Pixel Tribe vs HexSweep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Tribe
Build and manage a Viking tribe in a retro pixel art strategy RPG. Craft weapons, upgrade your kingdom, and lead your Vikings in turn-based raids and PVP battles. Farm resources, raise animals, and customize your village to become the ultimate Viking chief.
- Build and upgrade Viking kingdom
- Craft weapons and armor
- Turn-based combat raids
- Farm resources and raise animals
- Multiplayer clans and PVP battles
- Customize Viking skills
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Pixel Tribe: Viking Kingdom is a strategy RPG with retro pixel art graphics where you build and upgrade a tribe of Vikings. As the chief, you must build your kingdom, raise a tribe of Vikings, craft weapons and armor, and send your Vikings on epic turn-based raids. Craft items and resources, upgrade your kingdom and improve your Vikings fighting skills. Build, farm, raise animals, decorate, upgrade and customize your own Viking Kingdom. Craft weapons and armor for your Vikings to give them a fighting chance against the toughest enemies in Midgard! PIXEL TRIBE: VIKING KINGDOM FEATURES CRAFT, BUILD & UPGRADE ● Craft and upgrade weapons and armor. ● Build and upgrade buildings like the Weaponsmith, Viking ship, Church and more. ● Craft resources to earn gold and upgrade your kingdom. ● Craft items and gear to upgrade your Vikings fighting skills. ● Upgrade your farm to craft food and more valuable resources. FIGHTING ● Earn rewards by fighting and raid your enemies! ● Level up your Vikings and upgrade your fighting skills! ● Fighting lets you specialize your Vikings as tanks, fighters, archers or mages. ● Top the Leaderboards by fighting your way to glory! FARM, BUILD & UPGRADE ● Build a farm and craft food to heal your Vikings. ● Plant and harvest crops. ● Build your kingdom and raise animals. ● Farm and feed your animals to produce eggs, wool, and milk. MULTIPLAYER ● Clans with Raids, Orders, and Buffs ● PVP battles ● Leagues and Leaderboards ● Visit other Players villages
HexSweep
Experience a unique twist on Minesweeper played on a 3D globe. Navigate a rotatable sphere to reveal safe cells, mark mines, and solve puzzles. Enjoy daily challenges and save your progress with no ads or tracking.
- 3D globe gameplay
- Rotatable sphere interface
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Offline daily challenges
- Save and restore games
- Two visual themes
- No ads or tracking
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HexSweep reimagines classic Minesweeper on a rotatable geodesic sphere. Reveal safe cells, mark suspected mines, chord around solved clues, and rotate, roll, and zoom the globe to inspect every angle. Choose Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme, No Flags, or four Time Pressure difficulties. Take on a reproducible offline Daily Challenge, share replay codes, and return to an exact saved game. Features: • Solver-verified logical boards with protected openings • Offline Daily Challenges and local streaks • Deterministic replay and recipe codes • Exact save and restoration • Two visual themes and selectable backgrounds • Optional sound and haptics • No ads, accounts, tracking, or data collection
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HexSweep at none against Pixel Tribe's 7. HexSweep also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Pixel Tribe's advantage is ratings volume (4K vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 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. Pixel Tribe sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. HexSweep asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Pixel Tribe against 5.0 for HexSweep. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Tribe has 4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Pixel Tribe's written reviews are positive against 100% of HexSweep's.
| Parameter | Pixel Tribe | HexSweep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 308 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kvannli AS | DANIEL ANTHONY BASSIL |
Customer experience
Pixel Tribe
HexSweep
Bugs and requests
Pixel Tribe
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional crashes or bugs
- Soft-locking issues due to progression imbalance
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to rename or customize Vikings
- Expanded clan/multiplayer features
- More diverse building and decoration options
- Reduced crafting/production times
- Offline/background progression mode
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- Challenging boss battles or events
- Improved quest/progression system
HexSweep
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pixel Tribe
- Pocketfull of Gems$0.99
- Pile of Gems$1.99
- Bag of Gems$4.99
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- Sack of Gems$9.99
- Box of Gems$19.99
- Chest of Gems$49.99
- Golden Gem Chest$99.99
HexSweep
No in-app purchases
