Minesweeper + Hexagons = My Dream Video Game! | Hexcells

[@Aliensrock]

I tried to make this video as viewer-friendly as possible - making my cursor the largest possible size and explaining the logic more slowly to make it easier to follow along. Let me know what you think!

[@Joe-mk1ql]

You always do a good job so keep up the good work!

[@Impa_1]

Very nice

[@justsomeoneelse5942]

Hexagons are the bestagons

[@paz2210ii]

It is quite beautiful. Thanks for the video!

[@blanky6739]

i think that there is a bit too much explanation at times, but very well done

[@_vapor_3866]

Picross plus minesweeper but with hexagons instead of squares is a very odd genre that works a lot better than you'd expect.

[@Deado]

@The Almighty Ninja Always loved Nonograms, so the idea of implementing it with one of my fav 2D shapes AND Minesweeper is just perfect

[@star_fall_1]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@whyiwakeup6460]

Oh yeah

[@royplatt455]

Picross plus Minesweeper? You mean Voltorb Flip?

[@MouseGoat]

Actually id expect it to work alot better than a square grid. 4 sides on square 6 sides on hex.

[@frujey]

Seeing Tyler explaining something I'll most likely forgot in 2 hours is always nice

[@iuryferreira330]

2 hours? You are a genius, i forgot what the -2- and {2} mean and all the rules before he started the custom puzzle lol

[@roelkoot8625]

What you guys remember it?

[@leonite5836]

wait, you guys were paying attention to him explaining it?

[@user-bg2il4xi3w]

I forgor

[@airforce3496]

@@user-bg2il4xi3w 💀

[@Jonas_Mikkelsen]

14:30. "That means this is the final square" - Tyler, about a hexagon

[@bioniclink3026]

This is a neat combination of Nongrams and Minesweeper! This looks really nice to play.

[@potat0a1m26]

Nonagrams, the ones where you make a picture based on a number at the start of each row/coloumn. Really fun if you are into that kinda stuff

[@potat0a1m26]

@100 percent #stanevil not hexagons

[@smippycis6285]

So cool, I also feel like it be much cleaner if the "?" cells were just empty. Since both mean nothing practically.

[@badrunna-im]

"?" cells are different from empty's as they do not automatically eliminate themselves as mines (before they are revealed).

[@smippycis6285]

@@badrunna-im oh, so empty cells also exists? (I don't know all the details about the game)

[@zaxtonhong3958]

@@smippycis6285 An empty gives information, since it cannot be a blue. A cell that turns into a ? could be a cell that turns into a blue instead

[@Muskar2]

@@zaxtonhong3958 Either you're talking about a different game or I'm misunderstanding you. Question marks (on a black cell) mean 0-6 of the adjacent cells are blue. "0" (on a black cell) means 0 of the adjacent cells are blue. And both of those are already resolved (black) cells and thus inherently cannot be blue.

[@zaxtonhong3958]

@@Muskar2 I’m interpreting “empty cell” to be white space, not a 0 cell

[@jimmyisawkward]

Hexagons are the bestagons! Also, I appreciate the introduction, since I was completely lost in sudoku

[@evanescentenquirer2684]

Was that a CGP Grey reference :p

[@jimmyisawkward]

@@evanescentenquirer2684 mayyy bee :p

[@manavm]

I thought it's a Vihart reference

[@sire_kirbz]

hexagons are the bestagons!

[@tearlach47]

@@manavm I thought so too

[@tearlach47]

7:00 Misclicking like this is my most hated part of playing Hexcells. I am such a perfectionist that if getting 1 mistake like that means I don't get all points for the level, I will make myself do it over again. I have to pay just as much attention to not misclicking as I do to logically deducing these puzzles.

[@luziferius3687]

I think it allows a certain number of miss-clicks, before lowering the score from “perfect” to “completed”. So if your own goal is “only” a perfect score on the game’s level overview, you can afford a few misses per level. If your _own_ OCD or whatever forces you to have a zero in the mistakes counter when completing a levxel, you are on your own.

[@tearlach47]

@@luziferius3687 Tametsi doesn't even have that allowance like Hexcells does, so it's even worse for people's OCD lol

[@notaperson1557]

I remember playing the original Hexcells, and it's really fun, glad they made a new one, looks way more polished! Edit: I was getting this game mixed up with Hexceed, still a great game though

[@OriginalPiMan]

They are fundamentally similar. The main way this one distinguishes itself is the user levels and the random levels (only in Hexcells Infinite).

