Picross 3D
Picross 3D is the sequel to the popular Picross DS puzzle game. The original game was a number-based grid puzzle that challenged players to reveal a hidden picture. Picross 3D moves the action into three…
Picross 3D is a puzzle developed by HAL Laboratory, released 3 March 2009 on Wii U and Nintendo DS.
What Picross 3D is
Picross 3D is a puzzle game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2009. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Picross 3D is a puzzle video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld system. It was released in Japan in March 2009, in Europe in March 2010, and in North America in May 2010. It uses similar nonogram mechanics to Picross DS, but adapted to a three-dimensional environment by adding an extra axis blocks can go on. Outside Japan, the game is part of Nintendo's Touch! Generations brand. It was also released for the Wii U's Virtual Console in Europe and Japan in 2016 and North America in 2017. A sequel, Picross 3D: Round 2, was released for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan in October 2015, in North America in September 2016, and in Europe and Australia…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Picross series
Picross 3D is the tenth of 22 entries we hold in the Picross series. It arrived 9 years after Picross NP Vol. 8. The next entry was Club Nintendo Picross Plus in 2014. Its critic score of 83 is 6 points above the series average of 77. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Picross 3D holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 16 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Picross 3D launched on 3 March 2009, within three weeks of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Picross 3D yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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