Globesweeper: Hex Puzzler

Globesweeper: Hex Puzzler

Fair · Short indie · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
25.7h
Value
$0.31/hr
Reviews
87% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
25.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
40.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.31
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$7.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
87%
236 reviews, as of Sep 30
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

Globesweeper: Hex Puzzler takes the spherical minesweeper concept from Globesweeper and twists it into a whole new logic puzzle.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.31/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length26 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 207 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 65 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Oik 3 ($0.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats A Little to the Left ($14.99, scores 57).

This site sampled 207 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

The drop-off

73% start to 13% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Globesweeper: Hex Puzzler scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1121530/globesweeper-hex-puzzler
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIncandescent Games
PublisherIncandescent Games
GenreShort indie
Released2019
Achievements30