[@sangchoo1201]

@@OriginalPiMan other one is picross mechanic

[@signisot5264]

Thank you for also informing us about Hexceed, because Hexceed is free while Hexcells is not!

[@TheMikirog]

I also like how a new update was dropped that updated the first two games with some polish, dark mode and swappable mouse buttons to make it more in line with Hexcells Infinite. Not necessary in the slightest, but very welcome.

[@emnersonn]

you doing that entire puzzle so quickly while talking and STILL not making any mistakes is so impressive

[@Muskar2]

He did make a few mistakes. A misclick and I also noticed a few incorrect assumptions. But yes, he's very intelligent and I enjoyed it too.

[@sirforcer]

I'm so glad you finally picked this up. I've been playing Hexcells since 2014 and it remains my favorite 5m timewaster game on my laptop.

[@Xcyiterr]

5:04 "so this is moderately more difficult than what we're used to" oh my gosh my sides hurt

[@Yokozai]

NEW GAME! Excited to see how it goes!! Edit: HOLY SHIT I am in love!!! I have to get this game now!! As someone obsessed with nonograms, this game is so good! This is also really good as a viewer, as I can solve the puzzle (to an extent) in my brain while I'm watching, and see how long it takes you to notice it! Overall, killer video! Love it!!

[@cericat]

Yeah it's the latest in a series, Hexcells, Hexcells Plus, and Hexcells Infinite. There's two more subsequent logic games from the dev but they're based on squares. Can definitely recommend them though especially infinite since it has a random gen, daily, and user made puzzles.

[@Yokozai]

@@cericat yea i bought hexcells infinite right after this video

[@cericat]

@@Yokozai NP, for some reason YT finally put the video on my notifications today for some reason.

[@Bifurdoggo]

Honestly, though it sometimes seems a little silly, I *really* enjoy you narrating your thought process. It's cool and helpful to hear the way you work out puzzles and you just have a nice voice :)

[@icycloud6823]

I noticed when he made the mistake of marking off the nine, which was his only way a fully deducing that area above the nine, and wondered for a while when or if he would realize his mistake. I'm happy he didn't get frustrated at the end and didn't resort to just guessing the remaining few. Instead, he found his mistake and solved it the normal way.

[@vurogj]

I'm lowkey amazed you didn't do this game years ago. All three games are so so good.

[@datdude888]

As someone who taught himself minesweeper (and pretty well imo) I was still barely able to keep up with you lol. Still, looks like a super fun game!

[@mydood9675]

taught yourself as opposed to getting minesweeper lessons? doesn't everyone teach themselves minesweeper...

[@ГеоргиГеоргиев-с3г]

He messed up the nine logic at the end (with the extra cell ("these six have 2" there were seven)) but got lucky(might not have mattered) (me: first time seeing this game)

[@datdude888]

@@mydood9675 taught myself as in just figuring out all the little tricks you can do by myself. It’s nothing special and I wrote this as a sleep deprived idiot so please excuse me lol.

[@hans1783]

This is exactly what it's like to build anything great... cut them to pieces you can tackle one at a time. Tacking each of them give a very satisfying feeling.

[@hiimjosh868]

What's cool is that having the knowledge that every puzzle is solvable provides additional information that could be used to solve a level!

[@parkerwalaitis2890]

This is just super relaxing to just listen to with your calming voice and the amazingly calm music

[@auatom-]

As grey once said, Hexagons are the Bestagons.

[@skytime9444]

5:17 you've all heard of wide tyler, now get ready for: *tiny tyler*

[@skytime9444]

theres something just so satisfying about listening to tyler logic his way through puzzles

[@TheIncinerator12]

i never thought minesweeper picross with bestagons would be the perfect puzzle game

[@kanamis]

For some reason, hexcells is a series I keep coming back to. It's just satisfying seeing him solve all of these

[@Roy-K]

I love the soundtrack - having the pads play in the background with the players inputs controlling a gentle lead makes such a nice zen for these kinds of puzzle games

[@Hazelnut668]

Minesweeper with hexagons????? Sounds amazing

[@willumfleming9647]

Hexcells is amazing, love the game and I love that you’re getting to play it!

[@Rhino__o-p5n]

This sort of feels like a mix of nonograms, and minesweeper.

[@rileyzook-moran4012]

This was so nostalgic for me I remember playing the trilogy all the way back in high school. The music and sound effects are always so soothing to listen to maybe I'll need to redownload it!

