Thankfully, however, the game does not overdo things. This means, like mobile games, it is free to download but you have the opportunity to spend money. This is the latest entry in Nintendo’s “free to start” series of games. The free-to-play energy timer isn’t terrible It’s proof that you’re smarter than the game. It’s the evidence that you put your brain through the ringer and came out the other end. But that image is just a representation of your struggle. That balance between logical joy and thrilling fear is satisfying beyond words. In that case, you almost always have to start over. The thrill is also knowing that if you make one mistake, you could potentially break the entire puzzle. The exquisite joy of Picross is then slowly building on top of that nothing by using one flash of logic at a time. You have a vague idea of which boxes have to get colored in, but that’s almost as good as nothing at all. At its most difficult, Picross gives you almost nothing to get started on.