Hexcells
BANGER · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99. Typically $0.89 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.57/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 5,943
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.9h
- To 100%
- 2.7h 1.4x the story
- Achievements
- 6
Price and sales
- Sales
- 95 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.89 February 2015
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 78% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
88% start to 53% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 95 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Hexcells Plus ($2.99, scores 90) and Hexcells Infinite ($4.99, scores 96), are both worse buys on this math.
$6.94 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Hexcells
This site sampled 353 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 1,296 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.89 (70% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It's super addictive and fun. I admire the simple rules and elegance that comes from them.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 2.0+, 61 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Hexcells scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/265890/hexcellsReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.