[@Roger_808]

this is the most perfect combination of sudoku and minesweeper and its beautiful

[@adamvale945]

One of my all time favorite games.

[@Adonisrose7493]

0:23 I really love the sounds they make.

[@xazz]

I didn't understand any of this but GOD was it relaxing to just listen to you work it out. It's like watching Sudoku in a way. I don't understand that either but it's so soothing to watch someone smarter than you at puzzles figure it out.

[@DevonParsons697]

Awesome to see Hexcells! It's a great game. Since you love minesweeper you HAVE to put Tametsi on your radar, in my opinion it's the best (and hardest) minesweeper game ever made. Some of the levels are played on really bizarre grids, and it has really useful built-in drawing controls

[@hans1783]

Now that was something I could sit through and enjoy the feeling of seeing small things made complete.

[@jonathanb1949]

This was really relaxing

[@danwiththe8647]

I've been hooked on this game for years, there definitely are some levels that require guessing

[@thebreckining438]

“I took 25 minutes and I did it slowly” I had the hardest time following along. But I did enjoy the video none the less.

[@the-girl-next-door-ashleeb]

I love this game! I've had it for years and not seen anyone talk about it! THANK YOU!

[@tristanridley1601]

As soon as I heard the title of this video I felt shame for not having thought of making this. The concept is brilliant and I put a lot of effort into my "better minesweeper" java game. Props to the developer.

[@AndGoatz04]

I like how the act of solving the puzzle adds music

[@epicdoge957]

There is just something really satisfying with the way you do these puzzlss

[@jodysgamingchannel9480]

The sheer amount of focus on display here. . . just astounding! (Also great as background ASMR) Thanks for doing what you do!

[@HippoBoiO]

Every time I watch you play something I completely understand what is happening while also not understanding anything

[@Demonicnoobie]

I would absolutely love to see more of this game, really fun to watch someone really good at the game whilst also following along as you watch

[@lewismassie]

I don't think I've ever sat and watched a 20+ minute video of just minesweeper puzzles. Riveting to watch

[@TriCutNinja]

The way you go about solving puzzles just blows my mind! You notice things in seconds that would take me hours. I mean, I use hints on solitaire ;.;

[@alexanderhahn4398]

This game was the first time I paused an Aliensrock video to go and get the game be cause I wanted to start playing it first. Stuck at 3-6 but a fantastic game so far. Thank you for introducing this gem!

[@supershot8335]

Don't normally comment, but I wanted to say this was super satisfying to watch! Your pacing is perfect, the gentle sounds is soothing, the game itself is beautifully minimalistic, and the 100% solvability of the game goes a long way to make it fun. Overall loved the video, nice work on taking on the hard ones starting off! It'll be hard to top that though, I don't know what the other premade/community levels are like. I could see it just being a stream game, but I'd watch the game again :)

[@MocaHere]

You're the only person i know of that can make playing minesweeper look so fun!, I love your videos

[@treysonsherk5356]

I love these games! Played and replayed them many times, happy to see you play them!

[@jocrane01]

I never understood how minesweeper worked until I started watching this man going thru his logic. Now it clicks

[@IzumiChenmeiru]

im so glad tyler is fonally playing hexcells. such an underrated gem

[@thomastsang980]

Thanks for getting me into this game!!! I bought it in the first 4 minutes of your video... my favorite thing is the sound design- p.s. subscribed!

[@seanshepherd1071]

Holy crap that's some complex puzzling.... I love it!

[@22sfs22]

Dang I LOVE, minesweeper, I even bought demoncrawl back when it came out so I am excited to see such a new and innovative entry in that game genre. Also your explaining was top notch 10/10

[@plan3teris]

Hell yeah, hexcells is sick, I've been repping this game for a while so it's great to see Tyler play it.

[@xchomphk.9788]

so happy to see a potion craft add rn. its prob doing rly well and im happy for that

[@logantakach6113]

This music is so nice combined with the dinging of the tiles

[@albpoolshark]

One thing I noticed after playing through these games is that when you mouse over a cell, it jiggles a little bit, sometimes revealing the color underneath, allowing you to skip some of the logic needed to complete a puzzle. I reached out to the dev about this and he had said that it was unavoidable due to the engine and he had already tried fixing it

[@alexisross9343]

Okay; this was hypnotizing to watch, I would totally watch more of these puzzles being worked through x3

[@RaceBandit]

Feels a bit weird beating you to a game ... usually you're the one introducing me to the Steam title.

