Ambient Puzzler Hexcells Infinite Available On Linux Today

The third and final instalment in the popular puzzle game series launches today, DRM free and on Steam. As with the two previous games, Hexcells Infinite will also be available for Linux from day one.

Hexcells might be described as a cross between the classic Minesweeper and nonograms, but with a variety of additional puzzle elements added throughout the course of the game. All puzzles in the Hexcells games have been handcrafted by the developer Matthew Brown and are designed to be both entertaining and challenging. It will therefore be interesting to see if the addition of procedurally generated puzzles will maintain these qualities while still having puzzles that can be solved completely through deduction.

The developer explained his reasons for going with random generation instead of a level editor on the Steam forums:

QuoteI started experimenting with a level editor but it proved to be too difficult a problem to solve. Instead I'm now working on randomly generated puzzles which can (hopefully) be made in such a way as to guarantee they are solvable.

Hexcells Plus was a big step up from the first Hexcells game in difficulty, so it will be interesting to see where Hexcells Infinite lands challenge wise.

About the Game
Hexcells Infinite is the third game in the series of ambient logic puzzle games.

It includes a new set of 36 puzzles as well as a random puzzle generator, and now supports mid-level saving and cross platform cloud saves.

The level generator uses an 8 digit seed number to generate each puzzle so they can easily be shared. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.