Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.
At $2.99. It has been as low as $0.74.
- Difficulty: 17 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 13 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 8 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 239 sampled reviews
Based on 377 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 239 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The freedom to choose difficulty levels, globe sizes, tile types, and solvability modes gives players an impressive level of control over their experience, and the achievements and unlockable themes provide additional incentives to keep coming back.
I probably wouldn't buy this as my first hex-style puzzle product, I'm not sure if it really "communicates" the deeper techniques in the way that the structured levels for Hexcells and the other games do, but it really feels like the levels in Globesweeper have the most consistent replayability experience compared to the others.
While the graphics are not flashy, they suit the minimalist style of the game and maintain clarity even when players are working with enormous globes.
the graphics and sound effects are okay, the music's very good, and there are separate volume sliders, as well as an option to highlight adjacent cells, but because of online leaderboards, the game lacks certain quality of life features.
The user interface is clean and easy to navigate, but managing thousands of tiles does occasionally become tedious, especially when a single misclick can unravel hours of careful work.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No themes split opinion in this sample.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 5 sampled reviews and is not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $2.99. The lowest we've tracked is $0.74.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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