EtherBox vs Hex by Hex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EtherBox
Experience an avant-garde electronic music game set in a futuristic city. Navigate challenging patterns with simple controls across multiple game modes. Immerse yourself in a unique audio-visual journey with an evolving soundtrack.
- Simple and fun gameplay
- Multiple challenging patterns
- Arcade, casual, and nightmare modes
- Aesthetical game interface
- Unique electronic music soundtrack
- Regular track updates
- Supports 11 languages
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[EtherBox] is an electronic music game based on the idea of "The City of the Future" - produced by the Blingame indie game studio. # Simple x Fun x Avant-Garde # 1. Simple, easy to play; multiple challenging patterns. Arcade, casual, nightmare 3 level modes could be chosen. 2. Aesthetical game interface, along with the rhythm of electronic music, which takes you through to the future. 3. Unique soundtrack, a number of independent Chinese electronic music producers would take you into a different world of /audio banquet. 4. More tracks continue to update, so stay tuned. 5. Support 11 different languages # Game concept # "This is a box from outer space!" Through the images projected by this box, you can see various images of the "future world." The story is about your (the player) accidentally discovery on this weird box, and by unlocking the content of the EtherBox gradually, it's a diary from the future world that fragmentarily captures some passage of the authors through to the future world. The game will also have several episodes: "departure", "shuttle", "lost", and "Utopia”. # Cross-border art creation # Developer's words, "We want to make a different game, using electronic music, visual design to express our imagination of the future, making the game an art carrier, simple, interesting and avant-garde. We believe in the future, we will launch More cross-border art creation works, I hope you like it. " # Share your ideas with us # Email:blingame@outlook.com Website:https://blingame.net Facebook: @etherbox Twitter : @etherboxapp Enjoy it. ;)
Hex by Hex
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Conquer a hex map in about five minutes. Hex by Hex is a fast territory conquest strategy game: grow from a single tile into an empire before rival AI factions box you in. Every run is a fresh map. Claim neighboring hexes, build farms, lumber mills, and iron mines, turn your harvest into coins, and push across the border before the Tide clock runs out. HOW A RUN PLAYS - Start with one tile and a five minute Tide clock. - Claim adjacent hexes to expand. Forests, plains, and mountains feed your wood, food, and iron. - Balance your resources to mint coins, then spend them on new tile slots and Edicts. - Raid contested border tiles, grab prize tiles, and hold the chokepoints. - Win by domination, or get swallowed when the Tide rises. FEATURES - Fast strategy: a complete war in about five minutes, with no waiting. - Real-time AI rivals, each with its own name, color, and sigil. - Three one-shot Edicts: Conscript, Blitz, and Sabotage. - Coin market: convert resources by hand or on auto. - Daily Tide: one shared map each day with a Game Center leaderboard. - Seed duels: send a friend a link to play the exact same map. - Pinch to zoom and pan across the whole battlefield. - No ads. No energy meters. No waiting timers. FREE TO PLAY, ONE-TIME FULL UNLOCK Play the Skirmish map on Easy and Medium with the Conscript edict for free. The Full Unlock is a single purchase that adds: - Every map size, from the 37-tile Skirmish up to the 127-tile Large map with up to six AI rivals. - Hard and Brutal difficulty. - Team Mode: 2v2 and 3v3 battles with AI allies. - All three Edicts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: EtherBox at 4 against Hex by Hex's 1. EtherBox also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. EtherBox sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Hex by Hex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for EtherBox against 5.0 for Hex by Hex. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | EtherBox | Hex by Hex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 259 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | ZhiXiong Huang | IndieCraft LLC |
Customer experience
EtherBox
Hex by Hex
In-app purchases
EtherBox
- Get 3 Hearts$0.99
- Get 1000 Crystals$0.99
- Get 10 Hearts$1.99
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- Remove all the ads$1.99
- Double the Powers$1.99
- Get 3000 Crystals$2.99
- Get 5000 Crystals$4.99
- Infinite Hearts$4.99
- Unlock all of the music$17.99
Hex by Hex
- Unlock Full Game$4.99









