Hexiom connect is a cool puzzle game that is easy to pick up and play and has levels challenging enough for any hardcore puzzle gamer. This fact makes is a great game for a lunch break or a three hour gaming session(unless your one of those guys that can solve any puzzle in 3 minutes). The premises of the game is simple. There are a number of hexes on the board with connectors on some of their sides. There are always some hexes that are not occupied and that you can move other hexes on to. Your job is to connect all the same colored ends of all the hexes and don’t leave any hanging. Note that you cannot place a hex in an empty slot if the adjoining end color from another hex is different.

The game has a good difficulty curb also. The first few puzzles were pretty easy, I got through 4 or 5 of them, then I decided to tackle the last level, 40. I was blown away by the difficulty of level forty and after spending some time on it decided to give up because I had some work to do. I will come back to it and probably follow the video walk-through(below) to finish up the game.

Note how I said I only got through the first 4 or 5 levels and then was able to play level 40. Thats one of the best things about this game. You don’t have to solve the previous puzzle to move on to the next one. You can play any puzzle you want to test out the range of difficulties in the game. If you get bored with the easy puzzles, you don’t need to wade through 10 of them, you can jump right into the harder ones. I would suggest that you do play them in order as each puzzle presents its own challenges and if you jump ten or twenty levels, you might just think the game got too difficult all of a sudden.

Hexiom is one of the best puzzle games I’ve played in the past month or two and is worth a play whether you are looking for a game for that 10 minute break or looking for a flash game to take you through a long gaming session. Certainly give it a try.

Now the Video walk-through:

Other good plays:

Descent II — Guide a drop through 20 levels to the goal by rotating the levels.

Infection — Retro style arcade shooter in a circle.

The recent “new category” of flash games is multitasking games where you have to play two separate games by yourself to test how good you are at splitting your brain between two tasks. Aqua bots is the latest in this line of games. I’m not writing about this game because its super-awesome because frankly, while its not bad, it isn’t a great game. It is a well-polished game in terms of graphics, interface, and controls, but lacks some in game-play and fun.

In this game you control two submarines on the top and bottom of the screen. and you must keep both from being destroyed. Controls are the usual arrows for one half and A,S,D,F for the other half. Space fires for both submarines. You must be vary of the terrain as the border between the two halves does change and enemies are constantly appearing. You must be alert all the time and pay attention to both halves of the screen. They are approximately equal in difficulty.

What this game has in polish, however, it lacks in game-play. The game was fun for the first minute or so but soon the game-play got old and controlling two submarines that do the exact same thing just isn’t that fun. The game is also pretty slow-paced so its not as action-packed as I would like it to be. What this game could have done to make it better is to add more elements to the game, make the action faster(but not impossibly fast), and add a little more variety and style to the levels. In the final analysis of this game, I’d give it a 3 out of five stars and commend it on its well done graphics and interface but cannot give a thumbs up on game-play and replay value.

If you ever consider making a multi-tasking game yourself, you should always put the fun factor first over graphics and interface as I enjoyed a couple of multi-tasking games involving only dots and lines more than this game, even though graphically, this was far superior.