Hexawar 2 vs Despot's Game
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hexawar 2
Engage in turn-based tactical combat across numerous single-player levels and multiplayer maps. Design your own battlegrounds and challenge friends on the same device. Experience strategic warfare with diverse game modes.
- 20 single player campaign levels
- 5 multiplayer maps
- 4 challenge maps
- Map editor
- Hotseat PvP multiplayer
- Campaign and challenge modes
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Command your hex units in battles on 20 single player levels in campaign mode and 5 different multiplayer maps. Test your skills with 4 extra hard challenge maps. Create your own maps. Use same device for PvP battles with Multiplayer hotseat type game. 2 game types: - Single player (campaign and challenge mode) - Multiplayer hotseat
Despot's Game
Build a dystopian army and guide them through a challenging labyrinth. This roguelike strategy game focuses on item and mutation choices, with automatic combat. Permadeath means starting over, but a secret multiplayer mode awaits those who conquer the game.
- Army building
- Item and mutation customization
- Automatic combat
- Roguelike/roguelite gameplay
- Permadeath with world regeneration
- Secret multiplayer mode
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Available for free: 4 levels of the game and 10 attempts per day in Brawl mode. The full version can be unlocked with one payment in the game. *Supported Devices: iPhone 8 Plus, Apple iPad Pro 12.9 (2015) and above. iPod Touches are not supported. Let's play a game: I'll give you some puny humans, and you try to help them make it through my labyrinth. No, you won't be controlling them in battles - they'll fight automatically! My game is about strategy and praying to RNGesus, not mashing buttons. You can buy items for the humans: swords, crossbows, coffins, stale pretzels. Plus, I'll let you give them cool mutations! A few Topochlorians in the blood and some Crocodile Skin never hurt anyone. There's one catch, though: if you die, you have to start over entirely, and the whole world will be generated again from scratch. Yes, my game is a roguelike game. Well, roguelite, if you're a nerd who loves compartmentalizing us creators into strict genres. I almost forgot: my game has a multiplayer mode, too! But I'm not going to tell you anything about it, because King of the Hill is a special secret multiplayer mode that only unlocks once you beat the game. * sincerely, with disrespect for puny humans, your local evil AI: d'Spot
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hexawar 2 at none against Despot's Game's 1. Hexawar 2 also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (50% vs 36%). Despot's Game's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (119 vs 7). On price, rating and device support 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. Despot's Game sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hexawar 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.6 for Hexawar 2 against 3.4 for Despot's Game. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Despot's Game has 119 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Hexawar 2's written reviews are positive against 36% of Despot's Game's.
Hexawar 2 ships an update every 3 days, Despot's Game monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hexawar 2 | Despot's Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (7 ratings) — better | 3.4 (119 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 36.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 119 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 456 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Petar Juros | TINYBUILD LLC |
Customer experience
Hexawar 2
Despot's Game
Bugs and requests
Hexawar 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Despot's Game
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on start
- Crashes during gameplay
- Crashes, losing progress
Requested features
3 requests- Add save/continue option
- Fix crashes
- Lower the price
In-app purchases
Hexawar 2
No in-app purchases
Despot's Game
- Despot's Game: Full Version$9.99








