Nonogram 3D : Mega Puzzle Review

A cool picross/nonogram game in which you solve 3d puzzles. It has some very nice quality-of-life features like greying out solves parts and removing the number when removing the excessive blocks. No missable achievements and completion takes around 17 hours.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: 17h
Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10 normally, but there is also a setting so you can’t fail a puzzle
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

What a lovely nonogram/picross game! In this game, you solve the puzzles in 3d, so the numbers are printed on the blocks. What makes this game so good is that they grey out the number when you have colored the correct block but even remove the number when you also have removed the excessive blocks. That last thing is especially very helpful; the puzzles get less overwhelming the further you get into them, and the clearer it becomes where in the puzzle, you still have to solve a part of the puzzle.

It also has a nice option in the settings to remove the fail state, so you can’t fail a puzzle and have to start all over. Using this will not lock you out of earning the achievements, which is also very nice.

The only thing I missed (or couldn’t find) was a button press to see the whole puzzle again. You move layer by layer to get to the right part, but after that, you have to go back all the way by pressing the opposite button. It would be lovely to have a button to see the whole puzzle again so you can switch the direction you’re looking at the puzzle more easily.
EDIT: Thank you Lilly from Lilly’s Corner for mentioning that with the TAB key you can unfold the whole block again.

None of the achievements in Nonogram 3D: Mega Puzzle are missable, as they are all for completing the puzzles in this game and doing 1 random puzzle, but this can be a very small one.

I give Nonogram 3D : Mega Puzzle 4 out of 5 stars.

This review for Nonogram 3D : Mega Puzzle was written on 1 January 2025, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 39 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.