# The Mosaic — user reviews > 52 indexed App Store user reviews of The Mosaic by Raw Fury AB, rated 3.80/5 from 535 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-mosaic/id1454782852/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-mosaic/id1454782852.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 265 · 4★ 85 · 3★ 66 · 2★ 49 · 1★ 70 ## What do users think of The Mosaic? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful visuals and art style - 🎬 Immersive storytelling and cinematic experience - 💡 Unique and thought-provoking narrative - 👍 Engaging and meaningful gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches, especially with controls and progression - 🕹️ Frustrating and unresponsive controls - ⏱️ Slow pacing and repetitive gameplay - 🤕 Emotionally heavy and depressing themes **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to progress past certain sections due to bugs - Crashes and performance issues on some devices - Inconsistent or unresponsive controls **Most requested features** - More chapters and content to expand the story - Improved controls and user experience - Ability to make different choices and see alternative outcomes ## Newest reviews (12 of 52) ### 4/5 — Great Game, just laggy *2022-08-12, version 1.4* honestly this game was super fun. I loved the puzzles and the whole storyline in itself was really amazing. The graphics were really beautiful and the meaning of the story was heard. I recommend people to play this game. It reminds me a lot of inside. The only downturn of this game is the laggy play through and bad movement controls. it also did crash on me once. But other than that I liked it! ### 4/5 — Great miniganes; loooong cutscenes. *2022-06-25, version 1.4* The gameplay outside of the mini games is essentially a series of very long, very beautiful cutscenes where one gets to direct the character slightly. The games are disproportionately accessible, and lack incremental impetus…which was clearly deliberate and not wrong, but also less fun than they could have been. The innate nihilism makes ‘blipcoin’ invert common market conditions, and ‘blipblop’ starkly indicts every idle/farm app. An elegant social commentary on futility. ### 4/5 — Great story, so so mechanics *2022-04-24, version 1.4* I was really drawn into the maudlin story. If you like thought provoking story driven games this is for you. If you like action packed gameplay however, skip this one. There are 4 mini games with objectives, the rest of the game is just taking your character through the story. The controls can also be frustratingly slow with many invisible walls. The visuals and music are fantastically moody and more than make up for it. A unique find! ### 4/5 — Won’t let me progress *2020-11-10, version 1.2* I love the game overall, but on day 3 when you turn into a cube and use the green blob to help move around it won’t let me get to the other side of the path where the door is. I’ve tried everything and watching a walkthrough of it, it just lets them pass but it stops me as if it’s the edge of the map. I’ve tried changing the perspective, I restarted the game and it still won’t let me pass. ### 5/5 — Story based and makes you think *2020-09-24, version 1.2* This is a great game!! I love this type of dark narrative based game where a world slowly unfolds in front of your eyes. There are subtly creepy vibes from it, and it explores the monotony of everyday life, waking, commuting, working, and for what? It was beautifully made and easy to grasp the story line even with minimal dialogue. The controls could use some working on, it doesn’t have the ease of use that games like Playdeads inside have, but I am sure that it will get there eventually with a little work. It is somewhat easy to figure out what to do, the game subtly guides you in the right direction. Overall it was a great game, and I enjoyed the whole thing! I played while sick, sitting on the couch and it is rainy and dark outside. It almost felt like the game was becoming my life and it hit me on a deep level. 10/10 worth your time. ### 4/5 — Beautiful, but depressing *2020-09-22, version 1.2* Truthfully didn’t get very far, but the little bit I played was visually cool and the gameplay itself was able to simply submerge you into the narrative. Maybe it’s just me, but it was very heavy emotionally, and though I suspect that’s what the developers were aiming for, it took a little toll on me. At one point I decided I should stop playing for a while, but I might come back to it someday. I gave it 4 stars because, even though I’m not playing for now, I think the developers executed their concept very well. ### 4/5 — Great game, mechanical flaws. *2020-08-05, version 1.2* Edit: The game is amazing and the ending was great at piecing every aspect together and concluding the story. I think one of the reasons the mechanics are subpar is, it is supposed to take a considerable amount of effort to get him to work each day. Because, depression. Great game, but there are mechanical flaws. I find it hard to believe the developers put all this effort into the game and none into the user experience. You can’t get this guy (who I named Paterson because he reminds me of that movie), to work on time. 1, because his life is so utterly boring that he is distracted by simple things. 