CycloHex

[h1]Before I played CycloHex, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

All tutorials say to connect your color from one side to the other, yet the computer wins having placed seemingly randomly. I kept re-reading the tutorial pages, but it doesn't explain how any of this makes any sense. I guess there's wiki's or something explaining it. But you'd think the tutorial would explain how the game works. Very strange. Maybe people who have played this before will understand, but a new person will have to learn some other way than this download.

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I enjoyed the game. It has a very clever playing style. It is very challenging to keep the 3D wrap around in mind, though. Complaints of 'the computer wins with seemingly random moves' usually involve winning strategies that use the edges and corners, because many players have a difficult time visualizing the wrap around. The AI doesn't have this issue, and plays those areas heavily. Corners wrap in both directions at the same time, which is especially confusing. The game does helpfully show faded color images (ghost tiles) just outside the playing field of the color controlling the matching tile on the other side of the board. However, only people who are highly skilled at visualizing pool table angles using the mirror method would be able to follow that beyond the immediate tile. The rest of us could use a bit more help. One suggestion would be numbers along with the colors. Each edge could show how many of that color continue in a connected line from that tile. We could see the threat by the growing numbers. Another idea to help players visualize the wrap, is to be able to click on any of the ghost tiles, to see which real tile it references and lines highlighting al…

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5/10 A puzzle/board game where you need to connect 2 sides of the board before the opponent does - except that the board is donut-shaped and tiles can get connected across border edges like the original 1980s PacMan game. Good: - the concept is interesting. It's also quite satisfying to see (once you understand it) how you can shift the view of the field and see that indeed, in this donut world the view doesn't influence the actual position - music is okay So-so: - the tutorial is doing a fairly good job explaining the concept. There are 3 tutorials actually, each going deeper. They are relatively easy follow - the problem with the main concept though is that it challenges not as much your logic but your visual perception. The main difficulty is in seeing which tiles are actually connected across the edges. In this, a human has a huge disadvantage vs the AI. I tried playing vs the AI about a dozen times on the 5x5 field. In some cases I won easily. In a few the AI won and I couldn't track the line since it was crossing the edges 2-3 times, sometimes even through the corners. I see other negative reviews complaining about the AI cheating or the game being bugged - that's exactly i…