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2018PC, Steam Deck playable94 % positive8.19 €

A meta-fictional whodunit set in a tavern where protagonists from different video game genres are suspects. Each character plays in the style of their own genre, and the story plays with and critiques game conventions.

  • Dialogue and role-playing
  • Pixel art
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Lots of humour
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In short: Games like The Hex

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Hex special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Thimbleweed Park

91 %Match

2017USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified92 % positive19.99 €

Brings what grabs you about The Hex: pixel art, a strong story and plenty of humour.

A loving throwback to classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures, where you swap between five characters to solve a strange murder in an odd small town. Dark humor, meta jokes and interlocking puzzles are its main appeal.

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A story-driven point-and-click adventure set in the 90s: as journalism student Kathy you investigate your grandfather's mysterious death. Moody mystery, pixel art and classic inventory puzzles shape the journey.

Norco

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Chicken Police

Lots of humour

A noir detective story starring anthropomorphic animals: as chicken detectives you crack a dark case full of sharp dialogue, black humor and classic point-and-click puzzles.

The Blackwell Legacy

Dialogue and role-playing

A story-driven point-and-click adventure in modern New York where Rosa learns she is a medium and teams up with the sardonic ghost Joey to solve supernatural cases. Light puzzles, dialogue and a melancholic mystery mood take center stage.

Gemini Rue

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An atmospheric neo-noir pixel-art point-and-click adventure where you alternate between an assassin hunting for his brother and an amnesiac patient in a sinister facility. Its bleak sci-fi mystery and twists drive the whole experience.

The Blackwell Deception

Dialogue and role-playing

A story-driven point-and-click mystery set in New York, where medium Rosa and her spirit guide Joey investigate deaths tied to fraudulent street psychics. Conversations, investigation and inventory puzzles drive the experience.

Beat Cop

Dialogue and role-playing

As beat cop Jack Kelly you patrol 1980s Brooklyn, writing tickets, juggling time and favors, and trying to clear your name of a frame-up murder. Pixel art, dark humor and choices between honesty and corruption give it a retro cop-show flavor.

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