Fantasy Mosaics 15: Ancient Land

Fantasy Mosaics is a series of nonograms (also known as griddlers) games released for iOS and Android before being ported on PC and Mac. I know that because I've added the whole series on Neoseeker. That's why when I saw it on Greenlight, I voted yes, despite the fact that it's just puzzles after puzzles. The thing is that the 15th opus isn't so much different from the 14th. The only difference is that I wasn't bored at firt, as I've grown fond of the series. Also, the number of hours passed in Ancient Land has decreased by half, as I've acquired some thinking patterns, allowing me to go faster and with less errors. But the question is: what's a griddler or a nonogram? You must reveal a drawing by "blackening" a certain number of tiles in the row or in the line. However, each number represent tiles being next to each other: if you see 3, you know that you have three tiles without any space. The difficulty can vary: between full lines or columns or only tiles possibles at the end, you...

If you've played the previous iteration of this series on Steam ("Fantasy Mosaics 14: Fourth Color"), you know exactly what to expect with this one ("Fantasy Mosaics 15: Ancient Land"). Basically, pure nonograms (20 sets of 5) with the twist that you have/get to complete four separate color's worth of a nonogram to complete each puzzle. Everything's very visible and doable. My only quibble is that the two tools you get (a bomb-like thing and a pick) aren't well explained (I still don't understand what the difference between them is -- though I hardly use them (only when the game presents me with a logic loop). This game took me 13.3 hours to complete (no Achievements available -- though they'd be nice in this game). That's about 5 hours less than what it took me to complete the previous game. But, I'm pretty sure it's just because I got a whole lot better at these since then. So, even at its current list price of about $7, it's worth it. I got the game for about $2, so that's ...

👎 I would not recommend it. Positive: +It's fun to play a picross by colors. Although it can make the puzzle solving too easy if each color does not have much painted tiles. I would rather play a slightly better picross game that also feature multiple colors like "Travel Mosacis 6: Christmas Around the World" or "Travel Mosaics 10: Spooky Halloween" than this one with is 90's UI look. +Even with it's flaws, it is still kind of addicting and enjoyable to play. Negative: -No validation when you delete a profile (bye bye progress 🥲) -It just look at a port of an old 1995 game, graphics and UI are horrible. -No customisation. -Some puzzles requires guessing. -No steam achievements. -No grid size displayed anywhere. -Other small stuff that would need to be addressed to improve the gaming experience.

ok

Simple and entertaining

It's a standard Picross/Nonogram puzzle game. The way it uses multiple colors is fun. The interface is mouse based and easy to use. Finishing each set of 5 pictures earns you a "reward" of new art. Overall I like it very much it is exactly what I was looking for in this type of game.

Good picross game, only a few instances of having to guess.