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2025: Mosaic Retrospective

2025: Mosaic Retrospective

2025: Mosaic Retrospective is a picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle inspired by global news stories from throughout the year.

Released Mar 28, 2026 Developer Mark Ffrench Publisher Divide The Plunder Platforms Windows · Mac CasualEducationSatireRelaxingPuzzle
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

74.6%positive460 reviews
Recommended · 19 found this helpful

“"I expected to get completely unbiased news reporting from this free game made by a tiny indie dev! Also this year has been too political, almost as if there was a lot of political news this year?! These things make me UPSET and it's all YOUR FAULT, definitely not mine for…”

— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played
Recommended · 4 found this helpful

“This game was played in its entirety on a MacBook Air M1 8gb ram 7c gpu running MacOS Sonoma. There were no bugs or crashes throughout my time with the game. All achievements unlocked at their appropriate times. This was a fun puzzler, but I had some issues with it. The gameplay…”

— a player, Steam review · 29 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“it doesn't get into interesting logic. once youve solved one puzzle youve basically solved them all because theres no novel logical techniques going on or really anything differentiating the puzzles in terms of strategy. if i had to say something nice i guess its good game if…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

197all-time peak
0 100 200 123 avg · Apr 2026

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

93achievements
56.1%median completion
45.3%rarest: Once more round the sun
66.8% of players 66.0% of players 65.5% of players 64.7% of players 64.6% of players 62.5% of players 62.5% of players 61.8% of players 61.8% of players 61.7% of players 61.6% of players 61.0% of players 60.6% of players 60.3% of players 60.1% of players 59.7% of players 59.4% of players 59.3% of players 59.2% of players 59.0% of players 58.8% of players 58.5% of players 58.4% of players 58.3% of players 58.1% of players 58.0% of players 58.0% of players 57.9% of players 57.7% of players 57.5% of players 57.4% of players 57.3% of players 57.3% of players 57.2% of players 57.0% of players 56.9% of players 56.8% of players 56.8% of players 56.7% of players 56.7% of players 56.7% of players 56.6% of players 56.6% of players 56.2% of players 56.1% of players 56.1% of players 56.1% of players 56.0% of players 55.9% of players 55.9% of players 55.8% of players 55.7% of players 55.6% of players 55.6% of players 55.5% of players 55.5% of players 55.5% of players 55.4% of players 55.3% of players 55.1% of players 66.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
66.8%Dopesick — Hidden achievement
66.0%Formidable — Hidden achievement
65.5%Ballroom Blitz — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
45.3%Once more round the sun — Complete the entire puzzle
50.6%The Palisades — Hidden achievement
51.1%Over The Line — Hidden achievement

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Apr 23, 2026
Update 1.0.04232

Thanks for your patience while I reviewed the in-game text. I'm pleased to announce that it's now all back in the game! The following articles have been updated to fix inaccuracies, clarify some wordi

Apr 17, 2026
Update 1.0.04170

Hi Everyone, I've updated the game to temporarily remove the body text of each article (the headlines will remain). As many of you may have seen, the game has received a fair number of negative review

Apr 13, 2026
Update 1.0.04130

This update fixes a couple of minor issues: Fixed several typos Fixed VSync setting not persisting between sessions

Mar 30, 2026
Update 1.0.03301

This update fixes several slightly annoying issues: Fixed several localisation and spelling errors. Gamepad shoulder buttons now zoom smoothly. Zooming with the Z and X keys is now much more sensitive

Mar 29, 2026
Update 1.0.03290

This update fixes an issue with hints causing the camera to focus on the bottom left of the puzzle.

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresCasual, Free To Play
Player tagsCasual · Education · Satire · Relaxing · Puzzle · Trivia · Incremental · 2D · Collectathon · Cartoony · Pixel Graphics · Capitalism (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input
LanguagesEnglish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
ControllerFull support
Achievements93
Official sitehttps://dividetheplunder.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: 2.0GHZ Dual Core Processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel Graphics 4400 or better Storage: 300 MB available space