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Games like Hexworld

If Hexworld is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chronicle of Heroes, Seedborne Soldiers and Waves of the Atlantide — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its polished core gameplay loop, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Hexworld: Hexworld is a tactical autobattle RTS where you control the travelling kingdom-island, manage your tiles, collect and upgrade buildings, crash into other islands and watch your rare precious giant golem inevitably fall off the cliff on his way to the front lines.

2023StrategyIndieEarly Access14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Volcanic Giraffe
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Emergent tactics over rigid strategiesHigh replayability with varied starting setupsPolished core gameplay loopChallengingContemplativeIntense

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Steam players who put hours into Hexworld also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Chronicle of Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Hexworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexworld.

    Build, Quest, Defend! Build a city and recruit heroes to quest for power and glory, and to defend against ever increasing waves of darkness. Can you grow mighty enough to stand against the coming storm?

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  2. Seedborne Soldiers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Hexworld.

    Second-strongest match for Hexworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexworld.

    An auto battler roguelike made by obsessive fans of both genres. Draft fighters with matching Traits to power up your team. A massive content pool enables a large variety of builds. Weigh risk vs. reward every round as you carve a path toward each boss.

    2026StrategyIndie8.39 USDSteam ↗
  3. Waves of the Atlantide

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Hexworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexworld.

    A finite world with infinite resources. Defeat your opponents before the world collapses under your empire in this epic Battle Royale 4X RTS! A tidal wave is putting an end to this continent, will you make it through?

    2019StrategyIndieEarly Access11.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. HexTD

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Hexworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Hexworld.

    HexTD is a tower defense game where players can choose from 3 classes to defend their base. Deploy your machines, soldiers or elementals to create the enemies path and guard against powerful bosses, playing solo or with a friend to create a new experience in tower defense genre.

    2022StrategyEarly Access4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. A Thousand Years

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Hexworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Hexworld.

    Real time strategy, auto-battler and city management game. Organize and equip small squads of angels and devils in a procedurally generated world. Conquer and expand your cities in a campaign against time.

    2022StrategyEarly Access9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Towers, Turrets, Turtles

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Hexworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Hexworld.

    Build and upgrade mazes of turrets to Defend your computer tower from the Pea Horde in this bright and colourful Tower Defence!

    2023ActionStrategyCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Hexual Deflection

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Hexworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexworld.

    Multiplayer Tower Defense Game - Send out units and defend against enemy units in this Arena RTS with up to 32 players

    2024Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Starfend

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Hexworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexworld.

    Pick cards, equip stones, chain color synergies — and survive endless meteor waves. A 3D sci-fi tower defense roguelite where every run builds different and hits harder.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hexworld at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Hexworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hexworld.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Hexworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hexworld.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Hexworld on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Hexworld.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Hexworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hexworld.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Hexworld on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hexworld.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Hexworld on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexworld.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Hexworld on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexworld.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Hexworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hexworld.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexworld.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexworld.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  3. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexworld.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexworld.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexworld.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hexworld.

    Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.

    2023StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Shape of Dreams: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexworld.

    《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Sims™ 4

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

    2020AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Hexworld

Does Hexworld run on Steam Deck?
Hexworld is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Hexworld cost?
Hexworld is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Hexworld?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hexworld are Chronicle of Heroes, Seedborne Soldiers, Waves of the Atlantide.
Who developed Hexworld?
Hexworld was developed by Volcanic Giraffe.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Hexworld.

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