Playing A Game Pepper's Puzzles PC

Pepper's Puzzles is a humble little picross game, perhaps even humbler than Paint it Back. It pays some welcome attention toward subtle quality-of-life features, like a randomized soundtrack and a "dynamic background" to prevent the brain equivalent of burn-in.

It's also got a very-slightly quirky sense of humor, which is neat.

But what really attracted to me to Pepper's Puzzles, over some other picross games currently on Super-Steam-Sale, is its "200+" puzzles.

The Mosaic mode (like other picross games' assemble-a-bigger-picture puzzles), and the surprisingly-stressful Time Trial challenges, are nifty distractions. But I've bet on Pepper to give me plenty of hours of picture-puzzle solving, and it's looking pretty good so far.

Progress: 135/720 Classic stars, 13/184 Mosaic stars, 18/18 Time Trials stars.

Rating: Good