Hexholm

Prospectus

Hexholm is a fast, turn-based hex strategy game. Start from a single province and carve out a kingdom — recruit troops, claim the map hex by hex, and crush rival AI factions before they overrun you. Every battle is a tight tactical puzzle: manage your gold, position your units, and time your pushes to expand without overextending. Take on 100 hand-picked campaign stages, fight for the top of the global leaderboard in the daily challenge, or jump into a quick random skirmish. Climb the worldwide rankings for total stages cleared and daily high scores. No fluff, no waiting — just clean, snappy strategy you can play in a few minutes or sink hours into.

How it plays

1. Tap one of your territories, then pick a unit from the bottom bar and place it on an empty hex inside your land. 2. Tap a unit to see where it can go — highlighted hexes show valid moves. Tap one to move, or tap an enemy to attack. 3. Capturing neutral and enemy hexes expands your territory and raises your income. 4. Each turn you earn gold based on the land you hold. Spend it on stronger units — and merge matching units to upgrade them. 5. Tap END TURN when you're finished; the AI factions then take their turns. 6. Eliminate every rival faction to win the map. Slipped up? Use UNDO to roll back a turn.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a portrait (upright) screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. The file is drawn tall, for an upright screen — a phone held the usual way frames it best, though it will run in any window you give it. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for strategy holdings

• Write the plan before the first move, even if the plan is one sentence. Strategy games punish improvisation politely and reward a rough intention revised on purpose.
• Spend your first session on reconnaissance. Watch what the game charges you for — time, space, resources, attention — because that price list is the whole game in miniature.
• Keep a reserve uncommitted. The player who deploys everything into the opening has read only the first page of the problem; the answer usually arrives in chapter two.

Hexholm — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open Hexholm?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is Hexholm, exactly?

We file it on the Strategy shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play Hexholm on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. The file is drawn tall, for an upright screen — a phone held the usual way frames it best, though it will run in any window you give it.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. Hexholm is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Strategy shelf is one click away — The deliberate shelf: 102 games where the win is decided several moves before it happens. Plans, counters and patience, filed in roster order with the strongest thinkers first.