Comparison

Hex by Hex vs Brainrot Clicker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hex by Hex

Engage in rapid territory conquest strategy games that last about five minutes. Grow your empire from a single hex, manage resources, and outmaneuver AI rivals before time runs out. Enjoy a fresh map and unique challenges with every playthrough.

Highlights
  • Fast-paced 5-minute strategy games
  • Real-time AI rivals
  • Resource management and expansion
  • One-time full unlock for all content
  • Daily shared maps and leaderboards
  • Seed duels for shared map challenges
Features
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Conquer a hex map in about five minutes. Hex by Hex is a fast territory conquest strategy game: grow from a single tile into an empire before rival AI factions box you in. Every run is a fresh map. Claim neighboring hexes, build farms, lumber mills, and iron mines, turn your harvest into coins, and push across the border before the Tide clock runs out. HOW A RUN PLAYS - Start with one tile and a five minute Tide clock. - Claim adjacent hexes to expand. Forests, plains, and mountains feed your wood, food, and iron. - Balance your resources to mint coins, then spend them on new tile slots and Edicts. - Raid contested border tiles, grab prize tiles, and hold the chokepoints. - Win by domination, or get swallowed when the Tide rises. FEATURES - Fast strategy: a complete war in about five minutes, with no waiting. - Real-time AI rivals, each with its own name, color, and sigil. - Three one-shot Edicts: Conscript, Blitz, and Sabotage. - Coin market: convert resources by hand or on auto. - Daily Tide: one shared map each day with a Game Center leaderboard. - Seed duels: send a friend a link to play the exact same map. - Pinch to zoom and pan across the whole battlefield. - No ads. No energy meters. No waiting timers. FREE TO PLAY, ONE-TIME FULL UNLOCK Play the Skirmish map on Easy and Medium with the Conscript edict for free. The Full Unlock is a single purchase that adds: - Every map size, from the 37-tile Skirmish up to the 127-tile Large map with up to six AI rivals. - Hard and Brutal difficulty. - Team Mode: 2v2 and 3v3 battles with AI allies. - All three Edicts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Brainrot Clicker

Features
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Collect 320 brainrots, including 12 Lab Originals. Catch 71 on the Carpet and discover the other 249 through Fusion Lab recipes. No ads. TAP. Tralalero Tralala squelches, coins fly, combos build. Hit a 50 combo for FRENZY and everything triples. CATCH THEM OFF THE CARPET. Brainrots walk past and you grab the one standing in front of you. Commons turn up all day. A Mythic can take weeks. Bombardiro Crocodilo, Tung Tung Tung Sahur, Ballerina Cappuccina, Brr Brr Patapim, Lirilì Larilà, Chimpanzini Bananini, Trippi Troppi, Cappuccino Assassino, Boneca Ambalabu, La Vacca Saturno Saturnita and 300 more. FUSE TWO. Level two brainrots and combine them in the Lab into something new. 249 recipes, and the only route to the God, Secret and OG tiers. Share the reveal. PICK YOUR TEAM. Only the brainrots on your team earn coins, and slots have to be earned. The fortieth one you catch is a decision, not a duplicate. GUESS THE BRAINROT. A daily ten-question round: silhouettes, zoom-ins, blurs, finish-the-name. Everyone gets the same questions on the same day. Keep the streak. ROT. Level one to 10, 25, 50 and 100 and watch it go Rotting, Fried, Cooked, Ascended, doubling its income every time. MEME RESET. Earn a billion, hand it all back, keep the power. Every Rot Cell is +10% forever — and the reset asks for named brainrots too, so you have to go and catch them. Every brainrot says its own name in an Italian voice. Works offline. No ads. No accounts. Character names are internet memes. The artwork, voices and code were made for Rotzo; its sound effects and music are public-domain (CC0) recordings, cut for the game. Privacy Policy: https://rotzo.vercel.app/privacy.html Support: https://rotzo.vercel.app/support.html

Screenshots

Hex by Hex4 screens
Brainrot Clicker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brainrot Clicker at none against Hex by Hex's 1. Brainrot Clicker also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hex by Hex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Brainrot Clicker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hex by Hex ships an update every 3 months, Brainrot Clicker daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Hex by Hex versus Brainrot Clicker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHex by HexBrainrot Clicker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB43 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperIndieCraft LLCLudovic PUAUD

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hex by Hex

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Game$4.99
None

Brainrot Clicker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hex by Hex free?
Hex by Hex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brainrot Clicker free?
Brainrot Clicker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hex by Hex or Brainrot Clicker have ads?
Neither Hex by Hex nor Brainrot Clicker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hex by Hex or Brainrot Clicker?
Hex by Hex ships an update every 3 months, and Brainrot Clicker daily. Most recently, Hex by Hex was updated on October 25, 2026 and Brainrot Clicker on October 29, 2026.

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