Hex: Shards of Fate

GAME TYPE: Free to play MMO Trading Card Game
PLATFORMS: Windows
DEVELOPERS: Cryptozoic / Hex Entertainment

GAME SYNOPSIS

In Hex: Shards of Fate players are able to battle in exciting trading card matches, building their card deck up from a huge selection of troops, magic spells and actions, artifacts and more in challenging and strategic combat against skilled AI opponents or players from all over the world. The game itself is completely free to play, developed by Cryptozoic Entertainment who have developed physical TCGs for years and are now bringing all their experience to their first digital game.

MAIN FEATURES

- Over 700 cards to make up your deck
- Arm troops and your Champion with weapons and gear to improve them
- chain cards together to build up combos or counter enemy attacks
- gain experience for your cards and watch as they evolve into a final versions
- engage in exciting PVP or PVE dungeons and campaigns
- 8 different races and a combination of hero classes
- Completely free to play

THE GAME

Hex is a traditional trading card game with enhanced features and involved mechanics to bring an extensive choice of strategy and tactical play compared to other games in the genre. Play against players from around the world in one-on-one duels and tournaments against the AI completing MMO RPG like dungeons to gain epic loot and cards for your deck.

The aim of the game is for two players to fight and try to kill the opposing champion, reducing it to 0 hit points using various attacks and manoeuvres with different types of cards, from Troops, Artifacts, Actions and Constants to support and your army and defeat the enemy using different strategic plays. Whilst players can build their deck from their available cards using the card management system, during play all these cards are shuffled into the deck and drawn at random meaning players must be able to make combos and plays on the fly with whichever cards show up.

PLAYABLE FACTIONS

The game world revolves around the two emerging factions that are on the brink of war once more after a centuries long conflict; the Ardent Alliance made up of the surface dwelling Humans, Orcs, Elves and Coyotle against the gathered subterranean forces of the Vennen, Shin’hare, Dwarves and Necrotic.

Depending on the race a player chooses for their champion will determine which types of cards will become available to them for their deck, with different cards only being available to certain champions.

CARD COLLECTING

There are hundreds of cards that players can collect whilst playing Hex that can be added into their deck, from Champions, Troops, Actions, Constants and Artifacts, all of which will determine the types of strategy open to the player. Cards can be earned through tournaments, levelling up, purchasing bundles and packets from the store (which will give random cards) as well as earning particular cards through the dungeon/PVE content.

Each card will have its own important values from attack value, defensive ability (for troops), special abilities, cost to play as well as the threshold requirements that must be met, but primarily cards come in four different types:

Troop Cards – The main units used to attack enemy Champions and defend your own Champion

Artifact Cards – Specialized items and gear that can aid you in battle

Action Cards – Spells and abilities that can hinder enemies and their Champion or buff your own cards with a one time use

Constant Cards – Similar to Action cards but the effect is ongoing when played

Resource Cards – Different gem types required by each Champion that must be played to raise the threshold, each non-resource card having a specific threshold pre-req before it can be used

The more card is used the more XP it will gain and it has the ability to level up and change its abilities as well as becoming a foil/shiny version of the card. Cards have extra information on the back as well as a unique “double back” where the card can be flipped again to reveal the different achievements that have been earned using this card as well as its statistics for use.

CHAIN FEATURE

The chain feature is one of the unique mechanics to Hex, where the game is broken up into different phases and until a phase ends players can still take it in turns to add cards to those cards that are about to go into play. Essentially players can add together multiple cards to create combos or even play cards to counter those that the opponent intends to play e.g. the buffing a Troop card that is about to enter the field. This added feature adds to the complexity and strategy of combat creating a wide variety of available tactics and plays later on in the game when players uncover a wide selection of cards for their deck.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Unknown