The concept sounds novel: A murder mystery visual novel mixed with picross, but in reality it's not terribly interesting. It's just a murder mystery game that has you do picross here and there to uncover clues essentially. The picross does break up the monotony of the visual novel style gameplay, which is appreciated, but that is really all it does. Otherwise it is just your standard picross.

Storywise I also don't have a lot to say either. It's entertaining enough, but it wasn't engaging enough for me get through the whole thing. The writing is solid with lots of humor, but the plot leaves a bit to be desired.

Overall, this game just feels like came from a group of friends being like "Yo wouldn't a picross murder mystery be sick?! " without actually considering how either genre could the other one shine. It just plays as though they shoved a picross minigame into a murder mystery, and called it a day. If you like both genres, certainly go play it, but it isn't anything special.