When did Picross 3D: Round 2 come out?

Picross 3D: Round 2 was released on 1 October 2015 for Nintendo 3DS.

Picross 3D: Round 2 (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Picross 3D: Round 2

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What Picross 3D: Round 2 is

Picross 3D: Round 2 is a puzzle game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2015. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Picross 3D: Round 2, known in Japan as Rittai Picross 2 , is a puzzle video game developed by HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the sequel to the 2009 Nintendo DS game, Picross 3D. The game was released in Japan on October 1, 2015, in North America on September 1, 2016, in Europe on December 2, 2016, and in Australia on December 3, 2016. In North America, it was only released as a digital-only download on the Nintendo eShop.

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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Picross series

Picross 3D: Round 2 is the 12th of 22 entries we hold in the Picross series. It arrived 11 months after Club Nintendo Picross Plus. The next entry was Pokémon Picross in 2015. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Picross 3D at 83.

See all 22 Picross games in release order →

How it was received

Picross 3D: Round 2 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Picross 3D: Round 2 launched on 1 October 2015, within three weeks of Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.

Cheats and codes

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