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World of Hex – Entertainment Game Review
World of Hex is a Entertainment/Board/Strategy game from Peter Easdown, first launched in 17th May 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 42+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes World of Hex Stand Out
Make your stamp on the worlds of our Solar System!
World of Hex is a game of strategy played on a board as big as our solar system where the populated areas of the worlds are divided into hexagonal tiles, and each of those tiles is a game board — with a state that is alive in the cloud.
When you play a game within a tile, that tile stays as you left it until either you, or another player, chooses to play there too.
So you can claim territory by playing and winning, but you don’t only play for yourself; you also play for your faction.
What happens when you aren’t playing? What happens to the territory you’ve claimed? Well, you have an AI that will defend it for you.
When you start playing, your AI will only know a couple of commands, however as you build up more XP and level-up, you’ll be able to configure your AI to do more, and defend your territory with more ability. After some play, you will earn the ability to program your AI.
If you like a strategy, turn based game, then World of Hex is both simple to play but world-spanning in its scope.
Please note that World of Hex makes use of iCloud and as such, requires you to be logged into iCloud on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV. On your iPhone or iPad please also be sure that you have iCloud Drive enabled. Apple requires this for World of Hex to operate correctly.
Game Story:
Society as we know it has failed.
Thanks to flawed political systems, global warming, and the reckless exploitation of resources, all of the old boundaries and loyalties are gone.
We live in a world where everyone belongs to one of four factions who are constantly vying for control over the Solar System.
Humanities colonies have been divided into world tiles. Control over these world tiles is contested by members of each faction.
This is where you come in. The more often you play, the more you can do for your faction. Your faction needs you!
Each world tile is further broken into territories. Control of a tile is achieved by ensuring that your faction controls the most territory within the tile.
Territory is claimed by building settlements that influence the surrounding territory. Enemies can threaten you, and overwhelm you if you don't defend effectively.
Settlements can be reinforced either by building them up, or spreading out and taking neighboring territory.
v2.0 and later versions of the game support an alternate story behind the game, though the game play is the same. For fans of The Expanse™, there are a number of optional visual elements that have been added. These are available via the themes button once you have access to your AI. Please note that these visual elements are provided as a tribute to The Expanse™ and in no way represent an offical endorsement of World of Hex.
v5.0 and later versions provide extensive support for Voice Over and provide two high contrast palettes designed for people who experience some forms of colour blindness. The palettes can be chosen from the Settings panel
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, World of Hex is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th March 2023
Recent improvements include:
For those of you that have been asking, there is now a new button on the settings panel that allows you to reset tips.
Download & Availability
World of Hex is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game has a simple and fascinating concept with a unique puzzle design and a seemingly endless playtime for planetary domination. This game is close to being 5 stars, and we would highly recommend this to all our friends if not for a few in game nuances. There could be some more explanation for things that happen in the game that would be nice. The player is told if a tile is locked or too heavily populated, but the player does not know how long until the tile will be available again. The scoreboard and leaderboard are good trackers, but its vague, and doesnt show things like how many players are on each team or how many tiles each person has taken. This is still a fun game, and great way to fill time, but it feels more like a single player campaign for domination than a multiplayer team game that could feel more immersive. Im sure there are other things to be fixed, and its isnt easy, but we think this game could be much better with a few tweaks, and it would pay off.
Says its compatible with our iPad but every time we get to the point where we have to upload a nickname and press enter it crashes.
Ive seen similar complaints about this, but Ive just downloaded the game clicked to not allow notifications and then it shows that it cant load our user record please try again later.
Just bought this game for the first time and as soon as we open it up, it gives us a quick loading screen and then gives the message unable to load your user record. Please try again later we have closed out the app and tried multiple times to open it with the same result. It shows us the Earth and we can spin it around and look at it and zoom in, but there is nothing to interact with. Please help! It looks like a promising game.
Stuck at finding you in the system.
We have played this game for a long enough time to have seen continents change colors as they are conquered by different factions. It is a great strategy game and the expansion to other planets made it even better.
Took a moment to acquaint ourselves with the type of strategy, but once discovered, quite enjoyable… If only someone could create a mobile version to Gloomhaven or Firefly…hmmm.
Well we really do like how the game is payed out to take over hexes and fight. We love how its allowing space takeover. Just that we dont know what to do at all we mean we know the basic to attack by clicking on hexes and placing the hexes to take over others. As we didnt intend to download or buy this game. We wanted to look at the game as we accidentally did our finger print and downloaded and used our money to buy this game. We wanted the game but didnt look if it was free which was stupid of us. But the game might be good if it had a more intended tutorial and a more practice based selection for practicing how to do things. It might be good but its kinda a just gonna be sitting in our storage until we finally declare to delete it still figuring it out. Good luck everyone with the game. This game definitely dont fit us.
When we are in the loading screen it crashes, tried it 20 to 30 times and it crash. Please fix this or give us our money back.
It crashes nonstop, we cant play for longer than 20 seconds without the game crashing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.0.1
- Size: 448.67 MB
- iOS: 12.4 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Peter Easdown]()
Last updated: 8th March 2023 | Genre: Entertainment, Board | Developer: Peter Easdown