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Minesweeper mixed with a twin stick shooter, but after playing though the game twice, you can choose companies that will make it more minesweeper focused or twin stick shooter focus.

The game is certainly fun, but you need to enjoy both minesweeper and twin stick shooters to enjoy the game, but not to the point to take it super seriously, because you will end up with situations where you will have to guess on how to proceed, or be in a situation where you will have to go though a virus infected block to get to non-infected cells.

Can be frustrating at times, but overall, I enjoy it. I think I do prefer playing with mouse and keyboard than a controller though, which is sort of an odd thing to say, but sometimes helps to mentally point out when you think the mines are.

This game is as deep as a puddle, during a drizzle.

4 modes, 4 lanes of traffic, survive as long as you can, no curves, no turns, just an endless straight away of repeating popup scenery and cars. Choose your straight road/skybox for your 4 lanes of traffic from 18 different ones, with three more being a separate DLC.

Several cars and upgrades to unlock but, many of the cars have identical stats so you're simply unlocking skins.

Oh, and the developer has published straight asset flips previously, looking at Hammer 2; The fact that this was in a Humble Bundle Monthly is an absolute insult to top it all.

Except for the fact that you can buy gold with a DLC, the gold that you get from playing the game, to unlock things in the game, which is the only point to playing the game, that's real cute.

The only good thing about it is the music, from a few artists that I already own the tracks for.

In conclusion, leave this game on the side of the road, and keep on driving.

A very nice VR adventure game where you have to switch between individuals to find and get items, figure out puzzles, and then use that progress to creating masks, to get access to more abilities and different areas with more puzzles to solve. One of the better VR experiences I've had in a while, and looking forward to finishing it once I have the time.

Got as part of a bundle, found all 100 of them, in one pass, in three minutes. Nothing difficult in finding any of them, had to idle the game long enough to leave a review. Definitely one of the most inferior games in the bundle. At least I was on the phone while I played it so my time wasn't completely wasted.

I recommend this game to people who have either:
1) not played Hexcells before
2) played Hexcells before and thought it was too difficult
3) a person wanting to get into a Hexagonal Minesweeper game for the first time (without hitting hard/expert difficulty)

For everyone else, you can try to free levels and may come to realize the same things I have:

Positives:
+ hexceed as a nice feature for for any beginner is when clicking and holding on any cell with a number/hint will show you ll the cells that the hint is effecting.

Negatives:
- The puzzles are significantly easier than Hexcells or Globesweeper: Hex Puzzler
- If you too too many errors, parts of the puzzle are undone for you to do again
- There is no reason to perfect a level, which can be good for some people, however, there is no marking if you have completed a level successfully without clicking a mine
- Way too many "0" hints. In any other minesweeper game, when I click a cell that is a zero, it is almost a reward and a relief that more than one cell is getting removed and puts a bit a smile of satisfaction on my face. With hexceed, you will get lots of 0 hints though out doing a puzzle, so it is less of a reward to see if I get two cells for getting that one click and instead is, how many more cells do I have to pointlessly click to get to hint where I can start marking something again.
- This game does the cardinal sin that I cannot stand: if you click on a hex that contains a mine, you get a bad tone to tell you did wrong, this is normal If you mark a cell that does not contain a mine, bad tone, you marked a spot that wasn't a mine, this is not normal. Suspecting something to be a mine, and marking it to work out the thought process on some more difficult things, you cannot do that in this game. Every click or mark you do is either right or wrong, nothing in between, requiring every click you do to be complete perfection, which almost always drives me crazy.

In conclusion, if you're a novice or a beginner to these type of games, you will likely have an enjoyable time with hexceed, assuming the vast quantity of levels you find to be rewarding to do. For people that are used to this gameplay and have moved to enjoying games far more difficult like Tametsi, hexceed will play more like a Hex Minesweeper Jr. and will quickly lose interest.

Left 4 Dead in a fully destructible generated levels, with missions on the map like Payday 2. Choose the mission to play, to get the materials and pay needed to unlock unlock cosmetics, for the higher difficulty levels, or simply so you can come back and get drunk and dance, telling your stories on what a grand adventure you had. Absolutely fun in group of 3 or 4, no where near as fun by yourself. If you like co-op exploration and absolute bursts of chaos and pandemonium for your group of friends, you really need to try this.

