Colonies.io vs HexaGenius
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colonies.io
Command your queen to collect food blocks and outrank opponents. Spawn workers and attackers, but manage your food resources carefully. Steal food from other players to secure the top rank and earn coin rewards.
- Collect food blocks
- Spawn workers and attackers
- Steal food from opponents
- Rank-based coin rewards
- Finger-based queen movement
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Goal: - Collect as many food blocks as you can to get 1st rank. - Spawn workers/attackers as needed, be aware that they cost food. - Steel food from other queen as well. - Only 1st rank gives coin reward equal to food blocks collected. Controls: - Move queen with your finger. - Workers / Attackers automatically moved with queen.
HexaGenius
A strategic tile-placement game where players score points by expanding lines of colored symbols. Success requires balancing scores across all colors, not just specializing in a few.
- Domino-style tile placement
- Symbol line expansion scoring
- Balanced color scoring mechanic
- Strategic gameplay
- Single-player focus
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In HexaGenius, players take turns placing colored domino-style tiles on a game board, scoring for each line of colored symbols that they enlarge. The trick, however, is that a player's score is equal to their worst-scoring color, not their best, so they need to score for all colors instead of specializing in only one or two.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HexaGenius at 5.0 against Colonies.io's 4.0. Colonies.io's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.1). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HexaGenius holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Colonies.io | HexaGenius |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rocketship Studios LLP | Kevin Hammond |
Customer experience
Colonies.io
HexaGenius
In-app purchases
Colonies.io
No in-app purchases
HexaGenius
No in-app purchases
Questions
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