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Hexguardian

Split Second Games · Yogscast Games · 2024-05-02

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 02, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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!

Hexguardian is a 2024 Strategy game priced at $11.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (80% of 703 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 100,000 .. 200,000.

12
playing now
80%
positive of 703 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 12 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 48 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (357 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 14,087 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 14k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 703 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.91 at GameBillet (2025-12-23) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 104 of 131 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
29629620242026Week of 2024-05-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1632026-09-15 01:00 — 10 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 11 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 11 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 9 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 9 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 7 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 4 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 13 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 14 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 5 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 10 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 6 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 9 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 13 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 13 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 8 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 13 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3297May 2024Aug 2026May 2024 — avg 329 · peak 675Jun 2024 — avg 97 · peak 232Jul 2024 — avg 55 · peak 113Aug 2024 — avg 39 · peak 95Sep 2024 — avg 35 · peak 123Oct 2024 — avg 18 · peak 43Nov 2024 — avg 16 · peak 39Dec 2024 — avg 14 · peak 27Jan 2025 — avg 11 · peak 27Feb 2025 — avg 19 · peak 38Mar 2025 — avg 12 · peak 28Apr 2025 — avg 12 · peak 27May 2025 — avg 11 · peak 30Jun 2025 — avg 8 · peak 22Jul 2025 — avg 9 · peak 19Aug 2025 — avg 12 · peak 34Sep 2025 — avg 9 · peak 25Oct 2025 — avg 9 · peak 22Nov 2025 — avg 9 · peak 19Dec 2025 — avg 15 · peak 35Jan 2026 — avg 15 · peak 25Feb 2026 — avg 9 · peak 23Mar 2026 — avg 10 · peak 23Apr 2026 — avg 7 · peak 19May 2026 — avg 10 · peak 23Jun 2026 — avg 9 · peak 17Jul 2026 — avg 7 · peak 19Aug 2026 — avg 8 · peak 17
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$11.99$0.912024-04-242026-08-302024-04-24 — best price $11.992024-05-16 — best price $8.992024-06-11 — best price $10.782024-07-14 — best price $7.672024-07-26 — best price $9.592024-08-14 — best price $11.992024-09-07 — best price $11.992024-09-30 — best price $8.812024-11-18 — best price $7.192024-11-30 — best price $5.772024-12-19 — best price $5.302024-12-29 — best price $5.952025-01-12 — best price $11.992025-02-03 — best price $8.812025-03-21 — best price $6.592025-04-25 — best price $11.392025-06-03 — best price $8.812025-06-26 — best price $3.592025-07-13 — best price $8.992025-08-05 — best price $4.802025-08-24 — best price $4.742025-09-15 — best price $3.232025-10-06 — best price $11.632025-10-28 — best price $3.302025-11-21 — best price $2.962025-12-03 — best price $3.232025-12-23 — best price $0.912026-01-15 — best price $9.492026-02-06 — best price $10.072026-03-27 — best price $8.812026-04-28 — best price $9.492026-05-20 — best price $11.872026-06-14 — best price $11.992026-07-02 — best price $10.992026-07-31 — best price $0.922026-08-17 — best price $9.592026-08-30 — best price $1.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
94.2%
earned "Enemy Slayer"
46.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9180%88

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

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Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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