Vex 5
Vex 5 rebuilt the Challenge Room: thirty rooms back to back, reshuffled every attempt, under a clock and a death counter.
The 2020 entry, and the one that stopped being only about the acts. Ten standard stages still deliver the usual escalation of spinning blades, zip lines and collapsing floors, and a hardcore version of each unlocks once you clear it, rearranged and re-trapped rather than merely sped up.
The draw is the reworked Challenge Room: thirty deadly rooms run as a single timed marathon, in a different order every attempt, so memorising a sequence gets you nothing. Around it sits a trophy cabinet split into four categories, including hidden stars tucked into corners of each act and awards for both flawless runs and spectacularly bad ones.
Controls
WASD or arrow keys. Up jumps, Down slides and drops you into an act.
Tips
- The Challenge Room reshuffles, so learn trap types rather than level order; that's what carries over.
- Hunt hidden stars on a clean-up pass, not the first run, since chasing both at once costs lives.
- Hardcore moves traps as well as adding them, so don't run your normal route on muscle memory.