Hexguardian

Hexguardian

Split Second Games · May 2, 2024 · Tower Defense, Cartoony, Roguelite, Roguelike, Strategy

Buy the Hexguardian key for Steam from GAMIVO at $0.63 — the cheapest of 28 stores we compare.

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$0.63-92%
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Where to buy Hexguardian — official stores

Fanatical
Standard Edition · Steam
-92%
$0.95
$11.99
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Steam
Steam
Standard Edition · Steam
-90%
$1.19
$11.99
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WinGameStore
WinGameStore
Standard Edition · Steam
-90%
$1.19
$11.99
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GameBillet
GameBillet
Standard Edition · Steam
-17%
$9.90
$11.99
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GamersGate
GamersGate
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$10.79
$11.99
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PlanetPlay
PlanetPlay
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$10.79
$11.99
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Gamesplanet
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$10.79
$11.99
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Zapagames
Zapagames
Standard Edition · Steam
-9%
$10.86
$11.99
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GreenManGaming
Standard Edition · Steam
$11.99
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AllYouPlay
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Standard Edition · Ubisoft Connect
$11.99
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Newegg
Newegg
Standard Edition · Steam
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Humble Store
Humble Store
Standard Edition · Steam
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IndieGala Store
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Standard Edition · Steam
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Epic Game Store
Epic Game Store
Standard Edition · Epic Games
$11.99
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DLGamer
DLGamer
Standard Edition · Steam
$11.99
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JoyBuggy
JoyBuggy
Standard Edition · Steam
$11.99
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Cheapest Hexguardian keys — keyshops

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GAMIVO
Standard Edition · Steam
$0.63
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Driffle INC
Standard Edition · Steam
$1.33
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Eneba
Standard Edition · Steam
$1.44
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Gameseal
Standard Edition · Steam
$1.57
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Loaded
Standard Edition · Steam
-85%
$1.99
$13.49
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CJS CD Keys
CJS CD Keys
Standard Edition · Steam
$2.03
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Kinguin
Standard Edition · Steam
$2.10
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YUPLAY
Standard Edition · Steam
-53%
$6.23
$13.15
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Playsum
Playsum
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$10.79
$11.99
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PlayerLand
PlayerLand
Standard Edition · Steam
-4%
$11.49
$11.99
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Gamesporium
Gamesporium
Standard Edition · Steam
$11.99
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Dreamgame
Dreamgame
Standard Edition · Steam
$11.99
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Hexguardian price by region

Hexguardian costs €0.56 in Europe (EUR), $0.63 in the United States, $0.63 in Georgia (USD), £0.79 in the United Kingdom, CA$1.23 in Canada, A$1.41 in Australia, NZ$1.74 in New Zealand, R$3.84 in Brazil and zł4.68 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Hexguardian offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Europe (EUR) €0.56 −92% €0.94 €0.56 25
United Statesyour region $0.63 −92% $0.95 $0.63 28
Georgia (USD) $0.63 −90% $1.19 $0.63 26
United Kingdom £0.79 −92% £0.79 £1.01 22
Canada CA$1.23 −92% CA$1.23 CA$13.94 23
Australia A$1.41 −92% A$1.41 A$15.98 22
New Zealand NZ$1.74 −90% NZ$1.74 NZ$15.74 20
Brazil R$3.84 −90% R$3.84 R$7.56 21
Poland zł4.68 −90% zł4.68 zł5.33 22

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Hexguardian

✦ AI summary

Build towers, recruit armies, and manipulate hexagonal map tiles to create optimal defensive paths against waves of enemies from land, sea, and air. Progress through a deep tech tree in standard mode or compete weekly in challenge mode, unlocking new buildings, spells, wonders, and map strategies as you survive increasingly difficult invasions.

Enjoy two distinct ways to play the game, with standard and challenge modes.


Standard Mode - In the standard game mode you will have access to a vast tech tree. Use points earned from previous runs to unlock new towers, units, upgrades, wonders and more. You will also unlock new maps and difficulty settings as you complete your runs.
Challenge Mode - Take on a challenge that changes every week. Choose your perks, use your limited resources wisely, and compete on the weekly leaderboard.

