Vectagon

Do you have gamer friends who constantly brag about how good their reflexes are? If you want to forever shut them up about that particular skill, have them play Vectagon. It’s an arcade survival game, a combination between Tron and Dyad, which looks great but is extremely challenging.

Gameplay in Vectagon is complementary to its degree of difficulty. The goal is to travel for as long as you can through a procedurally generated three dimensional tunnel while avoiding a series of walls that come towards you at very high speeds. The obstacles can be avoided by rotating the tunnel along its longitudinal axis and to do that, you only need the left and right arrow keys.

In Vectagon, minimalism is key and its that apparent simplicity that manages to fool you into thinking that this game is a piece of cake. It will mop the floor with you. It’s merciless and every time you fail, it takes some pretty good (and funny) shots at your self esteem.

Vectagon’s creators are very clever people. They managed to put together a game that offers basic and slightly hypnotizing visuals with extremely simple gameplay that harnesses the essence of you ambition and ego in order to get you totally addicted to it.

Immediately after you crash into a wall you get your survival time along with a short motivational message from the game, like “Your score looks like your IQ”. And you look at the survival time… 10 seconds. That’s just one of the many ego jabs delivered by Vectagon, and please take note that some of them might be a bit over the top.

We haven’t even mentioned that Vectagon offers multiple game modes, or how a tunnel starts off in a triangular shape and as you progress it switches to a square, pentagon, hexagon and so on. It also has nice colors.

On a closing note, if you want to make some easy money, bet someone they won’t make it passed the 5 minute mark. There’s a chance you might lose, but afterwards, you get to tell everyone a story about a friend of yours who lost his mind playing Vectagon.