Hexcells

I find interesting tension in the way Hexcells and its sequels handle failure. Failure doesn't blow up your grid like Minesweeper. Instead, failure reveals a little bit of information about the game state and gives you a little penalty marker with very little mechanical weight. In one sense, that's a truly organic way to manage difficulty, with each mistake reducing the challenge level a tiny bit. But experientially, it feels like something delicate has been shattered by each of those hints, that a carefully constructed sequence of drip-fed information has been shuffled up. And the sequencing of each puzzle is so deliberate and clever in the Hexcells series that falling out of sync with the intended solution feels like a real loss, the same way the spoiled ending to a mystery feels like a loss. In that sense, flipping the wrong tile in Hexcells can feel more painful than losing three hours' worth of souls in a FromSoft game.

Minesweeper x nonograms, in a way. Quite fun. Wish there were more levels, definitely worth it when on sale though.

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Quality: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ Decent. I played this I think three times(?) at various points in my puzzle gaming...career? And I feel like every time I did, my appreciation for the more interesting logic in the later Hexcells games (which I haven't finished lol) increased. Hexcells Plus' second world is already more interesting and difficult than Hexcells' last. That being said, if you're good at puzzles, this won't take you very long at all (like less than 2 hours), it's only $3, and it's very easy, so it's good if you just want to kill some time, I suppose. And if you're not very good at puzzles, this will frustrate you much less than the later entries. (Also, for every game like this I've seen negative reviews claiming that a puzzle requires guessing, so if you came here to post one of those, I regret to inform you that you're just objectively wrong and need to think about the puzzle more. It seems like for this entry there are few of those though)

minesweeper but hexagonal and with some logic. Quite fun and really cheap

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I do not commonly leave reviews...but I had to for this one. If you are a fan of minesweeper and hate the guess aspect, this is the game for you. I own so many games, too many. Rarely do I find a game that is simple, looks nice, and just does what it is supposed to do. This is that game. It just works, flawlessly. It It lives up to the promises that it presents. I love it. One of the best values I have every gotten on steam. Thank you.