Think you have what it takes to best Super Hexagon? If you have strong reflexes and an iron will, you probably do. The real question is whether or not you possess the patience to subject yourself to the maddening hazing needed to achieve mastery of its abstract geometrics. That's another matter entirely.

Like any good arcade puzzler, Super Hexagon’s overlying simplicity masks a deceptively devious core. In the purest mechanical sense, all you’re doing is rotating a small triangle to avoid an endless scroll of glowing obstacles that fixate on the screen’s center. A collision of any kind means instant death. Simple, right?

Yet Hexagon’s challenge involves as much mental concentration as hand-eye coordination. Obstacles usually take the form of lines that create an infinite moving maze converging on your location with only one path out, an effect as mesmerizing as it is alarming. The gradually building challenge ramps up quickly through stress-inducing, layered design. The maze’s speed increases considerably the longer you stay alive, as visual perceptions warp and the screen’s measured spin jilts you this way and that, changing its direction at random intervals.

Meanwhile, your triangle slowly circles the center of the screen, which can invert your left and right movements depending on its position; programmed to react to your slightest touch, it’s also extremely easy to over or undershoot movement. The wonderfully taxing pièce de résistance is Chipzel’s driving chip music soundtrack, lending a nerve-wracking pulse to the maze as it colorfully evolves relative to how long you’ve survived. Suffice it to say, many fatal mistakes will be made with only a few seconds on the clock, but you’ll probably find it hard tearing yourself away anyway.

The bottom line. Fast-paced arcade psyche warfare of the highest order, Hexagon is not for the faint of heart nor to be missed.