I think it's mostly just the relative newness of the industry still.
Also now I'm pissed to find that Manifold Garden is an Epic Store exclusive.Įdit: Just watched the trailers, I could have sworn that I saw a praised gamejam entry that looked similar to Superliminal but with a completely different setting. Just be prepared to be ignored if too few people have played them. But with Recursed, Hexcells, Picross Touch, Bricks, Gnog, Rush or Kami I'd be less certain.īut I get what you're saying, and I'd fully support more threads about specific games.
If you are versed in puzzle games, then I'd be comfortable that you know Baba is You, FEZ, Swapper, Antichamber, The Witness and most likely Zachtronics games. And more crucially if indie games are referenced there will emerge a common core of popular indie titles where you have a chance to find someone to talk about it.įor example: Manifold Garden has been on my radar for years, but I've never heard about Kine nor Superliminal even though I like puzzle games. Scale that up to a community of half a million subscribers with (for such an audience) relatively low volume, and you'll see more talk about AAA games than about indie games. But the fact remains that AAA titles have so much more mass appeal that given two random people the chance is greater that they both have a AAA game in common than a particular indie title. I'd say that people in this sub are actually way more inclined to play indie titles than in other gaming subs. You’ll be well aware that you’ve played them before, but you won’t remember the solution, so it just becomes frustrating.It's not surprising if you think about it. You’ll spend a lot of time later on going back to old levels to get better scores. And I mean really good, because the number of points you need to unlock world six seems unnecessarily high. These points are used to unlock the new worlds, so you’ll have to be good at the game to see later levels. However the game is tallying up your mistakes as you go, and you get fewer points at the end of each level if you’ve made too many. It’s not hard to complete levels by brute forcing your way through, because you know that if you left click a hex and it’s wrong, then right clicking will be the correct course of action. I’d advise only starting the Infinite mode if you’ve completed a good portion of the main mode however, as some of the random puzzles it can generate are fiendish to say the least.Įven about half way through the main mode, you’ll be left scratching your head over some of the levels. You can generate a random seed of eight numbers, choose the numbers yourself or even use today’s date, which is a novel idea. Technically the number isn’t infinite, but there are more than you’ll ever be able to complete in a lifetime. “That’s only 36!” I hear you cry, “Why is it called ‘Infinite’?” The 36 puzzles are simply the main game mode, what Infinite has added over its predecessor is the ability to generate random puzzles. There are six ‘worlds’ in total, each with six puzzles to uncover in each. Thankfully the game has good tutorials every time a new puzzle mechanic surfaces that teach you what’s going on very well. Got all that? It sounds confusing, and it kind of is unless you see it in action. To complete the puzzle, you simply have to unearth all the hexes while making as few mistakes as possible. If the number is surrounded by hyphens, then the blue hexes cannot be next to each other. If the number is surrounded by curly brackets, then the blue hexes are conjoined. A number on a blue hex tells you how many other blue cells are in a two hex radius. A number on one of the black hexes lets you know how many blue tiles are connected to it. You are aided by numbers around the shape or on the black tiles.Ī number outside the shape lets you know how many blue tiles are in that corresponding row. Left click if you think it’s blue, right click if you think it’s black. You have to use logic to figure out which it will be.
Underneath the orange it is either blue or black. You’re given a shape of tessellating orange hexes. Hexcells looks simple but it’s more complicated than it seems. So to the computer we go for a quick blast of brain teasing.
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