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“It quickly reaches those magnificent moments where you’re working out new rules on the fly, realising that if you apply previously acquired understandings you can make logical leaps and eliminate or highlight in a brand new way. Those are special moments that only very few puzzle games manage.”
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Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

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SteamOS + Linux

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OS: Windows XP or later
Processor: 2.0Ghz+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 2.0+
Storage: 60 MB available space

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OS: OSX 10.5 or later
Processor: 2.0Ghz+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 2.0+
Storage: 60 MB available space

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OS: Ubuntu 10.04 or later
Processor: 2.0Ghz+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 2.0+
Storage: 60 MB available space

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Posted: 10 August

Very nice little puzzler that's like a mix between Minesweeper (but without the randomness) and Picross. Relaxing and challenging, without being too difficult. Lovely minimalistic graphics and ambient sound. It's a short game, so I recommend getting the 3-pack.

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Posted: 6 August

The perfect alternative to Minesweeper!! Great logic puzzler, love the variety of the puzzle layouts, and the music and sound effects are super pleasant. Check it out if you like puzzle games, and definitely if you're a Minesweeper fan.

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Posted: 5 August

A very short puzzle game which increases in difficulty the more levels you unlock and play.

Graphics: 10/10
It shows itself in a minimalistic way with almost only 5 colours present at the screen at the same time. With this, it achieves a simple yet deceiving look.

Storyline: 1/10
It has NONE at all. Just do the puzzles and finish the game. No story to be seen here.

Sound: 10/10
The soundtrack is really ambient. You would hardly notice it due to the fact that you are concentrating so hard to complete the puzzle. But if you take the time to listen to it, it sounds very good, even for a £2 puzzle game. I am impressed by this.

Gameplay: 10/10
If you’ve played Minesweeper before, this uses the same concept, but it is a lot more forgiving and a lot more relaxing as it doesn’t put you in pressure. Other than that, it has a smooth gameplay with absolutely no lag whatsoever.

Price: 10/10
At only £1.99, this game is totally worth the price. It even comes in a bundle with 2 other games if you’re interested in getting those as well. (You save money if you get that). If not, you can wait until it goes on sale and get it for a VERY cheap price.

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Posted: 5 August

I recommend that you get all 3 Hexcells games: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/50074/ (That's why this review text is identical for all 3 of them.)

It's a *great* puzzle game series that strongly reminds of Microsoft Minesweeper, but not only is the grid hexagonal (meaning 3 axes instead of 2), the games go well beyond mere neighbor-field estimation.

The levels eventually get very hard, and the procedural mode in "Hexcells Infinite" that exists in addition to the hand-crafted levels all three games have is a bit too chaotic (and hard) for my personal taste - well, it's procedural, its levels are not nicely designed and organized like the other levels.

Anyway, since I wanted *more* of the easier puzzles and especially of the numbers at the grid's periphery saying something about the grid's content, I made a (very crappy) puzzler in a few hours after finishing the Hexcells games that pushes those buttons: http://dreamspace-president.com/index_crappyGames.html#StupidLittleMinesweeper

Hey, Matthew Brown, if you ever make a game like this again, I'm very likely to buy it, and I bet there's a bunch of people out there who think alike.

For those who like this kind of puzzle game, I can't recommend the Hexcells games enough.

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Posted: 4 August

This game series is just so awesome

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Posted: 3 August

It is one of the best puzzle games on steam. its like mine sweeper

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Posted: 3 August

Hexcells. Amazing.
An ambient, atmospheric, innovative edition of Minesweeper.
Deduction and logic
Simple yet complex/difficult

Play it.
What are you waiting for?

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Posted: 3 August

Miss clicked, revealved a zero.

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Posted: 2 August

Minesweeper on hexes with more variety in the numbers for rules. Starts simple ("2 neighboring hexes should be lit up") and gets more complicated ("20 columns of hexes, with a few lit to start, and a particular number of hexes to light in half of the columns, then along some of the diagonals, and some of those are continuous and others cannot be continuous and..."). You can work it all out from the information given.

Good puzzle design. Only about an hour of play to get a perfect score on every level, but it is a worthwhile hour.

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Posted: 29 July

Hexcells is the spiritual successor of the minesweep game that used to ship on windows.
It improves on the original concept by using a hexagonal board and some really clever extra hinting system.
With those extra hints it ends up feeling like a cross of minesweeps with sudoku.

