Full disclosure, I participated in the Demo and Playtest of this game and logged around 60-70 hours between the two. I also played in a demo tournament and placed second which is why I recieved this product for free. I also have never played the boardgame that the property is based on so I cannot comment on the differences between the two versions. I also have played very little of the campaign at this time so I won't touch the single player experience.

Pros

- The gameplay itself is an excellent mash of predicting your opponents moves, building a team, building a tacics deck and adjusting your turn order with Hype and Overwatch.

- The characters are interesting and flavourful with a lot of different combinations on your four man team. They also come with two tactics chosen out of six to help fill your deck so they can be quite flexible and there is no objectively strongest team currently as almost all champions has synergies between eachother.

- The Turn Order Mechanic is one of the most fun tactical game mechanics I have messed around with and really makes the game shine. Setting up your units to not only be positioned ideally but also to be positioned in turn order is so nice.

- The Ultimate Tactics are based on who is in the active zone at turn end which really helps set up plays and counterplays around what players will be drawing/won't be drawing.

- The conditional damage conditions really help reinforce champions playstyles and helps make decisions way less straightforward.

- The dev team will and have made changes for the health and love of the game. Just weeks before the launch they did a massive overhault of the RNG systems for hitchance and criticals to be conditional damage conditons instead which helped a ton with losing due to pure chance. They also do constant bug fixes and updates rapidly.

The Meh

- AI has been trained on the 3D models for the visual novel and the voice acting for the narrator is also AI. I don't love this either but it's pretty negligable for me as the AI voice can be turned off and I don't care much for the singleplayer experience.

- There will be character DLC that will cost real world money and won't be able to be purchased with in game currency to my knowledge. It makes sense to me as it will help to keep the lights on for the developers (who deserve the world imo)

- The Hexadome Acadamy Profile. It's a weird meta progression that also enables joining tournaments hosted by the team and rewards community involvement. It's not the most straightforward to level up and it offers some vague but absurdly good incetives to join it and the discord. I've been active in the discord for about 1-2 months and I've only just now reached level 9.

The Bad

- The Marketing has not been great. The short trailers thrown together to AI/Copyright free music has been grating at least to me personally and do a pretty terrible job of showing the end product. There was also a company that was hired to do adverts for them that was clearly sloppy AI renders of offical art material.

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The in game currency (not real dollars) is slow to gain with a won match in ranked giving 100 credits and a handful of character specific quests also giving a 100 per completion per day. I understand it is to ease new players into the game and it's complicated systems the grind is going to wear them out in my opinion especially now that half of each characters tactics cards are hidden behind 200 credits. Assuming you are winning every game you play then you would need to win at least two games (you can play against AI) with heavy restrictions to your team comp (unless you have no champions unlocked) and complete all quests to unlock one character a day. Hopefully, this will be addressed so more casual players won't give up before the game clicks. On the positive side the developers are pretty quick to implement changes that benifit the game. EDIT: Fixed as of the latest patch! Champions now cost 200 credits, cosmetics are now the only grind which is great!


The team is hardworking and the game really does deserve to succeed. Nothing quite scratches my itch to make informed decisions and outwit opponents like Infinity: Hexadome Tactics.

Really enjoying the game so far. The pacing feels great, and once you start learning each champion’s abilities, it quickly creates that “just one more match” feeling.

I also really like seeing the Infinity universe expand beyond the tabletop game. What surprised me most is how closely the core mechanics have been translated into this format, while still introducing small changes that make sense for a video game.

I love this game. Perfect combination of a shortwhile arena battler and great visuals out of the Infinity universe with a great campaign. I will do a more detailed review soon.