Mega Mosaic

Don't get me wrong, I love Proverbs and 2024: Mosaic Retrospective. Mosaic of the Pharaohs is installed and ready, and I have Mosaic of the Strange wishlisted. But this game? This game has one very unfortunate design decision that Proverbs fixed, and it is infinitely more frustrating for it.

In all the games after this one, each region of the mosaic is a self-contained puzzle. In this one, it's all one big puzzle... which means that you can suddenly run into a logic wall that stops you dead in the region you have 95% completed until you go three regions and thousands of blocks away to spend the next several hours working your way back over. This happens multiple times in a way that seems almost malicious.

So if you like being edged, maybe this is the game for you? Otherwise you may find this simple difference maddening, and I would recommend any of the other Mosaic titles from Mark instead.

Fellow Neurodivergents and Hyperfousers beware that since this one isn't actually divided into sections there are no good stopping points. My mind is finally at peace now that it's complete.

Highly recommended if you enjoy similar logic games based on Minesweeper-mechanics. This is also a bit more casual version as there's no game over penalty for making a mistake - no bombs to trigger here :)

I enjoy the fact that despite the game featuring one single large puzzle, you still get a nice dopamine boost every time you complete a smaller section of the puzzle. Each section gets coloured in separately upon completion. There are also no timers at all, which is always appreciated, so you can just sit back and chill. The dev has listened and already added new settings based on feedback - including an undo key.

Achievement wise there are fortunately no weird or highly demanding ones - aside from having to complete the full puzzle - and of course no timer-based ones. All the 94 achievements are progression-based for completing a specific section or percentage of the puzzle. Simple and straight forward. :)