the QOL features don't do quite what you think they will, but overall very enjoyable.
Pepper's Puzzles, developed and published by Emad, is a focused and lovingly crafted logic puzzle game that embraces the timeless appeal of nonograms-also known as Picross or paint-by-numbers puzzles-while refining the experience with modern conveniences and generous content. At its core, the game is about deduction and patience, asking players to interpret numerical clues around a grid to determine which squares...
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About the game
Pepper's Puzzles is a collection of logic games also known as Nonogram, Picross or Griddlers.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pepper's Puzzles scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/642650/pepper-s-puzzlesReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.