Hexplore was fun.

I just finished playing Hexplore and I found it to be a fun game. While it would crash on my XP machine (no matter what compatibility mode I tried), it ran with out a problem on my Win98 PC. The maps were fun puzzles to solve. Starting out I had to refer to a couple of walkthroughs, but once I figured out how the puzzles/levels were setup, I nearly never needed to consult a walkthrough. The final battle was too easy (with some potions and a buff), but overall the game was a fun, light, RPG vacation from the more recent overcomplicated/flawed/unfinishable RPGs I've played recently.

It's an old game. I have it, never played it. Perhaps now is the time.

I had written up a mini-retro review a while back for here ... not sure what happened (and I'd forgotten it until now).

It's still there...I don't remember you saying anything about it, so I sort of thought you never finished.

I'll talk you you offline at some point and we'll get it up.

Dhruin said:

It's still there…I don't remember you saying anything about it, so I sort of thought you never finished.

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Hehe ... who even knows anymore ...

Smorri said:

I just finished playing Hexplore and I found it to be a fun game. While it would crash on my XP machine (no matter what compatibility mode I tried), it ran with out a problem on my Win98 PC. The maps were fun puzzles to solve. Starting out I had to refer to a couple of walkthroughs, but once I figured out how the puzzles/levels were setup, I nearly never needed to consult a walkthrough. The final battle was too easy (with some potions and a buff), but overall the game was a fun, light, RPG vacation from the more recent overcomplicated/flawed/unfinishable RPGs I've played recently.

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Hi everyone

First Sorry for my bad englisch

You got problems with Hexplore? I got this problem too. I searched over 3 days at google to find a Fix that make Hexplore running Perfect under XP, and in found one -.- i uploadet it to my FTP.

Extract Hexplore-fix.rar and overwrite the Hexplore.exe in your Game folder and Play , or read the Readme.txt

I hope i can Help you Guys to make Hexplore Play.

Here is the Patch Hexplore Update for modern PC's (Link Updated)

This EXER Works i testet it, i complete Hexplore today again

HAVE FUN !!!!

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod...

It works!

I played the Hexplore demo back when I was a kid, at the time the first Diablo was released. I liked this game even more than Blizzard's one but couldn't find it anywhere. I don't live in a developed country so licensed software was not even offered to the market back then.

Years later, in 2004, on a visit to the USA I managed to find an used copy of Hexplore over Ebay only to find later that the game doesn't work on modern PCs anymore.

Over the years I tried to run it in every known to me way but failed every time. By the time someone thought of the CPU slowdown method, I was already running a dual core which was way too fast for Hexplore even at 100% usage.

And now I somehow thought of Hexplore and here it is - a thread only few months old with an actual patch that fixes the problem! I cannot believe it! To hell with Dragon Age! I am almost 30 now, with wife and job, but I will be playing Hexplore tonight !

Thank you!

Heh, have fun!

… and what ever happened to your mini retro-review, Mike? I don't know anything about this game but if there are such enthusiastic people around it can't be uninteresting.

Update of Hexplore Update for modern PC's.rar Now with Multiplayer Fix , the Old HexploreNET.exe was Smaller , the New HexploreNET.exe have 0,99 MB Enjoy

Hexplore Update for modern PC's (Link Updated)

Can you please put the file on some server so we can download it. Thanks.

My retro-review was published late 2009 at GearDiary.

And that file can be found at some 'torrent' sites via a Google search or linked on a French forum.