2, the mechanics are so horrible that I can’t tell if I’m walking him incorrectly or he’s distracted by a poster. Please implement an on screen joystick. ### 5/5 — Little Hidden Gem *2020-07-29, version 1.2* This game is stunningly beautiful! Never thought a game could change my view of the world we live in today. It really has thought me some important life lessons. You do have to have some patience to play this game but I promise it is worth it. Some parts of the story line really almost brought a tear to my eye it was so well told! Bravo to the makers of this. Definitely play it! I promise only good comes out of this game. ### 5/5 — Great piece of interactive art *2020-07-05, version 1.1* A little more than an interactive storytelling game; the world is a bit immersive because you have a phone, can download apps, and interact with some of the environments. The mini game of “work” is interesting and love the way they have you explore the city. This is a quick game but worth your time if you just want to pick it up here and there. Played on my iPhone 7 Plus so it did crash sometimes when my phone battery got too hot, but there’s plenty of auto saving so it wasn’t bad. ### 5/5 — Reminds me of the film: Education of Fredrick Fitzell *2020-06-27, version 1.1* This game when I first played it reminded me of the film Education of Fredrick Fitzell. It’s about an ordinary man’s life but he sees his life play out before him and which ways his life could go and it’s up to the player to guide him through these different paths to get him to the end of the story. It’s very rich with the graphics and details and it’s very moving ### 3/5 — A little depressing *2020-06-25, version 1.1* The 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. ### 5/5 — Mosaic *2020-05-15, version 1.1* This game had a brilliant design. If you are complaining about the controls then you probably missed the point. The controls are intentionally difficult to grasp. You need to become accustomed to frustrating monotonous travel from the start or else you won’t tolerate it as a cog on a wheel in the machine. I was impressed by the lessons this game has well thought out approach to deliver shift in perspective ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Stuck at conveyor belt bug *2021-04-30, version 1.2* It 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. ### 1/5 — Unplayable on iPhone 8 Plus *2019-11-05, version 1.0* Text 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. ### 2/5 — Strong message but very poor controls *2024-07-15* There are lot of aspects of this game to like (visuals, sound design, story elements), but its horribly broken controls, UI, and overall UX far outweigh any thought-provoking message/experience that the creators were aiming for. There’s no tutorial whatsoever, it’s frustratingly difficult to move the character around the spaces, and half the time the touchscreen hotspots don’t seem to respond to interactions, taps, swipes, etc.. I think I get what the developers were going for: be wary of becoming a “cog in the system” or “another brick in the wall”, but given the clear lack of focus on making the game actually playable, it would have been better off as an interactive comic/graphic novel/manga where far fewer player interactions/inputs were required to advance the story and conclusions. In its current state, it just feels incomplete, untested with users, and leaving much more to be desired if it’s trying to facilitate compelling gameplay and discovery. I appreciate the introspection and reflection it evokes, but its cons far surpass its pros and lost me after too many frustrating attempts to just get the game to respond or work properly. For now and until significant control improvements and bug fixes are made, this one’s a miss/skip it. ### 2/5 — cool i guess but boring *2023-05-05* i 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. :/ ### 2/5 — Cool story with game-breaking bugs *2021-05-16, version 1.3* I 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. ### 2/5 — Bug in Conveyor Room = Unplayable *2021-02-08, version 1.2* Devs: 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. ### 2/5 — Was Excited... *2020-04-07, version 1.1* ...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. ### 3/5 — Great but crashes *2021-07-31, version 1.3* The 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. ### 3/5 — Painful to play but good message *2020-12-05, version 1.2* Overall 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. ### 3/5 — Super Bummed *2020-07-16, version 1.2* I 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. ): ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — One of the best games I've ever played *2023-03-19, version 1.4* When I got Apple Arcade for the first time, this specific game spiked my interest. This game is so beautifully done. It's a playable piece of art. I am shocked at the amount of negative commentary this game has received. This is me encouraging you to play this game, the controls, a little tricky but you'll get the hang of it. This game is a masterpiece, you will not regret a single moment of it. ### 5/5 — Powerful story *2022-11-12, version 1.4* This is a surprisingly very short game. It’s sort of like an interactive tell-tale game— which is phenomenally done on a mobile device. The story was powerful and the ending was very sweet— like a wonderful and bright ending to a chamber music piece. I believe this is a one-time play through unless you’re a completionist and would like to see if choosing different options results in different outcomes. ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2022-04-10, version 1.4* The story like is amazing and interesting to keep up with, a part 2 needs to be made of this game it is amazing!! The controls could be a bit easier adding something as simple as a joystick could make walking a tad bit easier for gameplay. But everything else was amazing loving the little in game games such as the work and “blipblop” I feel like those should be made into their own separate games as well because they were a lot of fun to play ### 5/5 — This is amazing! *2022-03-05, version 1.4* I am someone who gets bored of games easily. This game had me fully absorbed in the storyline. I felt like I was watching a movie. Also, the graphics are beautiful and it has a great ending! Not to mention, I loved the meaning behind the game. I wish there were more games like this! Please make more!!! Also, it would be cool if there was an actual game based off the game the character plays throughout the whole storyline (not sure what to call it). ### 5/5 — I’m speechless *2022-02-06, version 1.4* All of these comments saying that the game was bad are soooooooooooooo wrong. Sure on mobile the movement of the guy is a little weird, but only a little. The story element to this game is amazing beyond words. Like seriously, I don’t know how to describe it, because no word seems 🤯enough. You can never really tell what is really and what isn’t, which I really love. The mini game that he does for work is challenging sometimes, but surprisingly fun and the phone was also fun too. I really liked the goldfish, but at the final work day the goldfish told me “I’m sick of you throwing me in the toilet”, but I had put it in my pocket every time. But that’s super minor. I love the ending and every part of the storyline so much! I love how it’s one of those stories that you get to interpret however you want. I also really love that band at the end. Did not see it coming. I love the music aspect to this game as well, when you first look at it you don’t think there’s going to be anything about music in it, but actually, it all kinda revolves around music. I really love this game, the developers did an amazing job, and I super highly recommend it! ### 5/5 — I rarely write reviews and leave ratings *2021-09-06, version 1.3* Beautiful game, beautiful story. I would definitely play this through several times again. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and meanings behind. The art style is fantastic as well as the quality. Thanks for creating something so very immersive. I found myself after getting lost in this game feeling re inspired to enjoy life the way that I had always dreamt. ### 5/5 — Finished the game in one sitting *2021-07-11, version 1.3* I love this game so much words cannot describe. Immediately after finishing it I went to download the blip blop game and am very satisfied with the whole experience. One question I have is if there is an app designed after the puzzle we have to complete for the main character’s work (the one using the extractors and such). If not then I would be more than delighted if an app were made for it just like how one was made for blip blop. Thank you very much for the amazing game! ### 5/5 — A meaningful story *2021-05-22, version 1.3* (SPOILERS)This game is absolutely beautiful. The one thing everyone says is a flaw in the game, is the controls. You have to push or drag along the character. I believe the way we have to control the character represents how the character struggles to wake up everyday and keep moving. Sometimes it may get a little difficult to get the character to even move, but that’s the point. It’s way to feel what the character is going through. When the world becomes beautiful, it’s easier to control the character. Whenever you are in your house or on the streets with the never ending traffic, it becomes harder. It was a bit of a struggle to navigate the butterfly, but mostly becomes of all the machinery surrounding it, which eventually killed it. ### 5/5 — This is more than just a game *2021-02-08, version 1.2* why Everyone complaining about the controls? Just enjoy it while you can. I downloaded this before now; I'm playing it again like today; there are huge companies that control everything, and I know what they're saying while nature is dying being washed up on the phone a lot of real life problems that we have today it brings A message of hope that maybe someday we can have a better world, but that would be really hard to do in human nature imagine a better world without hate, war, violence, crime, corruption, other bad things we do, this won't probably never happen but 1% maybe? All we can do is do simple good stuff that'll help some bit of the world today donating, giving, help stop racism. I'm not a hippie saying this nor a fake reviewer but go support your bros and the best you could do ### 5/5 — Amazing game!!!! *2021-01-10, version 1.2* This is probably the best game I have ever played. Crazy social idea. for the first time in my life, I enjoyed playing the game. Stunning musical accompaniment. The game perfectly conveys the state of a person who is depressed and depressed. When you don't notice anything, everything is a mess, and there is no interaction with society. I got great pleasure from this walkthrough and would love to touch the development of this project. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*