Pirate Mosaic Puzzle. Caribbean Treasures Reviews

Pirate Mosaic Puzzle. Caribbean Treasures is a basic browser/Flash/mobile-app like jigsaw puzzle game. Solve various jigsaw puzzles made up from images that the "developer" stole off the Internet and used without crediting the actual creators, making this plagiarism, as well as an asset flip and a cash grab. Sure, the image rights may allow the stock image to be used without credit, but claiming credit for the work of others, as is happening here, is unethical. This game features a bunch of artwork stolen off the internet, there's no real game development or creation here, it's just other people's work assembled badly. I don't make these claims lightly, one example that proves this is an image of Popeye the Sailor, which is still under copyright by Paramount Pictures until 2029. Copyright theft such as this carries severe penalties in the USA and can be charged as a criminal offense. The other images in use here are also stolen and used without crediting the copyright holder. The icing on the cake is the "developer" here has copy + pasted + reskinned this same asset onto Steam [i]a lot[/i]. The asset flipper/"developer", Creobit/8Floor, has copy + pasted this game SIXTEEN TIMES onto Steam with minor reskins, and more stolen artwork... why cash in on one asset if you can cash in on multiple copies of the same game? Asset flipping begins at home! Here's a list of Creobit's copy + pastes of this asset: [list] [*] Mosaics Galore. Glorious Journey [*] Holiday Mosaics Halloween Puzzles [*] Alice's Jigsaw Time Travel [*] Fairytale Mosaics Cinderella [*] Christmas Patchwork Frozen [*] Holiday Mosaics Christmas Puzzles [*] Fairytale Mosaics Beauty and Beast [*] Alice's Jigsaw. Wonderland Chronicles 2 [*] Alice's Jigsaw. Wonderland Chronicles [*] Pirate Mosaic Puzzle. Caribbean Treasures [*] Mosaics Galore. Challenging journey [*] Thanksgiving Day Mosaic [*] Mosaics Galore 2 [*] Mosaics Galore [*] Alice's Patchworks 2 [*] Alice's Patchwork [/list] [i]These are all reskins of exactly the same game![/i] What value is there in this spam/pollution glutting the Steam store for gamers? From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort mobile apps. 3D graphics programming does require a degree of skill and competence and unfortunately not all developers have the budget or talent to deliver this, despite 3D graphics cards hitting the mainstream in the 1990's. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio (although they put "wings", flat textures, on the pillars). It's possible they developed this using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game has been specifically designed for people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes this might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 5 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Pirate Mosaic Puzzle. Caribbean Treasures has the total ripoff price of around $5, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. Because this is the kind of game you can just play for free on mobile phones, it's impossible to recommend anyone should pay money for the same experience on Steam.

Relaxing mosaic game to play through. The pieces adhere to the cursor when clicked on and there is the option of relaxed mode (no timer).

Beautifully made and one can see with great effort from the artist. Yes! I would recommend the game for it's enjoyment that I did so love..

This is the fastest and easiest of the mosaic series I have played. The first 3 worlds are definitely kid friendly. Later on there are some tougher levels. The very dark background can make it hard to see where missing pieces go. If you want to enjoy the pictures, take screenshots. Overall, I'd prefer longer levels, with some improved logic on how pieces are provided, so that it doesn't devolve into waiting for hints until it's trivial. (Even happens here, but very rarely.)

Not sure what the other reviews are on about. All levels work fine, no bugs or anything. The achievements also work, they just aren't Steam Achievements. Whether some pictures are ugly or not is a matter of taste. It's not Glass Masquerade, but it's not an exceptionally ugly game either. There are some pictures that aren't strictly "pirate themed", but it's all the usual Mosaic style and materials.

Fun game. Took me 8 hours to finish in relaxation mode, has time challenges if you want to do that and I haven't encountered any bugs.

Another fun mosaic game with pretty pictures, this time with a pirate theme. I've seen some reviews say that there's a broken level, but it seems to have been fixed since as I encountered no problems. Well worth playing if you like the other mosaic jigsaw games!

At the time of writing this review there are achievements in the game but not in Steam. It works as the other mosaic games do with no major difference in the mechanics. Some of the mosaics are horrible looking and some are nice which is par for the course. However at this time two levels do not complete and that means you can't finish the levels in those worlds. In the third world level 57 won't complete which blocks 3 levels. In the 6th and final world level 103 won't complete and that blocks 17 levels. So a total of 20 levels can't be played. I'm not asking for a refund b/c I only paid .49USD and it's not worth the trouble. Because of the broken levels I can't recommend the game unless you are paying a very low price and don't mind not being able to get all the achievements.

Definitely on the easier side of things, but above-average puzzles, and probably the only game of this type you can play on a timer and have fun and not just sweat and stress out.

First impression: great sequel to Alice's Patchwork I remember loving Alice#s Patchwork, I 100%ed that and its sequel. I didn't remember having to redo levels multiple times to memorize the picture and get the timing achievement (it's optional): you basically have to know where most pieces go, and put them there without hesitation. On this game, the timing is tough right from the start; I remember it ramping up more with Alice, so maybe that's the better game to start with. It's great fun either way! If you like jigsaws, give this a try: it's different! [i]It's also on sale today and super cheap![/i]