Fill-a-Pix: Pixel Minesweeper App Reviews

I was excited to try this game, and I love Japanese number puzzles. Several of conceptis other games are fantastic. But this game requires you to click and drag the cursor for each move, which is incredibly annoying. I couldnt play more than one game.

Let me preface this with the fact that I LOVE this app. The only thing I wish is that there was a function in which I could restart all puzzles from a specific volume instead of having to restart each individual puzzle (a function I believe existed in an earlier version of this app--please bring it back!)

Buyer beware: you could end up spending thousands of dollars on Conceptis applications. Read on for details. This review includes the eight applications published on the iOS app store by Conceptis (Nurikabe, Tic-Tac-Logic, Link-a-Pix, Pic-a-Pix, Hashi, Sudoku, Slitherlink, and Fill-a-Pix). First off, their applications are well built and include many fun puzzles. I especially enjoy the weekly free puzzles, though it is a little irritating that they go away after four weeks and are not saved. However, the biggest problem—and Ive noticed this mentioned in some reviews for these applications—is the high cost of puzzles. They are well done and fun, but when the costs are summed, they are rather high. There are 31,380 puzzles total (as of today) across the eight applications, ranging from very simple to rather complex, which would cost you a total of $3511 (not including tax). This is on par with the cost of licenses for professional-level applications. I think its quite disingenuous of Conceptis to charge so much for the puzzles. When averaged (across all 8 applications for the entire range of puzzles), they total just over 15 cents/puzzle. That may not sound like much, but it can add up quickly. To contrast this, LogicPicColor, an iOS app like Pic-a-pix, has 16,778 total puzzles which cost a total of $30 (plus tax), averaging at a third of a cent per puzzle, about 50 times less than those from Conceptis. Now, LogicPicColor has some shortcomings and is not nearly as well done as the apps from Conceptis. Nonetheless, I dont believe Conceptiss apps and puzzles are worth that much of a premium, and will therefore be satisfied to look elsewhere. Perhaps someday theyll offer sales or discounts for puzzle bundles—ever since the apps were released, Ive hoped for this, to no avail.

I love how the current version says it improves performance. Um yeah no. Since new version I can get into app. Its been updating/downloading for 2 days now. Before that the app worked just fine. I liked how the levels were easy to harder. I didnt like the price for some newer games. Overall it wasnt a bad app, just costly if you want more than the initial free levels.