Hexologic, developed by MythicOwl, has recently been released on Steam, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android. It’s a puzzle game that challenges your logical deduction skills. It doesn’t offer a lot of variation, but it still manages to give you some tough puzzles.
In Hexologic, you are given several hexagons that each have a number attached to it, as an arrow that indicates a direction. The number and direction are both tips that should tell you how many dots you have to fill each hexagon with. It’s easier to explain the puzzle logic with a visual aid, so I’ll continue below this screenshot.
In the above screenshot, you see several hexagons connected with each other, with some displaying a number and arrow. Let’s take a look at the hexagon on the right side of the gap in the middle, which displays the number 2. The green arrow beneath the number is connected to the top-left side of the hexagon. This means that in the row of hexagons that is connected to this side, there have to be a total of two dots. This is where you have to use your logical deduction skills. In this case, it’s easy since there are two hexagons to be filled, so you know each has to hold one dot. Some of this rows’ hexagons are also part of another row that has a different number, meaning you have to fill in the right amount of dots that works on all rows. Each hexagon can hold up to three dots, but at the later stages, some will be already filled in. This may sound like it would make the puzzles easier, but it actually makes them more challenging. Fixed hexagons are always part of a large row that is connected with a lot of other rows, so having to keep fixed hexagons in your mind while trying to find the solution makes things more complicated at times because it’s easier to lose track of your overall thought process. The later puzzles never feel unfair or poorly designed, but instead feel like they’re steadily increasing in difficulty which makes them that much more satisfying when you solve them.
While Hexologic is filled with challenging and satisfying puzzles, there’s not much else to do in it. You solve a puzzle, you continue to the next, that’s all you can do in this game. I wouldn’t call this something negative or an issue, but I want to make sure you know what you’re getting should you be interested in playing Hexologic. Besides, it costs less than €3 on consoles and even less than that on the mobile platforms, so it’s not like you’re paying for a game that is filled with different kinds of content.
Conclusion
Hexologic is a genuinely enjoyable puzzle game that is easy to pick up and steadily increases in difficulty. There’s not much else to do besides solves puzzles, but its low price tag makes this a non-issue.
