- May 1, 2023
- Torched Hill
City of Beats
City of Beats is thoroughly recommended, with its fun gameplay that flows with the music you make. There are a few design decisions that made me raise my eyebrow, but it ultimately is an enjoyable experience.
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City of Beats is a single player arcade role playing shooter game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Torched Hill and was released on May 1, 2023. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and very positive reviews from players.
Explore the ever-changing skyline of a city driven by music in City of Beats, a rhythmic rogue-lite shooter. Get into a zen-like flow state during combat, where every action is synced to the beat. Shoot, groove, loot, upgrade, repeat.
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- Excellent art style, polished visuals, and a strong cyberpunk aesthetic.
- Unique and satisfying rhythm-based gameplay mechanics where weapons and attacks sync with the music, creating an engaging combat flow.
- Great soundtrack and sound design that enhance immersion and enjoyment, often praised as one of the game's highlights.
- Limited content and replayability with repetitive enemy types, bosses, and a small variety of weapons and upgrades.
- Gameplay balance issues, including some upgrades being ineffective or detrimental and enemy/boss difficulty spikes causing frustration.
- User interface and quality-of-life problems such as an obstructive pause screen, lack of upgrade information, unskippable cutscenes, and imprecise map controls.
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The music in the game is widely praised for its strong soundtrack, unique integration with gameplay, and ability to enhance the rhythm-based mechanics, creating an engaging and immersive experience. Players appreciate how weapon sounds and enemy actions sync to the beat, allowing for creative musical play, though some find occasional gameplay elements disrupt the flow. Overall, the music and sound design are considered a standout feature that enriches the game's atmosphere and replayability.
“With its visuals, soundtrack, and to-the-beat auto-shooting, this game stands out in the genre.”
“The music is really solid, and when things are flowing, it feels great—I actually completely tetris effect'd myself playing enough in a short time that I'm constantly hearing the music (especially the dodge time cues) in my head.”
“- The game has amazing music and rhythm; you can clock left click and spray and pray, but you can also try shooting in rhythm and even sort of create your own music in a way. Every weapon sounds different to generate different sounds—I've been enjoying it!”
“There's a number of things in the game, like the main idea of shooting/dodging in time with music cues, that make you specifically NOT play in time to the music, which is really frustrating.”
“Other note - those flower-looking shield enemies that shoot a single high damage laser at you in the 1st act really disrupt the flow of the music and dodging. It just feels really awkward to dodge those things if you're trying to groove to the music.”
“Feels like there's got to be a way to introduce challenge without ruining the flow to the music.”
City of Beats Review (PC)
City of Beats mixes a good set of gameplay mechanics with atmosphere and some great music. Dashing across the rooftops, noticing a sound at the last second that lets you avoid an attack, and striking back at the perfect time, is very fun and engaging. The rogue-lite elements are very familiar and deliver a sense of progression but don’t add much otherwise. Despite the spareness of its classic cyberpunk narrative, I felt immersed in this universe. City of Beats has an innovative idea that’s very well implemented and will satisfy anyone who loves fast-paced combat, cyberpunk worlds, cool beats, and rogue elements. A review key was provided by the publisher
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City of Beats is thoroughly recommended, with its fun gameplay that flows with the music you make. There are a few design decisions that made me raise my eyebrow, but it ultimately is an enjoyable experience.
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City of Beats is a arcade role playing shooter game with science fiction theme.
City of Beats is available on Nintendo Switch, PC, Steam Deck and Windows.
City of Beats was released on May 1, 2023.
City of Beats was developed by Torched Hill.
City of Beats has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked this game for its music but disliked it for its grinding.
City of Beats is a single player game.
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