

Piecea, however, is just a giant puzzle piece. Chess, Sudoku, and Crossword are all humans with their own quirks. After being rescued, you can then walk home with any of the heroes. Eventually, the story started to kick into a higher gear as Pixel Girl was rescued by the rest of her superhero friends-Chess, Sudoku, Crossword, and Piecea. This early area took place on a world map, with each space being a puzzle. It made for a fine tutorial as you played as Pixel Girl, a superhero with the power to solve pixel puzzles really fast. The demo at PAX East 2020 showed off an early area, skewing a little bit on the easier side of nonogram puzzles. As a huge fan of Mario’s Picross, Picross-e, Picross S, and all those variations, I was ecstatic to check this game out. Turns out Skymap Games (who recently launched Thief Town on Switch) is working with developer Rude Ghost to make a bizarre fusion of Picross and dating sims, which in my estimation is the next step in nonogram puzzles taking over the industry. I opened the email forthwith to find out more. The subject line “Date a giant puzzle piece at PAX East” was one of those times. The story of Pixel Puzzle Makeout League is silly for sure, with tongue firmly in cheek, but it’s a lot of fun. So far, I’m having a good time, but I do have some concerns.

Every now and then, an email sent to my Nintendo World Report account makes me spit take. Pixel Puzzle Makeout League The last picross title that I played this year is one that I picked up on Christmas Day and am still working on, slipping it in just under the wire.
