Hex of Steel User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience81.2% of reviews
Neutral7.9% of reviews
Negative experience10.9% of reviews

~ Based on 165 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Hex of Steel Safe?

Hex of Steel appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Hex of Steel is 86/100.

This assessment is based on 132 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 132 App Store ratings for Hex of Steel.

Is Hex of Steel Legit?

Hex of Steel appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hex of Steel is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Bad mobile interface

While this game seems fun and would probably be great on PC.. the mobile UI is nearly impossible to play with. On my iphone 15 some buttons are literally the size of a few pixles.. other buttons are obscured by the Dynamic Island on the screen… unselecting a unit is difficult and often leads to mistaken movement.. some of the tutorial instructions include telling you to “right click”

After a couple of hours running the tutorial I could not figure out how to use the engineer, figured it must be one of the extremely small pixle buttons or perhaps an obstructed one and I gave up.
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Excellent

Can’t stop playing it’s addictive love it are there any updates

Response from developer

Thanks! Updates are dropping when they are dropping :) Please check the update history, it’s quite extensive and available on the appstore

Unplayable on notched phone

The game looks fine - but the game is unplayable on a phone with a notch. Ideally the UI would use iOS safe frame rules.

However - if this was fixed, it’s probably fine.

Response from developer

Hello, The only solution to the notch problem requires a full revamp of the UI which is unfortunately not going to happen any time soon. For now, you can rotate your phone one way or the other. I personally play with the notch on the right side on my iPhone and it’s fine. « Unplayable »  is a real overstatement, however.

Mixed bag

There is a lot to enjoy in the depth of the game, however i have run into similar issues with the ai forces becoming overpowered/play balance. It is almost like the allies did not really win in western europe based on some of the scenarios. I know you mentioned points generated based on tiles held in another response, but that negates the actual industrial capacity of the allies, which is not based on how much territory is gained in the short term of an invasion. In Overlord, the germans keep rolling new, powerful units into the battle even as cities are gained by the allies. Every time i think i have turned the corner, 6-8 new armor units appear and there are not enough points to heal allied units. It needs adjustments.
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Response from developer

Hello, I am constantly tweaking scenarios’ balance based on user feedback such as yours. Thank you for that. As for now, you may have not noticed, but when setting up a scenario, you have income modifier sliders at your disposal for each nation in the scenario. You can and should use these to tweak the balance to your liking if you feel the balance is off (until an update comes out to address it if need be). As for the AI, its income is going to be the same as you (if you ever switched roles), it only gets buffed if you play in hard difficulty or above. Just checked Overlord and the Allies have 3x the German’s income. You can check that for yourself as well by opening the scenario in the editor and pressing the « i » (information » button near the player entry in the scenario’s settings. But again, feel free to set Germany’s income to 50% if that’s something you want. Cheers

Looking forward to more WWII units

Will you add Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star and PB4Y-2 Privateer to the game please? Really looking forward to this…

some suggestion

During my playthrough, I found that at the strategic level, encirclement is basically unnecessary. As long as you can directly destroy the enemy’s forces through head-on combat, there is little reason to attempt a pincer movement or surround them.

I think the fundamental issue is that the importance of supply is not emphasized enough. If supply only affects recovery, there is no real incentive to encircle enemy units — because when movement is already restricted by ZOC, they cannot escape anyway, so you can simply eliminate them through direct attacks.

I would suggest adding an optional rule: when a unit’s supply falls below 50%, its attack strength should decrease proportionally. The threshold could be adjusted based on unit size — larger formations would suffer from supply shortages earlier. For example, a division-level unit might only lose combat effectiveness below 50% supply, while an army-level unit might start suffering penalties below 70% supply.

This would encourage players to use encirclement and cutting off supply lines more often, rather than relying on constant frontal assaults.

Another possible reason is that retreating damaged units may simply be too difficult. A damaged unit often has a hard time leaving the frontline, so unless it is an elite unit, there is usually little incentive to withdraw it, move it deep into the rear, replenish its strength, and then return it to combat. As a result, players may prefer to keep damaged units fighting until the end rather than preserving them for future battles.

