Nonogram - The Greatest Painter

Nonogram - The Greatest Painter

Worth it · Strategy · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $3.99.

Length
8.7h 23.3h to 100%
Value
$0.46/hr
Reviews
90% of 387 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 4 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.46/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 273 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Do you deserve to be called The Greatest?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: Shader model 3.0. Windows only.

The value story

78 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lines X Free (free, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Wayout ($1.99, scores 75).

More about Nonogram - The Greatest Painter

This site sampled 273 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

The main story runs 8.7 hours. Doing everything runs 23, 2.7 times as long.

The drop-off

81% start to 51% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

Players online
5 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 12:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I LOVE the nonograms, however, when you get on the larger puzzles, the numbers are too hard for me to see. If you zoom in, it zooms in only to the center of the page, so you lose the numbers at the top. This is me, though. Many people probably have better vision than I do
KachjaNot recommendedafter 5.2hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Nonogram - The Greatest Painter scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/742490/nonogram-the-greatest-painter
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKonstructors
PublisherHook Games
GenreStrategy
Released2018
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements26