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Hexcells Infinite cover art

Hexcells Infinite

Matthew Brown · 2014-09-01

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 01, 2014 (Mac), Sep 01, 2014 (Linux), May 02, 2016 (iOS), Sep 01, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Hexcells Infinite is a Casual, Indie, Strategy game released in 2014, priced at $4.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (97% of 4708 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners.

204
playing now
97%
positive of 4.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
IGDB user rating (30 ratings)
7h
to beat · completionist 13h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

204 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Hexcells Infinite trailer thumbnail

Hexcells Infinite Release Trailer

≈4,860 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 204 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 143 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~18/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 3% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 118k–283k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,720 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2015-02-24) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
686820182026Week of 2018-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2331292026-09-15 13:00 — 184 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 166 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 129 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 202 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 189 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 153 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 161 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 195 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 157 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 159 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 199 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 186 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 152 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 208 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 180 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 162 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 216 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 178 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 133 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 192 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 170 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 154 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 204 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
23631Sep 2014Aug 2026Sep 2014 — avg 58 · peak 143Jan 2015 — avg 58 · peak 112May 2015 — avg 43 · peak 79Sep 2015 — avg 59 · peak 116Jan 2016 — avg 116 · peak 203May 2016 — avg 99 · peak 170Sep 2016 — avg 104 · peak 182Jan 2017 — avg 132 · peak 213May 2017 — avg 86 · peak 141Sep 2017 — avg 95 · peak 139Jan 2018 — avg 101 · peak 163May 2018 — avg 91 · peak 151Sep 2018 — avg 83 · peak 139Jan 2019 — avg 78 · peak 127May 2019 — avg 79 · peak 121Sep 2019 — avg 73 · peak 110Jan 2020 — avg 80 · peak 127May 2020 — avg 84 · peak 123Sep 2020 — avg 173 · peak 252Jan 2021 — avg 165 · peak 229May 2021 — avg 143 · peak 203Sep 2021 — avg 236 · peak 374Jan 2022 — avg 228 · peak 300May 2022 — avg 195 · peak 268Sep 2022 — avg 202 · peak 268Jan 2023 — avg 202 · peak 280May 2023 — avg 197 · peak 269Sep 2023 — avg 187 · peak 273Jan 2024 — avg 209 · peak 297May 2024 — avg 202 · peak 279Sep 2024 — avg 201 · peak 272Jan 2025 — avg 210 · peak 286May 2025 — avg 207 · peak 285Sep 2025 — avg 193 · peak 256Jan 2026 — avg 210 · peak 268May 2026 — avg 182 · peak 245Aug 2026 — avg 180 · peak 239
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$8.99$1.492015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-11 — best price $1.492015-12-01 — best price $4.992016-01-13 — best price $2.692016-05-02 — best price $1.492016-10-10 — best price $4.992017-02-20 — best price $1.492017-08-21 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $1.492018-05-08 — best price $4.992018-10-29 — best price $1.492019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-04-08 — best price $1.492019-07-29 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $1.492020-01-27 — best price $4.992020-06-25 — best price $1.492020-11-02 — best price $4.992020-12-22 — best price $1.492021-02-15 — best price $4.992021-07-26 — best price $1.492021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-06-23 — best price $1.492022-09-19 — best price $4.992022-12-22 — best price $1.492023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-08-03 — best price $1.492023-11-13 — best price $4.992024-02-19 — best price $1.492024-04-15 — best price $4.992024-08-05 — best price $1.492024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $1.492025-06-05 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $1.492026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $1.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
87.8%
earned "World 2"
63.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10,82353%7

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DIndieLogicCasualPuzzleHex GridRelaxingStrategyDifficultMinimalist

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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