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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 138.5 hrs on record
Posted: Nov 22, 2018 @ 3:08pm
Updated: Feb 1, 2019 @ 10:04pm

So since the dev has fixed the executable file, I'm going to re-review this.

Pixel Draw is an okay game. It's not good, but it suffers from various flaws that make it's competitor the much better product. Many of these flaws come from the UI, which in my original review said was clunky and had no reason to be as large as it should be. I stand by that. It's obtrusive and gives you less screen to work with.

The only thing worse than the UI is the lack of tools. There is no erase function, so should you accidentally misclick, you're stuck with that color on the screen. Which leads to another problem - obstruction. Sometimes the misclicked colors can make it hard to identify which block is lit up with the color you've chosen. (Especially when you are zoomed out.)

And that leads to another of this games faults; it lacks any difficulty. Because the color lights the blocks up when it is chosen, you can immediately find and identify the blocks you need to color in with ease. While this might be good for some, it would have been a nice option to be able to turn off, the whole game feels like it's holding my hand with this mechanic. But this only applies to colors that have more than one block. If it's a single block of color, the block may not light up. But then sometimes it does. I want to say it's a bug, but it does the same thing in Hentai - Color By Number, so I think it has to do with whatever the game was made in.

Now for the DLC. I would say that most of the DLC isn't bad, except that they add the same images multiple times in each pack and expect you to pay for it. And in the first DLC pack in particular, images also have text in them which is incredibly tedious to fill in. I preferred to color in the apple, not the word apple. Though they have not done it again, so small mercies.

Overall, the game isn't bad, but it's not as good as Coloring Pixels (which is free!!). Buy on sale if you're interested, otherwise skip it.

Original Review
There is no executable file for the base game. Game does not load. DLC packs seem to load just fine.

Since the base game is unavailable, I've just played the first DLC pack. Numbers are highlighted on the board when you click the corresponding color on the bottom (but not always), giving absolutely no kind of challenge. Game basically does itself for you. No click and drag mechanics, you must click every tile individually. UI is clunky and obtrusive, taking up far too much of the screen than needed.

Don't waste your money. Coloring Pixels is the far superior game.
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