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2024: Mosaic Retrospective

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2024

Should you play it?

2024: Mosaic Retrospective is a charity-fundraising picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle inspired by global news stories from throughout the year.

What works

  • Free with extensive content
  • Relaxing and meditative gameplay
  • Logical, no-guess puzzle mechanics
  • Interesting news story unlocks
  • Accessible and forgiving controls

Things to keep in mind

  • Subject matter includes depressing real-world events
  • Some find gameplay repetitive or tedious
  • Music not engaging for all players
  • Lack of social or multiplayer features
  • Minor bugs and ui issues reported

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • 2025: Mosaic Retrospective

  • Mosaic of The Pharaohs

  • Proverbs

  • Mega Mosaic

  • hexceed

  • 1000 Amps

Less story-driven

Games that feels like 2024: Mosaic Retrospective but with less narrative immersion

  • Nonogram - Master's Legacy

  • Tametsi

  • Akin

  • Pictopix

  • Draw Puzzle 画之谜

  • Chime

More fantastical

Games that feels like 2024: Mosaic Retrospective but with more imaginative fiction

  • Chronigma

  • Anodyne

  • Slider

  • The Elephant Collection

  • Paquerette Down the Bunburrows

  • Isles of Sea and Sky

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • 2025: Mosaic Retrospective

  • Proverbs

  • Mosaic of The Pharaohs

  • Mega Mosaic

  • Logic Town

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

2024: Mosaic Retrospective: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Exploration, Creativity, Story, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026