NOCTUARY: Moth Picross, 66 Nonogram Puzzles
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Puzzle. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
NOCTUARY: Moth Picross, 66 Nonogram Puzzles is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
NOCTUARY is a picross game for Windows with 66 plates, and each one you solve develops into a mounted moth specimen. Each specimen carries a Latin name and a catalogue number. The free browser demo on this page holds two drawers; the paid download is the full cabinet, and a cabinet started in the demo carries on.
What is inside 66 plates · 6 drawers · 10x10, 15x15 and 20x20 grids · 2 music tracks · Windows download + free browser demo Every plate is solvable by logic alone. Each one was solved by a line by line solver with no guessing before it was allowed into a drawer. At 20x20 only about 64% of generated specimens make a fair puzzle, and the rest are thrown away.
The Reading, a hint worked out from your own board, and EXAMINE, which finds wrong marks. A calm cabinet: no timer, no score, and a wrong mark costs nothing. Moths drawn by the game's own code, each from six organs out of a vocabulary of 56 marks and eight colourways. The genus follows the forewing and antenna, so you start reading the labels before you solve the plate.
Measured difficulty: each plate is graded by how many solver passes it needs. The Night Case holds only the plates that grade exacting.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.