These Cheap Nintendo Switch Puzzle Games Will Keep You Sane if You’re Dreading the Family Get-Together This Christmas

These Cheap Nintendo Switch Puzzle Games Will Keep You Sane if You’re Dreading the Family Get-Together This Christmas

Need a Holiday Escape? Picross S+ Has Your Back If you’re dreading another round of holiday charades or your uncle’s off-key caroling, you’re not alone. The holidays bring joy—but also chaos, noise, and forced small talk. What if you could slip away for some quiet, screen-based calm without missing dinner? Enter Picross S+, a series of affordable, addictive puzzle games from developer Jupiter that are flying under the radar this Christmas. Priced from just $4.99 to $9.99 on the Nintendo eShop, these logic-based puzzlers are the perfect antidote to holiday overload—and they run flawlessly on both the original Switch and the new Switch 2. Credit: Jupiter What Is Picross, Anyway? For the uninitiated, Picross (also known as nonograms) is a number-based logic puzzle. You fill in squares on a grid based on numerical clues beside each row and column. Solve it correctly, and a hidden pixel-art image emerges—sometimes a retro game sprite, a sci-fi spaceship, or even a beloved arcade character. It’…