fluXis

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fluXis is a single player and multiplayer action game. It was developed by flustix and was released on May 13, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

fluXis is a community-driven, vertical scrolling rhythm game with customizable visual and gameplay effects. Create your own flashy maps or compete against the world in the online leaderboards. Features Feature-packed Editor - Create your own maps and share them with the world. Visual and Gameplay Effects - Move the playfield around, change the key count mid-song, flash the screen white or make …

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Audience ScoreBased on 80 reviews

music4 positive mentions

The game features a highly advanced and user-friendly beatmap editor with extensive customization and visual effects suitable for creative players and modchart creators.
UI and UX design are praised for being clean, responsive, fast, and visually appealing, with strong native controller support and ultrawide display compatibility.
The game supports importing maps from osu!mania and StepMania, has global leaderboards, practice mode, and offers unique gameplay elements such as key count switching mid-game and scroll velocity (SV) maps.

The gameplay and visual effects can be overwhelming and make the game difficult to read, especially for beginners or casual players, with some feeling the learning curve is very steep and lacking easy or beginner-friendly maps.
Score penalties for disabling visual effects make playing maps without effects uncompetitive, negatively impacting leaderboard viability and player experience.
There are several usability issues such as lack of tutorial, bugs and limitations in the level editor (no autosave, effect copy-paste glitches), problems with keybind configuration, no offset line judgment setting, limited documentation for customization, and performance drops on some systems.

music
20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users appreciate the quick song previews and creative level editor with features like VFX and storyboard tabs, as well as a solid song library including Japanese tracks. However, they desire easier access to song previews, more popular/top chart songs, and beginner-friendly tracks. Some find certain visual effects during songs distracting or score-penalizing, impacting playability and leaderboard potential.
- “I even prefer it to Quaver because it has many Japanese song recommendations and the difficulty level is neither too hard nor too easy, making the game more fun to play.”
- “Lazer and the best I'd say the level editor for this game is straight up heaven for anyone that has a lot of creativity. I found a map called 'carcrash'n'siren,' which matched the original MV perfectly, and that was literally cool.”
- “Mania and StepMania maps provide a pretty solid library of songs to play right out of the box.”
- “Please give us an option to flip the song selection screen; muscle memory is killing me.”
- “A one-click solution to pausing songs when in the menus is needed.”
- “Though I love how quick the song preview is when browsing charts, I wish there was a simple play button to preview the song instead of having to open the song's page.”
story
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story aspect is tied to the game's storyboard and visual customization features, allowing users to design maps, add visual effects, and keyframe animations for a personalized experience. While promising creative self-expression, the storyboard tool is still unfinished, but it builds on a familiar framework from osu!lazer, appealing to players interested in adding visuals to their charts.
- “Like sure, yeah, as with any VS rhythm game editor, I get to put the notes down and chart a song in a way I feel is appropriate, but then there's a VFX/shader tab where I might give kick drums a little more oomph by accompanying them with triggers that increase bloom and zoom the camera in slightly when a heavy sound happens. On top of that, there's a storyboard tab where you can keyframe animations for sprites (in-game basic shapes or even import your own images).”
- “Mania mapper seeking self-expression wanting to possibly dabble with adding visuals to your charts and place keyframes on a timeline to craft your own storyboard—I strongly suggest you try fluxis and make something fun for the world to play.”
- “Fun fact: the storyboard framework of this game is built on osulazer's framework.”
- “The storyboard tab is still unfinished at the time of writing.”
- “There is no option to at least storyboard and design maps like in osu!.”
- “If you are a mania mapper seeking self-expression and want to add visuals and keyframes on a timeline to craft your own storyboard, I suggest trying Fluxus instead to make something fun.”
gameplay
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay combines enjoyable rhythm mechanics similar to mania games with visually appealing effects, but it can be overwhelming for less-experienced players and suffers from technical issues and occasional declines in quality.
- “The gameplay is extremely fun, yet its motion could easily overwhelm less-experienced players.”
- “Super cool rhythm game that takes the core mechanics of a mania game and packs it together with clean visuals, cool shaders, and sweet SV maps.”
- “Mania type of gameplay.”
- “Might be the worst excuse of a versus fighting game of all time. The game crashes if you try to play it, and when it works, it has some of the worst gameplay ever made.”
- “So while it looks cool, it drastically takes away from the gameplay quality.”
graphics
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics are generally praised for their clean visuals, cool shaders, and creative potential for custom storyboards, appealing to players interested in visual expression. However, some users find the visuals unusual or not to their personal taste.
- “Super cool rhythm game that takes the core mechanics of a mania game and packs it together with clean visuals, cool shaders and sweet sv maps.”
- “Mania mapper seeking self-expression wanting to possibly dabble with adding visuals to your charts and place keyframes on a timeline to craft your own storyboard i suggest you strongly please try fluxis and make something fun for the world to play”
humor
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's humor is highlighted through its playful visual effects and amusing gimmicks, which many players find endearing. However, some users feel that excessive or overly intense effects can detract from the experience. Overall, the humor and creative features in the editor contribute positively to the game's charm.
- “All of that being said, the cool visual effects and other funny gimmicks are what made me love this game.”
- “While I haven't tried making a map in Fluxis as of now, I did play a bit with the editor and it appears to offer lots of funny features and effects that make mapping easier, and the ability to switch the keycount during the map is really cool.”
- “I think what might give the game somewhat of a bad rep is the mappers who don't understand where the line is for when a map's VFX gets overly excessive or the beat pulsing is hilariously strong.”