Hexcells

cool game, kinda like minesweeper, not super hard once you learn the mechanics

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.

Minesweeper² and addictive.

Good game. For the price (74p) I'd recommend it. It's pretty easy and took me just over 2hrs to complete, but good fun. I like the mechanic with adjacent/not-adjacent markers.

very relaxing and short satisfying puzzle game, got it for 80 cents. very worth it

very good