HexStermination

About the game

Command one of four sci-fi armies on a hex board where every tile fires at once. Place, move and rotate your tiles, aim their guns and shields, and be the last one standing. Play against the computer, with friends on the same PC, or online with 2 to 4 players.

Descrição original no Steam

HexStermination is a turn-based sci-fi strategy game played with hexagonal tiles on a hexagonal board. Each tile is a unit with four numbers: life, attack, defense and range. Its sides tell the rest: a triangle is a gun, a line is a shield, a blank side is exposed.

Draw from your shuffled army stack, place your units, then take turns moving or rotating one tile at a time. When the attack phase begins, every unit on the board fires at the same moment. Shots travel straight from each gun up to the unit's range and hit the first enemy in their path. Shields soak up damage, exposed sides take it all, and your own units never block or hurt each other.



Positioning is everything. Turn a shield toward the sniper, slide a gun into an open lane, and set up the volley that clears the board.



Each army has its own strength, its own army-wide ability and its own champion: a single, much stronger tile that can turn a match.

• Tanks: the toughest hulls on the field. Repair: a tank that goes a whole round without being hit recovers 1 life. Champion: the Mobile Fortress.
  
• Troopers: the hardest hitters. Squad Fire: +1 attack when standing next to another trooper facing the same direction. Weak alone, deadly in formation. Champion: the Elite Commander.
  
• Mechs: walls of armor. Free Rotation: they can move and turn in the same action. Champion: the Titan.
  
• Flyers: the longest reach. Flight: they move by jumping over other tiles. Champion: the Flagship.

Every army also has four special items, all available from the start: support tiles that repair, boost or shield nearby units, one-shot explosives like mines and grenades, and machines like the Carrier that launches drones. In the deck screen you choose the 17 tiles you take into battle: keep the standard deck, or swap some units for items to suit your plan. Your deck comes with you online too.

• Against the computer: train, test an army or play a quick match on your own.
  
• Same PC: 2 to 4 players taking turns on one screen, mixing humans and computer opponents as you like.
  
• Online: matchmaking for 2, 3 or 4 players, with a 10-second turn timer that keeps every match moving, and a leaderboard of online wins.

Cross-platform matchmaking is built in and will open up as HexStermination reaches more platforms.



Choose the battlefield before every match:

• Standard: the classic hexagon, side 4.
  
• Large: side 5, more room to maneuver.
  
• Elongated: a stretched hexagon that forces long front lines.

Neutral concrete blocks fill the cells the armies don't use, one always in the center and the others scattered by the match seed. They stop every shot that reaches them, have shields on all six sides and can be destroyed to open a new lane of fire.

• A die roll decides who starts, and the first player rotates every round.
  
• Two match modes: play until the stacks run out, or fight only with the units that fit on the board.
  
• From round 10 every hit deals +1 damage, and +2 from round 15, so no match stalls.
  
• After round 20 the player with the most units on the board wins.

Easy to learn in one match, with enough depth in facing, range and timing to keep you coming back.