Travel Mosaics 6: Christmas Around the World Reviews

Fun casual puzzle game.

The Travel Mosaics series is always enjoyable, and I only wish there were more of them available on Steam.

It's Christmas themed picross with an element of colouring. At the end of each set of picross puzzles, is a jigsaw type puzzle with varying methods of completion.

[h3] Good casual Christmas puzzles [/h3] Optional difficulty settings. The mosaic pictures could have been better. Sometimes they were unidentifiable. 20 levels to complete. Each level = 6 mosaic puzzles + 1 bonus + 1 jigsaw I enjoyed learning interesting Christmas & New Year traditions from around the world.

It's a logic puzzle to makes mosaic pictures of Christmas stuff, do you want to build a snowman? Well, you can in this game...with the power of math! https://youtu.be/JlAMNn_hHXw

If you like solving nonograms casually, this game is for you. All nonograms' pictures are related to Xmas and winter. Instead of being classic black and white, every level have few layers of different colors, so the final pictures are whole colorful. For those who begin with nonogreams, the game offers some bonuses that can be used to reveal unknown cells. As solving normal nonograms on paper does not forgive mistakes and filling one cell wrongly usually means throwing out whole puzzle, here we have few chances to being forgiven before our puzzle is reset. Solving a level faultlessly is rewarded with three stars and a bunch of coins which can be used to buy christmas decorations. After solving every few levels a bonus one is being unlocked. There is always some messed up picture to be put back together, but every time a mechanics to do it is slightly different. The game as a whole is very good. It is rather not a thing to solve all levels in one sitting, but something to play once per time to relax.

It's a picross game. So chances are you will have some fun if you enjoy this kind of game. If not, probably not. However, I didn't really got into this one. The pictures are very blocky and simply don't look too rewarding. A few times I was stumped at what it even was supposed to display. The difficulty is a bit over the place with some taking a good amount of thinking and jumping between colour while others are very straight forward and little more than filling in the boxes. My main gripes are the colours. Having three different shades of the same colour can get a bit difficult to distinguish between. Not too bad, but there are better picross games out there and on Steam.

I don't know why there is so few review of this game yet, because it's a really good quality picross game! What I like about the game: +3 difficulty mode. You can either solve it as 1 big picross or solve it by color +Stars you get on puzzle completion are not difficulty dependent +Color theme of UI/puzzle is really gorgeous! ♥ +Row and colum highlight is same color as current color (nice touch) +You can cancel sliding mouse click by going diagonaly +Tile sound (when painting) is not too loud +Auto-cross the empty tiles when all hints are found (depending on difficulty it changes a little) +Count tiles when slide +You can change the color of the tile AND the color of the background A little bit of negative nitpicking: (not really relevant to picross solving) -I think that some of the UI buttons are bouncing a bit too much -I don't like the real fireplace. I think a cartonny fire would have fit better -i don't really like the skip button. I think that the goal of the game is to discover the image. I would have remove this option since there is already tons of abilities and mode to help you solve puzzles -I would have wrote proper description in upgrade menu hover like "Add 1 heart", "Range of ability increase by 1" instead of "Upgrade bonus" -Tile animation when loading a puzzle is a little bit long -Escape keyboard button doesn't bring menu. It would be easy to add this functionnality. -Price is way to low for all the great unique puzzle you can solve! I would have sold it between 6 to 9 US $ without hesitation I am not shy to say that this is the best colored oriented picross game currently on steam! The quality of the UI, the color of the puzzle, the power system that help you solve puzzle is just very well implemented! The game flow without resistance making you want to play for hours to discover all puzzles! I appreciate the dev team that brought this game into the world and wish you the best for your next game ♥