Excellent chiptune soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Music is top notch, you can't find better chip-tune music anywhere else.”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗
Super Hexagon
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 97%Terry Cavanagh2012Rhythm · Arcade · Action
$2.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 6 h ago · Lowest we’ve seen since Oct 20, 2026: $0.74
The verdict
A brutally hard, minimalist arcade classic with a superb chiptune soundtrack and instant restarts. Skip it if spinning, flashing visuals make you sick or you dislike trial-and-error difficulty.
Great for
Players who love hard, short-run arcade challenges, chiptune music and chasing a flow state
Main risk
Spinning, flashing visuals and twitchy controls can cause nausea or frustration
What changed in the last 30 days
26 recent reviews
Recent negatives mostly cite motion sickness and unfairly hard patterns, which are long-standing issues rather than a new bug or patch. Reason is not clear-cut.
26 recent reviews
What players love
Addictive challenge with fast restarts
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“fast easy to learn and almost 0 down time between loss and restart”
Steam review · 14.9 h played ↗
Simple, timeless minimalist design
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Extremely simple, yet extremely challenging.”
Steam review · 188.3 h played ↗
Flow state and satisfying mastery
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“It's a meditative experience.”
Steam review · 164.4 h played ↗
Cheap and highly replayable
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“this game has given me more enjoyment for $2.99 than almost any game worth 20x the dollar amount.”
Steam review · 2.9 h played ↗
Runs well on low-end PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews
“0 performance issues (on my laptop), runs great on linux too.”
Steam review · 22.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Spinning and flashing causes nausea or headaches
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“This game makes me physically ill. It is probably fun, but I personally can not deal with the spinning.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
Imprecise, sluggish or twitchy controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“They are super imprecise in a game where precision matters the most.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
Unfair, random or artificial difficulty
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“just one filled with artificial difficulty”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗
Repetitive, too short, little content
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Too simple and repetitive, there are a lot of challenging games that actually provide much more than just difficulty.”
Steam review · 2 h played ↗
60 FPS cap, no modern display support
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“the PC version of this game appears to be abandoned. While the mobile versions of the game got updates to support higher framerates, the PC version did not.”
Steam review · 7.9 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support35 MB
Minimum
OSWindows XP
Processor2 GHz
Memory256mb
GraphicsDirect X9.0c Compatible Card
Storage35MB
OSWindows XP
Processor2 GHz
Memory256mb
GraphicsDirect X9.0c Compatible Card
Storage35MB
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