Hard City | Hexy Studio

Hard City cover art: police officers leap into action against a giant green mutant on a neon-lit street

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Brave heroes versus the evil mastermind!

Players1-5
Play time30-60 min
Age12+

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Hard City is a tactical adventure board game for 1 to 5 players. You take on the role of brave officers of the Hard City Police Department, facing the mutant hordes of the evil Doctor Zero, a mad scientist who wants to take over the city today... and the whole world tomorrow!

Or become Doctor Zero himself: send your minions onto the rainy, neon-lit streets, fight the officers and take control of the whole metropolis.

A digital version is also playable in your browser on the Hexy Studio platform.

Painted police miniatures face a crowd of green mutants, with custom dice in the foreground

Adventure and tactics

The officers of the Hard City Police Department enter an unequal struggle against Doctor Zero and his mutant horde. They plan their actions together, use equipment and rescue terrified civilians.

Officers spend action points to move, attack, escort civilians and use gear. After the team takes down 10 mutants, everyone levels up and each officer gains an extra skill card. Doctor Zero plays differently, using Chaos cards to spawn mutants and unleash tricks like Sinister Laughter or Unnatural Strength.

Hard City box with the full game set up: city board, miniatures, cards and tokens

Three gameplay modes

"1 vs All" is the main mode, with one player as Doctor Zero against a team of officers, but solo and fully cooperative rules are also available.

Thanks to different setup variants and a modular 3D board, which even uses the game box as part of the city, no two games of Hard City are the same. Play a single episode or the whole campaign.

Illustration of an officer leaping away from a towering green mutant

Cinematic-style fun

The game is divided into episodes that tell the full story of the struggle between the officers and the evil mastermind. Each episode has its own winning conditions and setup.

Cutscenes add the epic touch: spectacular one-use actions, drawn every round and laid out on a track shaped like a real film strip. The characters cover a whole range of pop culture archetypes every movie geek will recognise.

Illustration of a frightened civilian under purple neon light as a mutant hand grabs her shoulder

Essence of the 80s

Hard City is an 80s action movie turned into a board game. Coffee and donuts, neon lights, synth music, cutscenes and episodes, plus plenty of easter eggs and nods to the classics of the genre, from Miami Vice to The Toxic Avenger.

Shoot mutants, rescue civilians and hold the line with a whole arsenal of weapons and gadgets until reinforcements arrive.