The Hex Grid Zone

Games using hexagonal maps for movement, positioning, tactics, or strategy.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

In Falsus - Players say: Follow five high-school girls drawn into a government program through a visual novel, mouse-and-keyboard rhythm battles, and card puzzles. Players like: Music and song selection are frequently praised for their range and quality. · The unusual, challenging rhythm gameplay appeals to players who enjoy learning its keyboard-and-mouse controls. · Players praise the visual-novel presentation, voice work, characters, or story; opinions on the writing and pacing vary. ·
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In a world bound by truths: connect. In Falsus is a mesmerizing rhythm game tied to an intricate card system brought together through a layered narrative. Taking place in a near-future world, traverse an atmospheric soundscape through the eyes of 5 interconnected protagonists.

Veterum - Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!
Feed the Scorchpot - A dice roguelike about feeding a dragon for twenty years. Roll ingredients, build your island, and fuse absurd recipes into combos that break the score wide open. Miss a meal and you're next on the menu.
Fight Life: Vanguard - Engage in tactical turn-based combat, manage and upgrade each character, and strive to reclaim harmony in a world on the brink of oblivion. Take on the mantle of leadership as you guide a mercenary squad through perilous landscapes, selecting your comrades from a diverse pool of skilled recruits.
Hive Blight - Hive Blight is a roguelite autobattler where you lead a team of insect warriors against a corrupting Fungal Threat. Build powerful synergies, uncover the source of the plague, and destroy it to save your world!
Disciples: Domination - Rule through the chaos! Fifteen years after Avyanna freed Nevendaar, Disciples: Domination returns you to a realm hanging in the balance. In this dark fantasy strategy RPG with turn-based combat, take your place on Queen Avyanna’s throne – holding together a crumbling kingdom.
Be Queen Bee - "Be Queen Bee" is an action-strategy game where you become the Queen Bee and command your swarm with pheromones. Defeat predators, seize flower fields to escape hunger, evolve your swarm with honey, and strategize in real time to secure victory.
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Feb 4, 2026
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Yield! Fall of Rome - Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Rogue Hex - Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Frosthaven - Players say: Lead a band of mercenaries through a harsh fantasy campaign, pairing ability cards for hex-grid battles and building an outpost. Players like: Tactical Card Combat · Distinct Character Classes · Automated Tabletop Upkeep ·
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From the creative mind of Isaac Childres, the highly acclaimed board game moves to the digital realm in the video game adaptation of FROSTHAVEN! The dark fantasy tactical RPG features deep mechanics and challenging yet satisfying gameplay both in Single Player and Co-Op Online Multiplayer.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Ukraine Defense Force Tactics - Turn-based strategy in which you lead a heroic defense of Ukraine under siege by the despicable Russian Z force. Outmaneuver an endless deluge of enemies using combined infantry-and-armor tactics to survive against all odds.
HyperRogue - Time moves when you move in a truly non-Euclidean world
Hex of Steel - Players say: Lead WWII forces across hex-based campaigns and scenarios, balancing combat, supply, and national strategy across multiple fronts. Players like: Scenario Variety · Tactical Depth · Accessible Rules ·
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Hex of Steel is a refreshing WWII wargame covering all fronts featuring a certain amount of original mechanics. Fight in solo against finally a decent AI throughout Europe, Africa or the Pacific, or against a friend in the cross-platform PBEM or real time multiplayer. Coop is also an option!

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Aug 31, 2020
95% 👍
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MicroTown - Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Railway Islands - Puzzle - Railway Islands is a puzzle game about designing a railway map for a large archipelago. Make a safe path between the stations and let your train deliver all the resources and go to the next island.
Can't Live Without Electricity - Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.
Morphblade - Players say: Move across a hex grid where each tile changes your weapon, then reshape the board and its abilities to survive bug waves. Players like: Tactical Puzzle Combat · Flexible Tile Builds · Quick Play Sessions ·
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In Morphblade you move around a grid slicing, smashing and bursting waves of nasty red bugs. Each tile you move to transforms you into a different weapon: on a Blades hex you can slice enemies on either side of you, on an Arrow you can launch yourself through two enemies in a row.

