CrossCells Reviews

I liked previous cells games because it gave me a nice feeling of finding the right thread and slowly unravelling the whole puzzle. This game hardly got any of that and more of a trial and error type of endeavour, especially after the addition of multiplication tiles.

I really like this game. I can't say it is as good as Hexcells, but that is a very high bar to cross, anyways. If you have completed Hexcells and want a little more, this game is definitely worth playing.

Good puzzles. Many of the later stages felt like the variant Sudoku puzzles featured on Cracking the Cryptic (that's a good thing!). Contrary to what some other reviewers felt, no guessing or branching/bifurcating is required at any stage, but having a pen and paper at hand helped quite a bit. Also, I personally liked the absence of the mistake counter for this particular Cells entry. I don't think they would have had the same utility as they do in Matthew Brown's other Cells games. In HexCells, marking a tile could provide an additional hint, so it was useful to prevent players from fully brute forcing puzzles. But here, as with more traditional pen-n-paper puzzles, all of the hints are available from the start, and puzzles aren't really brute forceable in the same way as HexCells.