Diamond Painting ASMR Review

I’ve always quite fancied doing a bit of diamond painting, but I don’t really have the time or patience to do it in real life. When I saw Diamond Painting ASMR was up for review, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to try it virtually. I do have a few apps on my mobile phone that essentially allow me to paint pictures by numbers. I find these kinds of games therapeutic and quite good at relieving stress. It’s the perfect experience to zone out to, especially when listening to music or a podcast, which is exactly what I was doing while playing through this. You can purchase the standard or complete edition on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and the game also supports Xbox Play Anywhere, meaning you can pick up and play on any device that can access your Xbox account.

Gameplay

The premise is very simple in Diamond Painting ASMR. Select a picture of your choosing, and use the coloured diamonds to match up to the numbers on the canvas. You can place the diamonds individually or place them in clusters for quicker completion rates. For me, though, I preferred to place them one by one. Some of the pictures are done in 3D and then stood up and presented to you at the end. You can partially complete pictures and pick them back up whenever you’d like to continue. The earlier designs are very simple and quick to finish, but become more complex as you work through them, and you find yourself completing them section by section because they are so large.

Visuals & Audio

Diamond Painting ASMR has been ported from mobile devices, with some work done on the in-game menus to cater for console users. There are several tabs with different genres of paintings to choose from. The most satisfying part of the game is seeing your blank canvas come to life as you fill in your paintings with colour. The UI is very simple and basic, which makes navigating diamond placement and colours easy. Even the most casual of gamers could get their hands on this and get to grips with the game quickly. Sound effects are as you’d expect if you were sitting at a table doing diamond art yourself. Whether this would scratch your ASMR itch, though, is debatable for me.

Final Thoughts

Diamond Painting ASMR is a casual yet calm experience which offers plenty of content for an extremely low price. At £4.19 for the base edition of the game, which is currently 20% off for another 10 days at the time of writing this review. The base version contains 400 pictures to work through and colour, which vary in size and design. If this isn’t enough, though, you can purchase the “Cool and Festive” and “Fun and Cute” DLC packs, which add 500 pictures to work through. I played this on the Xbox Series X, PC, and also on the Lenovo Legion Go handheld, and it performed well across all devices. You can purchase a copy of the game HERE.

Thanks to the developers CrazyLabs Ltd & the publishers QubicGames S.A. for providing us with a code for review.