A short, amusing little experience. Didn't loose too many fingers poking the tiger but not to much to really say about that. I didn't like how much I did have to turn up the gamma setting for one of the scenes, but then, that was to be expected to avoid the whole NC-17 rating they would have gotten for the game.

Overall, a fun experience, but it doesn't have all the high impact energy and unexpected thrills of their previous, magnum opus game titled, "8". I'm still waiting for the prequel to that "7", or is it going to be a prequel trilogy; oh man, "5" that might be a bit racy, and way too sharp of a third letter, Viridian knows that all to well.

Oh just download it now, you're downloading it right? Really, you're just going to sit there and keep on reading this review? What is wrong with you? Whatever your loss, whatever you're going to do, just get on with it, nothing else to do here, nothing at all, nope not a thing at all.

What? Sorry, I can't hear you, you need to type louder.

A nice, sci-fi, puzzle game. Feels like the Room, but in VR, with Sci-fi crescendos with the music and sound. None of the puzzles are all that difficult. If you've played puzzle games, you've seen these sort of puzzles before. It was a nice experience with the typical, predictable ending.

If you've got someone whom hasn't done vr before that enjoys puzzle games, this would be a good first vr experience, little to no movement required, so no vr movement sickness.

I finished the game in just under an hour, so take that in account when purchasing.

Beat Hazard 1 was certainly fun and entertaining for a while, but the only thing to keep you going in BH1 was originally the score chase, and then it was doing the shadow mission on ships, and eventually you run out of things to do and I rarely went back to it.

With Beat Hazard 2, I was not impressed with the initial early access offering, seeming to be much like BH1, but you can see where ships are coming into the screen to avoid some cheap deaths and an added Boss Rush mode, since all the bosses are randomly created on style, appearance, and equipped weapons based on the song being played.

After playing BH2 during the second free weekend offered, there has been quite an improvement in what BH2 offers over the first one, and it gives you a reason to keep on playing with Shadow Missions since:

Every ship has 4 shadow mission
Doing 2 of the Shadow Missions will unlock a perk that you can equip on to any ship (up to 5)
Completing any and every song will unlock a new ship to purchase, of which there are 6 or 7 different classes of ships, each of which has their own Shadow Missions and perk to unlock.
Randomized ships are linked to the song/album/artist information, so if you unlock an enjoyable ship, if your friend plays the same track, they will unlock the same ship, so it is randomized, but sort of fixed randomized, which is also handy if you want to go back to unlock the ship again if you removed it from your collection or chose not to buy it when you completed the song.

Some of the Shadow Missions will make you play different parts of your collection or find new songs to play, like, play something from this album, or something form this artist, or play a song with the word "Beat" without any special weapons on at least x difficulty.

And I'm not sure how this song randomizer works, but so far the randomizer has picks out random songs from your whole collection has made me discover several songs already that I did not realize I had that I would enjoy.

In addition to all of that, every day, and every 4 hours, there is a new elite ship you can attempt to get if you can get in the top 10 of the chosen song's temp leaderboards.

And finally, the game uses the open mic input so it can play songs you don't even own, including anything on spotify. And if you own any song that was played that is in the recently played list, you can go right out and play it, or play it on spotify if the person played the song on spotify, and can unlock ships though any song played though spotify.

In conclusion, BH2 has added several features and the randomly generated ships for every song that gives you a reason to keep on play to unlock things and to simply have fun.

This is a slightly odd one to review,

On the plus side, you have five very nice mini games, which can have anywhere between 3-8 minutes worth of story interconnecting them. Four out of the five games are all one stage long, so if you are good with 16bit era games, you'll likely go though most of them in one try.

On the oddball things, the screen transitions take their time for their artistic appeal with the fade in and outs, most particular of note is the title screen since it will take you 30 seconds to start the game, or exit the game because of the fade in and outs. Also, there are no setting for the game, the game always runs full screen, windowless boarder by the looks of it.

In conclusion, I enjoyed my 90 minutes with the game, but the game did the one cardinal sin that I cannot get over to give this a good review..... right when the game gets interesting and I want to know more.... the game ends in a cliffhanger. I'm sorry, I cannot stand games that do that anymore, particularly one when you are spending about 1/3 of a time not playing the game but watching the story unfold.