2025: Mosaic Retrospective is a picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle inspired by global news stories from throughout the year.
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If you're curious why it has Mixed reviews, it's because it's getting review bombed by MAGA Crybaby Snowflakes who are crying and peeing their pants because the game contains actual news about what's actually happening in actual reality instead of their what's happening in the fake reich-wing echo chamber.
It has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews other than those crybabies.
These mosaic games are a fun way to relax. You really cant go wrong with a free puzzle game, and the way this dev makes these games, you get little factoids. With the 2024 and 2025 retrospectives, it's all things that made headlines in some way in their respective year. Some stuff I'd forgotten about, others somehow passed me by the first time.
The puzzle itself isn't difficult. There's a grid full of numbers and each number tells you how many adjacent squares need to be highlighted. It's like Minesweeper without game overs.
You might see a lot of negative reviews calling this game 'political'. If you're wondering what that's about, there are headlines in the game about divisive events and people. It's kind of hard to avoid things like wars, politicians, and police actions that made the news. The short blurbs about each headline aren't biased, it's just a brief summary of events. If it seems like it has a left-wing bias...I don't know man, maybe reality isn't for you.
Fun, chill logic game. If you're not someone who keeps up to date with global news, it may be also be depressing at times. And if you're someone who keeps up only through Fox News and Truth Social, you might throw a couple tantrums. I honestly thought it was a little too charitable in places but I can just shrug and move on, y'know?
Thanks for your patience while I reviewed the in-game text. I'm pleased to announce that it's now all back in the game! The following articles have been updated to fix inaccuracies, clarify some wording and add attribution to specific quotes: East wing facade of white house demolished Hulk Hogan dies aged 71 Redacted Epstein files released Trump executive order spree US strikes on Venezuelan boats Other Fixes The incorrect colours on the Palestinian flag have been fixed. Lots of spelling and formatting errors have been fixed. Translations have been improved in all languages. An onscreen undo button has been added. The news panel font size has been increased to make things more legible on Steam Deck. The news panel can now be scrolled with the mousewheel or right stick on gamepad.
Hi Everyone, I've updated the game to temporarily remove the body text of each article (the headlines will remain). As many of you may have seen, the game has received a fair number of negative reviews objecting to some of the articles in the game. And while I don't intend to change those articles to satisfy negative reviewers, I do want to feel absolutely confident in what is written in the game, so I've decided to take a few days to thoroughly review each article again. I hope to be able to put the text back in again at some point early next week. Thanks for understanding, and thanks for playing!
