Civilization and Slay the Spire collide in 4X deck builder on Steam

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Take Civilization 6, with its strategic city building and decision making as you expand your empire across a hex-based map while outsmarting your rival factions. Add Slay the Spire, with its card-based tactics, asking you to build a deck capable of consistently delivering the tools you need to secure victory. Now shake those up and pour over ice, and you get Hexarchy, a cool 4X deck builder coming to Steam in October. Ahead of its release, PCGamesN spoke to developer Main Tank Software at WASD to find out what makes it tick.

Hexarchy aims to capture the “weighty decisions” of the best 4X games and inject them into fast-paced matches that last just 45 minutes to an hour. You’ll use your deck of cards to build your cities, armies, wonders, and improvements, as well as use special actions to impact your opponents. You’ll research technologies and adopt civics to unlock new cards, and can even strategically destroy your own cards to tailor your deck to the needs of the match.

To keep things moving at speed, your military units can capture any hex they reach. You’ll also get the ability to customize their abilities as they earn promotions. Hexarchy includes global market trading for resources, allowing you to strike deals for the goods you need. With ten civilizations to choose from, each with their own unique abilities, there’s plenty of depth in here as well.

Alongside the skirmish and quick play modes, there’s also the likes of single-player challenge modes. These will put you in specific scenarios, or demand you score victory under a certain set of conditions. The plan is to include daily and weekly challenges, where players take on the same game mode but with unique victory conditions, testing your ability to adapt