Fantasy Mosaics 18: Explore New Colors

Well, yeah, I'm in a good mood to finally review this one (or maybe it's because the rest of the series is being released, I mean, everything after the 14th game, as I'm still waiting for the before to come to see the evolution of the series. Still following my logic?). And well, I'm not lazy at all, it's just that rewriting something that will be the same as the 17th game and that it will be the same for the 19th and 20th game (and I suppose the rest also), I'll copy paste parts of reviews I've already done. Fantasy Mosaics is a series of nonograms (also known as griddlers) games released for iOS and Android before being ported on PC and Mac, though now MatchGems (or Andy Jurko, take your pick) is releasing each version the same day or just a day apart (PC and Mac are released on Big Fish Games before Steam, so, that's how I can say that). I discovered the series because of me being a contributor on Neoseeker in terms of profiles, screenshots, ressources and well, if you see my profile, you'll understand. You have a series of numbers indicating how many tiles are used for a drawing in the column or in the line. Sometimes, it's easy as the whole line or column is concerned but a…

No surprises here with "Fantasy Mosaics 18: Explore New Colors." It plays exactly like the previous games in the series. My only minor gripe is that just like the previous game, one of the puzzles in the last set requires guessing (can't get enough points to activate the "power-up" tools to get a hint). Other than that one case, everything was great. Oddly, I got about two fewer hours of game play than normal (10.5 hours instead of my usual 12-ish hours). But, it's still worth buying even at its current list price of almost $7 (plus, I bought the "Mega Pack" bundle on sale -- so it was definitely worth it to me).

Probably the best one so far sequentially in the series. The colors are better and some of the pictures are much more interesting. However, I still counted maybe 3 out of 100 where the last couple of tiles could go two ways, and you had to use the picture and guess, rather than using logic for certainty. Still, that's pretty minimal.

This is a nice addition to the picross genre. Relaxing, not overly difficult (I completed all puzzles with no mistakes, though it might have taken a few tries on one or two. I'm blaming that on watching YouTube while playing so I wasn't concentrating fully), and fun with the different colors. I've played Fantasy Mosaics 16, 17, and 18 and all three are worth playing. There's a story of sort with it, but I didn't pay much attention. :)

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It's the same as the last 17 games, but with better color. There still aren't any Steam achievements or collector cards, which is always disappointing. If you're just looking for the familiarity of the game, it does check that box.