Beat Invaders
Released Mar 2022
Beat Invaders is a Vertical Shoot 'Em Up Roguelite - Fight your way through enemy fleets, unlock skills, items, ships, and upgrade them in the next run. Enjoy the smooth neon visuals matching the pushing EDM soundtrack - The perfect game to unwind.
96% positive · 211 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $9.99
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Evaluation
Beat Invaders launched on March 10, 2022 and has received substantial updates over the years, culminating in the major version 3.0 update on October 25, 2024. In that same post, developer Raffaele Picca explicitly stated: "Beat Invaders is a finished project for me, and I continue to work on my new game, Engraving." This is a direct developer statement that the game's development is complete. The subsequent patches (3.1.0 in September 2025 and 3.1.3 in January 2026) were minor maintenance updates — a Japanese translation and associated font fixes — consistent with the developer's characterization of the game as finished. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced future content, and no roadmap pointing to upcoming additions. The developer has moved on to a new project while occasionally performing minor upkeep on Beat Invaders.
Evidence
Developer explicitly states 'Beat Invaders is a finished project for me' while announcing the 3.0 update, and notes they are now working on a new game called Engraving.
Version 3.0 shipped as a major content update with new game modes, Route Effect System, Steam Community Items, new meta upgrades, ship upgrades, and more.
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Raffaele Picca
Achievements
47
Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player
About this game
Beat Invaders is a space-themed Vertical Shoot 'Em Up Roguelite!
Beat Invaders is NOT a rythm game!
Shoot your path through waves of enemies playing as one of three Pilots, each with their own Ship Class.
Combine upgrades, ship hacks, and specials to unleash an insane devastation on your enemies!
Protect your freighters, beat the bosses and survive intense events to make your delivery.
Gameplay is speed is dependent on the speed of the current track, your opponents’ movements and firing rates are dictated by each song’s beat and tempo.
Level up during a run and choose from different upgrades to make your space ship more powerful. Combine different upgrades to create powerful builds.
Use your earned upgrade points after a run to further enhance your space ship and unlock different ship classes with unique main weapons and stats to take on enemies on harder difficulties. The upgrades can be reset and redestributed to try out different strategies with different ship classes.
Create devastating combos using events and boosts that wipe out screens full of enemies in seconds!
Event waves and mini events break up the pace and make for fun, rewarding challenges.
Features:
Beat Invaders is NOT a rythm game!
Shoot your path through waves of enemies playing as one of three Pilots, each with their own Ship Class.
Combine upgrades, ship hacks, and specials to unleash an insane devastation on your enemies!
Protect your freighters, beat the bosses and survive intense events to make your delivery.
Gameplay is speed is dependent on the speed of the current track, your opponents’ movements and firing rates are dictated by each song’s beat and tempo.
Level up during a run and choose from different upgrades to make your space ship more powerful. Combine different upgrades to create powerful builds.
Use your earned upgrade points after a run to further enhance your space ship and unlock different ship classes with unique main weapons and stats to take on enemies on harder difficulties. The upgrades can be reset and redestributed to try out different strategies with different ship classes.
Create devastating combos using events and boosts that wipe out screens full of enemies in seconds!
Event waves and mini events break up the pace and make for fun, rewarding challenges.
Features:
- Action Roguelite Shoot-em-up, paying tribute to old school games like Space Invaders or Galaga.
- Upgrade your ship’s and convoy's systems between enemy waves and purchase meta upgrades between runs.
- Activate different Route Effects - run modifiers that can change the current run in interesting and challenging ways!
- Different game modes: Easy, Normal, Hyper Mode, Speedrun, Lone Wolf, Weeklies and Dailies!) - all with online leaderboards
- Mini-events, Booster pickup items and different event waves make for challenging combos.
- Permanentely improve your ship’s sub-system, unlock new weapons and convoy gadgets between runs.
- Beat Bosses and tricky Events and show your worth!
- High score challenge! Compare your scores to your friends playing Beat Invaders, and try to beat their records!
- Runs great on the Steam Deck.
- Full mouse, keyboard and controller support.
- Atmospheric electronic and vocal soundtrack with 33 tracks that sets the pace of your adversaries, making each round unique to its song.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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