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The Mosaic App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
The Mosaic app received 54 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using The Mosaic? Can you share your negative thoughts about the mosaic?
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The Mosaic for Negative User Reviews
✓ Unplayable on iPhone 8 PlusText is too small. On the home screen you can barely make out 2 options - the first is something like “Play Game” and the second is “Options”. They are so small and close together that it will probably take you 3 or 4 tries to tap the “Play Game” option without hotting “Options”. Additionally, while you are in the options menu, there is inexplicably no option to increase the text size. Not worth playing on the phone, but I might try on Apple TV at some point. If the game is playable on Apple TV, I might increase it by a star or 2 but I didn’t get Apple Arcade to play on a TV. Game consoles are better for that..Version: 1.0
✓ It’s a five star game......but I am completely lost as to what I am supposed to be doing. I did the whole routine, got up, brushed teeth, stuck my hand in the electric thing, checked my mail, played the app on the phone, looked at the messages, called the lift, went to go outside and it came up with this thing that consisted of hexagonal shapes with moving dots...I mean what the hell am I supposed to be doing. Please give us some explanations, I’m all for puzzles and exploration but I’m not a lateral thinking genius with a Mensa IQ. I really want to like the game but as I’ve found with a lot of Apple Arcade games, you expect us to know exactly what to do 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😤😤😤😤😡😫.Version: 1.0
✓ Bad controls, great gameThe game is often too directionless, making it possible to get stuck from just walking across the room. I nearly gave up a lot of times due to this combined with bad controls. I might try again on steam or some other platform....but I am just getting frustrated - which pulls me out of the great atmosphere..Version: 1.2
✓ Control failControls in this game is absolutely disgusting. It is annoying and really bad. Not enjoying playing it at all. All tho nice game, design etc..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Painful to play but good messageOverall I found this slow, depressing, and at times painful to play. I’m not sure what drove me to complete it but the ending is subdued and somewhat satisfying. Movement is difficult and game mechanic is sometimes vague during milestone objectives (like the drag to connect loops). The part where you’re a cube is buggy and I had to restart several times to get through it. I must say they did successfully create what it feels like when you’re a cog in a machine. It does become a bit humorous when you realize everything is stacked against you..Version: 1.2
✓ Bad Controls, Bad Performance, Good GameIt’s such a shame that there isn’t controller support or at least a virtual joystick for this game (yet). As a result, especially if you’re on a smaller device, you’ll be spending most of the time trying to position your finger in a way that gets you where you need to go without obscuring too much of the screen. Unfortunately for me I only have access to an iPhone 7 and AppleTV (both on the same chip), so the game runs horribly, often dropping to as low as what feels like 5-10fps. This also seemed to affect the audio as well, as it flickers a lot during bad performing sections and I had it cut out entirely once until I closed and reopened the game. The game itself seems like it could be a great time, as I enjoyed it just enough despite the major issues to finish it, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone playing it on a small and (I guess) weak device. It has some really neat visuals, though I feel like the experience would be served just as well if not better by an animated short (though there are already plenty that pretty much explore the same themes)..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Cool story with game-breaking bugsI was really enjoying this game for the first few chapters, but eventually reach a point where some kind of trigger was bugged and I couldn’t progress without going back to the last checkpoint. Unfortunately, doing so undid every choice I’d made at home that morning, and removed apps from the characters phone. I kind of lost the motivation to continue playing at that point, which is disappointing since I was really enjoying the direction of the story up to this point..Version: 1.3
