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Need a free game? You're in luck as Hue from Fiddlesticks Games and Curve Games is currently free to keep on Steam until June 8th. Released originally back in 2016, it has a Native Linux version available and is rated Steam Deck Playable.

What is it? "Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour. You explore a dangerous grey land, unearthing coloured fragments on a journey to find your missing mother. As obstacles match the background, they disappear, creating new and exciting puzzles - full of peril, mystery… and colours unseen."

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Features:

  • Unique colour-matching mechanic, offering a new twist on the classic adventure game.
  • A heartfelt story that touches on themes of love, loss, existence and remorse.
  • A world full of lively characters to talk to, each with their own personality and story.
  • Stark silhouetted art style with bright, bold colours.
  • Over 30 original music tracks, composed exclusively for Hue.
  • Professionally voiced narration by Anna Acton and Matthew Wade, some of the UK’s best television talent.
  • Full colourblind support, using symbols as a colour aid.

It's being given away as part of the Curve Games sale. Always nice to get a free game.

Check it out on Steam.

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7 comments

plaidphantom May 26, 2023
Hue has one of my favorite soundtracks of all time, and the puzzles are ingenious. I highly recommend it!
Purple Library Guy May 26, 2023
Quoting: plaidphantomHue has one of my favorite soundtracks of all time, and the puzzles are ingenious. I highly recommend it!
Mind you, the fact that a colour-oriented game is being recommended by someone called "plaidphantom" does not fill me with optimism.
MadWolf May 26, 2023
hi this looks like a fun game
Eike May 27, 2023
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As mostly a puzzler and point and click player, I was surprised by the jumping (you should use a controller!) and underwhelmed by the puzzle difficulty in parts of the game. Jokingly called it a "twin-stick puzzler" in my review. The difficulty does rise in the later levels though, so, worth to get and play!
Pengling May 27, 2023
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I'm still only a relatively recent console expatriate, so seeing quality full games being given away for free in this manner is still very novel to me. The most I ever saw back on consoles was free-to-play stuff with strings attached.


Last edited by Pengling on 27 May 2023 at 10:23 am UTC
Klaas May 27, 2023
Quoting: PenglingI'm still only a relatively recent console expatriate, so seeing quality full games being given away for free in this manner is still very novel to me.
Well they assume that you get the urge to buy Blooming Business: Casino (conveniently linked on the same page) afterwards.

And all of the Gladius DLCs. They are only 64,41 € on to of the free base game.
flesk May 29, 2023
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Quoting: plaidphantomHue has one of my favorite soundtracks of all time, and the puzzles are ingenious. I highly recommend it!

I'd forgotten the soundtrack, but I've bought it on Bandcamp now, and I agree that it's very good.
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