Need a small Switch game for your holiday vacation? This lightning-fast puzzle game is the chaos you crave.
It’s late December. You’ve spent the entire year trying to keep up with a flood of games. In fact, you’re probably still trying to work your way through that exhausting backlog as you crush late-year releases like The Callisto Protocol and High on Life. Perhaps you just want to take a break from it all and play a smaller game that’s well off the beaten path while on your holiday vacation.
If you fit that description, allow me to introduce you to Picross X: Picbits vs. Uzboross. It is pure chaos.
Released this week on the Nintendo Switch eShop, Picross X is another puzzle collection from developer Jupiter. The studio specializes in Picross games specifically, which is a puzzle format that has players filling in grids by using number clues in each column and row. Picross is usually a relaxing kind of game that takes a lot of patience and a bit of math.
Picross X throws all of that out the window entirely. This version is all about solving puzzles as fast as humanly possible. Levels consist of a gauntlet of 5×5 puzzles that players need to speed through quickly — I’m talking two seconds a pop.
