This game is the epitome of quantity over quality. There are more than 2000 levels in this game, but most of them are mindless and easy if you've ever played a game like this before (see Hexcells for a more refined version of this). The game itself is free-to-play with level packs available for a small fee individually or with a season pass to unlock them all. Each level pack introduced also updated the Tutorial Isle with a set of levels to explain the mechanics in detail, so if you really want to experience the essence of this game without all the fluff, play through the entirety of the Tutorial Isle, and if you feel like one mechanic is particularly interesting to you, get that one level pack. I just can't recommend playing through the entirety of this because it gets so mindless so quickly. The levels are handcrafted but they feel as though they aren't. Alternatively to the approach I offered before, get Hexcells Infinite if you want to support the original creator of this concept of puzzle game (even though it's derivative of Minesweeper). It has better levels and an infinite level creator with seed inputs if you want to compete against friends for some reason. As it stands I just can't recommend this fatty puzzle game. If the levels were more intricately deisgned or harder, I could see the appeal, but now it's all just noise with very little signal.

Reviewed on Jan 25, 2022


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2 years ago

YES!