Sky Castle - (nonogram)

Jessica Hanson

2 years ago

I would give this 5 stars if it had an option to switch which side the buttons were on in one handed mode. One handed mode puts the navigation buttons in the middle, and the O/X buttons on the left. That feels accessible if you're playing the game with your left hand. But for me, I play the game with my right, and have to reach all the way across the screen, just like I have to in two handed mode, so there's not much difference to be. Would love to have the option to move controls!

KroH_

4 years ago

Great nonogram puzzle game, a LOT of puzzles with gradually increasing difficulty. As you progress, you travel through several different locations. Each location gives a different color palette, background picture, and themes for the individual puzzles. At each location there are puzzles with increasing difficulty. I reccomend to install this and play some when you need a time sink, such as while on the bus etc. etc. Great with your favorite music or a podcast.

Red T

2 years ago

This game is exactly what it says it is: A reveal-the-picture nonogram game with a pleasant story and beautiful music. (One of the very few games for which I leave the music on!) Levels progress from 5x5 to 20x20. My only complaint is I can't access the first and last parts of the story (I guess prologue and epilogue) after the one time they're shown. I've played other games by this creator, and haven't been disappointed yet. Looking forward to the next one!

Lindsey Smith

3 years ago

I've put days upon days into nonograms (it's a problem) but this is the first app I've found that doesn't use a coin system to unlock puzzles, and the first one that I feel deserves 5 stars. The art is beautiful, the music is relaxing, and the puzzles themselves are really well designed. I was also shocked to see there is a full storyline that keeps you excited. I also love the zoom function they have! It's great for the larger puzzles! 10/10 ♥️

Charissa Kucera

3 years ago

Best Nonogram game I have found, for great colors and game play. Two modes of play, with auto-correction or without. The artwork is better than similar games I've seen. The colors are easy on the eyes, with subtle shading that makes this game beautiful, relaxing, and a good challenge. Starts easy but gets much harder. Many levels, but will I run out some day? Don't think I will ever want to quit!

Joyce Goates

1 year ago

This game is really fun! I love the aesthetic and there is only an ad after you complete a puzzle, none when you fail or exit. It feels really thoughtfully designed for the consumer. The game play is standard nonogram, and you can turn off color, autocheck, and several other features in a side menu. Like most nonograms, there are strategies that you can use, but if you ever get stuck, you can use a hint. There are 3 free hints per level, which I find is usually more than enough.

Kenzi M

4 years ago

I really enjoyed this game! I don't play a lot of mobile games but this one I couldn't put down. The music are artwork are soothing. The puzzles are challenging but not too difficult, which made them great for keeping my mind busy when I needed a little break. I also enjoyed that there was a clear end in sight and found completing the game to be very satisfying. My only complaint is the insane amount of ads that were constantly disrupting any relaxing effects the game had.

Charlene Kimberly Co

2 years ago

I LOOOVE this game and bought the Ad-Free Version on the first game because its ambient environment, stress-free yet challenging play, and beautiful puzzles has helped satisfy my ADHD needs/unending desire to solve things so that I don't hyper fixate out of existence. It also has helped me cope through anxiety attacks and other mental health problems I carry. I'd give this 5 stars, but the ambient in background music plays on repeat unless you turn it off, which gets annoying after some time.

Kendra LP Humphreys

3 years ago

It's a passable nonogram game - it's a little annoying that the moment you mark a box as part of the image rather than with an x, it automatically tells you whether it was right (and penalizes you if you were wrong or slipped) without giving you any opportunity to realize and fix your own mistake. I find this stressful rather than relaxing. There are better ways of doing this, like not revealing the picture until the puzzle has been completed correctly.

Tori McDowell

3 years ago

Either my game is glitched or it's really really short. After completing the water themed puzzles (which is the 3rd section, I think?) it will not let me progress any further. I've tried closing the app and restarting it several times so maybe the game just ends very quickly without ever getting to the titular Sky Castle? I think it's a bug though.

Neil

2 years ago

Nice Experience, Poor Feel. Sky Castle has beautiful music and atmosphere, as well as tasteful puzzles, but lacks robust mechanics. The feeling of placing tiles is a little finicky. If you are dragging a line, and you drag the tiles slightly past the edge, it nullifies the entire line and you have to do it again. The AI needs to be refined. Multiple times it grayed out an end number when there was no logical means to yet determine that said number was satisfied.

MaryGrace O'Connor

3 years ago

This is a good game but I would appreciate the option to turn off lives. I personally love to see if I can complete the puzzles without the assistance of telling me if I am wrong. I like the auto check and auto fill but the required lives are frustrating when I didnt mean to click something and I end up tanking a level that I genuinely had no difficulty with.

GeekWad927

3 years ago

New to style, really enjoy it. I have memory issues, just hard enough to exercise my brain, minimally frustrating on harder ones. -- CONS: relaxing soft music, interupted by loud ads. (I don't mind ads, only that they can't be muted). Controls can be nonreponsove, or I'm mistakingly not clicking them bc of their placement. Wish I could move them where I needed them. The purple highlighter looks too similar to the gray, and can become confusing, causing wrong answers. Severe battery drainer.

Molly Skalecki

5 months ago

I never write reviews but this is one of the best games ever. I love figuring out nanograms but they get boring when they are so easy. This game is challenging but also tells a story while you are playing so you do not get bored. It keeps you interested and gives you a goal to achieve. I am sad that I fully finished the game. I wish there was more.

Artemis Timm

7 months ago

I love this game so much; I found it while I was having a panic attack and the slow moving text and music gave my brain much needed relief. My only complaint is how you can't reset after you finish everything. Playing through it isn't the same if I can't see the pictures slowly forming as I complete the puzzles. Is there an update the dev could install to add a system reset button?

Tonia Hall

5 months ago

Bought the game to remove the ads immediately. Worth it! It's fun and logical, every single puzzle can be solved using logic - NO guessing required, as it should be! I am disappointed in the lack of story, though. It says it has a story but it really doesn't. One vague sentence after twenty puzzles is not a story, it's filler. But, if you like doing nonograms and don't mind the lack of story, this would be a great game for you. I finished all the puzzles and it was fun.

Sarah Beery

4 months ago

I loved this game and played it every night before bed. I found that the "lives" system, where red X's are marked for wrong entries, were very helpful. Where did the "lives" go? Now there is only an "undo" button and wrong entries are not marked. How am I supposed to know what to fix? I cannot change it back in the settings. I'm really disappointed :( the gameplay and logic to use is now totally different.