Best Hex Grid Games on Steam
Games using hexagonal maps for movement, positioning, tactics, or strategy.
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1Sid Meier's Civilization® V - Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Sep 21, 2010
In this game, you can…
- open your borders to Gandhi, then watch him pillage your land, annex cities, denounce you, and launch nukes anyway.
- send a nuclear fleet across the world, punch through a submarine blockade, fire the warheads, then drop XCOM squads to seize the top superpower's capital before the space race ends.
- absorb a nearby city-state instantly, then trigger a chain-reaction war where your allies help wipe out an empire.
- start in 4000 BC with one settler and build a world empire.
- win wars by pure positioning, using terrain choke points while cities shoot enemies from two tiles away.
- bribe leaders and city-states into alliances until a few denouncements turn into a globe-spanning world war.
- fight late-game resource wars where uranium decides everything, nuclear subs blockade coasts, cruisers break through, and XCOM drops capture capitals.
- race two victories at once, then lose one turn before winning because another nation hits a different win condition first.
- build famous wonders in completely wrong places, like the Great Pyramids in Honolulu or the Great Wall of Portugal.
2Pit People® - In this fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species! Come master your destiny in this strategic game of positioning.
Mar 2, 2018
In this game, you can…
- capture the last enemy alive by throwing a recruit cage on them, adding them to your squad after the fight.
- ride a nitro chariot around the world, make it poop on command, and fire rockets from it.
- get a city picked up and relocated by a giant bear narrator every third return, changing where you're living on the world map.
- block with a huge strip of bacon, swing a spatula like a sword, and build real tactics around hotdog bows and fish swords.
- heal allies with cupcakes that slowly sacrifice themselves and fling frosting, but can't heal other cupcakes.
- set up a formation, then watch adjacency make units attack the "wrong" target and trigger messy chains of hits, dodges, splash, and accidental friendly fire.
- pair units around weird matchup rules, like gnomes healing electrobots when cupcakes can't, and rebuild your team around those constraints.
- run squads like 6 zombies and 1 mascot, or 4 robots and 2 gnomes, then double the roster in co-op for even stranger builds.
- start as a blueberry farmer and get pushed by the narrator into a revenge quest against a huge bear floating in space.
3Opus Magnum - Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Dec 7, 2017
In this game, you can…
- place your inputs and outputs anywhere, then build across an effectively unlimited grid with the full toolset from the start.
- export your working solution as an animated GIF that loops forever and share the machine in motion.
- turn raw materials into stranger products by bonding, unbonding, and transforming them in long repeating chains of steps.
- build a ridiculous sprawling machine that still passes as long as it keeps producing the right product.
- script each arm step by step on a looping timeline, then watch the whole factory move in sync like sheet music.
- solve a puzzle, check your rank for cost/cycles/area, then immediately rebuild to climb the histograms.
- make wildly different valid machines for the same puzzle, then come back later and prove a totally new layout still works.
4Battle for Wesnoth - 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.
May 1, 2018
In this game, you can…
- fight battles with up to nine commanders and hundreds of units spread across a huge map.
- create and share entire new campaigns, factions, and game modes, turning the base game into dozens of different genres.
- carry veteran survivors from one scenario into the next, then spend village gold to recruit fresh troops around them.
- time full offensives around day and night, pushing at dawn and falling back to villages before undead surge after dark.
- turn forests, hills, and mountains into near-untouchable strongholds, then watch a barely-alive unit level up mid-fight and flip the flank.
- play missions where the goal is to survive, escort, or hold out until reinforcements arrive, then break out when the script turns.
- level a rookie into a powerhouse, choosing upgrade paths until your former expendable soldier becomes the core of your army.
- sacrifice waves of cheap units to grind down an enemy leader through pure attrition until they finally collapse.
5Hexcells - Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Feb 19, 2014
In this game, you can…
- solve every puzzle by deduction without ever needing to guess.
- use bracket and dash symbols that tell you whether blue cells in a line must be consecutive or separated.
- click a number outside the grid to strike through an entire row once you've ruled it out, changing how you work the board.
- combine row, column, and diagonal clues to lock in the exact hex pattern instead of just counting neighbors.
- start with almost no information, then trigger a chain of forced moves where one line clue makes another clue suddenly collapse into certainty.
- track a global "remaining blue tiles" count to solve areas based on what the whole board still allows.