✓ Eh?What the ***** was that? I’d like my time and money back please..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Nice graphicsThe graphics are nice and there is an element of whimsy to the break out cut scenes. However if you‘ve kept at the game for a few hours hoping for a satisfying enlivening of the story or gameplay, it‘s not coming..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Uncontrollable rubbishI want to like this game but unfortunately it is slow, boring and there are times the controls just don’t work There’s a point where your character gets squashed and there is nothing I can find that means you can progress from there I have tried on Apple TV and iPad. With game controller and fingers. Nothing makes this game respond. Yet another game deleted.Version: 1.4
✓ Stuck at conveyor belt bugIt doesn’t let you go anywhere. Tried looking it up online to see if I was doing something wrong and no, a bunch of people have this bug and reported it a year ago, to which the developer commented & said they were releasing a fix for the bug in a week or so, it’s been a year. Of course it’s right at the part where things are starting to happen. Don’t bother playing to get invested in the storyline just to get permanently stuck. It’s infuriating. Probably would have been a great game, other than it being kind of slow, it was an amazing depiction of depression, but right at the good part where it looks like you’re going to finally try to go against the depression, boom you’re stuck. Infuriating & depressing..Version: 1.2
✓ DepressingIf you don’t feel depress enough, “play” this. It’s dark, it’s slow, it’s boring. The most exciting part was watching the guy sleep, but I gave up while waiting for him to finish brushing his teeth..Version: 1.0
✓ So slow and clunky controlsI love a slow burn cinematic game but this game is boring throughout, carried by the annoyance of the controls. Hitting ledges constantly taking you out of the flow. I don’t know whether I liked the ending because something was finally happening or whether this experience was finally over..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Powerful surrealist visuals hampered by bugs and poor controlsLoved many aspects of Mosaic and I loved some of the great compositions and art design thoughtfully crafted through the game, but playing it was a different story. There were many visual bugs encountered through my beginning-to-end playtime: character animation pops, camera blend issues, etc. which made the overall experience feel not very polished and often detracted from my experience. But the worst offender was the controls by far, I’ve had issues where I’d get “stuck” at some invisible spot in the level which was unclear from the camera layout (for example, trying to climb up a set of escalators but getting stuck in the middle between two escalators). The “change your perspective” mini-puzzles often had unclear direction on what to do, and the controls were either too sluggish or too quick on my iPad (the camera rotated like crazy!). I would’ve liked to recommend this game, but as-is it needs a couple rounds of patches before I can tell others to play this game. Overall, I liked the plot and the uplifting ending was lovely, even though I was initially skeptical of how sad it came off at first. I genuinely played through the whole game because I loved that cheerful, optimistic goldfish! 🐟.Version: 1.0.1
✓ What was that?Can’t really be called a game Not long enough to be called a story I’m honestly not sure. But it was very beautiful to look at and listen to. Great graphics and quirky soundtrack. But so many loose ends... BlipCoin? Love? Not sure if the hexagon building game was the main ‘game’. Didn’t need to create an account, don’t even know what that hint was about. I enjoyed what there was of it, but it felt like it was only getting started when it ended..Version: 1.2
✓ Potential but awful controls.Kinda interesting so far but I’m at a part where I’m squished into a square human and the controls are broken. Can’t progress. ☹️Edit - I’ve kept this app on my phone hoping that an update fixes the glaring problems, because I really want to play. We’ve got an update, but all the same problems are evident. The controls are terrible. Such a shame. I can’t be bothered waiting for another update that might ignore the huge control failures. Deleting. 😞.Version: 1.1
✓ Too confusingDownloaded this and deleted it after 10 minutes of trying to play it. No idea if it works better with a controller but with my hand gestures the character is so unresponsive as to where to go and he also moves so slow. The game is just really really confusing. I brush my teeth, read, check some messages and get in a lift. That’s as far as I got before I was too frustrated to continue. I’m sure there was good thought and intention behind the game but really disappointed with it..Version: 1.2
✓ Too repetitiveStory progression is too slow. Seemed more like a hassle than fun. I understand the emotions the developer is trying to convey, but there must be a better way of delivery..Version: 1.0.1
✓ All rightIt’s kind of hard to control and the meaning is hard to understand but overall is attention-grabbing and interesting..Version: 1.1