Shape your realm and control the enemy paths with randomly generated hexagonal tiles.


Kill enemies to obtain hexagonal map tiles, match these titles with the existing paths to create longer routes, obtain better building placement options, or close off the loop to stop enemies spawning from the portals.

Build towers, recruit armies and learn spells to defeat enemies from land, sea and air.

Choose a strategy to defend your realm. Build a variety of towers from simple arrow and bomb launchers to fire and ice towers. Recruit armies of swordsmen, archers and more, and learn powerful spells to slow down and damage enemies as they invade from land, sea and air!

Build magnificent wonders to turn the tides of battle.

Build large Wonders with unique and powerful abilities to turn the tides of battle. Build support buildings like markets and windmills to earn additional gold to purchase more firepower and upgrades.

Use the environment to your advantage

Use the terrain and environment to your advantage, place towers on higher elevations to increase their range in the highland maps, or control the weather to slow down or damage enemies. Combine elements to trigger powerful elemental reactions.

Defeat challenging bosses and receive blessings.

Defeat bosses to unlock a wide range of blessings allowing you to earn more gold, increase the range and damage of your defenses, increase spell power and much more.

Survive as many days as you can to unlock new maps, buildings, units, spells and wonders.



Earn trophies for each day you survive, then use them to unlock new towers, units, spells, wonders, and other buffs and upgrades. Survive long enough to unlock new maps and difficulty settings.

Hexguardian — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Hexguardian is a tower defense game with a unique map-building mechanic and charming art style that players find addictive and fun in short bursts. The main complaint centers on heavy reliance on RNG for tile placement, which can render strategic planning meaningless, and occasional UI frustrations like accidental tile placement. Most players consider it worth trying, particularly at its low price point, though some feel the luck-based gameplay undermines skill and long-term engagement.

Not recommended Sep 29, 2026
Its a fun game. But you can play alot of games in a row and get bad RNG on the pieces you get to place, which its just a huge waste of time. You can have your tower on one side of the map and then all the spawns flip and your beat. Now it was only 2$ so for the cost its aight I guess. But really no skill is required is all based of RNG and that I cant get behind.
Recommended Sep 27, 2026
4/5 star
Recommended Sep 22, 2026
I am going to give this a qualified Yes. If you are okay with super cutsie everything is rounded off and soft, you will love this game. The music and the art style are both good, just not my thing. The gameplay seems solid, smooth. The one thing that peeved me when I played was the click and hold RMB move the map click LMB place the new tile without a confirmation. Easy to waste new tiles by mistake if you click and hold LMB to move. Just sayin. Yeah I refunded it, I can not see myself every playing this again but I know there are people who would really have a blast with this.
Recommended Sep 20, 2026
Addicting and fun little tile turret game
Recommended Sep 2, 2026
Hexguardian is an interesting premise when it comes to Tower Defence games. I've played a lot of these both growing up and on steam, and I haven't encountered one where you literally build the map you're placing your defenses on - and that concept was what brought me into the game to begin with, and got me curious to see what the game has in store. Rather than immediately list out the negatives I have, I think it's a good opportunity to draw some comparisons to give some ground work to the kind of pros and cons this game has. In a lot of ways, this game reminds me of Fieldrunners - though instead of using towers to make a maze on a pre-existing map, you're instead building that map using a secondary resource gained occasionally through killing foes. Tiles are numerous and varied - though the game does seem to try to offer pieces that will fit holes in your existing grid. For example - if I had a space with two land connections and two water connections, I'd have good odds of finding a tile that can fit in that exact space, which helps remove the harshness of poor RNG. Building out bigger maps is essential to find resources, close and extend enemy portals, and even win maps using…
Recommended Sep 1, 2026
A pleasant art style, simple concept, and decent enough gameplay that it kept me coming back long after I thought it would. Worth a play, definitely if you like the genre.

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