Mosaic of The Pharaohs
Worth it · Short indie · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.24, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2025.
- Length
- 17.7h 24.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.13/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 319 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 75% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Mosaic of The Pharaohs is a picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle inspired by Egyptology
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel Graphics 4400 or better, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
17 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.24 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Proverbs ($2.24, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Hidden Through Time ($7.99, scores 71).
More about Mosaic of The Pharaohs
Of the 285 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026.
The drop-off
77% start to 65% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 20 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 13:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Some mad devil somewhere decided to breed Minesweeper and Picross together to turn into one big dang puzzle, and I very much enjoyed it. Actually learned a few bits of history too, so that's always a good outcome. The hours aren't anywhere close to the actual played time; I had it up as a coffee break game during my workday to nibble a few blocks when I had a spare minute between meetings. Works well for that...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Bite-sized minesweeper-esque puzzles when you've got 10m to kill, what's not to love?
the puzzles don't really have anything to do with the artwork, and it used to have AI generated text. Fun in the same way that doomscrolling is "fun".
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mosaic of The Pharaohs scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3530670/mosaic-of-the-pharaohsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.