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Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!
Hexguardian is a tower defense, cartoony and rogue-lite game
developed by Split Second Games
and published by Yogscast Games.
Released on May 02nd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil and Russian.
It has received 619 reviews of which 496 were positive and 123 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.87€ on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified Hexguardian into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-7100 3.9GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD R9 270
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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This roguelite tower defence hits the sweet spot where you advance by metaprogression AND by learning the game, at more or less the same rate. Also, as far as tower defences go, it has decent balance of playing wide (with stupid amount of towers on field) and playing tall (with stackable upgrades and synergies)
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Hexguardian is a roguelite tower defence game where the player must protect their castle from the armies of a rival kingdom. Its a fairly simple game, but fans of the tower defence genre should enjoy it. Each map starts with multiple roads and rivers leading to your castle. Enemies will spawn from portals at the end of each path, and there are several different enemy types who will attack by land, sea, or air, while mounted units move faster and higher difficulties have bosses. Killing enemies gives you gold to buy towers, and you can specify which enemy types each individual tower should prioritise. You can also buy melee or ranged units who can be ordered to move around the map to cover different paths. They’re quite useful for slowing enemies down to keep them within range of towers for longer, and although they’ll eventually die, they’ll respawn at a barracks and automatically return to the fight. Further tactical options are provided by purchasing economy focused buildings to increase gold production, buff other nearby towers or buildings, and earn stars which can be spent on passive bonuses. At the end of each day you’ll choose one of three random items, which could be a new tower, unit, building, a passive upgrade for something you’ve already unlocked, and there are various spells which can damage or slow enemies, or heal your units. Killing enemies will also give you hex shaped tiles which can be placed to expand the map and create longer paths. If you’re able to loop two paths around so they connect, those portals will be permanently closed, reducing the number of enemies that will spawn during each day. Tiles are randomly generated which means you don’t always get the path layout you need to close portals efficiently. This has definitely made me lose some runs earlier than I otherwise would have, but its not a problem in every run. While you can win a run by closing all portals, most of the achievements and other things you can unlock want you to leave at least one portal open, and keep playing to survive for as many days as possible. Every time an enemy reaches the castle, you’ll lose health, and the run ends when your castle health reaches zero. It might be possible to survive indefinitely, but buying towers and upgrades gets progressively more expensive, while enemies get extra health and armour if there aren’t enough open portals. Every completed run will give you points to spend on the talent tree to unlock new towers, buildings, units, spells, or passive upgrades such as more castle health, increased tower attack range, faster gold production, or a chance to choose two items per day. There are six maps which have unique conditions, for example the snowland map gives you a frost spell to slow enemy movement, while the rockland map lets you build towers on top of mountains for increased attack range. And there are weekly and roguelite challenge modes which give you specific loadouts. The only real problem that the game has is a lack of variety for long term replayability. While you’ll get different combinations of towers, buildings, units and spells in each run, they never significantly change my overall tactic of “close most portals as soon as possible and focus defences on one or two long paths”. My last few runs which I’ve done for achievement hunting have started to feel a bit repetitive. However, the purchase price is cheap, so its definitely worth buying even if you only get a few hours out of it.
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---see where this game landed on my tower defense tier list beneath this review!--- HexGuardian combines the tile-laying aspect of something like Dorfromantik with Roguelike Tower Defense. You'll build lot's of paths and rivers based on the tiles that come up for you, and you have a massive upgrade tree of unlocks which is fun to chip away at (rogue-lite style upgrades). I've read some of the negative reviews and I think there's a lot of valid criticism; I feel like the game could be better balanced and tweaked and that its full potential isn't realised. Regardless of that, it's very fun for those first few hours at the very least before you do or don't reach those same conclusions. I've enjoyed engaging with it, even if it hasn't panned out to be as great as it aspires to be. Worth picking up on a deep sale. ===================== My Tower Defense Tier List ===================== -Not an objective list, purely how much I enjoyed the games- S Tier: X-Morph Defense | Warcraft 3 (Custom TD Maps) | Orcs Must Die! | Orcs Must Die! 2 | Orcs Must Die! 3 | A Tier: Dungeon Warfare | Plants Vs. Zombies | Warstone TD | Fieldrunners 2 | B Tier: Tower Tactics: Liberation | Spirit of the Hellements | Revenge of the Titans | Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal | Digs | Gross | C Tier (Fun) : Kingdom Rush | Defenders Quest: Valley of the Forgotten | Prime World Defenders | Dungeon of the Endless | Refactor | Dungeon Warfare 2 | Digfender | HexGuardian | D Tier (Meh) : Carnage Offering TD | Starship Defense | Isle of Arrows | Unstoppable Gorg | 2112TD | Ancient Planet | Fieldrunners | Infinitode | Element TD 2 | Space Run | Bloons TD 5 | Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows | Gemcraft: Frostborn Wrath | Deathtrap | Terrorhedron | Dungeon Defenders | Dwarfs!? (Tower Defense Mode) | Shapebreaker | Alien Shooter TD | E Tier (Didn’t like) : Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves | Sentinel 3: Homeworld | Unholy Heights | Rock of Ages 3 | Infested Planet | Monster Tiles TD | Cubetractor | Defense Grid: The Awakening | Sanctum 2 | Super Sanctum TD | Steamworld Tower Defense | Rogue Tower | No Creeps Were Harmed TD | ========================== Played many more than this, but many forgettable TD’s I have.. “forgotten” when making this list.
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This is a great little tower defense game with roguelike talent system and a neat feature where you build the map as you play. you can get strategic not only with your defenses, but in how you build the map as you progress the level. very fun. highly recommend if you enjoy tower defense games. no microtransactions is a bonus! those always ruin the tower defense genre on mobile.
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Great game, however, after level 40 it's almost unplayable due to low performance (1-5 FPS).
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Hexguardian is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.
Hexguardian is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 11.79€ on Steam.
Hexguardian received 496 positive votes out of a total of 619 achieving a rating of 7.58.
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Hexguardian was developed by Split Second Games and published by Yogscast Games.
Hexguardian is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Hexguardian is not playable on MacOS.
Hexguardian is not playable on Linux.
Hexguardian is a single-player game.
Hexguardian does not currently offer any DLC.
Hexguardian does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Hexguardian does not support Steam Remote Play.
Hexguardian is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Split Second Games
Publisher
Yogscast Games
Release
02 May 2024
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