$19.99Hexarchy An empire in your hand
Hexarchy is a fast, card-driven take on historical 4X strategy that fits an evening with co-op friends. You build cities, trim your deck, trade resources and raise wonders, then team up against AI or settle it in PvP, usually in under an hour.
Is Hexarchy worth it?
Hexarchy is worth it if…
- you like co-op games that finish in one sitting, not one week
- you want to team up with co-op friends against AI teams
- you like deckbuilding where every card shapes your empire
- you want the option to face friends in quick PvP after co-op
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Team up against the AI
Cooperative multiplayer lets you join forces with friends against one or more AI teams instead of each other. You pick from 13 unique civilizations, each with its own unit, ability and bonuses, then split the work of a short campaign: one of you grabs land and resources, another pushes wonders, another builds armies.
You play cards to found cities, improve land, research techs and adopt civics. Since games run short, coordination stays simple — decide who expands where, what to trade, and when to hit a shared rival. A good night ends with your team out-planning the bots, friendships intact.
Cards that run your empire
Everything runs through your deck. You draw cards for buildings, units, wonders, technologies and civics, then spend resources like hammers, gold, science and horses to play them. Cards you no longer need can be thinned out, so stronger options cycle faster.
That keeps turns snappy and plans flexible. You buy and sell in a global trade market, spend precious stockpiles on wonders with game-changing bonuses, and upgrade military units with promotions. You watch a hand of mediocre builders turn into exactly the settler, swordsman or tech you wanted, right when a gap opens on the hex map.
Short games, sharp fights
Matches are built to finish in less than an hour across multiple map types and game lengths. The hex tactics reward terrain, supply lines and timing: outmaneuver rivals, capture key resources, cut supply, pillage improvements.
When cooperation turns competitive, ladder PvP and custom games let co-op friends face off directly. Daily challenges, weekly campaigns and the Weekly Hegemon Challenge add a shared scoreboard, where everyone backing the same civilization pools single-player results to make it the global hegemon. Losing stings less when the rematch is thirty minutes away.
What else should you know?
Can you play it together against the computer?
Yes. You can also set up singleplayer skirmishes with adjustable map type, game length, player spacing and AI difficulty if you want practice first.
Can you play competitively too?
Yes. There is ranked ladder PvP plus custom games against friends. The short length and 13 different civilizations keep rematches fresh, since a new pick changes your units, ability and bonuses.
How does the weekly team event work?
In the Weekly Hegemon Challenge you pick a civilization and cooperate with everyone else who picked it that week. You each complete randomly generated single-player campaigns, and your combined results decide which civilization becomes Global Hegemon.
How long is a game?
Short for the genre, usually under an hour. You can adjust game length in skirmish setup, and daily challenges offer even quicker runs with global leaderboards to compare.
