Mosaic of the Strange (Demo) ★★★★☆

Where can you buy?

• Available on Steam

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Explanation to Negative Feedback

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Colors unclear

The numbers of the squares have three different colors to them, and I only understand one of them.

That would be grey, because it means the area is done. Not that you’ve got it correct, necessarily, but the number amount needed for that area is completed appropriately as far as the number itself.

The two colors that I don’t understand are the white and black.

Sometimes numbers will turn black when you’re working next to them, and then sometimes they’re white. I wondered if the black numbers meant that I could solve that area right now, but that wasn’t the case. Some of those numbers had too many questionable spaces to figure out, and the white numbers weren’t easy to figure out either.

Then I figured maybe the black numbers were ones I couldn’t figure out right now…but if that were the case then it would be the same for the white numbers.

So I think they could’ve expanded a bit more on the color of the numbers in the tutorial, because they just left me confused.

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Explanation to Positive Feedback

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Mosaics on the scene

This is a fantastic concept.

Normally in puzzle games, you complete one puzzle, then you can kind of do different things, depending on the game you’re playing, or just move on to the next puzzle to complete.

But in this one, the mosaic puzzles are actually in the open scene, and all you have to do is zoom in on a specific object in order to start filling out the puzzle, and if you’re a little tired of trying to figure it out, you can move over to the next object that’s in the room, or just another one that piques your interest more.

There’s nothing stopping you from moving from one puzzle to the other until they’re all completed, and I love the control it gives you on which puzzle you want to work on at any given time.

Hints definitely help

Unfortunately, they also make me feel like an idiot for not figuring out where I can easily solve an area, but there’s just so much to look at and numbers to figure out that it does sometime become too confusing and you get lost in where and how you can progress.

So thank heavens for the hint button, which recharges fairly quickly, though I’ve never needed to use it back to back very quickly. Once it helps you out in an area, you can normally keep expanding on your own.

But it’s a godsend when you’re too frustrated to look at all the numbers anymore.

Newspaper article to each object

Every object you complete is another sort of clue as to what happened regarding the death within the scene, and I love that it’s not as simple as looking at parts of a body and hypothesizing that this happened here and such.

Or even just looking at object that could be broken in a way that implies some sort of break-in or struggle.

Instead, each object is seemingly different and prompts some type of newspaper article for you to read that stretches a bit beyond what you might normally look into on a crime scene. You don’t really know what’s going to come up regarding each object, and that kind of gives you the drive to want to complete them.