✓ Exhausting experienceGood idea for the game. But the progress is really slow and gross. I suggest three thing: 1. 2x or 4x speed mode for walking 2. Better tip for the use of the color cloud ( it took me over 10 mins to understand its use) 3. Better tip for the hex function button ( until end, I don't know the use of bouncing hex because the tip of that is too fast) The idea is 4 stars, the time wasting and unnecessary expression of the idea is 1-2 stars. The game BLIP BLOP in mobile phone is better to be extracted out to be independent game. I give it 4 stars.( But make sure the game remind people long time tapping may cause finger disease).Version: 1.0.1
✓ Can’t move avatar properlyIt’s really irritating to play. There’s no real way to move your character, I hate the controls. So off putting that I deleted it without finishing it..Version: 1.1
✓ TerribleThis is a game that intentionally wastes your time, while at the same time incompetently tries to make a point that modern society pointlessly wastes your life. So definitely play it if you like a strong dose of irony..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Unique and unoptimisedIt’s a unique experience with annoying mini game. I love the art and the story. Completed on tv hd with terrible framerate and 360p. I wanted to finish it on iPhone X but it kills battery too quick making my handset a mini radiator. Any chance you can make it playable for longer than 5 min on mobile devices?.Version: 1.0
✓ I’m uninstalling…The functions of the buttons is way to tedious and frustrating especially at the end sorry to say I’m uninstalling….Version: 1.4
✓ TediousThe camera / movement controls are confusing and change as you try to move around, making your hand cover most of the screen to try and keep on moving forward. You can’t interact with things if you find them too soon. If you don’t immediately intuit what the developers think you should do next, you just hit a brick wall with no cues for what you can interact with. (Got past the hexagons, only to get stuck on a ‘colour swirl’ doing nothing and not letting me back out again) I’m sure there’s a message here, and it’s a pretty game, but I can’t be bothered to slog through it. Maybe that’s the point?.Version: 1.0.1
✓ Keeps crashingWhat I’ve played I’ve really enjoyed but it keeps crashing on my IPhone 7 very frustrating..Version: 1.2
✓ Pretty ...But SlowThis is a very visually appealing game. It is almost a work of art in and of itself. The fact that there are little to no instructions is a double-edged sword. On one side it allows the player to just explore and learn as they go, and on the other, it can get frustrating, easily when there are no clear and concise instructions or objectives. That being said, the game move pretty slow. I almost HATE having the character brush his teeth everyday because of how slow and long that process takes. The controls are a little wonky and twice I have experienced not having any mobility at all regardless of what I tried to do. I think this game will be a top hit once some more player feedback is incorporated and more fine tuning is complete..Version: 1.0
✓ Want to like it but, what’s going on?I really want to like this game but I’ve got no idea what’s going on? Help!!!!!!!.Version: 1.0.1
✓ Please fixStuck at metro level exit after being compacted. Watched apunwrapper and doing same thing but the cloud perspective makes impossible to exit level will have to stop here if cannot progress to next level. Frustrating.Version: 1.2
✓ A little depressingThe two things that stick out for me after playing this game are 1. It’s addictive - you just want to see this guy through and 2. It’s pretty depressing. It’s like the developers got into a depressed person’s mind and created a game around that emotion. I felt very heavy playing it and I’m a happy person so I don’t think anyone struggling with depression or suicidal thoughts would do well on it. That’s just my opinion. It’s slow moving but the payoff at the end is rewarding..Version: 1.1
✓ Good concept, not so good designIf you like slow paced games that provide fun and interesting visuals this is great (only reason it’s 3 stars), but the game play is terrible. The screen loading is jerky, there are strobe effects I didn’t see any warning for, and there’s quite a few dark to bright moments in the first couple “days” of the game. There either needs to be warnings for the visuals that can cause migraines and seizures, or it should be fixed. Otherwise, it’s not so bad. It’s a bit boring and confusing at first, but gets more interesting as you go along. Also, seems to have a bit of darker humor which I like, but know it’s not for everyone..Version: 1.1
✓ Boring and makes phone heat upVery boring game. Slow and not very fun. Also my phone heats up hotter than hot lava on the iPhone X..Version: 1.0