Of course, it is also possible that my understanding of the game is not deep enough. This is only based on my own experience playing Europe 1939. At least in my games, I rarely found it necessary to deliberately encircle and destroy enemy forces at the strategic level. Most of the time, direct confrontations seemed to be enough to achieve the same result.
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Extremely clever AI

You will need all of your wits to not get steamrolled - that”s demanding, sometimes frustrating but also highly satisfying.

Part of the menu is covered by the camera

Hi, the game looks really good. But I did not even start, because part of the menu is covered by the camera. The scale option is not able to fix this. It would be nice if you would not use the full display size with round corners and camera, but render instead into the good visible sub area.

Response from developer

Hello, It is unfortunately not something I can fix in any easy way, otherwise, it would have been done years ago. The only solution to this issue requires to remake the entire UI from scratch, which is sadly not going to happen. Turn your phone to the other side, works fine on my iPhone 15. Game is best played on a tablet regardless, UI is designed for PC which requires a big screen in the first place (this is not a mobile game, this is a PC game ported to mobile/tablet). Feel free to request a refund if you’d like, that’s fine as well.

Strategic boomers became useless after 8.4.6

this balance adjustment is an overcorrection…

Grosse déception, dommage

Sympa mais quelques gros bugs sur IPad Pro et tuto très très léger. Dommage car le jeu a beaucoup d’allure.

Response from developer

Bonjour, Vous est-il possible de me donner plus de détails concernant les « gros bugs » ?

It is fun for me

I enjoy this game a lot. I enjoy this game much better than chess. I like that I can play against the computer. So many options to explore. It is just enjoyable to me. It’s also a good way for me to let go of the day’s stresses.

大きなマップ

I want a large world map so I can conquer the world as an Axis power

FANTASTIC

As a hoi4 fan having this game on mobile is great. Hope too continue to see updates (which have been happening and have been good) hope to see some similar games set in different eras of time from this developer. Same layout but modern? Nam? Yes pls. ALSO if possible a scenario that gives us the whole world. Would like to be able to invade the US. Or maybe when defeating a country we could have the option to “steal” tank, ship, plane blueprints. I LOVE THIS GAME
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Panzer General, World in Flames, Hex of Steel

Fantastisch. Nachdem ich mittlerweile über 25 Jahre lang immer wieder einmal Panzergeneral spiele (inzwischen nur noch über dosbox) entdeckte ich Hex of Steel und bin total begeistert.
So ein wahnsinnig detailliertes Spiel mit soviel Tiefgang ist fast schon zu viel für mich. Grossartiger Job!!!!
Habe die Version für iPad und Mac gekauft und es läuft und läuft.
Endlich wieder rundenbasiert spielen und das auch noch ohne Windows und dosbox
Danke dafür
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Amazing game!

Amazing game and faithful to the PC version! However, PLEASE fix the Dynamic Island covering the menu on the left side on newer phones! 4 stars for that reason.

Great game

It's a slightly difficult game, but that difficulty is what makes it so realistic and wonderful.

The best game ww2!!!

I love that you always update the game and you are in touch with everything that’s going on and I know that takes a lot, thank you for creating such game and such accuracy of history and you keep improving it

Response from developer

Hello, Thank you for your updated review! Enjoy and have fun :)

PanzerCorps on Steroids

If you liked Panzer General on PC or PanzerCorps on IOS this is it for you ! Just for little iPhones the screen is too small, on IPad or Mac love love love. Still even Panzer General Pros have quite a learning curve ahead of you !

As deep as it is fun

There’s a handful of games that come out that I am quick to the trigger to purchase on multiple devices: this is one of them. If it ever releases on console I’ll purchase it there, too. I once noticed an issue while playing the game on Steam, and posted a question in the forum. The dev replied and fixed the issue within 2 hours. This feels more like a H&C board game than most other games in this genre. Strategy and positioning is of the utmost importance while balancing manpower and money. You’ll definitely get your money’s worth as there are tons of missions, each of which are very lengthy (then again that may be because i’m just not the best strategist 😅). A must buy for any WWII enthusiast!
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Response from developer

Thanks for your review! Enjoy!