Hive Duel - Hex Chess Strategy

Hive Duel is a 1v1 strategy board game on a small hexagon board. It plays like a compact hex chess with bees: move your pieces, capture enemy bees, put captured bees back on the board, and take the enemy Queen Bee to win.

■ How to play

- Tap a bee to see where it can go, then tap a highlighted cell.

- Move onto an enemy bee to capture it.

- Captured bees join your side. On your turn, place one back on an empty cell.

- Capture the enemy Queen Bee and you win right away.

- If the same position appears three times, or the game runs too long, it is a draw.

■ 5 bee pieces

- Queen Bee: moves one cell in any of the six directions. Lose her and you lose the game.

- V-Bee: moves forward, diagonally forward, or straight back.

- Soldier Bee: moves forward or diagonally backward.

- Drone: moves diagonally forward or straight back.

- Worker Bee: moves forward only, but becomes a V-Bee when it reaches the enemy's last row.

■ 20 AI stages

Start against a gentle AI and work your way up through Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. Win enough games at a stage to unlock its promotion match, then win the promotion match to move up. The Platinum AI looks many moves ahead, so every mistake counts.

■ Coins, streaks and items

- Earn coins for every win, with a win streak bonus of up to 2x.

- Use Undo to take back a move, or Hint to see a suggested move.

- Watch a short ad once a day for a coin bonus.

- Raise your bee rank from Larva all the way to Hive Master.

- Check your win rate, record and best streak in your profile.

■ You will enjoy Hive Duel if

- You like chess, shogi or other abstract strategy board games.

- You want a quick brain game that fits into a short break.

- You like playing against the computer at your own pace.

A short tutorial teaches the rules in your first game. The game is available in English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Turkish and Indonesian.

Simple rules, deep tactics. Protect your Queen and win the hive duel.