World of Hex
Build an Empire, hex by hex...
$1.99
5.0.1for iPhone, iPad and more
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About World of Hex
Make your stamp on the worlds of our Solar System!
World of Hex is a game of strategy played on a board as big as our solar system where the populated areas of the worlds are divided into hexagonal tiles, and each of those tiles is a game board — with a state that is alive in the cloud.
When you play a game within a tile, that tile stays as you left it until either you, or another player, chooses to play there too.
So you can claim territory by playing and winning, but you don’t only play for yourself; you also play for your faction.
What happens when you aren’t playing? What happens to the territory you’ve claimed? Well, you have an AI that will defend it for you.
When you start playing, your AI will only know a couple of commands, however as you build up more XP and level-up, you’ll be able to configure your AI to do more, and defend your territory with more ability. After some play, you will earn the ability to program your AI.
If you like a strategy, turn based game, then World of Hex is both simple to play but world-spanning in its scope.
Please note that World of Hex makes use of iCloud and as such, requires you to be logged into iCloud on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV. On your iPhone or iPad please also be sure that you have iCloud Drive enabled. Apple requires this for World of Hex to operate correctly.
Game Story:
Society as we know it has failed.
Thanks to flawed political systems, global warming, and the reckless exploitation of resources, all of the old boundaries and loyalties are gone.
We live in a world where everyone belongs to one of four factions who are constantly vying for control over the Solar System.
Humanities colonies have been divided into world tiles. Control over these world tiles is contested by members of each faction.
This is where you come in. The more often you play, the more you can do for your faction. Your faction needs you!
Each world tile is further broken into territories. Control of a tile is achieved by ensuring that your faction controls the most territory within the tile.
Territory is claimed by building settlements that influence the surrounding territory. Enemies can threaten you, and overwhelm you if you don't defend effectively.
Settlements can be reinforced either by building them up, or spreading out and taking neighboring territory.
v2.0 and later versions of the game support an alternate story behind the game, though the game play is the same. For fans of The Expanse™, there are a number of optional visual elements that have been added. These are available via the themes button once you have access to your AI. Please note that these visual elements are provided as a tribute to The Expanse™ and in no way represent an offical endorsement of World of Hex.
v5.0 and later versions provide extensive support for Voice Over and provide two high contrast palettes designed for people who experience some forms of colour blindness. The palettes can be chosen from the Settings panel
World of Hex is a game of strategy played on a board as big as our solar system where the populated areas of the worlds are divided into hexagonal tiles, and each of those tiles is a game board — with a state that is alive in the cloud.
When you play a game within a tile, that tile stays as you left it until either you, or another player, chooses to play there too.
So you can claim territory by playing and winning, but you don’t only play for yourself; you also play for your faction.
What happens when you aren’t playing? What happens to the territory you’ve claimed? Well, you have an AI that will defend it for you.
When you start playing, your AI will only know a couple of commands, however as you build up more XP and level-up, you’ll be able to configure your AI to do more, and defend your territory with more ability. After some play, you will earn the ability to program your AI.
If you like a strategy, turn based game, then World of Hex is both simple to play but world-spanning in its scope.
Please note that World of Hex makes use of iCloud and as such, requires you to be logged into iCloud on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV. On your iPhone or iPad please also be sure that you have iCloud Drive enabled. Apple requires this for World of Hex to operate correctly.
Game Story:
Society as we know it has failed.
Thanks to flawed political systems, global warming, and the reckless exploitation of resources, all of the old boundaries and loyalties are gone.
We live in a world where everyone belongs to one of four factions who are constantly vying for control over the Solar System.
Humanities colonies have been divided into world tiles. Control over these world tiles is contested by members of each faction.
This is where you come in. The more often you play, the more you can do for your faction. Your faction needs you!
Each world tile is further broken into territories. Control of a tile is achieved by ensuring that your faction controls the most territory within the tile.
Territory is claimed by building settlements that influence the surrounding territory. Enemies can threaten you, and overwhelm you if you don't defend effectively.
Settlements can be reinforced either by building them up, or spreading out and taking neighboring territory.
v2.0 and later versions of the game support an alternate story behind the game, though the game play is the same. For fans of The Expanse™, there are a number of optional visual elements that have been added. These are available via the themes button once you have access to your AI. Please note that these visual elements are provided as a tribute to The Expanse™ and in no way represent an offical endorsement of World of Hex.
v5.0 and later versions provide extensive support for Voice Over and provide two high contrast palettes designed for people who experience some forms of colour blindness. The palettes can be chosen from the Settings panel
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What's New in the Latest Version 5.0.1
Last updated on Mar 8, 2023
Old Versions
For those of you that have been asking, there is now a new button on the settings panel that allows you to reset tips.
