Hexguardian
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 17.8h
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 706 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $1.19 (90% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 53 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD R9 270, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
21 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On the same math Emberward ($19.99, scores 85) and Rogue Tower ($14.99, scores 58) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Hexguardian
Of the 433 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
94% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 9 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 11:51 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
You like Bloons? You like Slay the Spire? You like jigsaw puzzles? You're gonna love Hexguardian.
1 more review
Fun and addictive. loads of unlocks even if maps are a bit sparse ATM. Well worth the money. Edit: Just seen that the last update was 2 years ago, and therefore my review has changed. I paid 99p (about $1) for it and that's worth the money. There are bugs and balancing issues and doesnt feel like a finished game. Which is disappointing as its really good, but just feels like an alpha at times. If you can get it on...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Hexguardian scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2381740/hexguardianReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.