| Hex: Shards of Fate | |
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| Developer(s) | Cryptozoic Entertainment |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 4[1] |
| Release | January 26, 2016 |
| Genre(s) | Massively multiplayer, trading card |
HEX: Shards of Fate (Hex, Hex TCG or Hex: Card Clash) was a massively multiplayer online trading card game (MMOTCG) by Cryptozoic Entertainment. It is the first game in the MMOTCG genre. It was funded via Kickstarter, and raised US$2,278,255 while its campaign was active.[2] As of October 28, 2013, Hex was the 11th most-funded video game on Kickstarter.[3] The game was officially released on January 26, 2016, and was playable on Windows, OS X and iOS.
Hex: Shards of Fate started Closed Alpha testing on October 8, 2013. In April 2014, the game went into Closed Beta, which included all Kickstarter backers as well as so-called "Slacker Backers", with new players being invited to join in the following months. As of May 2015, the game was available on PC in an early access phase and clients for iOS and Android were being worked on.[4] As a digital TCG, it featured unique features, such as being able to modify cards pre-match and transform cards during the match.[5] The game was shut down and closed permanently in December 2020.[6][7][8]
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- ^ Sansonia, Mason (1 November 2020). "What Hex: Shards of Fate is and Why it's Shutting Down". Gamerant.