Review: 2025: Mosaic Retrposective

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Written: 2026 July 15

Rating: 1/5


What an absolute waste of almost 11 hours. This game is just a big grind, with no difficulty curve. If you can solve one of the puzzles, you can solve them all.

It claims to be a picross/minesweeper hybrid but actually there's little to no nonogram influence. It's just a minesweeper variant. Nonograms often end with the solved puzzle looking like some sort of pixel art. This one does not, each solved puzzle is just a mess of two colors.

Having to move the mouse to the bottom left of my screen and click to undo is a sleight against humanity. Why does the "z" key zoom in rather than undo like in all the other puzzle games?

Despite being a huge minesweeper game, there is NO CHORDING. I cannot believe you have to click or click/drag on literally every single square.

If you are looking for a high quality puzzle game, this is not it. Only play this if you have no respect for your own time. Honestly, I'm genuinely disappointed in myself for bothering to finish this game. I wouldn't be surprised if all of these puzzles were algorithmically generated by a computer. After the 25% completion point I felt like I was just a computer algorithm scanning a square grid for numbers and patterns.