Press — HexArena

Fact sheet

Game: HexArena, a browser strategy game.
Availability: Free to play.
Match length: Up to 15 minutes.
Players per match: Up to six combatants.
Opposition: Human or bots.
Developer: Matej Strnad, solo.
Development started: 2022.
Public Release Record: Began July 2023.
Website: https://hexarena.io
Play: https://play.hexarena.io
Press contact: matejstrnad@icloud.com

Short description

HexArena is a free browser strategy game. Build an economy, raise armies, and take territory from other players or bots on one hex map, in matches of up to 15 minutes. Designed, built, and operated by solo developer Matej Strnad since 2022.

Extended description

HexArena is a free strategy game that runs in the browser. You start on an island, turn owned ground into an economy of gold, wood, stone, and food, raise armies from your buildings, and push directional attacks across a hex map to take territory. A match holds up to six combatants and lasts up to 15 minutes: win by outlasting everyone, or by holding the most connected territory when the timer ends. Opposition is other players when they are around, and bots otherwise.

HexArena is designed, built, and operated by Matej Strnad, working alone, since 2022. It follows a line of hex-map games: Hexagor in 2016, the predecessor to HexArena Classic; then HexArena Classic in 2019, the original 2D version and the predecessor to the current HexArena. The game is still unfinished and carries no promised launch date; a public, dated Release Record has tracked shipped changes since July 2023 and stands as the checkable record of the project's progress.

Creator and project history

I am Matej Strnad, and I make HexArena alone. It follows a line of my own hex-map games: Hexagor in 2016, the predecessor to HexArena Classic; then HexArena Classic in 2019, the original 2D version and the predecessor to the current HexArena. All share the same idea of economy, armies, and connected territory on one hex map. I have shipped HexArena in the open since 2022, and the Release Record is the dated proof of that work.

Screenshots

Full-resolution PNG masters, shown here as complete 16:9 frames. Each links to its original file; the exact pixel size is on its download.

A late-game HexArena hex map showing several players' colored territories, buildings, and armies in contested positions. — HexArena late-game: a contested hex map with established territories.

An early-game HexArena map showing a village surrounded by a forester, a quarry, a farm, and a camp under normal gameplay controls. — Early economy: a village with resource buildings, a farm, and a camp.

A HexArena map showing armies advancing toward an opponent's territory with combat underway, under normal gameplay controls. — Active conflict: armies moving against opposing territory.

Brand mark

The compact HexArena mark: a white castle in a gold hexagon. Download the scalable vector for print and the transparent PNG for the web.

Download SVG Download PNG (930×1024)

Media-use guidance

You may use HexArena's name, screenshots, and brand mark in articles, videos, and posts about the game. Please keep the screenshots and mark unaltered — no recoloring, cropping past the framed image, or overlaying other logos on them — and please credit “HexArena by Matej Strnad” with a link to https://hexarena.io. Do not imply that HexArena, or I, endorse your coverage, product, or channel. For anything not covered here, email me at matejstrnad@icloud.com.

More on HexArena

Read the About page for the project's background, the Release Record for the full dated history, or the Contact page to reach the developer.