Sequel to Picross Fairytale - nonogram: Red Riding Hood secret (mouthful of a name), Hansel and Gretel offers more of the same.

Almost literally the same.

The map is the same, UI has the same functionality, the mini puzzles are the same old samey. Even the music (okay as it is) is the same, so having grown tired of it, I muted it to listen to something of my own.

Like the first game, this one has:

- Nice amount of content: 156 nonogram puzzles
- Large puzzles: Ranging from about 8x8 all the way to nice and big 30x30 in size
- Only one solution per puzzle: No guesswork required, only logic
- Basic expected features: crossing off un-used spaces, and a mark when a row/column is done
- A save system: handy when it takes a good part of an hour for the bigger puzzles
- Buy a hint system, with in-game gold purchases
- A system to check correct lines: incredibly helpful when you've got that one tiny mistake somewhere

It does *not* have greying out of the outermost completed parts of the puzzle like some other nonogram games.


While the game costs actual money, it also has in-game gold purchases for real currency. A weird choice for a not free-to-play game but there you have it. However, there's a free chest of gold to grab each day, and it's earned also from completing puzzles. There's a minor slow down at the beginning of the puzzle when ticking spots rewards gold, a novel annoyance not existent in the first game.

Gold can be used to buy hints. Hints reveal random guaranteed spots of the puzzle. Unlike in the first game, this one hosts an achievement for completing all levels without using hints or checking for correct lines. For achievement hunters, this is a slight bummer. Yet, there is one for purchasing and using hints. Unfortunately, it is not even working.


Three of the achievements are broken (discussion link), at the time of typing. This is probably a mistake in the code and easily fixed, as some user has posted an unofficial patch to fixing it. Like always with unofficial fixes like this, if you're an achievement hunter I caution to using it: it might disqualify your profile on certain achievement tracking sites.

Otherwise, achievements are gained for beating levels and proceeding the storyline. Puzzles are generally non-skippable, though I managed to glitch-skip one and break the story a bit.

A full guide exists for puzzle completions but you symbolically lose the bragging rights using that. :)


There's a few puzzles less than the first game (156 vs. 200 of the first game), and they seemed easier to me, though I've learned a few new tricks so perhaps those made it faster this time. My completion time was about 40 hours.

With smaller set of puzzles, broken achievements and copy-pasted features (except for the tiny story), I find it a weaker game than the first one and one I cannot recommend. The first one is alright (review) to play though. Then only if you are craving for more and knowing the caveats, you could get this one on sale.

~Twistorian Curator~

[h1]Another decent set of Picross / Nonogram puzzles with a fantasy fairytale theme but with drawbacks[/h1] Sequel to [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/820030/Picross_Fairytale__nonogram_Red_Riding_Hood_secret/][i]Picross Fairytale - nonogram: Red Riding Hood secret[/i][/url] (mouthful of a name), [i]Hansel and Gretel[/i] offers more of the same. Almost literally the same. The map is the same, UI has the same functionality, the mini puzzles are the same old samey. Even the music (okay as it is) is the same, so having grown tired of it, I muted it to listen to something of my own. Like the first game, this one has: - [b]Nice amount of content:[/b] 156 nonogram puzzles - [b]Large puzzles:[/b] Ranging from about 8x8 all the way to nice and big 30x30 in size - [b]Only one solution per puzzle:[/b] No guesswork required, only logic - [b]Basic expected features:[/b] crossing off un-used spaces, and a mark when a row/column is done - [b]A save system:[/b] handy when it takes a good part of an hour for the bigger puzzles - [b]Buy a hint system[/b], with in-game gold purchases - [b]A system to check correct lines:[/b] incredibly helpful when you've got that one tiny mistake somewhere It does *not* have greying out of the outermost completed parts of the puzzle like some other nonogram games. [h1]Hints and in-game gold purchases[/h1] While the game costs actual money, it also has in-game gold purchases for real currency. A weird choice for a not free-to-play game but there you have it. However, there's a free chest of gold to grab each day, and it's earned also from completing puzzles. There's a minor slow down at the beginning of the puzzle when ticking spots rewards gold, a novel annoyance not existent in the first game. Gold can be used to buy hints. Hints reveal random guaranteed spots of the puzzle. Unlike in the first game, this one hosts an achievement for completing all levels without using hints or checking for correct lines. For achievement hunters, this is a slight bummer. Yet, there is one for purchasing and using hints. Unfortunately, it is not even working. [h1]Broken achievements[/h1] Three of the achievements are broken ([url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/1044950/discussions/0/2605804632882752733/]discussion link[/url]), at the time of typing. This is probably a mistake in the code and easily fixed, as some user has posted [url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/1044950/discussions/0/2262438048233058784/]an unofficial patch[/url] to fixing it. Like always with unofficial fixes like this, if you're an achievement hunter I caution to using it: it might disqualify your profile on certain achievement tracking sites. Otherwise, achievements are gained for beating levels and proceeding the storyline. Puzzles are generally non-skippable, though I managed to glitch-skip one and break the story a bit. A full guide exists for puzzle completions but you symbolically lose the bragging rights using that. :) [h1]More puzzles to spend time[/h1] There's a few puzzles less than the first game (156 vs. 200 of the first game), and they seemed easier to me, though I've learned a few new tricks so perhaps those made it faster this time. My completion time was about 40 hours. With smaller set of puzzles, broken achievements and copy-pasted features (except for the tiny story), I find it a weaker game than the first one and one I cannot recommend. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/820030/Picross_Fairytale__nonogram_Red_Riding_Hood_secret/]The first one[/url] is alright ([url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/820030/Picross_Fairytale__nonogram_Red_Riding_Hood_secret/]review[/url]) to play though. Then only if you are craving for more and knowing the caveats, you could get this one on sale. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9997062/]~Twistorian Curator~[/url]