SquareCells
Worth it · Short indie · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 2.0+, 51 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.
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
The value story
October 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.89. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 81 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Hexcells ($2.99, scores 97) and Hexcells Plus ($2.99, scores 90) both outscore it.
Of the 373 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
78% start to 47% rarestNo 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
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 16:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Matthew Brown does this thing very well. Great look, great design, anyone who's done sudoku could jump right in. This game is worth the asking price but I think the Logic Puzzle Pack with Hexcells is the only logical way to go for value. It's basically the same game 5 times with distinct enough differences.
Third playthrough! Doesn't quite hit the highs of Hexcells Infinite--Matthew Brown's best puzzle game, I think--but comes pretty close. Beautiful hand-crafted puzzles, cozy ambient vibes. A little too punishing, with zero allowable mistakes per puzzle if you happen to be interested in getting a perfect score. The omnipresent feeling of "wow that's so clever" with respect to the puzzle design is still there but not...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SquareCells scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/416770/squarecellsReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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