Hexceed actually leans a little further into the overlapping space in that Venn diagram, and impressively, to good effect. But I do concede there is some common ground, if only in the premise that the numbers in hexagonal tiles indicate the number of “bombs” that cell is adjacent to. I was always a little frustrated by Hexcells’ comparisons to Minesweeper, since the former is the greatest logic puzzle game ever made for computer, and the latter is a tedious game of chance only enjoyed by the dangerously foolish. And yes, my instincts were correct: this is a wanton rip-off of Hexcells, that absolutely highlights its inspiration’s glory through its own lack, but hell, I’m still playing. Nobody needs to be told about a game they’d never hear about otherwise, only to be told why they didn’t need to hear about it. It’s so very blatantly a Hexcells rip-off that it was all I could do not to just write about how usefully it highlights the brilliance of Hexcells in all the ways it’s not as good as it. If I may be indelicate for a moment, I was pretty certain I wasn’t going to write about Hexceed.
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