This takes elements from Picross and simplifies them in most cases. Other than on the shikaku puzzles you can usually breeze through the puzzles without a whole lot of thought, but honestly I’m kind of fine with that. This is just a good chill out, play while listening to a podcast, or while you have a free five minutes sort of game. It’s also perfect to play on a phone with one hand, so it’s ticking all the boxes I’m looking for in a phone game these days.

The shikaku puzzles go in the other direction, unfortunately, where they do require some real thought, but as far as I’ve been able to discern, there’s no real strategies to solving them (like you’d have in Picross), making it a long series of trial and error actions. I lost interest in these pretty quickly, especially as they don’t have any art once they’re complete either. I think the design of the regular puzzles’ art is delightful, so that’s another point for them.

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É fácil ver qual é o público-alvo de stitch. já quando completa o primeiro nível do jogo. O objetivo deles não era criar uma versão digital de Shikaku para especialistas, mas usar as incríveis regras desse puzzle para fazer um jogo relaxante e visualmente atraente para pessoas que gostam de desligar o cérebro com esse tipo de desafio. Como fã declarado de Picross, só posso dizer que esses Hoops também se tornaram os meus favoritos, e só espero continuar costurando por muito mais noites antes de dormir. (Sim, estou pedindo a sequência, termino esses jogos rápido, sabe...)