Hexagravity

Genre: Arcade / Platformer

Players: 1

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Review:

Hexagravity is an Arcade-Style Platformer where players move a cube upwards through an endless series of platforms, trying to avoid the constantly-approaching ground as the column you’re in descends.

Even though the game uses extremely simple graphics, it looks decent, thanks to its nice neon aesthetic. It’s nothing impressive, but it works well enough. This is accompanies by nice, simplistic electronica music as well that fits the game’s theme (well, as much theme as the game has, anyway).

However, when it comes to gameplay, this game has problems. If done well, this game would be mindlessly repetitive… but it’s not done well. Your normal movement is sluggish, but the dash move you’re given tosses you way too fast and too far to be useful in most situations. Your jump is pathetic and necessitates using the double-jump the game gives you any time you want to get to the next platform. And the way the game’s central tower is displayed, shifting from one side to the next when you get to the edge, makes it frequently difficult to judge where those edges are, and is extremely disorienting. Oh, and if that wasn’t enough, it’s easy to get caught on the corners of ledges too.

This game has multiple game modes, but they need to be unlocked, and they’re all just variations on the core theme of the game, so don’t think the “new game mechanics” the game advertises in the description do much to counter this game’s serious problems.

In the end, Hexagravity is an unambitious game that aims for a monotonous, repetitive experience, and fails to get even that much right, thanks to its frustrating character movement and confusing way of displaying levels. Even as inexpensive as it is, I cannot recommend it.

tl;dr – Hexagravity is a simple Arcade-style Platformer where you’re jumping up an infinite tower of platforms. Unfortunately, movement in this game is frustrating for multiple reasons, and the way the platforms are displayed is unnecessarily confusing. This game isn’t worth even its low asking price.

Grade: D

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