- make a single clean run where you can keep playing after mistakes, but only a perfect solve earns the top result.
6NEO Scavenger - NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Dec 15, 2014
In this game, you can…
- walk into a high-security base where automated defenses can microwave you, then survive by wearing a suit made of potato chip bags.
- pull an arrow out of your own body and use it to kill the attacker.
- track someone across the wasteland, catch them slowly pushing your shopping cart away, discover a dead body stuffed in it, and take your supplies back by force.
- wake up in a cryo lab with no memory while something huge stomps down the hall, and your first crisis depends on the skills you picked before you understood anything.
- turn trash into survival gear, like using a plastic grocery bag as your first backpack and upgrading into hauling wood and water.
- craft weapons and tools from scrap, like hardening a spear, making a noise trap from a pill bottle and pebbles, or turning binoculars into a rifle scope.
- fight in text-driven brawls where you trip, crawl, tackle, demand surrender, and stab with whatever broken tool you're holding.
- hack old devices for valuable data, unlock security, and make improvised tech tricks actually work.
7Hexcells Infinite - Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Sep 1, 2014
In this game, you can…
- enter an eight-digit seed, generate a new board instantly, and share that exact puzzle with friends.
- build your own puzzle in an editor and have an auto-solver verify it's solvable with zero guessing.
- use edge numbers and special symbols to prove which tiles are mines without guessing.
- watch one correct deduction pop open a whole cluster of hexes.
- crank up hard mode and solve generated boards with stripped-back clues that still stay purely logical.
- save mid-puzzle on a massive board, quit, and resume later exactly where you left off.
- play through handcrafted boards so large they can take hours to finish, all from deduction alone.
- finish a tough board flawlessly, with zero mistakes, after a long chain of careful reveals.
8Curious Expedition - 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.
Sep 2, 2016
In this game, you can…
- use one mushroom to cure Alcoholism, Malaria, and Racism in a single bite.
- raise a raptor from an egg, read the Necronomicon, accidentally create an abomination, then have your pet dinosaur help kill it.
- steal a shiny relic from a shrine and immediately trigger a volcanic eruption that turns the whole region into a running escape.
- arrive at the golden pyramid loaded with treasure, realize you're missing the key, detour to a distant tomb, then watch your party collapse into murder and cannibalism on the way back.
- get a tribe to hand over a Triceratops like a pack animal, adopt an orphaned raptor, and escape a volcanic inferno while riding the raptor.
- find an egg planning to sell it, watch it hatch into a tortoise companion, keep it alive for most of the expedition, then end up eating it near the finish.
- buy a strange scroll, accidentally transform a party member into a hulking cannibal monster, then kill and eat the monster later.
9Alina of the Arena - 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!
Oct 13, 2022
In this game, you can…
- play to the crowd so they throw weapons, potions, traps, and other items into the arena for you to grab mid-fight.
- pick up a weapon off the arena floor and use it immediately without spending energy.
- push enemies into walls to stun them, or knock them into each other so they take damage from the collision.
- swap places with an enemy.
- dual wield, go sword-and-shield, or run a two-handed weapon so each hand boosts different cards.
- turn a single turn into a chain: jump over an enemy, stomp them, slam them into a wall, then finish by making two enemies hit each other.
- apply bleed or fire, step out of danger, then grab a rock on your new tile and throw it to interrupt a spellcaster mid-cast.
- end fights by baiting enemies into bad hexes so their own attacks hit their allies instead of you.
10King's Bounty: The Legend - 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.
May 1, 2009
In this game, you can…
- marry a princess, a frog princess, or even a zombie queen—and you can turn someone into a zombie so she can stay with her lover.
- have kids with your spouse and get skill bonuses from them as a literal progression system.
- dodge roaming monsters in real time, bait them around terrain, and slip past fights you can't win yet.
- carry a cursed Chest of Rage that binds to you and unlocks its own battle powers as your treasure hunt turns into a world-saving quest.
- right-click an enemy on the map to instantly see if it's weak or basically invincible before you commit.
- watch every hit shrink an enemy troop stack as you choose targets to permanently reduce their numbers and damage output.
- inscribe spell scrolls into your spellbook permanently, so one lucky find can redefine your whole run.
- use a separate rage meter in fights to trigger special powers that can swing a battle beyond normal spells and moves.
- start a new run and find totally different early creatures and shop gear, forcing a new army plan from the beginning.
