Games like Hexguardian
If Hexguardian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terrorformer TD, The Territory of Egg 2 and Emberward — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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.
Get personalized picks →About Hexguardian: Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!
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Terrorformer TD
WHY THIS
Top pick for Hexguardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Terrorformer TD is a tower defense roguelite with a procedurally generated map that YOU shape! Raise or lower tiles, divert enemy paths and funnel monsters into perfectly designed killzones. Randomly drawn cards result in plenty of run variety, as you seek to survive endless waves of enemies.
The Territory of Egg 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hexguardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
The Territory of Egg 2 is an unique tower defense indie game. Place Egg Towers, choose evolution branches, combine skills and build defenses. The souls of Heroic Eggs await your awakening! Explore and gather resources in the dark forest, unlock the technology tree, and defeat even stronger enemies!
Emberward
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based survival, roguelite and an atmospheric mood with Hexguardian.
Third-strongest match for Hexguardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!
いせかいあどべんちゃー
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hexguardian.
Ranked #4 for Hexguardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
This is an rpg where you can create your own character with the skill tree and portrait reading function, and explore a different world where the map changes every time you play. Take control of the powerful cheat skills given to you by the goddesses and travel the other world!
Crystal Guardians TD
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based survival, roguelite and an atmospheric mood with Hexguardian.
Ranked #5 for Hexguardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Crystal Guardians is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight of waves and defend the world crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your strategy. In an ever expanding map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemies.
Stand Your Ground
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Ranked #6 for Hexguardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Defend attacks from enemies from all directions within a limited time. Only by making full use of the differences in each tower and choosing appropriate random rewards can you survive.
Labyrinthian Lockdown
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Ranked #7 for Hexguardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Klondor is in grave danger of being overwhelmed, enter the Labyrinth, prepare your defences, defend your Mana Crystal and annihilate the incoming waves of enemy forces that pose a threat to the Kingdom.
Rogue Tower
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, skill tree progression and a contemplative mood with Hexguardian.
Ranked #8 for Hexguardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Hexguardian
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Slay the Spire
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Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Hexguardian.
Reviewers of Hexguardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
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!
Rogue Tower
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, skill tree progression and a contemplative mood with Hexguardian.
Reviewers of Hexguardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hexguardian.
Reviewers of Hexguardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hexguardian at current Steam store prices.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Hexguardian.
Priced ~48% under Hexguardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Hexguardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Hexguardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~58% under Hexguardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
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Priced ~58% under Hexguardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Nubby's Number Factory
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Hexguardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Hexguardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Hexguardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
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!
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hexguardian.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
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Frequently asked about Hexguardian
- Does Hexguardian run on Steam Deck?
- Hexguardian 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 Hexguardian cost?
- Hexguardian is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hexguardian?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hexguardian are Terrorformer TD, The Territory of Egg 2, Emberward.
- Who developed Hexguardian?
- Hexguardian was developed by Split Second Games and published by Yogscast Games.
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