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Hexcells

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Hexcells
Hexcells cover
Developers
Matthew Brown
Engines
Former Unity 4[Note 1]
Unity 5[Note 2]
Release dates
Windows August 31, 2013[3]
macOS (OS X) August 31, 2013[3]
Linux August 31, 2013[3]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives Flip screen, Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Puzzle
Art styles Abstract
Series Hexcells
Hexcells on HowLongToBeat
Hexcells on IGDB
Hexcells on MobyGames
Hexcells on Wikipedia
Hexcells
Hexcells 2013
Hexcells Plus 2013
Hexcells Infinite 2014

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Humble Store
DRM-free
Packaged with Hexcells Plus and Hexcells Infinite.
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saves\options.txt[Note 3]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Matthew Brown\Hexcells
macOS (OS X)
Linux <path-to-game>/saves/options.txt
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Matthew Brown/Hexcells/prefs
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saves\slot*.save[Note 3]
macOS (OS X)
Linux <path-to-game>/saves/slot*.save

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Pillarboxed 16:9, side bars are filled with background color.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Borderless is default. To enable exclusive, see Unity/Exclusive fullscreen mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Option to swap mouse buttons.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised
A touch-friendly edition is available on other platforms - the right mouse button is required to use the PC release.
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9, 11
OpenGL
OS X and Linux only.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 60 MB
Video card (GPU) Shader model 2.0 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 60 MB
Video card (GPU) Shader model 2.0 support
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 10.04
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 60 MB
Video card (GPU) Shader model 2.0 support


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 4.3.1f1[1]
  2. Unity engine build: 5.6.3f1[2]
  3. 3.0 3.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. Verified by User:Anonymous on 2016-07-19
  2. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2020-08-19
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hexcells Windows, Mac, Linux game | Desura - last accessed on 2016-08-25
    "Released Aug 31, 2013"