Hexarchy - The Extremely Brief Rise & Fall of a Tiny Civilization 

Hexarchy is a brilliant game and what makes it even more brilliant is I published it so thanks John for the money!!! MUHAHAHAHA

To this day, it is said that Jon is preparing for the attack of the eastern companion cavalry.

I love that at the end there Greece owned just a random mountain northeast of Antium that was surrounded by land Jon owned. Like some Greek person went "That mountain there, we own it okay?" and Antium was like "um, okay?" and just never bothered to argue over it.

Rome engaging in confusing pantheons is very Rome

"What if Civilization only took one hour instead of 20?" I might have gotten out of my dorm once or twice back in the early 2000s. I really enjoy the text/editing jokes. Always have, always will.

A game of Civilization taking 20 hours? *laughs in Marathon speed*

heh so this is essentualy "What if Civ was a short card game with no diplomacy(?)"

That is why I love this channel. John somehow always finds those quarky little games that I would have totally overlooked myself. Like Shadow of the Doubt or Dorfromantic.

Yet another great vid to complement a great day thx so much , and chefs kiss for the Perception -1 jokes with the companion horse. i loved it

That trade system alone is good enough to warrant buying the game. This looks amazing.

Ah, a perfectly balanced game with no exploits...

I loved this horse bits and will definitely try out this game.

If Jon is playing all the Hex games now, then he should play Hexen next.

Oh wow. I caught this 33 seconds after it came out lol

As someone who has over 60 hours in this game, I can't recommend it enough really. Also, China is insanely op

I feel like Claire edited this one with the perception minus horse jokes.

I’m rolling at the dead horse

I also recommend Polytopia if you want a slimmed-down 4X game.

I think there's a market for scale-down but feature-complete games of traditional long-form genres. In same vein as this shrunk down the Civ, Space Wreck took on Fallout for the RPG genre.

If you like this game then you'll love The Battle of Polytopia :)

Well this is new

You know, I'm not sure how the devs intend it to be pronounced, but I'm definitely on team Hexarchy. I tried for a minute to say Hexarchy, but it just never did sound right, and was kind of uncomfortable on my face. I did text a friend of mine that's really good at pronouncing, but he said Hexarchy. Absolutely no way it's that! 😂 I suppose depending on the exact regional dialect it could be Hexarchy, but i think the chances of a game coming from such a high altittude valley region as that are pretty much Slimta Nun, and Slimta had to retire early due to a pervious engagement. So, ya, I'm sticking with Hexarchy.

good showcase, I bought this game

14:25 Iron helps us play!

Missed opportunity to Shanghai Shanghai.

hexagonal time

How does this play on the steam deck

I just wish this was on mobile as well, hard to find good fun games for mobile that arent dull microtransaction farms.

Nice! I've been on the hunt for good games that can be finished in an eavning, with good replayability. This seems to fit the bill pretty well!

So the gameplay mechanics and progression are pretty awesomely unique, a very fun experience...for awhile. However this game has even less replayability than Civ 6, and the cards quickly become too much to deal with. I went 10 turns without getting a single mine, fishing hut or pasture and that is CRIPPLING to a big empire.

Very cute game.

So you're saying Rome WAS built in a day...? Cheers

we absolutely need more happiness in Rome🤣

Talk about beating a dead horse

Day 143 of requesting Age of Mythology - a full playthrough if possible. The fact that Spiff put this together makes me question if it has more or less exploits than a normal city-builder.

Everyone always at war sounds like a great way to differentiate from modern Civ; I'll have to see if that makes my game easier or harder 😂

Jon... Jonny... JonJon... Any chance for a YOLO Skyrim or Legendary Edition ME2/3?

"The Economic system in this is more advanced then civ 6" That is just sad. Seriously Firaxis how hard would it be to innovate on how TRADE works.

Day 69 (nice) of requesting Jon play Okami HD

Ugh why does every civ-type game need to have real-world city names. It's so dumb. They look like games I'd be into but seeing "Rome" and "Beijing" next to each other on a randomized map, with flipping Stonehenge next to them, takes me out of it immediately and kills my interest completely.

Is it just me or does the AI seem, well... bad?

Day 170/1230 of requesting Jon play a game nobody will remember, like Majesty: A Fantasy Kingdom Sim.

I farted