Mosaic

The phone is distracting you with meaningless notifications as you move through anonymous crowds on your way to work at a megacorporation where yet another long day with overtime awaits. You have no real sense of meaning – until one crucial day, when strange things start to happen on your commute to work and everything changes. Mosaic is a dark surrealistic and atmospheric adventure game about urban isolation and the dread of being a piece in a giant machinery you can’t understand. From the creators of Among the Sleep, Krillbite Studio is going from horrors of childhood to the dreadful lonely adult life. Mosaic not a game for everyone but it is definitely a game for me. When I first started playing I thought it was a dystopian future or post-apocalypse rebuilding but no. It is a current apocalypse and for want of a better word not dystopian or utopian but just topian. Mosaic is an often surreal take on modern life which hits the nail on the head a little bit too often. The pointless mini-games, the drudgery of a daily commute, the more connected yet socially distant aspect of the 21st century, the daily grind at work in general. Mosaic touches on all of these and while it doesn’t really challenge these or offer massive in game solutions, it did what I think it was meant to do which was offer me a linear narrative which pushed me towards the developer’s conclusion. I don’t agree with this conclusion but I appreciated the ride.