You can get a feel for it yourself by playing the original Flash version of Hexagon online or checking out the iOS trailer below. It's hard to describe quite how engrossing and mesmerizing the overall kaleidoscopic visual effect is. Developer Terry Cavanagh (known for gravity-flipping platformer VVVVVV) said he feels like this is the game his previous action titles have 'been heading towards all along.' The entire playfield is constantly rotating around the central point, changing speed and direction periodically, while the encroaching walls and central polygon change color and pulse to the beat of a driving techno soundtrack. It's an incredibly basic concept that's given extra life by some incredibly trippy presentation. The goal is to survive as long as possible but, like the greatest arcade games of old, each session always ends with failure and a 'Game Over' screen. At its most basic, I suppose, you're just rotating a small triangle around a central hexagon to avoid segmented walls that are constantly encroaching from the edges of the screen. The written word seems particularly unsuited to describe what playing Super Hexagon is like. As I'm writing this, my brain has been temporarily rewired by playing a half hour or so of Super Hexagon, one of the most maddeningly addictive iOS gaming experiences I've ever played. As I type this, my brain is semi-consciously calling attention to the gaps between the letters and words in front of me and mapping out the most efficient path to navigate through them. As I write this, it's taking all my willpower to tell myself the letters I'm typing aren't pulsing and rotating and changing colors as they appear on the screen.

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