
A well-crafted indie experience, CiniCross is well worth your time.
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87%
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Very Positive Steam reviews (87% positive)
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CiniCross is a roguelike puzzle game set in a dark fantasy universe. Solve increasingly difficult nonogram puzzles, choose your path through a tree-like dungeon, and adapt your strategy using artifacts and items with unique effects. Each room is a new puzzle, each boss a challenge to overcome.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 10d ago
Started out fun but the timer is enough to cause stress. The boss who kept removing tile solutions were just annoying.
I was enjoying the game but the lastes changes ruined it. I already had problems with infinite mode as a thing that exists and it eels the the exp mostlly comes from there I hope they make more changes to fix the game
Hubris is a noun that means "an extreme arrogance or unwarranted self-confidence". In fiction, hubris is often the hallmark of a tragic hero whose sordid tale is one of strength and glory, with pride coming before a fall. It could also be a villainous trait, for one whose successes in the early acts lead to an inattentive state wherein he is hoisted on his own petard in the finale. Hubris takes many forms. Consumers of fiction often point to hubris as an enjoyable theme to see, if not its mechanism of action, the results of, when critiquing literature. Outside of fiction one might have hubris, or be hubristic, if they believe something about themselves, such as "I can solve the nonogram puzzles in CiniCross without using any of the Roguelike elements which the game provides me", or "I am able to solve the level 5 puzzle on the first floor of the dungeon in under three minutes", that is provably untrue. They might have reason to believe or evidence to suggest that their confidence is warranted, such as "I solved every puzzle in Mario's Picross for the Game Boy and Mario's Super Picross for the Super Famicom", or perhaps "I've done hundreds of puzzles in 2025 Picross Game Of The Year, Squeakcross: Home Squeak Home". As with the heroes and villains that engaged in hubris in classical and renaissance fiction, a nonogram aficionado or enthusiast who chooses to play a nonogram-themed roguelike dungeon-crawling puzzle game like CiniCross may place gravely mistaken faith in his capabilities and be subjected to firm embarrassment leading to an ironic fate, usually resulting in his death. on an unrelated note using the 25 block fill item on floor 1 isn't a good idea
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