PictoQuest Negative Reviews

PictoQuest App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

PictoQuest app received 10 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using PictoQuest? Can you share your negative thoughts about pictoquest?

PictoQuest for Negative User Reviews

✓ Fine, mostlyThe grid is much too small, ridiculous on an iPad. Floating in the middle of a huge wasted space. You get punished if you accidentally fill in the wrong square, all too easy to do given that the squares are much smaller than a fingertip. And there aren’t really any RPG elements. You can buy the odd potion but they’re mainly used when you’ve hit the wrong tiny square I find..KurisumasuVersion: 1.3

✓ BlehHorrible dialog. Useless story. Basically no story at all. We shouldn’t have to press the X or square to switch to them. It should be a toggle. Tap anywhere in the lower right side to toggle. That way we don’t have to take our eyes off the puzzle..JEmlayVersion: 1.3

✓ Has potential, UI disaster.The control is atrocious. Direction pad buttons are small and easy for inaccuracies which is frosting for timed quests. The touch version only works for 15x15 size, because tiles get smaller to fit in a small board, even on my iPad it’s so difficult to just manoeuvre. Basic graphics, non existent story line, no bad music score, I can’t imagine how ill designed the interface would be on 30x30 unless the board is scaled to take advantage of wasted screen real estate..ErrthlingVersion: 1.2

✓ Please fixI enjoyed this game while it worked!!! but now i can’t even open the game. doesn’t even get past the loading screen. i restarted my phone and redownloaded the app and it’s still doing this. pls fix :-(.HelenapretzelVersion: 1.3

✓ Picross with timersI like this game, but I would like the option to not have timers on some of the puzzles. I like to play picross games at my own pace to relax. Timed levels are very stressful..PhreddoVersion: 1.1

✓ Great game horrible controlsI love the concept of the game and the overall feel. I don’t think it is that fun to play simply because the controls are awful. It has a small d-pad that is so small that most of the time I hit the wrong direction. They have speed games that make it near impossible to beat because the controls are so unresponsive. If this can get fixed I think the game is a 5 star game..RockosaurasVersion: 1.2

✓ Good concept, execution needs helpOverall I enjoyed the game, but there were a few things that made it more stressful than it should have been, and a few missed opportunities that would have made this exceptional. I played this all the way through on a new iPad Mini. The touch controls are okay for the smaller grids, but once it hit the 15&20 across puzzles, I needed to use the Apple Pencil to be precise enough. Even then, I accidentally hit a square I wasn’t meaning to quite a bit. It’s strange that the puzzles didn’t take up more of the screen - there was plenty of unused space there. There is an option for a D-pad interface, it I found that to be way too slow, considering the game is essentially timed. I would have liked a faster way of switching between fills and X's. The Konami nonogram game really nailed the UI for a touch screen, so hopefully the sequel to this could learn from that. The RPG elements were an interesting idea, but I wish there was a bit more variety in the powerups. Some sort of weapons and armor system would have been nice to buy more time, and earning stars or XP or something like that by finishing a puzzle within a time limit or with no mistakes would have been cool. I would have liked to be able to knock monsters out more quickly via combos or powerups or something like that, and then have time at the end to finish up puzzles in my own time or aim for better times without having the monsters attacking me to waste time and ruin my concentration. Only being able to access the shop a certain points was really annoying. The other option was to backtrack a lot, very slowly with no idea of how far it was to the shop because you couldn’t zoom out on the map. I also didn’t understand the point of the warp points. I never needed to go back and re-solve a puzzle and I couldn’t see which warp was close to a shop in advance, so I just didn’t end up using them . It was good enough to finish, but I really hope to see a better thought out sequel in the future..ICowboyVersion: 1.3

✓ Love the ideaLove the idea, but the gameplay is off. There is no way to touch a square and not fill it for instance, which is very annoying. The coins are way to low for what you need ..VelissaVersion: 1.1

✓ Touch controls are buggyTouch controls often fill entire lines or the wrong square entirely. No auto fill for completed lines. You can only play in landscape mode. No audio cue when you switch from cross to fill. You get very little gold versus what shop items cost. The RPG element further hinders a below average picross game. Look elsewhere..LittleT-MartVersion: 1.1

✓ Nice to see up-front purchase. But bad controls.The game is fun, and it doesn’t use sleazy in-app purchase currency! I heartily recommend! However, the experience is marred by the controls. It’s far too easy to press the wrong control and get penalized. Paint It Back does controls the right way. Let us zoom and use touch. Note, my experience is on an iPhone 12 Pro Max. Touch without zoom is not very usable at this size once you get to 15x15 puzzles..Bret BrettersonVersion: 1.3

PictoQuest works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or contact PictoQuest.