Pocket Realms is Hexwerks Studios’ line of compact tactical wargames, built on shared design principles: fast play, strong theme, and hex-based battlefield decisions. Each title is a standalone game with its own world, style, and tactical identity.
Oaths & Banners is a Dark Age warband game built to capture the feel of rough early medieval fighting — shieldwalls colliding, battlelines shifting, and hard choices deciding the fight.
The focus is on gritty small-scale warfare with strong faction identity, grounded historical flavor, and battles that feel tense, brutal, and personal.
Download the free core rules and bring your warband to battle.
Black Oaths is a grimdark Dark Age skirmish game of starving halls, false relics, hostage debts, and oaths that should never have been sworn.
Lead a desperate warband into brutal small-table battles where cattle decide who eats, shrines answer prayers for the wrong reasons, and every wound becomes a debt waiting to be collected. Saints, doom-songs, black writs, old stones, and broken geasa all have power here — but none give anything freely.
Swear before blood, relic, grave soil, wolf-hide, or stolen bread. Fight for what little is left. Win if you can. Pay either way.
Swear hard. Die owing.
COMING SOON....
A compact Dark Age tactical wargame of warbands, omens, and battlefield pressure. Built for portable play and sharp decisions, Omens & Ravens brings early medieval clashes to a modular hex battlefield with fast alternating activations and strong faction flavor.
Hoist the Black: The Age of Infamy is a tactical age-of-sail tabletop wargame where players command a single warship and its captain in brutal, high-stakes duels on a hex-based sea. Every maneuver is a commitment, every broadside a risk, and every victory shapes your legend.
Featuring wind-driven movement, simultaneous cannon fire, boarding actions, and campaign play built around Reputation, Infamy, and political leverage, Hoist the Black is a game about ambition carried on timber hulls — where power is earned at cannon range and remembered long after the smoke clears.
Command your ship. Forge your name. Decide what kind of monster the sea will remember.
A tabletop design studio creating tactical systems, fantasy battle engines, and small-scale wargames utilizing the Hexwerks Core System.
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