2024: Mosaic Retrospective
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2024: Mosaic Retrospective is a single-player, mouse-controlled, charity ware game - the author hopes that anyone who enjoys the game will consider donating to UNICEF.
The game consists of a single, very, very large image showing scenes from 2024 that is broken into sixty thousand cells. The player clicks on these cells to change the colour, right click changes the cell to an orange colour while a left click makes it brown, a second right/left click will undo the change. The game is essentially puzzle, many cells contain a number which shows the number of adjacent orange cells and the player's task it to assign the correct colour to every cell. In addition to being divided into cells the image is also divided into regions, once all the cells in a region have been correctly coloured the orange/brown colours are replaced with the natural colours of the full image.
The game has music, a sort of light jazz piano, and auto saves on exit.
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Average score: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 1 ratings)
The Good
The idea behind the game is new to me but it is simple enough to grasp and it is easy to play. The music is quite good too. The graphics are simple, clear and easy on the eye plus it is easy to zoom in and out of the game area.
I picked up this game on Steam where it is free though players are asked to consider making a donation to charity. It looked like the kind of game to play between other things, for example while taking a break and having a cup of coffee.
Well I was sort of right and I was sort of wrong. It is great coffee break material but it has sort of got under my skin and I've been playing more of this than I've been playing the 'real' games I was given for Christmas. It has that "I'll just do a bit more before I stop" feeling to it.
The Bad
It started out being a so-so kind of game then it became addictive however after a while, because it is so big, it becomes a bit repetitive.
The Bottom Line
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In the last month I have played for 37 hours,
I have, according to the game, made 27505 micro decisions, but I don't think it counts the errors that I had to re-do
I have 36 Steam achievements - there are still 56 to go and I will probably play until I get them all 'coz I don't like to leave a job half done,
According to the game I am just 54% of the way through.
I've been taking more coffee breaks to play this game and have even had the odd late night glass of wine break too.
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Windows · by piltdown_man (255620) · 2025
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Game added February 8, 2025. Last modified February 8, 2025.