Difference between revisions of "Hexcells"

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Hexcells
Hexcells	2013
Hexcells Plus	2013
Hexcells Infinite	2014

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Humble Store		Packaged with Hexcells Plus and Hexcells Infinite.
Steam

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.

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

↑ Unity engine build: 4.3.1f1^[1]
↑ Unity engine build: 5.6.3f1^[2]
↑ ^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

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

[2] Unity engine build: 4.3.1f1^[1]

[4] Unity engine build: 5.6.3f1^[2]

[gamedir-6] 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).

[former_engineversion-1] Verified by User:Anonymous on 2016-07-19

[engineversion-3] Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2020-08-19

[releasedate-5] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Hexcells Windows, Mac, Linux game | Desura - last accessed on 2016-08-25
"Released Aug 31, 2013"

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[3]

[Note 3]

[1]

[2]

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+{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/monetization      | One-time game purchase }}
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 |controller support notes  =
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+|mac os x powerpc app   = unknown
 |macos intel 32-bit app = true
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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