Super Hexagon

Played: Version 1.0 (6 years old) (2 available versions spanning 10 years at the time of writting this) PC used: R5 5600x / RTX 3060 (12gb) / Win 10 Pro 10.0.19045 Although the idea is simple (spin to avoid walls, survive till you beat your old score) it's the simplicity that makes this enjoyable, and the challenge of its speed keeps you on your toes. Great for wasting a little time, jump in, try your luck, jump out if need be. Been playing this off and on for practically 10 years now, was fun playing it in college years ago, and its still fun today! Caution: lots of spinning and color changes, if you know you get easily dissorientated then this may hit you hard. Only complaint - no settings to change effects, could help with dissorientation for other people. 9.5/10

Tough game to start, but really cool way to practice visual reflexes.

and resistance to epilepsy both.

I like the minimalism and the soundtrack. The game itself is brutally hard but quite fun once you overcome the feeling that you can't go for more than a few seconds. Still, I only finished the "easiest" stage and gave up, feeling unmotivated to continue. Personally, I think it could have been so much better with 3 simple improvements: 1) Better announcer voice - the default is so cold and emotionless it quickly becomes annoying (at least the sounds can be found in the game folder so I actually replaced it with UT99 announcer - instead of "Line, Triangle, Square, Pentagon and Hexagon" i had "Killing spree, Rampage, Dominating, Unstoppable and Godlike" - doesn't get any better than this! :D ) 2) Since the game is is unforgivingly hard, "easy mode" option (say, reducing speed to 70 % of the original) would really open this game to WAY more players (myself included) who could play through all the levels without the insane grind needed at its current state. 3) Option to disable the bright colour themes! Really, the frenetic pace of the game along with the constant pulsing and flashing is seizure-inducing enough (one fo the reasons I actually stopped playing it was that I didn't feel well when playing it for more than about an hour - it made me feel really twitchy with my heart-rate going way up). The levels featuring white background were just completely unplayable for me... Still an interesting concept but very few people are going to fully enjoy it.

There is a good game in there, but for me it has some very annoying faults: The pulsing of the whole screen syncing to the beat of the music is irritating and makes the whole thing very unprecise, something a game as fast as this one should avoid at all costs. The widescreen aspect ratio doesn't go very well with the need to view what's ahead in all directions. I often blame the limited view upwards/downwards for a death, while I would much rather blame my missing concentration and slow reflexes. If the game was hard but clearer and more precise, it would be much more of a joy to play.