Gosh. In it, you bound through 2D environments to the beat, working your way up a hex grid filled with threats, adding your own platforms to the level architecture as you make your way higher.

Indie games developers Demimonde have announced today that their 2D vertical action platformer Octahedron will launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC next month, on March 20.

There’s still the occasional entry into classic 2D platforming series like Sonic, Mario and Rayman, but there’s little in the way of genuinely new titles out there from the big hitters.

Your 2D character has a spinning octahedron for a head that illuminates the background and sees you leaving a ghostly afterimage behind you. It’s a unique look that really stands out from the ...

Octahedron Will Dazzle Your Eyes And Test Your Reflexes Step into the light. By Peter Brown on April 3, 2018 at 2:47PM PDT ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Octahedron: Transfixed Edition Surf through a pulsating underworld on platforms YOU pull from thin air, where and when you want, in this psychedelic ...

Octahedron, on the other hand, seems like a deliberate dodge of the current trend. For starters, rather than being cute and wispy it's eye-bogglingly bright and full of breaking-glass sound ...

Octahedron isn't really a rhythm game—you won't need to sync your every movement in time with the music like you do in Crypt of the NecroDancer. But you'll find yourself doing it anyway, leaping ...