✓ DisappointingI found the game actually fun to play, but when I woke up the fourth day in the game, I accidentally pressed on one of the checkpoints button and the fourth day wasn’t saved. I had to restart from the day before. It should save more often..Version: 1.0.1
✓ I get it, but...I understand the whole purpose of this “game” is to make a statement about how mundane life can become when society falls into the grind scheme of modern life. This “game” definitely conveys that. The problem is, I’m not so sure we need to hear it. We know. We understand. That’s one of the major reasons we play games...to escape the monotony, to experience a different world and be something/do something that’s impossible in real life. If that’s what you’re looking for, look elsewhere. If you want to experience vicariously the exact thing you’re trying to escape through entrainment, then this “game” is for you. Just leave yourself some time to play something else afterwards to wash the bad taste out of your mouth. - 4 stars for lowering my serotonin levels, + 2 for successfully accomplishing (apparently) what you were going for..Version: 1.0.1
✓ RubbishAbsolute rubbish....more and more I think Apple Arcade is very very poor even for £5 a month the games are very badly put together..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Visually impressive but frustrating at timesThis game clearly has some great artistic direction behind it but falls short in certain areas such as frame rate drops on ATV4K, and awful usability issues such very tiny icons and text with no explanations of contextual menus while playing or how to even reach the goal or how the game works (assumptions?). I had to put this game down because of these frustrations..Version: 1.0.1
✓ OverheatingI can’t even play the game for more than a couple minutes before my phone overheats.Version: 1.0.1
✓ StuckHuman suitcase and I’m stuck, so frustrating because I was enjoying it..Version: 1.1
✓ Terrible controls, slow storyThe game has a beautiful aesthetic to it, but that’s about it. The story does not advance... I’m in day 4 and it’s the same rut of a routine, with very little to advance the story. I’m sure the game dev wanted to express the soul crushing reality of the main character’s existence but it needs to move faster than this. But the controls are what really ruin this game. It’s really easy to get stuck on seemingly nothing and the player moves so slow. I gave up... don’t recommend..Version: 1.0.1
✓ In what seems typical of Apple Arcade releasesOne launches the game, and finds that the UI elements haven’t been optimised for the device one is playing on. In this case, the menu at the title screen is tiny: the “start” and “options” text minuscule. Don’t the developers actually test these games on multiple platforms and adjust accordingly?.Version: 1.0
✓ Super BummedI am really enjoying this game so far. It has the somber feel and ambiance I like in my games. As most reviews have mentioned, the controls aren’t great. However, I seem to be the only person facing the issue where I literally cannot progress. I’m trying to cross and empty yellow line space as a cube and it just will not let me continue ahead. I even picked up my PlayStation controller to see if that would solve the issue. I hope this gets fixed because I’d love to see how this one ends. ):.Version: 1.2
✓ Some things to make it better. Fix controls mostly.The controls are absolute GARBAGE! Give me a joystick. Dude gets stuck on nothing, but isn’t actually stuck cause if you drag ever so slightly away from where you want to go he’ll walk again. Camera angle changed? Well better uncomfortably slide your finger round the screen and hope he kinda stays in the same path, jk you’re touching a box you gotta go around, he stopped. As for game play I like it so far, gives me a limbo kinda feel. To bad the controls made me quit. If there’s other options for controlling the dude it would so much better. Till then sliding around on an iPad sucks. Will update if I decide to torture myself and play some more..Version: 1.1
✓ Cool i guess but boringI played this a few months ago and was bored to death so i deleted it before i finished. then i saw a review less than 24 hours ago saying “the story was breathtaking” so i redownloaded and btw there’s only like 5 levels, there’s like 4 interactive parts and i completed the game in a total of like 2 hours which idk but that’s boring to me. also the story was sooo predictable. spoiler: but of COURSE the colors you literally discovered that day on the way to work are the threat bubbles and all the people are the dots coming from the extractors. it’s all grey black and white game people! of course the 3 colors you see and 2 words said to you are related. it was just so boring and the guy moves so slow and you don’t truly get to explore when you can’t move past a scene without being pushed toward whatever the devs want you to discover. it’s a cool game and idea but just so so boring. don’t waste your 2-4 hours on this game that feels like a gloomy day. :/.Version: 1.4
