
Guide a constantly spinning stick through intricate neon mazes in this fast, fluid and highly challenging action/puzzle game. Turn up the volume, sharpen your reflexes and spin your way to victory!
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In Hyphen, you must guide a constantly rotating stick through a series of intricate neon mazes. Avoid walls, dodge obstacles, outmanoeuvre enemies and survive the traps standing between you and the finish line.
It may sound simple, but every movement demands timing, precision and patience. One small mistake can send you straight back to the beginning, turning each completed section into a hard earned victory.
Hyphen is designed for players who enjoy a genuine challenge. It can be tense, frustrating and infuriating - but finally conquering a level that once seemed impossible makes it all worthwhile.
And when you've conquered the campaign, the challenge doesn't have to end. Create your own levels with Hyphen's Level Editor, share them through Steam Workshop, and take on Community Levels created by other players. Whether you want to build something clever, creative or downright cruel, the same tools used to create new Hyphen content are now in your hands.
Accompanied by glowing neon visuals and an energetic original soundtrack, Hyphen delivers a fast, fluid and intensely addictive test of skill - with an ever growing collection of community made challenges waiting beyond the main campaign.
36 challenging campaign levels filled with obstacles, enemies and traps
A powerful Level Editor for creating your own Hyphen challenges
Full Steam Workshop integration — create, share and discover player-made levels
Community Levels let you take on challenges created by other players
A fast-paced 11-track original soundtrack composed by Andrew Lloyd
Unlockable bonus minigames
Support for keyboard and controllers
Simple controls with demanding, precision-based gameplay
Vibrant neon visuals
Hyphen is ideal for fans of classics such as Irritating Stick and Kuru Kuru Kururin. We have increased the intensity and taken a no-nonsense approach to the level design, creating a game for players who are not afraid of a serious challenge.
Beat the campaign. Master the impossible. Then create something even worse for everyone else.
Do you have the patience, precision and determination to reach the end?
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Would I recommend this to others huh Steam? Hell yeah I would! The individual elements to this game are packaged together perfectly. The smooth neon look, the epic soundtrack, the various obstacles and their difficulty...it's got me hooked. I'm not the best at games like this but no matter how enraged I get, I keep coming back for more. I love the simplicity of the menu's and usability. The checkpoint system in the game is ace...whilst you see how many you have to use, you're not sure how many more obstacles are between you and the finish line so half the time it's a psychological battle deciding when to use them. Farspace Studios have balanced those well and not just given you too many to splash about as you please. You can play with either a controller (I tried a microsoft 360 controller) or keyboard. I preferred using a keyboard but it's nice there's an option :) Hands down the best puzzle game I've played, suitable for anyone (maybe not for people with weak hearts or mega high blood pressure) ;) I've played for about 10 hours + overall (direct purchased version) but it had me won over after 15 mins.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 35 reviews with recorded playtime.
Really frustrating and unsatisfying. Obstacles often require pixel-perfect precision. Things that shoot at you are deterministic, but still unpredictable because of their delay If you fail and respawn at the beginning of a level, the timer/deaths don't reset, instead you have to go to the menu, select the restart option, then wait through the scripted movement animation until you get back to the starting position. This is not the only instance when the game makes you wait for no reason. Soundtrack follows the best practices of Flash games from the previous decade. ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoKwkfdYFzI This game is a spiritual successor to a game called Irritating Stick or Kuru Kuru Kururin. If you aren't aware of what those games are, perhaps you are familiar with the board game "Operation". Basically you need to navigate a spinning bar through a gauntlet of neon. If you touch ANYTHING, you will explode. Different levels offer you "checkpoints" that you can drop down at any point in the level and you'll respawn at that checkpoint upon dying. It felt like cheating to me honestly, but you can't get 5 stars on a level if you drop a checkpoint, so mastering the game requires no checkpoints. It's rage inducing. But still fun. Provided you like Hard-On-Purpose games, I can easily recommend Hyphen.
Hyphen is one of those games that's challenging enough that you feel like you accomplished something when you finish one of its stages. The difficulty ramps up steadily, so you're always just good enough for what it's throwing at you. When you're doing well, it's like the best of the old arcade games, where you're just making it through but you're not sure how. Once you've finished a stage, you can go back to it to perfect it, trying to get five stars on every level. Which right now seems to me impossible, but I know people have done it! If you're sick of games that check all the boxes but fail to deliver the goods where it counts - in the gameplay - give Hyphen a try. Just don't blame me if it makes you scream at your computer :)
Good game for people who love control and reaction. Simply and tastefully.
[h1] Vector arcade [/h1]. The game is very simple in its foundations - we get a "baton" that keeps rotating - our task is to overcome an obstacle course - you have the ability to put cehckpoint in a place you choose, but with a limited number of uses. Visually, the game is a hundred percent vector - what you like - it did not suit me. To sum up, for this price it's average - I would recommend Roundabout game, which has similar mechanics and is more fun - because with huphen't I got terribly irritated at times. My rating six stars - fairly fresh mechanics because there are not many such games really, but the price ruins everything is too simple game for such money [★[★[★[★[★[★[☆[☆[☆[☆]
ARRGGHHHH! Just downloaded this but I will be playing a lot more. Really has the right combination of just one more go and tossing my keyboard out the window. Didn't know people still made games like this, kudos and thanks! PS. To people hating on the lack of a restart button, there is a restart button in full view along with the other keyboard controls. Reading is good.
回り続ける棒で狭いステージを進む避けゲー。 ギリギリの閉所をくぐり抜けたい人にオススメ。 回転に合わせて避け進む必要があり難しい。 チェックポイントをたくさん作れるので、死にまくりでも安心。 no deathクリア(各ステージ☆5実績)は相当な難易度。 微調整が必要なので箱コン推奨。
I came to this game a man and left a boy, this game will hand you your arse but you will keep coming back for more brutal enjoyment. Music is awesome and keeps you pumped up and rearing to go, the UI is crisp and the objectives are super clear. If you love rage games, you already love Hyphen, would recommned this game to anyone and everyone because its just that punishingly good.
Music is Dope AF. Neon eyecandy but also frustrating at times, because you WILL DIE a lot. but very addictive and fun little gem.
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