Hexcrawl

Hexcrawl is an open-world exploration game where you travel one hex at a time through forests, swamps, mountains, deserts, tundras, coastlines, ruins, settlements and strange landmarks. Each step advances time. Terrain can slow you down, weather can worsen, food runs low and your pack fills up, forcing you to choose whether to return with what you have or press on.

Explore the world

Random encounters include monsters, travelers, merchants, ambushes, oddities and opportunities. You can fight, talk or leave. Ports provide routes to harsher country, and you can mark ruins to revisit later. After clearing a zone, you can build a Bastion there as a foothold for further travel.

Explore Delves

Caves, temples, forts, tombs, shipwrecks, ruins and other locations are scattered across the world. Entering a Delve shifts exploration indoors, where you move room by room through traps, hidden passages, darkness, loot and whatever has taken up residence. Light matters, and foes may spot you before you see them.

Fight and grow

Combat is quick, dangerous and turn-based. Enemies range from common wilderness threats to rare monsters, regional bosses, dragons and other creatures that can punish adventurers who arrive too early. The game has no traditional character levels, and enemies do not scale to match you. Your strength comes from equipment, Masteries and learning how to stay alive; relics can change how you approach a fight, while limited inventory space means you must choose what to carry.

Prepare for expeditions

You craft at settlements and learn recipes from trainers, tomes and discoveries in the wild. The Journal tracks quests, beasts and discoveries. Choose a Calling—Fighter, Practitioner, Hunter or Sneak—as a starting kit; it does not lock you into a class. You can follow roads, cross mountain ranges, hunt bosses for their possessions, or venture out and see what you find.