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Version History
5.0.1
Mar 8, 2023
For those of you that have been asking, there is now a new button on the settings panel that allows you to reset tips.
5.0
Jan 19, 2023
WOH v5.0 Release Notes
Welcome to v5.0 and welcome back to World of Hex. Thanks for playing, especially those who have been playing since 2017.
This major update to the game brings support for VoiceOver and accessibility throughout the entire game. It's been a huge change to support this, and has taken an enormous amount of time and effort. If you are someone who uses VoiceOver please feel free to get in contact with any feedback at: support@pkclsoft.com.
In addition to VoiceOver support, two additional colour palettes have been added for those people who experience some forms of colour blindness. The palettes can be chosen from the new Settings panel.
Another change is one of necessity. When World of Hex was released, there was no filter applied to the players nickname, and as a result, some offensive names have made it into the system. v5 adds a new profanity filter on player names, and as part of this update, any existing player names that trigger that filter will have been changed to something inoffensive. If you are one of the players affected by this change, I'm sorry but there will be no exceptions. You can, if you choose to, reach out and request that the new name be changed to something else (that doesn't trigger the filter) by emailing me at support@pkclsoft.com. Like any other system where people can join in and play, World of Hex aims to be welcoming, inclusive and friendly. There is no room for offensive language or behaviour.
As usual, some bugs have been fixed, notably:
1. On macOS, fixed a number of issues with the placement of tips and prompts if you resize the window or change to full screen mode.
2. Fixed the position of the game board, start and replay buttons on macOS and tvOS.
3. Changing orientation on iPhone now worked much more reliably.
And finally there have been some other improvements:
1. On iPhone, when panning or rotating a world, haptic feedback is now provided when world tiles pass the centre of the screen. This was added as part of the accessibility updates. You can disable this from the new settings panel.
2. In the world scores panel, your score is now highlighted.
3. On tvOS, a number of improvements when working with the Siri Remote for panning.
4. A new filter has been applied to player nicknames to help reduce the number of offensive nicknames in the system. If your nickname has been flagged as offensive, then you may find it has been changed to a randomly generated fantasy game name. If you want to change it, please contact support@pkclsoft.com
5. Improved, dramatically, the animation when moving between planets and moons.
Welcome to v5.0 and welcome back to World of Hex. Thanks for playing, especially those who have been playing since 2017.
This major update to the game brings support for VoiceOver and accessibility throughout the entire game. It's been a huge change to support this, and has taken an enormous amount of time and effort. If you are someone who uses VoiceOver please feel free to get in contact with any feedback at: support@pkclsoft.com.
In addition to VoiceOver support, two additional colour palettes have been added for those people who experience some forms of colour blindness. The palettes can be chosen from the new Settings panel.
Another change is one of necessity. When World of Hex was released, there was no filter applied to the players nickname, and as a result, some offensive names have made it into the system. v5 adds a new profanity filter on player names, and as part of this update, any existing player names that trigger that filter will have been changed to something inoffensive. If you are one of the players affected by this change, I'm sorry but there will be no exceptions. You can, if you choose to, reach out and request that the new name be changed to something else (that doesn't trigger the filter) by emailing me at support@pkclsoft.com. Like any other system where people can join in and play, World of Hex aims to be welcoming, inclusive and friendly. There is no room for offensive language or behaviour.
As usual, some bugs have been fixed, notably:
1. On macOS, fixed a number of issues with the placement of tips and prompts if you resize the window or change to full screen mode.
2. Fixed the position of the game board, start and replay buttons on macOS and tvOS.
3. Changing orientation on iPhone now worked much more reliably.
And finally there have been some other improvements:
1. On iPhone, when panning or rotating a world, haptic feedback is now provided when world tiles pass the centre of the screen. This was added as part of the accessibility updates. You can disable this from the new settings panel.
2. In the world scores panel, your score is now highlighted.
3. On tvOS, a number of improvements when working with the Siri Remote for panning.
4. A new filter has been applied to player nicknames to help reduce the number of offensive nicknames in the system. If your nickname has been flagged as offensive, then you may find it has been changed to a randomly generated fantasy game name. If you want to change it, please contact support@pkclsoft.com
5. Improved, dramatically, the animation when moving between planets and moons.
4.2.2
Dec 21, 2022
Fixed a device orientation issue introduced by iOS 16.
4.2.1
Jun 19, 2022
Thanks for playing World of Hex. This update is a small but important one. New players may have been really struggling to get their first games to work without a really annoying intermittent crash.
I'm pleased to say that this bug has been fixed in this update.
I'm pleased to say that this bug has been fixed in this update.
4.2
Apr 5, 2022
Thanks for playing World of Hex. With this update, a few large changes have been made.