In short, I L.O.V.E.D. it!

Its simple in it's presentation and yet brings a really complex intelectual challenge.
It is very clean and minimalistically designed but the result of this design is quite beaultiful and easy on the eyes.
There is no time pressure at all and you can do it wrong and retry each level at will.
The complexity of the puzzles scales gradually as you learn to read and to factor in each kind of hint but the last levels are a real challenge, large boards with all kinds of hints used together, forcing you to go back and forth through the board solving a little here and there until things start converging.
It is short but not too short for its price.

Worth every cent!

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XJ9

2,488 products in account

95 reviews

Posted: 16 July

This game is AMAZING, if you like good old minesweeper, you will LOVE this one! :) This game is great to relax, way more forgiving comparing to minesweeper, way more variative, and way more fun:

+Visuals - nice and soft color palette
+Sound - Super soundwork - all the clicksounds fit the background ambient music (when you click on hexcells those sounds fits the background track srsly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), each pack of levels has its own relaxing music track.
+Gameplay - this is step forward from classic minesweeper, it has additional mechanics *japanese crosswords* like + various forms of the gamefield.
+Steam achivements
-No steam cards

Got this game (3 games pack) on steam sale, expecting some kind of minesweeper, but this game is way better! Totally recommended.

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Shannanigans

8 products in account

2 reviews

Posted: 25 July

Nice way to relax if you like number puzzles. A few features of the game are explained as new levels are unlocked, a few are revealed kind of late in the game. It would have been helpful to see them sooner.

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巫女•Reimu☆~

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38 reviews

Posted: 5 August

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Sunny Elephant

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22 reviews

Posted: 13 July

Hexagon Cells?

Highly Recommended

Hexcells was the most fun and challenging puzzle game I have played in a long while. Hexcells is pretty difficult to describe but it uses hexagons with numbers to tell you how many bordering hexagons you should light up to complete the stage. The game incorperates more factors later including how many light up hexagons are in a line or if they are all in order or split up. Hexcells was a pretty short game and it wasn't the hardest but I have heard the others in the series are much harder and they are on my list now.

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atro city

1,751 products in account

13 reviews

Posted: 5 July, 2015

This is what Minesweeper should have been. Basically, this game is six-sided Minesweeper, but with the guessing element completely removed. You never have to guess a single time in any of the puzzles, and you will always have enough information available to you to make the next move. It's a game of pure logic and deduction, and one that will truly test your skills in the later levels. My only complaint is that the game is pretty short, but there is also Hexcells Plus and Hexcells Infinite to play.

Highly recommended if you even remotely enjoyed Minesweeper.

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Toastyy

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1 review

Posted: 8 September, 2015

I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys brain stimulating puzzles, its fun and I love the music.
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Step 1: Install
Step 2: Play
Step 3: Finish world 4 and look at the clock
Step 4: Run like a madman to where you were supposed to get to an hour ago

10/10 would miss appointments again.

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Praxis-[CE]

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68 reviews

Posted: 1 September, 2014

Hexcells uses similar logical reasoning skills to Minesweeper, but without the timed aspect. Great puzzle game but way too short.

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foomoo

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2 reviews

Posted: 17 February, 2014

This is a brilliant puzzle game with a great ambient feel to it. The interface and music would almost lull you to sleep if your mind wasn't working to seek out the next path to completion. Definitely recommended.

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Contentiously

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21 reviews

Posted: 19 February, 2014

This is probably the best puzzle game I have ever played. The music and sound effects are spot-on fantastic, the puzzles are lovingly and painstakingly crafted, and the difficulty progression is just perfect from one puzzle to the next.

The mechanics are similar to Minesweeper and if you find yourself clicking the wrong mouse button (like me), you can change the button configuration from the Input tab of the configuration menu when you first start the game.

I have now bought this game twice at full price (I bought again when released on Steam) and I don't regret it in the slightest. This game is worth well more than the $3 asking price.

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Turoki

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21 reviews

Posted: 29 December, 2014

Great puzzle game. As others have mentioned, its minesweeper, with some added gameplay elements. Relaxing music, no time limit, and a very zen like vibe going thru-out.

Acheivement hunters, its an easy 100%. Took me 2 hours.

Only drawback is its short, so try to find it on sale.

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