Hex Touch vs QUARTO.GG
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hex Touch
A two-player abstract strategy board game where players aim to connect opposite sides of a hexagonal board with their chosen color. The game guarantees a winner, as a chain must form by the time all cells are colored.
- Two-player gameplay
- Hexagonal board
- Connect opposite sides
- Abstract strategy
- Guaranteed winner
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Hex is a board game for two players. The red player trys to connect the two red borders with a chain of red cells by coloring empty cells red, while the blue player trys the same with the blue borders. The game can never end with a draw:When all cells have been colored, there must exists either a red chain or a blue chain. Good luck!
QUARTO.GG
A digital adaptation of a strategic board game where players aim to get four pieces in a row. Pieces are unique, with each having four distinct characteristics, and the goal is to select a piece for your opponent to place, adding a layer of strategic depth.
- Strategic board game
- Unique piece characteristics
- Opponent selects opponent's piece
- Masterable complexity
- Digital adaptation
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Quarto is a simple board game, but can be very hard to master.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: QUARTO.GG at 4.3 against Hex Touch's 3.6. QUARTO.GG also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 9 months). Hex Touch's advantage is review sentiment (17% vs 9%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
QUARTO.GG holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Hex Touch's written reviews are positive against 9% of QUARTO.GG's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hex Touch ships an update every 9 months, QUARTO.GG every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hex Touch | QUARTO.GG |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (8 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.2% of reviews — better | 9.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin White | Stefan Rasmussen |
Customer experience
Hex Touch
QUARTO.GG
Bugs and requests
Hex Touch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
QUARTO.GG
Reported bugs
73 issues- App crashes
- Game crashes
- Intro works, but nothing else
- Never made it past the main menu
- Crashes every time
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- App is not functional
- Started crashing a couple years ago
- Can't even start a game
- Not able to set skill level
- Only thing able to do is read directions
- Tells you to read instructions and crashes
- App crashes every time I try to open it
- Crashes every time without fail
- Game is unplayable due to crashing
- Unplayable on iPhone 8+
- Crashes after the intro every time
- Crashes, first time every time
- Game crashes when trying to start game
- Game crashes when opening user settings
- Says "THIS IS AN OLD RESEARCH PROJECT AND DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE"
- Still isn’t working
- Rien ne fonctionne
- Can’t use app at all
- Says to read intro again and again and again. Click OK, crash.
- Game crashes every time before starting a game
- Hasn’t been updated in 2yrs
- Crashes on start. No place to set level as required!
- This game doesn’t work
- Won’t let me play
- Deleted and downloaded several times to no avail
- Waste of time until it is fixed
- Crashes immediately
- Game won’t even open
- There’s a bug
- Game closes itself after reading the instructions
- Crashes every single time after the introduction
- Crashes on the “enter user skill level” screen in iOS11
- Could never get it open on iPad 7
- Crashed when trying to set user info
- Only part that works is the intro
- App crashes when clicking on user info
- App crashes when clicking on start game link at end of introduction
- Game is unplayable
- Need QA testing on all supported devices
- New form at the end of each game is annoying and 100% crashes
- Crashed all the time
- Need to set skill level to play. Crashes when you try to set it.
- Requires you to set a skill level before playing but throws you out before you can
- Has been out since 2016 and still not resolved the problem
- Crushes right away
- App not working at this time
- Crashes when you try to set the skill level
- Buggy
- Crashes constantly
- Crash Central
- Unable to start a game
- Crashed every time I try to start a game
- Crashed every time I try to go into the settings
- Doesn't work!!!
- Keeps crashing when I try to enter info!
- Can't even make it to the game!
- Remove this broken app!
- App crashes every time before you can even try playing the game
- App crashes the moment it is opened
- Crashes every time and on every device
- Asks to set skill level before beginning and then closes down when I try to do that
- Straight up doesn't work
- Game crashed each time I went to click "user info"
- Couldn't play once
- Crashed anytime I tried to open settings
- Crashed anytime I tried to go through the intro
- AI interface wins when it doesn't even have a quarto
- AI interface wins incorrectly
Requested features
11 requests- Update the app
- Fix the crashing issue
- Fix the game
- Repair the app
- Update coming
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- Fix the bug
- QA testing on all supported devices
- Remove non working apps from the store
- Different levels of play
- Play human opponents
- Turn the board for better view
In-app purchases
Hex Touch
No in-app purchases
QUARTO.GG
No in-app purchases
