Super Hexagon
Main game
3.54 average rating based on 689 ratings
- Developers
- Distractionware, Terry Cavanagh
- Publishers
- Distractionware, Terry Cavanagh
- Platforms
- Android, BlackBerry OS, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
- Genres
- Arcade, Indie, Music
- Themes
- Action
- Steam
- View on Steam
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How Long Is Super Hexagon?
Perfect
It's about as pure an experience as video games deliver. Two inputs: right side of the screen for clockwise, left for anti-clockwise. Avoid the walls for as long as you can. An endless runner on an axis. But no other game is able pull me into a flow state instantly like this does. Because you're not just avoiding the walls, they aren't just randomly flying at you, there are patterns. Those patterns can be learned and responded to with sequences of taps that feel like performing combos, but without losing any fine grain control. Combined with the furious chiptune soundtrack it's thrilling. A mix of pure synesthesic reaction and high-speed pattern recognition and exectution. Perfection.
A Perfect Game
I've beaten this game. 72 seconds on the hyper hardest difficulty.
the reason i brought that up is that, the first time i played this thing, i was so proud that i could pass 15 seconds on the easiest difficulty. It took me around 6 months, but i finally beat it.
The game is perfect to me. nothing i want to change at all from it. everytime i lose, it always feel fair, everytime i get out of a session, i feel like i'm improved. the difficulty jump from each level is perfect, it has just the right amount of variation to be not intimidating but also intriguing.
Yeah, a perfect game.
MaxTurbo's review of Super Hexagon
Damnit Super Hexagon, I love / hate you.
Addicting.
Very hard when you first start but a blast to play when you get used to it.
Bought the game because of my ex-girlfriend AKA Queen. Sad memories. I told myself that I would finally forget her when I completely beat this game. Beat it on 29 November 2016. 12.2 hour mark.
Buy it.
Returned to this for the millennium challenge, and frankly to see if I could still swing it. Surprisingly I got through Hyper Hexagonest in just a couple hours, which is vastly less time than it took me the first go around!
I've always adored Super Hexagon, but replaying it now I think it might be my single favorite arcade game. Visually it's perfect, the music and the announcer are perfect. It demands your complete attention, like many arcade games do. But success requires a strange step further, a total split of your being where your conscious mind and your reflexive fingers are focused on two entirely separate tasks at all times. It's potent flow state stuff, and I find the whole thing intensely meditative.
Completion Status:
Beat Hexagon, Hexagoner, Hexagonest, Hyper Hexagon and Hyper Hexagoner modes.
Missing Hyper Hexagonest mode completion and reaching The Final Hexagon.
Weeks of on-and-off grind, but I've finally beaten Hexagonest difficulty. This game is evil. But addictive. Exactly the sort of thing I'd expect from the same guy who made the Super Gravitron in VVVVVV.
I tend to fare very poorly at things requiring very quick reflexes/responses, so it took a lot of work. But it can be fun to push yourself to overcome challenges in areas that don't come naturally to you. Sometimes you need that.