* World of Hex is starting a new phase of enhancement, and to kick this off, the way text is displayed on the screen has been improved, so if you've seen a partial message, or been confused about something, perhaps this will help.
* On iPhone and iPad, support for Portrait mode has been added, at last! Yes, you can now play World of Hex one-handed on your iPhone or iPad whilst standing on the train commute to work. With this rather large change a number of related bugs have been fixed that have been plaguing players for a while now.
* New users are now introduced to their AI module right from the get go, so that they know there is more to the game to build towards. Did you know that you can program your own AI with commands to defend the world tiles you win? No? Well all you need to do is reach level 2, and access will be granted!
* The leader board now displays a more information about how well those players at the top have been doing.
* For those of you that have noticed that the Earth seemed to get confused about just where the Sun actually is, and turned the wrong face to the Sun, I believe I have finally fixed this. It won’t affect play at all, but it affects my sanity. So this way I get some peace of mind too.
* Finally, finally, World of Hex no longer stops your favourite music from playing when you launch the game! I’m sorry this one has taken so long.
* Panning a world on macOS now works as nicely as it does on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS. And it’s even nicer on those too!
* The player information panel now shows a small meter to indicate to you how much more you need to play before reaching the next level.
* Experience points (XP) can be earned faster now with the addition of a “win multiplier” for each world tile. If you, or someone from the same faction keeps winning consecutive games in a given world tile, then XP are earned much faster.
* On macOS, panning to rotate the selected planet or moon using two fingers now works as smooth as silk (finally).
* Fixed a number of nasty memory leaks and buggos.
* Fixed a problem where the colour of a tile was not changing after you win a game. This bug was introduced back when I added the Game Center Achievements. My apologies; it’s fixed again.
* A note for the wary. Apparently, if you force kill World of Hex, iCloud can get it’s knickers in a knot and stop sending the app the background notifications that allows it to keep the state of the world tiles up to date. If you’ve done this, and think the tiles are not accurate, then the only way to fix it (apparently) is to reboot the phone. Not my preferred advice to anyone but it’s all I got. I spent quite some time trying to work out if I’d done something wrong, but no…
* On the Apple TV, something special, well I think so. You can now zoom in and out in little bits.
* World of Hex is starting a new phase of enhancement, and to kick this off, the way text is displayed on the screen has been improved, so if you've seen a partial message, or been confused about something, perhaps this will help.
* On iPhone and iPad, support for Portrait mode has been added, at last! Yes, you can now play World of Hex one-handed on your iPhone or iPad whilst standing on the train commute to work. With this rather large change a number of related bugs have been fixed that have been plaguing players for a while now.
* New users are now introduced to their AI module right from the get go, so that they know there is more to the game to build towards. Did you know that you can program your own AI with commands to defend the world tiles you win? No? Well all you need to do is reach level 2, and access will be granted!
* The leader board now displays a more information about how well those players at the top have been doing.
* For those of you that have noticed that the Earth seemed to get confused about just where the Sun actually is, and turned the wrong face to the Sun, I believe I have finally fixed this. It won’t affect play at all, but it affects my sanity. So this way I get some peace of mind too.
* Finally, finally, World of Hex no longer stops your favourite music from playing when you launch the game! I’m sorry this one has taken so long.
* Panning a world on macOS now works as nicely as it does on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS. And it’s even nicer on those too!
* The player information panel now shows a small meter to indicate to you how much more you need to play before reaching the next level.
* Experience points (XP) can be earned faster now with the addition of a “win multiplier” for each world tile. If you, or someone from the same faction keeps winning consecutive games in a given world tile, then XP are earned much faster.
* On macOS, panning to rotate the selected planet or moon using two fingers now works as smooth as silk (finally).
* Fixed a number of nasty memory leaks and buggos.
* Fixed a problem where the colour of a tile was not changing after you win a game. This bug was introduced back when I added the Game Center Achievements. My apologies; it’s fixed again.
* A note for the wary. Apparently, if you force kill World of Hex, iCloud can get it’s knickers in a knot and stop sending the app the background notifications that allows it to keep the state of the world tiles up to date. If you’ve done this, and think the tiles are not accurate, then the only way to fix it (apparently) is to reboot the phone. Not my preferred advice to anyone but it’s all I got. I spent quite some time trying to work out if I’d done something wrong, but no…
* On the Apple TV, something special, well I think so. You can now zoom in and out in little bits.
4.1
Jan 11, 2022
This version addresses a number of quirks in the display of text on some devices where the text was incomplete. It also attempts to improve the initial tutorial when you first start playing.
My thanks to those individuals in the wonderful Apple Arcade community that have helped me identify these issues. World of Hex isn't a part of that service, however there are a lot of great games there you might like to try out in between your bouts of solar system conquest.
