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Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes

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88%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, grinding
88% User Score Based on 1,460 reviews

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About Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes is a single player and multiplayer economy turn-based strategy game with fantasy, economy and dark fantasy themes. It was developed by Home Net Games and was released on December 22, 2017. It received positive reviews from players.

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88%Audience ScoreBased on 1,460 reviews
story118 positive mentions
monetization45 negative mentions

  • Engaging and challenging turn-based strategy gameplay with a rich storyline across multiple races and campaigns.
  • High-quality graphics and sound, offering an immersive fantasy experience similar to classic strategy games.
  • Fair monetization approach with no pay-to-win elements, allowing free-to-play users to progress through strategy and skill.
  • Long and sometimes tedious enemy and ally turns without a skip feature, leading to slower gameplay pace.
  • Issues with account saving and cloud synchronization causing loss of progress and purchases for some players.
  • Multiplayer mode is often unstable or suffers from lack of active players, making online play difficult to enjoy.
  • story

    250 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    47% positive mentions, 52% neutral mentions, 1% negative mentions

    The game's story mode is highly praised for its engaging, well-crafted, and varied campaigns across multiple races, offering a rich tactical experience without pay-to-win elements. Players appreciate the interconnected and intriguing storylines, but some note difficulty spikes, lack of mission numbering, and limited content as drawbacks. There is strong demand for additional missions, expanded storylines, new races, and continued updates to enhance the storytelling experience.

    • “Overall, a mind blowing story line and when you play it you will see how all the missions are connected to each other.”
    • “The storylines are so intriguing sometimes I find myself playing it for hours.”
    • “This game is the best strategy game ever made. The storyline and the contents are commendable.”
    • “The elven story is broken.”
    • “Also kind of repetitive missions.”
    • “Besides the dwarven mission, the way the missions are scattered about the map means that I can't remember what order to go in.”
  • graphics

    141 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    74% positive mentions, 22% neutral mentions, 4% negative mentions

    The game’s graphics are generally praised for being detailed, vibrant, and impressive especially given its low file size, contributing to an engaging and nostalgic experience. However, some users feel the graphics could be improved, suggesting options for adjustable quality and enhancements to character and battlefield visuals to boost player interest. Overall, the visuals are considered solid and fitting for the strategy gameplay, though a few note occasional shortcomings in depth or modernity.

    • “This game has a solid story mode, graphics are great, perfect balance of challenging yet easy enough to comply after a few goes (in normal mode), no crashes yet, variety of units, great strategic gameplay simple to handle controls... I cannot recommend or rate this game highly enough.... it's not p2w and the ads are few enough to bear.”
    • “For a game with very low MB, it has incredible HD graphics with very realistic features.”
    • “Strategic/casual gameplay, beautifully designed, stunning graphics and great narrative.”
    • “Graphics are poorly done and the game literally makes no sense.”
    • “I can't understand this game, its graphics are so bad.”
    • “Ok graphics but fails to engage, dull, boring.”
  • gameplay

    52 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    73% positive mentions, 21% neutral mentions, 6% negative mentions

    The gameplay is widely praised for its strategic depth, smooth turn-based mechanics, and variety of units and missions, making it engaging and addictive. Users appreciate the balance of challenge and accessibility, with simple controls and good graphics enhancing the experience. Some suggest improvements such as adding counterattacks, more units, and additional tactical features like barricades or army maneuvers to further enrich gameplay.

    • “This game has a solid story mode, great strategic gameplay with simple controls, perfect balance of challenging yet easy enough to complete after a few tries, variety of units, and no pay-to-win elements.”
    • “There is great strategy and tactical gameplay, none of this brainless auto play junk, with a ton of variability in missions and a myriad of different factions and units.”
    • “Balanced gameplay, simple controls, and a 4 race campaign make for an incredible experience.”
    • “I really dislike the map layouts, the movement rates, the army setups, and basically everything else about the gameplay.”
    • “Just thought the gameplay would eventually get repetitive.”
    • “Need graphics and gameplay improvements.”
  • monetization

    51 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    8% positive mentions, 4% neutral mentions, 88% negative mentions

    Monetization in this game is a mixed experience: many users appreciate the fair pricing, absence of pay-to-win mechanics, and the option to remove ads, while others find the frequent, often intrusive ads—especially mid-game interruptions and long forced ads—detract significantly from gameplay enjoyment. Developers are praised for responsive support and reasonable in-app purchase practices, but ad placement and frequency remain a common frustration.

