Fantasy Mosaics 24: Deserted Island

In case you cannot afford a trip to another country or to some kind of tropical island, you can always go on a virtual journey to all sorts of magical worlds with the help of video games. Naturally, it depends on how flexible your imagination is, because such experiences usually involve orcs, evil wizards and all sorts of other contraptions that might ruin the mood.

Fantasy Mosaics 24: Deserted Island is the latest episode in the mosaic puzzle saga that has you following a family of penguins as they travel all over the world in search of adventure and fun. This time, they go to a tropical island that appears to be all but deserted, yet that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to see. Hence, you get to admire beautiful scenery while solving all sorts of puzzles along the way.

In case you are not familiar with the genre, griddlers are designed to challenge your ability to create pixel artwork using as little guidance as possible. Thus, the only thing that helps you along is a set of numbers near every row and column, which dictate how many cells are to be filled. You can also switch between different colors in order to get the full picture.

The first handful of puzzles are designed to ease you into the atmosphere, but they gradually become more difficult as you advance through the game. Besides the fact that the artwork gets more complex and less symmetrical, the size of the puzzles increases considerably as well, which makes it significantly tougher to see the big picture and make the right choices.

As far as the graphics are concerned, the game is certainly not ugly, but you shouldn’t expect an awful lot in terms of artwork resolution and interface. Everything is designed to be as simple as possible, including the cutscene images and the buttons that make up the interface. The music is not bad either, but it can become repetitive after a while.

In the end, Fantasy Mosaics 24: Deserted Island is not in any way different than the rest of the games in the Fantasy Mosaics series, so the fans should feel right at home from the start. However, even total beginners can have a total blast with the game. NOTE: This is a downloader for the game. Once run, the application will automatically download and install the game on your computer.

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