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OateyGames · Published by OateyGames
3 user reviews — 67% positive (3 reviews) · 34 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Hand-painted Nurikabe with an authored learning path, fixed challenge books, explain-before-reveal hints, and recurring daily and weekly competition boards.
£4.59
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Strategy, Casual · 2026 · More under £5 games
About this game
Learn Nurikabe through crafted puzzles, not disposable filler.
Brushwork is a premium Nurikabe puzzle game built around authored teaching, stable challenge sets, and readable hand-painted presentation. Start with a guided path that teaches core island-and-sea logic one idea at a time, then settle into fixed books, mastery sets, and recurring competition boards designed for repeat play.
A premium logic game with a real learning curve.
Instead of endless random boards with uneven quality, Brushwork focuses on curated progression. Early lessons teach clean deduction habits. Later shelves ask for precision, speed, and consistency. When you need help, explain-before-reveal hints show the reasoning before they fill a cell.
Return every day for clean competitive runs.
Daily and weekly boards use stable seeds so every player gets the same challenge. Chase fast times, low move counts, and cleaner clears while comparing results on the leaderboards.
Key Features
- Authored path lessons that teach actual Nurikabe deduction habits one concept at a time.
- Fixed challenge books and mastery sets built for replayable premium puzzle solving.
- Explain-before-reveal hints that teach the deduction instead of skipping straight to the answer.
- Daily and weekly competition boards with stable seeds and leaderboard tracking.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: dual-core 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Brushwork released today
After a long period of developing a game based on a puzzle that I have really enjoyed learning about and playing over the last 6 months, Brushwork is now live on Steam with a 20% off for launch week. Brushwork is a Nurikabe puzzle game in the spirit of Sudoku, where you are given a board with clues and must fill in cells to create islands subject to certain conditions. Forty-eight lessons walk you through the rules and the techniques one idea at a time. After the path there are challenge boards, mastery sets, and daily and weekly boards on shared seeds and your solve time will go on leaderboards to compare with everyone else. The hint system is there if you need it as part of the learning and solving process. At launch: - 1,344 puzzles, 5x5 through 15x15, four difficulty tiers.- Campaign mode, free play, timed challenge, daily/weekly boards- Per-level Steam leaderboards plus daily and weekly leaderboards on rotating seeds.- 34 Steam achievements- English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German, and Brazilian Portuguese- A free demo on the store page if you'd like to try the first lessons before committing. To everyone who has tried it out or had a look, thank you very much! It means a great deal to me! — OateyGamesRead full article on Community Announcements (Oatey99)