    • “Though above all the best thing about this game is that Hex Commander Games was so precise and timely with any glitch or mistake in app purchases, I have never experienced a faster or more polite response.”
    • “Everything about it is awesome, fully offline, free-to-play friendly, and no ads.”
    • “I very rarely spend money on microtransactions and in-app purchases, but this one made me feel like it was well worth it.”
    • “After seeing the ads right in the middle of the screen, I cannot for a single moment believe that the devs will provide an enjoyable playing experience.”
    • “But recently, 30 seconds ads were added to force you to buy the ad remover... not good.”
    • “So many things wrong with this game; for example, I get spammed with like 30 ads every second.”
  • grinding

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is often described as tedious and time-consuming, especially during larger battles and at higher difficulty levels. While some players appreciate that campaigns can be completed without spending money, many note that extensive grinding or ad-watching is required. The grind can feel repetitive, impacting the overall enjoyment for some users.

    • “90% of my time is spent playing easy missions I've already won by the 3rd move... tedious to move troop story writing sucks after human ideas - harder modes available off get go.”
    • “No purchases needed to play, but expect a lot of grinding or ad-watching.”
    • “Hours of fun, but it tends to get grindy at higher difficulty levels.”
  • replayability

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    60% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 40% negative mentions

    The game offers strong replayability primarily through its skirmish and PvP modes, providing endless engagement for many players. However, the lack of a sandbox mode may limit replay value for some, especially over extended periods without play.

    • “Skirmish mode and PvP battles make this replayable over and over.”
    • “PvP and skirmish modes and replayability could go to a whole new level with that.”
    • “Endless replay value too.”
    • “Looks like a good game but without a sandbox mode, I don't know what its replay value would be.”
    • “Have replay value if you didn't play for such a long time.”
  • stability

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from frequent stability issues, including occasional freezes and glitches, particularly in specific campaign missions like the goblin and dwarfen campaigns. These bugs hinder smooth gameplay and affect the overall experience.

    • “It's a good strategy game but like so many Android app games, it's full of glitches.”
    • “There is a glitch in the goblin campaign mission called 'Source of Rain' where Lupis' dialogue freezes the game after turn 3.”
    • “The dwarfen campaign is very buggy.”
  • music

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music in the game is highly praised, featuring a very nice soundtrack that complements the overall experience. Users appreciate its quality alongside the graphics and storyline.

    • “The graphics, music, and the storyline of this game are really very nice.”
    • “Even has a good soundtrack.”
  • humor

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is noted for its light, comedic elements, particularly through the greenskin storyline featuring an amusing orc character. However, some players focus more on gameplay frustrations than on humor. Overall, the comedic aspects add a charming touch to the experience.

    • “The best game, I love the greenskin storyline with an idiotic orc who loves to crush enemies. It has a little funny comedy too.”
  • optimization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features good graphics and runs smoothly without performance issues. Players appreciate the optimization but hope for further improvements in future updates.

    • “Good graphics, I've not experienced any problems with performance, and it has an original story.”
  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users find the game emotionally engaging, with in-app purchases feeling genuinely worthwhile and enhancing their overall experience.

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Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes is a economy turn-based strategy game with fantasy, economy and dark fantasy themes. Common tags for Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes include free to play, turn-based, indie, stylized, hex grid and others.

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes is available on PC, Mac OS, Phone, iPad and others.

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes was released on December 22, 2017.

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes was developed by Home Net Games.

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes for its story but disliked it for its monetization.

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Age of Strategy, Powerlust: Offline Dungeon RPG, Zombie Defense, Kingdom Rush, UniWar and others.