Tactical deckbuilder · Wargame · Dark fantasy
Grow a living stronghold across the battlefield. Arm champions with abilities your rival can read—but never fully know. Then bring their Nexus down.
The fractured realm
Beneath every great city sleeps a Nexus—an ancient intelligence threaded through stone, memory, and Aether.
When the old roads failed and the world broke into isolated dominions, the Nexuses stirred. Each began to draw walls, temples, workshops, and war engines from the land around it. Each remembered a different future.
Now their borders grow toward one another. Where those living networks meet, champions bind themselves to the impossible geometry beneath the earth. These are the Hexborne: warriors reshaped by the city they defend—and the secrets they choose to carry.
Four disciplines. Countless builds.
Every unit enters battle unfinished. Its discipline tells your rival what it might become. Your draft decides what it truly is.
Discipline 01
“Hold nothing back. Not even yourself.”
Armored vanguards who turn pressure into power. Myrmidons earn Valor by striking into the enemy line, then spend it to empower brutal charges, cleaves, and battlefield control.
Discipline 02
“Every spell leaves something behind.”
Elemental tacticians who channel the residue of each spell. Bank Fire, Frost, Air, Earth, or Arcane essence—then consume it to infuse the next cast beyond its natural limits.
Discipline 03
“A future protected is a weapon denied.”
Wardens of possibility. Espers heal, cleanse, obscure, and silence—turning an opponent’s perfect sequence into a decision they should never have made.
Discipline 04
“The threat you see is never the blade that lands.”
Hidden-information specialists who weaponize movement, stealth, poison, smoke, and devices. Every safe-looking tile becomes a question your rival must answer.
Beyond the card table
Hexborne combines the long game of a deckbuilder, the territory of a wargame, and the moment-to-moment reads of a duel.
Structures are not a back row. Every temple, district, wall, and workshop extends a physical network from your Nexus—opening territory, funding your army, and exposing a supply line your rival can cut.
Abilities come from shared, face-up class pools. You see what an enemy could have drafted, never what they chose. No hidden rules. No unknowable card text. Just reads.
Aether carries between rounds. Push early, fortify your engine, or bank toward a devastating turn—the economy makes every pass a threat and every investment a window.
Terrain, line of sight, reactions, initiative, and connected deployment turn the hex grid into a spatial puzzle. The front line emerges from what both players build—and what each is willing to risk.
Built for players who love
The first wave
Hexborne is deep in active development. We’re looking for strategy players who enjoy finding broken combinations, making hard reads, and telling us where the game loses its edge.
Small-group PC builds focused on tactical matches, deck construction, balance, and multiplayer flow.
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