✓ Bad in general with some mehClearly not optimized for iPhone, also very glitchy.Version: 1.0.1
✓ Doesn’t start on my iPad ProGet stuck on the “mosaic” loading screen.Version: 1.0.1
✓ Great but crashesThe game overall is great and very cinematic. I love the story and what it truly means however I am playing on my IPad Air 4 and I cannot get passed level 25 extracting and catching “disobedience “ without the game freezing multiple times upon completion. I have to leave the game and join back in. When I do so the game starts that level all the way over every single time. May just delete the game altogether if I cannot finish unfortunately. But great game nonetheless..Version: 1.3
✓ Was Excited......and then let down. I liked the concept of The Mosaic. 1984 is one of my favorite books. Initially I was drawn in by the visuals but that quickly faded with the clunky controls. I pushed through to the first mini game which was confusing and not fun. Once that was completed, the second day begins. You go through the same tasks, but it draaaaaaaaags. Your character brushes their teeth for 30 seconds, stares at the mirror, and veeeeeery slowly looks down at the basin. After that, I got to a part where you control a butterfly. Those controls were just as clunky. I quit, deleted the app, then reinstalled it so I could leave this review. I like the concept, but this needs a lot of work..Version: 1.1
✓ BuggyI love stories and puzzles but this was at best irritating and worst crap. It’s overly slow and drawn out in places. Not beautiful enough to justify this. Controls are too finicky. Like someone else said - squished into a box and couldn’t progress to the light filled doorway..Version: 1.2
✓ Pretty but purposely obtuseSlow but pretty, movement is stodgy, and then the hexagon thing. Didn’t you want me to play your game any further?.Version: 1.0
✓ Bug in Conveyor Room = UnplayableDevs: Please read. I was really loving this unique game and how it doesn’t spell everything out for you. But there is a bug for some users when we get to the conveyor room. The character has been “packed up” and must get off the conveyor belt and escape the factory, but a bug prevents us from being unable to walk the protagonist across the final yellow walkway where the factory exit is just on the other side. I spent 25 mins trying to find how to exit this room thinking it was part of the “not spelling out the objectives” approach of the game. Nope. I finally gave up and searched for a walkthrough, and I found a lot of posts saying they’ve got the same issue. The devs responded to one thread and said it would be fixed in an upcoming patch... The bug complaints go back to 2019.... Maybe this issue was addressed on a different platform, but I can’t believe it still hasn’t been sorted for iOS. When the issue is resolved, I’ll gladly finish the game and update my review..Version: 1.2
✓ Beautiful graphics, not much elseReally hard to engage with, moves really slowly..Version: 1.0.1
✓ BoringThe game is very boring and repetitive. The game is long and I was happy when the game was announced in Apple Arcade but when I play on my iPad Pro it have bug. The concept is cool but a little to repetitive..Version: 1.0
✓ PainfulWhat could be beautiful with amazing visuals is ruined by the worst controls I’ve ever experienced, it’s like half the time the controls just don’t work? Is this meant to represent how hard navigating life is? It’s just painful and sooo frustrating. Slow upon slow upon yep more slow... I wishe half the time I could fast forward somehow. Sorry but trying to get a figure to move in any direction whilst they ignore your input is just not enjoyable..Version: 1.0.1
✓ 5 star game hampered by poor touch/text implementationI feel like this game wasn’t originally intended for phones and was hastily ported after a deal with Apple. I really like everything about it - the graphics, minimalist/surreal storytelling and sound are all top notch - but much of the text is so tiny on my iPhone X that it is virtually unreadable and the touch implementation is sloppy and frustrating. I’m on Day 4 and I still can’t quite tell if I’m moving the character with an invisible touch joystick or some kind of drag/swipe to move scheme - it almost seems to switch between the two, though I’m sure it doesn’t. Also, because there is no UI, the times when it takes control away from the player just feel broken, like it’s not registering my touches. And in one scene I was still controlling the character at the same time I was playing the clicker game on the in-game phone. Honestly, I think I might love this game if it weren’t for the controls and the microscopic text. I hope the devs can get them sorted!.Version: 1.0
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