August 2019 • Macworld 69ROUND-UP- Vectronom
Price: £8.99 from Steam (fave.co/2xzdr1f)
Plenty of games have great music, but few
use those tunes so well as the rhythm-based
platformer Vectronom. Gameplay involves little
else besides the WASD or arrow keys, and it gets
maddeningly difficult shortly after the first few
levels. Vectronom especially gets rough if you play
it with the sound off. It’s all about moving your boxy
avatar in sync with the thumping beats of club
music as you hop from Point A to Point B. Along
the way, holes open and wide passageways quickly
shrink to one lane. Spikes erupt from the gridded
ground. And yet I always found I did better when I
just surrendered myself to the music and tapped
my fingers to the beat.