[@andymion]

This was incredibly pleasing to watch.

[@tovi3280]

This is like a wonderful mix of picross and minesweeper I love it

[@shavencarrot]

fantastic video. loved your "walk-through" of this. would definitely watch more of this.

[@purpleluckxd371]

I usually don’t like watching stream, but this might actually be a game that I would watch streamed

[@frigidofdoom7191]

Thank you so much for showing me this exists. This looks incredible! Also your deductive skills are incredible, It'd have taken me probably about an hour to do that puzzle

[@gheromesilvestre7803]

As remarkable as puzzles are, the words per minute here boggles the mind

[@nathans9972]

I actually loved this video format. I could 'play' along and use the same logic to see if what I'm thinking is correct. You should definitely make a least a couple more of these

[@mjohnson2807]

Solid chill concept. I like it, thank you

[@rolerroleris533]

I have played this quite a bit, its really chill. Somehow i just assumed that you have already played it since it seemed right up your alley, but it's nice to see that you found it now. Great game.

[@rowanolson4092]

Big fan of this one. Cracking the Cryptic type vibes.... def would like to see more of these

[@mrmosaic7996]

Feels like some of advanced sudokus which became popular lately. But this game predates them and is from 2014. It feels like art.

[@Ikxi]

THIS LOOKS LIKE SO MUCH FUN I love such kind of puzzle games!!!!!

[@arthurroth3147]

A couple things. One, Hexcells is very cool and I would like to see more of it, it’s super satisfying. Another thing is that Demoncrawl has gotten a lot of updates since the last time you played with new items, stats, and a battle royale if you’re interested.

[@Zanderhawk11]

The size of Tyler's brain scares me, if he wanted to he could take over this entire world.

[@rubenthiel1214]

I'm genuinely surprised you've never covered hexcells before - and very happy! It's onw of my favourite puzzle games of all time (even though I'm not that good at harder generated/user made levels)

[@henryjiao3860]

This gave me a new sense of appreciation for Tylers brain.

[@TheChronoTiger]

as someone who learned how to play minesweeper a month ago I am loving this

[@mrrp405]

it sounds beautiful, quite literally

[@mossworksmedia]

Man, the sound design in this game was so satisfying! Would totally be down for more of it lol

[@DoodleNoodle129]

I didn’t know how much I needed this in my life.

[@bostion518]

Oh my god I LOVE Hexcells I love to see you finally playing it

[@BRaYyANnnn]

That was very satisfying to watch, definitely gonna need some more videos

[@gayMath]

I love hexcells! great to see it getting some new attention

[@unkownbridge7965]

I would love to see you stream this! I’ve been missing the streams

[@irenesabe]

this was so enjoyable to watch. very chill and easy to follow along also the music was excellent

[@onlyifusayplz5407]

Before watching this video I scrolled down to the bottom of the comment section and Ctrl+F'd the word "Bestagon" and of all 669 comments (not including this one) 39 mentioned CGP Grey. I'm proud of you guys.

[@Elizabethsnow125]

This is a really cool game and is fun to watch you play. I don't think I could ever play it as it hurts my brain a little but it's really neat to watch your thought process figuring out the puzzle

[@guiii0696]

when he clicks on the left 9:19 it makes a sound on the left when he clicks on the right 19:16 it makes a sound on the right when he clicks on the middle 12:38 it makes a sound on both sides Beautiful

[@exomaster1322]

Tyler, your brain works so fast, it always blows my mind. I can’t follow along most of your puzzle videos but I watch them anyways. :)

[@KevinCrouch0]

This music is super calm and makes me wanna fall asleep lol

[@staruniverse4967]

Hexagons are the bestagons

[@skywalkerjohn8965]

Tyler, you are the reason why I learn how to play minesweeper in less than a day

[@scoobidywoobidy7214]

I'm going to love watching more of this please! this game looks amazing!

[@crystalspeed7214]

I'm getting cracking the cryptic vibes and I love it

[@theneongoomba]

It seems really easy to set puzzles in this game - and that a good thing! Information is revealed as you solve, so it is simple enough to create a path of logic for solvers to follow.

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

About mimesweeper variant, there was a rather old game called Dead Rabbit. (Probably only available in Chinese, though.) Basically you play by control a rabbit to reach the goal without touching any of the "dead" block, minesweeper style. The dead in the title is actually refer to that since that game use ESDF for movement, you tend to mis-input a lot and thus die a lot, though.

[@charlesmayfield3]

Really enjoyed that, great concept