To ensure that things don't get stale though, a new mechanic was added where once you reveal a hint hex it indicates how many blue hexes are within a certain radius from it. More puzzles for the Hexcells fansFor those who are fans of Hexcells and want more challenging puzzles to sink their teeth into, Hexcells Plus delivers. SoundtrackJust like the original game, Hexcells Plus has a very calming, ambient soundtrack but the best part is that each time you clear or mark hexes on the board, it adds extra notes to the music you hear which means not only are you solving a puzzle, you're also creating your own soundtrack. I quite enjoyed the original Hexcells so after completing it I started on this "standalone expansion" straight after.īlue hint hexes like above show how many blue hexes are within a 2-hex radius Most likely I managed to get the key from either the generous Mix-Master (a friend of mine on Steam) or one of the Whirlpudlians on the Whirlpool forums (there is a thread that offers free keys). How I got itI managed to get the key for this game in 2016 (as part of the Hexcells Complete Pack which includes Hexcells, Hexcells Plus and Hexcells Infinite) but I can't quite remember how. Hexcells Plus was well received by Steam users with a "Very Positive" rating based on 94% of the 1,199 reviews being positive. The game I'm reviewing today, Hexcells Plus, was released on Steam the same day as the original Hexcells but it serves as a "standalone expansion" to the original, offering 36 more new levels to complete and introducing new hint methods such as hexes indicating how many blue hexes are within a certain radius.Īs it was with the original Hexcells, you are assessed on how effective you are at clearing levels for if you make too many mistakes you're barred access from future levels. As you make your way through the game, it will provide you other ways of determining where the blue hexes are such as numbers on the side of the grid similar to Nonograms. Clearing hexes that aren't blue hexes will provide you a number that gives you a clue as to how many blue hexes are in adjacent hexes. The aim of the game is to clear out all the hexes on the board by marking where the blue hexes are (similar to the bomb squares in Minesweeper) and removing hexes when you're sure it's not meant to be marked as a blue hex. The game is like a cross of Minesweeper and Nonograms (aka Picross) except played on a hexagonal grid. What is itThere isn't much information out there about British indie developer Matthew Brown but since about 2014 he has been quite prolific in pumping out games, especially puzzle games.īrown made his mark with the game I reviewed previously called Hexcells which was released in 2014. If you did get it as part of a bundle or something, it isn’t a terrible thing to install and just screw around with when you’d mess around with solitaire or minesweeper or whatever, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy this.īut hey, if you're trying to achievement hunt, it is super easy to 100%.Hexcells Plus offers more challenging puzzles than the original It isn’t a bad puzzle game, but it isn’t anything remarkable either. It is about as fun as Minesweeper is, and I’d basically consider it filling that role in your game library. It is something to throw away a bit of time on, not sit down and play continuously.īut even then, you’re not looking at it taking all that long to complete the whole game takes less than two and a half hours to solve, and that’s assuming you’re trying to get a perfect score on every stage. Thinking about this game as a more sophisticated version of minesweeper is, I think, fairly ideal, because that is more or less what it is, and the function it serves. There are also row and column labels which allow you to see how many tiles need to be highlighted in any given row or column.Įach puzzle mixes these up in a unique way to push you to solve it. Flipped tiles have numbers on them, and also labels indicating whether or not adjacent tiles which should be highlighted are continuous or non-continuous (or no designator at all). You are given a layout of golden hex tiles, possibly with one or more of them already highlighted or flipped. Hexcells is, on the most basic level, a more sophisticated version of Minesweeper.
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