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Mar 3, 2017
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Strategic Command: World War I - Strategic Command: World War I is a new chapter in the Strategic Command Franchise. Relive this momentous conflict from the opening shots of 1914 to the final offensives. Strategic Command: World War I covers all the main aspects and theatres of the war.
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Dec 5, 2019
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MoteMancer - An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 - War in the East 2 is the most comprehensive, most realistic, and most advanced wargame modeling Eastern Front warfare in World War Two.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Hexcells - Players say: Solve handcrafted hex-grid puzzles by using nearby and line clues to identify filled cells through deduction, not guesswork. Players like: No-Guess Deduction · Satisfying Solutions · Calm Music ·
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Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

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Feb 19, 2014
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Hexcells Infinite - Players say: Deduce mine locations on hexagonal boards across 36 crafted puzzles, then play seeded random boards and puzzles made by players. Players like: Satisfying Logic Puzzles · Random Puzzle Generator · Calm Minimal Presentation ·
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Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Sid Meier's Civilization® V - Players say: Lead a civilization from its first settlement into the space age, balancing city growth, research, diplomacy, and hex-grid warfare. Players like: Endless Replayability · Accessible Strategic Depth · Tactical Hex Combat ·
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Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

Hexcells Plus - Players say: Use numerical clues to identify filled and empty cells on hexagonal grids across 36 increasingly intricate logic puzzles. Players like: Logical Deduction · Escalating Challenge · Calm Soundtrack ·
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Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

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Feb 19, 2014
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Battle for Wesnoth - Players say: Lead fantasy armies through story campaigns and hex-grid battles, balancing terrain, unit growth, and risky combat odds. Players like: Tactical Positioning · Campaign Variety · Community-Made Content ·
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The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Explore the four corners of Irdya in seventeen solo campaigns and dozens of multiplayer maps, taking part in countless adventures as you go.

Alina of the Arena - Players say: Fight as a gladiator in a hex-grid arena, building a card deck and using movement, knockbacks, and weapons to survive. Players like: Tactical Positioning · Card-Weapon Combos · Satisfying Combat ·
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A roguelike deckbuilding tactics game that combines elements from 'Slay the Spire' and 'Into the Breach'. Play as a gladiator to survive. With roguelike deckbuilding and hex-based tactics, no longer bound by simple attack and defense. Make use of dodges and knockbacks to stay alive!

Panzer Corps Gold - Players say: Lead a WWII army through turn-based hex battles, balancing unit composition, terrain, and campaign decisions across scenarios. Players like: Panzer General Nostalgia · Hex-Based Tactical Battles · Campaigns and Scenarios ·
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The ultimate edition of Panzer Corps, containing hundreds of scenarios and all its expansions. Panzer Corps Gold is the culmination of the wargame that has enthralled millions of fans all around the globe, and now it’s your chance to fully experience a real classic.

King's Bounty: Crossworlds - Players say: Lead Princess Amelie across a fantasy world, recruiting troops for hex-grid battles and developing her hero and dragon. Players like: Tactical Army Battles · Unit and Spell Variety · Replayable Class Builds ·
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King’s Bounty: Crossworlds is a standalone expansion that includes Armored Princess, two additional campaigns, and a world editor, expanding the classic King’s Bounty formula with new challenges and content.

Curious Expedition - Players say: Lead a 19th-century expedition through shifting wilderness, managing supplies and sanity as you search for treasure and golden pyramids. Players like: Replayable Expedition Runs · Risky Resource Decisions · Emergent Adventure Stories ·
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Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

King's Bounty: The Legend - Players say: Explore Endoria as a royal treasure hunter, completing quests and building a creature army for turn-based tactical battles. Players like: Fantasy Atmosphere · Tactical Army Combat · Exploration And Quests ·
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King’s Bounty: The Legend is a fan-favorite classic fantasy adventure and an early entry into the modern King’s Bounty era, built around tough battles, smart decisions, and turn-based tactics.

King's Bounty: Armored Princess - Players say: As Princess Amelie, explore Teana to find Bill Gilbert, recruit armies, and command hex-grid battles with a growing pet dragon. Players like: Tactical Battles · Army Building · Fantasy World ·
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King’s Bounty: Armored Princess builds on the foundation of The Legend, expanding the classic formula with deeper turn-based tactics, a huge hand-crafted world, and new mechanics that change how you approach battles and progression.