Beat the Song

Released Aug 2018

A music game, where you play songs. You play missing percussion, guitars, pianos, vocals, synthesizers, effects, strings and many more other instruments that change during the game. A total of 127 minutes of music you can play.

89% positive · 100 reviews

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All announced content has been released

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All announced content has been released

Medium confidence

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Evaluation

Beat the Song launched on August 28, 2018 as a paid music rhythm game. Over its post-launch life, the developer shipped a series of updates: early patches in September 2018 added MIDI import and PAT song support, followed by a brief experiment with a free-to-play model in October 2018 that was reversed by December 2019. The most significant content update was version 2.0 on April 20, 2020, which added a three-player mode along with new PAT songs. The last recorded developer communication is the version 2.3 patch on January 4, 2021, which added one more PAT song (Kabát - Země plná trpaslíků), gamepad support, and various bug fixes. Since January 4, 2021, there have been no further news posts, announcements, or developer communications of any kind. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced future content, and no roadmap. The developer has not established a sustained cadence of major content releases that would suggest more updates are forthcoming — the single major content drop (v2.0) was followed by a minor feature patch (v2.3) roughly nine months later, after which all activity ceased. With no outstanding commitments and nearly six years of silence since the last update, the game appears to have shipped as a complete product.

Evidence

Version 2.3 patch added a new PAT song and gamepad support — the last recorded developer communication.

news post · Jan 4, 2021 source content shipped

high

Version 2.0 added three-player mode and new PAT songs — the only major content update post-launch.

news post · Apr 20, 2020 source content shipped

high

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Details

Developer

AAAGAMES

Publisher

AAAGAMES

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

—

Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · Local/Split Screen

Indie Music Rhythm

About this game

You are the one playing

Music at half the volume is playing in the background with different missing instruments. You are in charge of these. If you hit the falling icons at the right time by pressing the right keys, the missing instrument will play. This way you play the song and compose it to its original state.

You are the one spoiling it

If you skip some icons or play them too early or too late, you will play these instruments at the wrong time or not at all and the result will be a mess. Not to mention you probably won’t get to the end this way and will lose the game.

You are the one who is god

If you persist and take a while to learn the songs, you will get better. You will find that the feeling from playing them is EPIC! In a real band, you would usually play just one instrument and you would have to spend years learning it. In Beat the Song you only have to learn for a few hours (yes, it will seem difficult at first, if you’ve never played a similar game) and you will find that you can “play” any instrument and a different one at any moment! It’s an incredible feeling that you have to experience yourself.

You are the one who will discover the beauty of music

Should you hear the songs from this game on radio or play them on the internet, you would probably pass them without noticing. As with 99% of the others. But now that you have the option to “play” them, you will discover their spirit, uncover the sounds you would otherwise miss and find that they are beautiful.

You are the one who won’t be understood

When you show the game to somebody or if they watch you playing, then in most cases they won’t get what is going on and what’s so great about it. Maybe it can’t even be described. You have to learn it and play.

Difficulty

Does the game seem too hard? Try different songs at easy difficulty. Even that is sometimes a bit easier or harder. The right feeling comes with medium difficulty and up.

Full length songs

Most of the songs are unabridged. You have heard it - “it should be shortened to not be boring, the right song must have such and such length”... No. Why shorten a great experience? Yes, it would be a lot less work to just use shortened versions, but surprisingly with full unabridged songs you won’t get bored and won’t even notice that instead of 30 seconds you play 5 minutes.