Hexarch vs Tinmarch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hexarch
A complete 4X strategy game playable offline on iPhone and iPad. Build your civilization, explore a hidden world, and choose from four distinct victory conditions. Engage in diplomacy, warfare, and economic management against AI rivals.
- Offline 4X strategy gameplay
- Four distinct victory conditions
- AI rivals with unique personalities
- Real-time global market simulation
- Diplomacy and siege warfare
- Pass-and-play and asynchronous multiplayer
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Hexarch is a complete 4X strategy game for iPhone and iPad, built one hex at a time. Free, with no ads, no in-app purchases, no account and no tracking. It plays fully offline. Your civilization starts with a single city in a world hidden beneath the clouds. Send out warriors and workers, uncover forests, mountains and coastlines, and turn them into farms, mines, lumber camps and harbors. Then decide how you want to win. FOUR WAYS TO WIN • Domination — be the last civilization standing • Tech — research 20 of 25 technologies • Economy — amass 2,000 gold and raise three Wonders • Score — lead the world when the turn limit arrives A REAL ECONOMY • Every city feeds its people — grain surpluses grow your cities • Workers build farms, mines, camps, markets, banks and universities • A living global market: sell a flood of iron and watch the price crash • Automatic trade routes between your cities earn steady gold • Wonders, districts and faction buildings reward careful planning RIVALS WITH PERSONALITY • Six civilizations, each with its own bonuses, unique units and buildings • AI rivals who expand, trade, research, declare war and sue for peace • Four difficulty levels, from relaxed to Brutal • Unlock bonus civilizations and the Machina boss by winning A WORLD FULL OF CHOICES • Diplomacy: peace treaties, trade pacts, gifts and grudges that fade over time • Siege warfare: break a city's walls before you can take it • Optional barbarians, city-states you can befriend or vassalize, and story events • Ancient ruins, bonus resources and a tech tree with branching strategies PLAY YOUR WAY • Single player against up to five AI rivals • Pass-and-play multiplayer on one device • Share a match file with a friend and take turns asynchronously • Autosave after every turn — continue exactly where you left off • Records track your victories, best scores and fastest wins Hexarch is a complete game: no ads, no in-app purchases, no accounts and no tracking. Your saves never leave your device.
Tinmarch
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Command tiny armies, control the crossings and capture enemy fortresses. Tinmarch is an offline, single-player real-time strategy game where the ground you take helps your army grow. Select a base, tap a target or draw a route for your soldiers. Reinforce an exposed flank and decide when to commit your reserves. Take a moment to read the battlefield before the action starts, and pause to plan your next move. MAKE THE MAP YOUR ADVANTAGE More territory means stronger troop production. Secure wellsprings, use high ground and hold narrow bridges against a larger army. Small pockets sealed behind your lines join your territory. Read the enemy's plan, respond to warned attacks and redirect troops already in the field. Capture the enemy's camps and fortresses to win. FOUR WAYS TO COMMAND • Campaign: master 12 handcrafted missions across a rebuilt campaign. Earn stars, complete optional objectives and unlock commands and modes. Missions 1–6 are free; missions 7–12 require Full Game. • Skirmish: face a generated map each battle and choose a tactic with its own benefit and trade-off. Free runs end at three victories, and you can start new runs as often as you like. Full Game removes the run limit. • Daily Front: the entire mode is free. Take on the day's fixed map and objectives, retry without limits and improve your personal best. Your best result stays on your device, ready to share when you choose. • Expedition: earn research through play and equip one of three technologies. The first chapter, five victories, is free. Full Game opens chapters 2–6, completing the 30-victory journey, and lets you keep exploring afterwards. TIME THE TURNING POINT Use Surge to speed your army forward. Protect a push with Rally or unlock Disrupt to interfere with an enemy base's next deployment. Choose your support command and make its timing count. START FREE. NO ADS. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Full Game is an optional, one-time in-app purchase that unlocks the remaining content. It does not buy stronger troops or change battle rules. Buy or restore it from Settings > Full Game. Players who downloaded the fully free App Store version 0.1.0 keep full access with the same Apple Account. No game account is required. Progress is saved on your device. Gameplay works offline; purchases, restoring access and opening external support pages require an internet connection. Restoring access does not restore game saves. Play on iPhone and iPad in English, Turkish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Korean or Simplified Chinese, with separate sound, vibration and visual-effects controls. Take the crossing. Hold the fortress. Make your next move.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hexarch at none against Tinmarch's 1. Hexarch also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Tinmarch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hexarch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hexarch ships an update daily, Tinmarch every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hexarch | Tinmarch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Yves Flueckiger | Bayram Bas |
In-app purchases
Hexarch
No in-app purchases
Tinmarch
- Full Game$4.99









