If, like me, you failed and failed and failed to get a decent score in arcadey reaction game Super Hexagon, then take solace in this: there are a bunch of other games by the same developer you can fail at.
Terry Cavanagh, also the maker of VVVVVV and Dicey Dungeons, is releasing a collection of his freeware bits and bobs on Steam next week, called simply Terry's Other Games.
Looking at the games included, it summons a nostalgic giggle just to see just how many of Terry's short games have been intriguing enough to grab the eye of an RPS writer over the years.
I mean it literally. One game is called Grab Them By The Eyes. There are 21 games in total. Others in the collection which we've previously written about include the clever isometric illusions of Naya's Quest, minimalist rando-gen thief 'em up Tiny Heist, and first-person co-op puzzler At A Distance, which demands to be played on two machines side by side for full lateral-thinky effect. "But it also includes a bunch of smaller, messier games," says Cavanagh on the Steam page, "experimental games made in a weekend, an unfinished prototype, joke games I made for game jams, a game I made as a teenager." That sounds as much an act of vulnerability as it is releasing a game, like those videos where artists tour their sketchbooks, or go through old work.
There is some achievement hunting to the proceedings as well. Each game in the launcher comes with a couple of tasks to fulfil for twinkling stars.