What a purr-fect gem to have a relaxing time in. I would almost say little gem, but the game wasn’t as short as I thought. In the end, I spent a good seven hours there, give or take. I may have a tiny amount of idle time here and there from running afk for a hot second.
The gameplay is straightforward, with 10 unique pictures, each with its own sports theme. You can click on any of the shadows in the picture to complete. Once they’re all finished, the whole picture (and sport) will reveal itself. From swimmers to fencers, human or animal, you colour them pixel by pixel. It’s not overwhelming, there is no time pressure, you don’t even have to finish a picture if you don’t feel like it or must go afk or something.
This was one of the things I liked a lot, it saves your progress, even if you choose to do another instead of continuing the one you were working on. It saves it all. Nice!
You can colour it in as you wish with two handy features along your side: the eye and the lock. While the eye shows a grey area of your selected number, the lock prevents you from accidentally wiping out a coloured-in square of a different number.
Whatever your playstyle is in this colour-by-pixel game, whether it’s thread carefully and clean or go on a rampage and rage colour, the choice is yours with those two handy settings.
The music was nice to listen to, but after a while, I turned it off and popped on a podcast. Surely, no one who has read my prior reviews is surprised by this since that’s how I roll.
As for the colouring sound, it was satisfying and an incredible moment; it had different ones. But at the same time, it's also a little bit of a shame, a shame that I couldn’t select one of those that tickled my ears the most and stick with that one. I would love to see that as a feature/option in the future!
While most of my gameplay went smoothly, I did encounter two minor points I would like to post about, too, so the developers are aware.
~* 1) If the music number skips to the next song, there is a tiny moment of lag—not much, but just a little bit. This has caused a pixel to get hurt in the colouring process and suddenly become a colour that wasn’t meant to be, heh. Whoops! Thankfully, an easy fix is to colour it back to its colour. So, all in all, no harm done there! + You can pause the player, preventing the hot second of lag.
~* 2) When you leave your freshly completed image too fast and go straight into the next one, your achievement for the next one pops, sometimes not for the previous one.
Going back into the completed one solved the achievement popping, thankfully.
Besides those two, I didn’t encounter any issues, so all good on that one.
So yeah, I recommend this one, big time, if you’re looking for a cozy, low-stress colour pixel-by-pixel game. For a zen moment of brainless colouring and just going with the flow without a care in the world.
I must admit I’ve found myself checking if they've released any others of this ‘colouring’ game since it left me craving more. So, I wouldn’t mind seeing one or a few of these charming pixel-by-pixel colouring games pop up in the future with all kinds of different themes, and I’ll keep an eye out for that!
Super handy tip VS excellent save system ~ love it!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3473962808
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3473962125
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