Super Hexagon
BANGER · Action · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Length
- 5.3h
- Value
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Direct X9.0c Compatible Card, 31 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.59. That was November 2013. 61 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, 64.0 ($2.99, scores 67) and BIT.TRIP RUNNER ($9.99, scores 50), are both worse buys on this math.
$9.03 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $2.99.
88 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 6 percent of players ever finish it. On a 5.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 451 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 6,188 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.3 hours. Doing everything runs 18, 3.3 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
45% start to 6% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 5.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
12 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Super Hexagon is a timeless classic. It's a simple but complete package that appears difficult on the surface but is mostly a game of pattern recognition and muscle memory. The difficulty curve is very gentle, the 6 levels are well designed, and in the end you will be surprised at just how much skill you gained to beat the game. I also really like the minimalist UI and visual style combined with Chipzel's perfectly...
was fun until the entire difficulty of the game became reliant on how much the camera can flip around and jerk back and forth and disorient you as much as humanly possible, i find this more obnoxious than challenging
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Super Hexagon scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/221640/super-hexagonThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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