Hex of the Lich

Clobster Games / Jul 29, 2022 / Strategy

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Hex of the Lich is a spellcrafting turn-based roguelike. Forge spells from hexes and find new ones along the way. Gain powerful artifacts that enhance your abilities. Clear dungeons filled with bouncing blobs, eldritch horrors, and otherworldly aliens. Can you break the Hex of the Lich?

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What's new

The "Demodaemon" Update

2022-05-02

Hex of the Lich is still in development, but it's getting close to release. There are 3 floors of content developed, with loads of new high-level enemies and god-tier spells to blast them away! This will likely be the last demo update before release. Major Changes: - View future stages and select your path with a new world map! - Collect powerful artifacts that enhance your character(!) in shops. - Hexes and spells are free after each combat. Shops contain hexes and artifacts. - View your past victories and defeats! - New run stats including time taken and "slain by". - New spells and hexes! MANY more added to the full version. - New enemies summoned by the Lich. - Tutorial now plays on your first run. - The game saves after each combat and shop. - Change game speed and other things in the settings. Settings now persist when the game is closed. Other changes:

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- Hexes trigger in a more intuitive order - New first floor boss added - Various balance changes - Difficulty decreased slightly - Credits updated - All known bugs fixed Cheers! -Zac

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What players say

Positive

92% positive, 13 reviews

Recommended3 hrs played

Only one successful run so far, but I can still tell this is a very solid game. Use of distinct effects built into different spells, which can be later modified with more and different effects, lets the pre-made spell book's stuff have distinct identities while letting the customized ones reach crazy heights. The art and music are also pretty darn neat. Different enemy families are visually distinct while keeping the...

2 found this helpful, 2022-08-11

Recommended15 hrs played

If you love to customize your abilities like in noita or path of exile, this turn based roguelike has ya covered. This one certainly takes the crazy spells up a notch and encourages you to figure out overpowered combos to break the game with things like summoning crabs that mind control your enemies or lasers that make lines of slimes that also shoot lasers. :]

2 found this helpful, 2022-07-30

Recommended10 hrs played

Hex of the Lich is a game that deserves a bit more attention than it's gotten. It's a deckbuilder roguelike in the same vein as Slay the Spire and Inscryption, but instead of playing cards you're building up an arsenal of spells to use in hex grid tactics battles. While it doesn't exactly stack up to the titans, it's still good enough to be worth the asking price when it's on sale. + The spells and their effects are...

0 found this helpful, 2023-09-25