Arcade survival

Open Hexagon

Many of us idled hours and days away in our younger years playing video games. Life seemed to stretch forever, and a Sunday wasted collecting virtual acorns seemed like a good use of our time. One of the best solutions to adult commitments getting in the way of such abandon is to find a short, addictive, and intense arcade-style game to play when no one is looking, and one of the best games of this type is Super Hexagon. Super Hexagon was created by Terry Cavanagh from crude, simplistic two-dimensional blocks that converge into or expand from the center of the screen, accompanied by a thumping soundtrack. The blocks converge in such a way that there's always a gap, and your job as the player is to spin a small triangle through these gaps for as long as you can. If you're any good, you'll last a few seconds. Any more than that, and you're either very young or you've had too much caffeine (or both). It's intense, addictive, and probably not a great idea if you suffer from epilepsy.

Open Hexagon is an open source recreation of the same game. Like the original, it's been available for over a decade but has also been endorsed by Terry Cavanagh. Unlike the original, however, Open Hexagon has just been updated to take advantage of the Steam Deck's growing popularity. This is a version that can be purchased on Steam, but you remain free to build your own binaries from the project's GitHub repository, and it's definitely worth the effort. Open Hexagon is the original experience, and it still looks beautiful. It's a great match for the Steam Deck, but it's equally fun for a quick blast on your desktop and a game that feels just as timeless as it did when originally released.

Project Website

https://github.com/vittorioromeo/SSVOpenHexagon

Open Hexagon is a sugar rush of colors and gameplay, undiluted by the years since its original release.