Picross is not intellectually stimulating, interesting, or even especially difficult, and yet each time one of these slimy bastard games gets its clutches on me I fall long and free into the abyss. I played 45 hours of Murder By Numbers in 2021. 45 hours!!! I'm only writing this as a sort of amulet to prevent myself from playing more but even now my Switch stares at me, ever patient, one black eye waiting to unfurl into 225 others.