Hex Reverse FAQ — Release, Price, Platforms and Progression

Hex Reverse is a single-player roguelike deckbuilding card game released on 7 October 2026 by IsaoWorks, free to claim for its first 30 days on Steam. Battles play out on a field of 19 hexagonal spaces, where each card carries six values, one per side, and a higher touching edge flips the adjacent enemy card. This page collects the questions players ask most often and answers each one only where the official material supports it.

Release, Price and Platforms

Question	Documented answer
Release date	Oct 7, 2026, released rather than coming soon
Price	Free To Play in the US, free to claim for the first 30 days after release
After the free window	Transitions to paid availability with regional pricing through Steam
Platforms	Windows, through Steam, with no console or mobile version listed
Languages	English and Japanese
Demo	None listed
Early access	None listed

The pricing detail is the one worth reading twice, because the free window is defined relative to release rather than as a fixed calendar date, and it is adding the game to your library that locks in permanent access. The price page walks through that window in full, and the release-date page covers the launch status around it.

Gameplay, Boards and Progression

Every battle happens on the same kind of 19-space hex field, and the rules are short: you and your opponent alternate placing cards, the touching edges are compared, and your card flips a neighbour when its value is higher. After a won battle you choose one card from a selection taken from your opponent's deck, and that card joins your current run deck, so the deck grows as the run unfolds.

Between runs you return to your base, where you build and refine saved decks, buy and sell cards, fuse cards into stronger ones and upgrade equipment that provides permanent progression. Difficulty escalates through the Rifts, which the description names as the increasingly difficult challenge you take on. The gameplay page covers that loop in detail and the cards page explains the six-value card underneath it.

What the FAQ Cannot Answer Yet

Several common questions have no official answer because the store page simply does not publish the detail. Run length, the number of battles per run, the eventual paid price, the requirements behind any achievement, and whether a console version is planned are all not documented yet. When a page here says a fact is undocumented, it means the official material does not state it, not that the feature is absent, so check the Steam community hub as the game matures.