SquareCells on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

SquareCells is a puzzle, indie and casual game developed and published by Matthew Brown.
Released on December 07th 2015 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 1,172 reviews of which 1,062 were positive and 110 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified SquareCells into these genres:

Puzzle Indie Casual Minimalist Logic Singleplayer 2D

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP or later
Processor: 2.0Ghz+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 2.0+
Storage: 50 MB available space

MacOS

OS: OSX 10.5 or later
Processor: 2.0Ghz+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 2.0+
Storage: 50 MB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 10.04 or later
Processor: 2.0Ghz+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 2.0+
Storage: 50 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

Another nice puzzle game from the creator of the Hexcells games. The mechanics here are based on nonograms but the game uses a more complex hint system to solve the puzzles. It is more challenging than normal nonograms and based on solving these puzzles flawlessly, not on uncovering images like many nonogram games do ( e.g. like the nice Pictopix here on Steam.). Sometimes a puzzle is only solvable by looking at the "still to remove" counter to discard other remaining possible solution. You need various ideas to solve all the puzzles and to identify fields that are either empty or occupied.

March 2025

Not as goated as HexCells , but still incredibly fun and satisfying to play! Definitely recommend this if you're looking for a fun puzzle game!

March 2025

SquareCells provides the Hexcells treatment to picross (minus the picture element), i.e. adding additional complexity to the puzzles. Compared to actual picross games, the SquareCells grid never gets particularly large, never getting any larger than 14x14. Like the Hexcells trilogy, SquareCells contains 36 puzzles, some of which have one or two very hard-to-figure-out moves you need to make that need very close attention to work out. The Hexcells Infinite random generation hasn't been carried forward to this one, however, so replayability is limited by that. Unfortunately, whilst the puzzles themselves are fun and tricky, and like Hexcells, are possible without guesswork, the game is let down a little by it's presentation, primarily in graphic for flagged cells not being distinct enough to make out easily, particularly under certain colour schemes. Plus, some of the wording of the tutorials could be better, particularly when explaining the numbers within the cells themselves, as it took me a bit to actually figure out that particular mechanic. For this reason, and for the limited short-term replayability, I'm only giving this one a 7/10. Good, but some flaws.

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Similarity 99%

Price 3.99€

Rating 8.5

Release 30 Oct 2020

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2.99€

8.6

1,062

110

Online players

Developer

Matthew Brown

Publisher

Matthew Brown

Release 07 Dec 2015

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