Hex Reverse Walkthrough — From Your First Run to a Stable Setup

This Hex Reverse walkthrough follows the order the game documents rather than inventing a step count: learn the flip rule, grow the run deck through won battles, climb the six-level Rift ladder, then convert each expedition into permanent progress at your base. The store description supplies those stages explicitly, and where it stops, this page says so instead of filling the gap with guesses. Read it as a plan for the first stretch of play rather than a frame-by-frame route.

Step 1: Learn One Battle Properly

Your first job is not to win everything but to internalise one rule: each card has six values, one per side, and only the values on touching edges are compared, with the higher value flipping the opposing card to your side. Play a battle or two with that in mind, and pay attention to how a single placement can touch several cards at once, each comparison resolving against a different one of your six numbers. There is no campaign to sit through first, so a deliberate early loss costs you very little.

Step 2: Grow the Run Deck Through Wins

Each run is a series of battles, and after winning one you choose a card from a selection taken from your opponent's deck, which is added directly to your current run deck for the battles ahead. That is the roguelike engine: every choice changes the shape of your deck, which is what lets you adapt as the run progresses. Prefer reliable cards with no catastrophically weak side over showy cards with a single huge number, because you cannot choose which edge gets tested.

Stage	What to do	Why
First battles	Watch the flip rule and edge counts	Placement, not card totals, decides fights
After each win	Pick a card that covers a weak side	The run deck is built from these picks
Mid-run	Spend SP on skills when an edge is close	Skills can strengthen, weaken or re-element
End of run	Return to base with what you collected	The base is where progress becomes permanent

Step 3: Climb the Rift Ladder

The Rifts are the game's difficulty ladder and they are numbered 1 through 6, with a clear achievement attached to each. The description calls them increasingly difficult and places them after your collection has grown, which is why the ladder belongs here rather than at the very start. Special rules and unique field conditions can change how a battle plays out, so expect a Rift to ask for a different approach rather than simply harder numbers.

Step 4: Convert Runs Into Permanent Progress

The base phase is where a run's results turn into something lasting. The store description lists building and refining saved decks, buying and selling cards, fusing cards into stronger ones, and upgrading equipment that provides permanent progression, with the stated goal of strengthening your collection and taking on harder Rifts. Because equipment upgrades are described as permanent and the run deck is not, the habit worth forming is to spend between runs rather than to hoard.

What This Walkthrough Cannot Cover Yet

Several parts of a normal walkthrough have no official basis yet. Run length, the number of battles per run, the content of each Rift, the requirements behind any achievement and the eventual paid price are all not documented. That means this page can commit to the order of progress but not to a step-by-step route through specific battles. The tips page turns the same principles into quick habits, the gameplay page explains the loop mechanics, and the rift-levels page lists all six levels with what is known about each.