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Picross DS

Fill in squares using simple hints to reveal the hidden picture. Players need both puzzle-solving skills and creativity to earn a picture reward. Each puzzle has a sequence of numbers written in the margins of…

80 25 January 2007

Picross DS is a puzzle developed by Jupiter Corporation, released 25 January 2007 on Nintendo DS.

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What Picross DS is

Picross DS is a puzzle game developed by Jupiter Corporation and released in 2007. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Picross DS (ピクロスDS) is a puzzle video game developed by Jupiter and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It is the second game in the Picross series to be released by Nintendo in Europe and North America after Mario's Picross suffered a commercial failure in regions outside Japan, where many games in the series have been released for several Nintendo consoles. Like other games in the Picross series, it presents the player with a series of nonogram logic puzzles to solve. It was first released in Japan, and was later released in North America, Europe and Australia.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Picross DS 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 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Picross DS launched on 25 January 2007, within three weeks of Professor Layton and the Curious Village, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Europa Universalis III Complete. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Professor Layton and the Curious Village, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Europa Universalis III Complete.

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When did Picross DS come out?
Picross DS was released on 25 January 2007 for Nintendo DS.

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