HexTowerDefense vs Trenchlight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HexTowerDefense
Engage in strategic tower defense on a hexagonal grid. Master placement, range, and timing across 50 campaign levels, daily challenges, and a community workshop. Enjoy a retro aesthetic with no energy timers and limited ads.
- Hexagonal grid placement
- 50 handcrafted campaign levels
- Daily challenges and endless mode
- Community Workshop for sharing layouts
- Eight tower types
- Retro neon aesthetic
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Place towers. Hold the line. HexTowerDefense is a minimalist tower defense game built around a hexagonal grid. Every placement decision matters — angles, range, and timing are yours to control. Three ways to play Campaign — 50 handcrafted levels with Normal, Hard, Veteran & Nightmare difficulty. Earn up to 3 stars per level. Challenges — Daily run, Endless mode, invisible enemies, and more. Complete daily challenges to earn Workshop Tokens. Sandbox — Build freely, experiment, validate your layout, then share it with the world through the Community Workshop. Community Workshop Browse boards submitted by other players, download and test them, rate your favorites, and submit your own for review. Eight tower types, endless possibilities Neon-on-black retro aesthetic. No energy timers. Limited ads.
Trenchlight
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The seafloor mining platforms went dark when the Bloom came up out of the trench. You are the last light crew. Bolt guns to the deck plating, weave the tunnels they have to crawl through, and hold the light until the evacuation sub surfaces. TRENCHLIGHT is an open-field maze tower defense. You don't defend a fixed path - you build it. Every turret is also a wall, so where you place it decides the route the Crawl has to walk. A good maze turns a ten-second sprint into a minute-long gauntlet, and that is the whole game. WHAT YOU GET - 50 hand-built levels across five acts, each on Normal, Hard and Nightmare - 10 turrets, each branching at tier 3 into one of two specialisations, for 20 distinct endgame guns - 14 enemies, every one designed to break a specific tactic: armour that shrugs off your kinetic guns, flyers that ignore your maze entirely, tunnellers that go under it, a Leech that mends what you just shot, a final boss whose armour class rotates - Three damage types against three armour classes, so the right gun always beats the biggest gun - Optional Directives on every level, for when three stars stops being enough - Endless mode per act, with leaderboards NO NONSENSE No ads. No energy timers. No loot boxes. No currency. No account required. Works completely offline, forever. Acts I to III are free and complete - thirty levels ending on a boss - and the rest is one optional unlock that buys levels, never power. Landscape, built natively for iOS.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trenchlight at none against HexTowerDefense's 4. HexTowerDefense's advantage is iOS requirement (18.5 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. HexTowerDefense sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Trenchlight asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | HexTowerDefense | Trenchlight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Maxime Hussenet | Jonathan Vogelbusch |
In-app purchases
HexTowerDefense
- x2/x4 Speed$1.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Gotta Go Faster$4.99
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- All-in-One$4.99
Trenchlight
No in-app purchases
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