My thanks to those individuals in the wonderful Apple Arcade community that have helped me identify these issues. World of Hex isn't a part of that service, however there are a lot of great games there you might like to try out in between your bouts of solar system conquest.
4.0.1
Jun 3, 2021
* For those The Expanse™ fans out there wondering why the Ring Gate is lacking definition, it was suffering a system failure and should be back to it's former glory now.
* Some people were being told over and over about the new achievements added earlier this year. Now we know they are great, but really, we don't need to harp on about it so much.
* Some people were being told over and over about the new achievements added earlier this year. Now we know they are great, but really, we don't need to harp on about it so much.
4.0
Jan 6, 2021
I've been hard at work, listening to feedback, and realising that people like to feel a sense of achievement. This major update tries to help with that by adding new Game Center Achievements. Some are easy to attain, some are quite hard. All are attainable. If you've been playing for a while, then where possible any achievements that the game can determine you have already earned will be applied (let us know if they aren't). The harder ones, like taking control, or conquering a tile or world will not be retroactively applied; that's in the too hard basket (even for me) for now; the rest should be pretty automatic.
Another thing I've done in response to feedback is add a little more smarts into the move validation so that if you try a move that would just result in it being a wasted move (i.e., you attempt to take a cell that would be immediately overpowered), the move will be rejected.
Goodness, no matter how nice you players are, the code just seems to have problems letting some of you enjoy yourselves. A bug fix was added at the last minute for a reasonably old bug causing the game to crash for some special, though unfortunate players.
And finally, because it seems to be standard these days, bug fixes and improvements.
Another thing I've done in response to feedback is add a little more smarts into the move validation so that if you try a move that would just result in it being a wasted move (i.e., you attempt to take a cell that would be immediately overpowered), the move will be rejected.
Goodness, no matter how nice you players are, the code just seems to have problems letting some of you enjoy yourselves. A bug fix was added at the last minute for a reasonably old bug causing the game to crash for some special, though unfortunate players.
And finally, because it seems to be standard these days, bug fixes and improvements.
3.0.6
Oct 20, 2020
Attempts to hurl, into the hot scorching sun, a bug that interferes with players data.
3.0.5
Oct 13, 2020
No longer shall the heavens be cleaved asunder by black starless regions of space.
The Earth should now also face the Sun correctly.
The Earth should now also face the Sun correctly.
3.0.1
Sep 16, 2020
Lots of under the cover improvements and bug fixes to welcome macOS to the World of Hex Family.
2.4.5
Aug 8, 2020
Fixes a bug experienced by new users that prevents game play.
2.4.4
May 17, 2020
Fixes a new bug that managed to avoid my bug squasher in v2.4.3. Apologies for the inconvenience.
2.4.3
May 16, 2020
Bug fixes and improvements.
2.4
May 10, 2020
Thanks for playing World of Hex! It's amazing that over 170,000 games have been played; it's very humbling.
Fixed an annoying crash when loading data at app launch.
Fixed an annoying crash when loading data at app launch.
2.3
Dec 9, 2019
Minor bug fixes, especially a silly one causing the Earth turn the wrong side towards the Sun.
Also updated to better utilise the screens of the new iPhone and iPads.
Also updated to better utilise the screens of the new iPhone and iPads.
2.2
Jan 10, 2019
Fixed a bug causing crashes after launch on some devices.
2.1
Dec 18, 2018
Bug fixes.
2.0
Nov 14, 2018
The World of Hex has expanded! Did you know that there are colonies all over the solar system?
This is a huge update. Whilst the premise of the game remains, now you have an opportunity to explore and stake a claim beyond the confines of Earth.
For fans of The Expanse™, you also have an opportunity to add some elements from the story to the game. And if this goes well, well, you may see more worlds to colonise in the future.
This is a huge update. Whilst the premise of the game remains, now you have an opportunity to explore and stake a claim beyond the confines of Earth.
For fans of The Expanse™, you also have an opportunity to add some elements from the story to the game. And if this goes well, well, you may see more worlds to colonise in the future.
1.5
Oct 6, 2018
This is a minor update, getting you ready for the next big update!
1.4
Feb 20, 2018
Improved the management of sound so that music doesn't turn off your audio from other sources.
1.3
Feb 2, 2018
Bug fixes, and a little more animation when someone else is playing in the world.
1.2
Oct 31, 2017
Added support for the iPhone X
1.1
Oct 25, 2017
Added support for iOS 11.
1.0.6
Aug 18, 2017
Minor bug fixes.
World of Hex FAQ
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of World of Hex.
iPhone
Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.4 or later.
Mac
Requires macOS 10.14 or later.
Apple TV
Requires tvOS 12.4 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
World of Hex supports English
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