Another free-to-play, digital CCG, Hex: Shards of Fate attempts to combine CCGs with MMOs. Players navigate through the world and narrative battling anything that stands in their way. It’s very familiar to veteran CCG players, using gems as energy to cast cards. Each gem adds to your total mana count, but each color adds to your color level. This means that a ruby and diamond give you two mana, and 1 level in red and 1 level in white. It’s pretty easy to pick up on once you play.
That’s about where the ease of play stops. Hex is complex. Almost needlessly so. Hex has a priority system that lets players interrupt each other at pretty much every step during a turn. The interface for this is a bit clunky, with players always having to hit the “Pass Priority” button. Combine that with mediocre starting decks and an insanely hard AI, and Hex is just an unforgiving game to get into. I’m guessing this tactic is used to make you purchase better cards, but there’s no way I’m spending money on a game that doesn’t even give me an inch in the first 15 minutes of play.
I should also mention that Hex doesn’t dole out free stuff nearly as generously as other digital CCGs. They really want you to spend money.
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.
I’m sure there’s people out there who love Hex. Hell, I might even like it if it gave me a bit more wiggle room to breathe. Unfortunately a complicated system with crappy starting cards, a hard as hell AI, and a really clunky interface means that I’ve already moved on to bigger and better things.
There’s just way too many digital CCGs out there, and so far I’ve enjoyed just about all of them more than Hex.
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More About Hex: Shards of Fate
Hex: Shards of Fate is a Free-to-play, Trading Card, Adventure, Role-playing, Online, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Hex Entertainment and published by Gameforge 4D GmbH. The game provides you with the combination of strategy, fast-paced, fantasy and RPG elements and lets you immerse yourself in fighting experience. The game is set in the world of Entrath. You are able to choose a Champaign from eight different races and three different classes. The game lets you create the mighty deck from more than thousands of cards and jumps into epic battles. Each represents the specific character with its unique powers, skills, and abilities. Earn a lot of rewards and equipment and use them to improve the deck further. Fight against enemies and must defeat them to complete the level. In Single-player campaign, you can explore the dungeon and collect rare artifacts. Hex: Shards of Fate includes most prominent features such as TCG with RPG elements, Eight Races, Single-player Mode, Dungeon Crawling, 1vs1 Match, Mail Cards to your fellows, and more. It offers the superb visual details, addictive gameplay, exciting story, and brilliant mechanics. Hex: Shards of Fate is the best alternative to Rise of Mythos.