Hedgewars vs Hexawar 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hedgewars
Engage in hilarious, turn-based strategy combat with a team of armed hedgehogs. Utilize a vast arsenal of weapons and tools to outmaneuver and defeat your opponents across diverse, destructible landscapes. Enjoy single-player or multiplayer battles with extensive customization options.
- Turn-based strategy combat
- Hilarious artillery action
- Up to 8-player local multiplayer
- Randomly generated maps
- 55+ devastating weapons
- 25 game modifiers
- Extensive team customization
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Hedgewars, it's a Blast! Description: This is the funniest and most addictive game you'll ever play - hilarious fun that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. Hedgewars is a turn based strategy game but the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by those pesky hedgehogs with those fantastic weapons - sneaky little blighters with a bad attitude! In other words Hedgewars is a turn based strategy, artillery, action and comedy game, featuring the antics of pink hedgehogs with attitude as they battle from the depths of hell to the depths of space. As commander, it's your job to assemble your crack team of hedgehog soldiers and bring the war to your enemy. Each player controls a team of several hedgehogs. During the course of the game, players take turns with one of their hedgehogs. They then use whatever tools and weapons are available to attack and kill the opponents' hedgehogs, thereby winning the game. Hedgehogs may move around the terrain in a variety of ways, normally by walking and jumping but also by using particular tools such as the "Rope" or "Parachute", to move to otherwise inaccessible areas. Each turn is time-limited to ensure that players do not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving. A large variety of tools and weapons are available for players during the game: Grenade, Cluster Bomb, Bazooka, UFO, Shotgun, Desert Eagle, Fire Punch, Baseball Bat, Dynamite, Mine, Rope, Pneumatic pick, Parachute. Most weapons, when used, cause explosions that deform the terrain, removing circular chunks. The landscape is an island floating on a body of water, or a restricted cave with water at the bottom. A hedgehog dies when it enters the water (either by falling off the island, or through a hole in the bottom of it), it is thrown off either side of the arena or when its health is reduced, typically from contact with explosions, to zero (the damage dealt to the attacked hedgehog or hedgehogs after a player's or CPU turn is shown only when all movement on the battlefield has ceased). * Hilarious and devastating turn based combat for up to 8 players * Local multiplayer with optional AI opponents * Battle on an infinite number of randomly generated maps with over 31 environments, or choose from 48 set image maps * Utilise 55 (and counting) devastating weapons! Defeat your foes with simple weapons like Grenades or take it to the next level and trash entire landscapes with weapons like the Melon Bomb or Piano Strike * Play the game your way, with 25 different game modifiers, tweak almost every aspect of the match * Customize your team, with over 280 costumes, 32 graves, 13 forts, 100s of flags and unique voice packs * Huge battles with up to 64 hogs
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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hedgewars at 4.3 against Hexawar 2's 3.6. Hedgewars also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Hexawar 2's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hedgewars holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Hedgewars's written reviews are positive against 50% of Hexawar 2's.
Hedgewars ships an update monthly, Hexawar 2 every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hedgewars | Hexawar 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (25 ratings) — better | 3.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 181 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anton Malmygin | Petar Juros |
Customer experience
Hedgewars
Hexawar 2
In-app purchases
Hedgewars
No in-app purchases
Hexawar 2
No in-app purchases









