When did Art Style: Pictobits come out?

Art Style: Pictobits was released on 28 January 2009 for Nintendo DSi.

Art Style: Pictobits (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Art Style: Pictobits

The objective of Picopict is to move coloured blocks from the bottom of the touch screen under falling blocks of corresponding colors. If a shape is made using the added block, the blocks add to an image on…

85 28 January 2009

What Art Style: Pictobits is

Art Style: Pictobits is a puzzle game developed by Skip Ltd. and released in 2009. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo DSi only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Art Style is a video game series developed by Skip Ltd. and published by Nintendo for WiiWare and DSiWare. The first game in the Art Style series, Orbient, was released for WiiWare in September 2008. Another two Art Style games, Cubello and Rotohex, were released during October 2008 while two more were added in 2010. Seven DSiWare Art Style games were released on that service after its launch in Japan in December 2008, with the first two being Aquario and Decode.

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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Art Style: Pictobits holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 18 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Art Style: Pictobits launched on 28 January 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Flower. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Flower.

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