Hex of Fate

Every battle is won or lost before it is ever fought.

A competitive strategy game of scouting, preparation and programmable tactics, on a world that is different every match. Coming to PC on Steam.

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The strategy is the game

Hex of Fate is a competitive 1v1 strategy game where knowledge, preparation and foresight decide the winner. Two players start at opposing castles on a fog-covered hex world generated fresh for every match. You scout, capture towns for income, and build armies, but you do not micromanage them. You choose their composition, set their formation, give them their orders, and send them out. When armies meet, the battle plays out from the preparation each player brought to it, and what remains of the victorious army moves on.

No reflex tax. No memorised build orders on a memorised map. Just you, an unknown world, and an opponent doing exactly what you are doing: preparing, predicting and out-thinking.

A new world every match.

Every map is generated at runtime from a shared seed: terrain, rivers, roads, towns and secrets. Scouting matters because nobody has seen this world before.

Armies with orders, not units with micro.

Compose your force from the five Core Classes, set its formation, and program its tactics. Then watch your plan meet theirs.

Every loss is a lesson.

Battles are deterministic: same state, same orders, same result. Replay any fight, see exactly why it went the way it did, and come back sharper.

From the prototype

The overworld mid-match: generated terrain, a town, and the fog's edge.
The overworld mid-match: generated terrain, a town, and the fog's edge.
Building an army: composition, cost and the deployment grid.
Building an army: composition, cost and the deployment grid.
A battle resolving on the map, no player input.
A battle resolving on the map, no player input.

Prototype footage. Map and battle art is placeholder while the loop was proven; the units below show where the art is going.

Hand-drawn, frame by frame

Every unit in Hex of Fate is hand-drawn pixel art, animated frame by frame, standing on a 3D world generated at runtime. No stock assets, nothing derivative, no AI: original art and lore, made the slow way.

The Undine, attack cycle.
The Undine, attack cycle.
The Undine, moving through water.
The Undine, moving through water.
The Crystal Matrix, attack cycle.
The Crystal Matrix, attack cycle.
The Undine's painted portrait, as seen in the Librarium.
The Undine's painted portrait, as seen in the Librarium.

From first sketch to the game: the Death Knight, the Demon Prince, and the Nightmare's attack, the body splitting open along the spine.

Built in the open

We are documenting the whole journey: the design, the engine work, the art, the playtests, the mistakes. New episodes monthly.

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Be there from the first battle

The demo comes to Steam in 2027. Leave your email and we will tell you when there is something to play, and nothing else.

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