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About the Game
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Beat. The. Bot.
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You're Ace - a famous bounty hunter after your latest target, the eccentric robot-showman Frazzer. To find your way through his twisted techno-playground, you’ll have to master the art of shooting, wall-running, sliding, and bunny hopping, all in sync with the beat! Get ready to dance till you're dead and then suit up for the remix in rogue-like rhythm shooter ROBOBEAT.  
Shoot to the Beat
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Shoot to your own beat with the custom music feature. Simply upload & trim your track or leave it as it is in our in-game editor to auto generate beats that suit your play style. Change custom songs effortlessly in-game anytime anywhere without interruption. The feature will support .wav, .mp3, and .ogg files. Maximise your damage and shorten your cooldown time by shooting in sync.  
Master the art of charged shots, damage multipliers, armour piercing rounds, and more!  
Move to the Music
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You’ll want some slick moves to go with those slick new weapons. Your enemies aren’t going to wait around for you to take a dance break, so you’ve got to keep moving if you want to survive.  
Wall run, slide, double jump, bunny hop, and grapple hook your way through technicolour levels to give your enemies the runaround. Keep it fluid, keep it funky, and keep it moving.  
Rewind, Remix, Replay
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ROBOBEAT is a rogue-like remix.  
Fast forward through procedurally generated levels, equip an arsenal of finely-tuned weapons, and accompany your arsenal with a symphony of modifications. Your playstyle is on continuous shuffle, so you never know what each new run is going to bring!  
Will you have what it takes to break the infinite loop and stop Frazzer in his tracks?  
Features
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*   Make your enemies face the music with an orchestra of guns and melee weapons;  
*   Choose from a diverse playlist to find a track that suits your playstyle;  
*   Unlock new songs, weapons, and utilities as you progress through the mansion and uncover its secrets;  
*   Shoot to your own beat with the custom music feature.  
*   Feel the beat with environments and visuals that adapt to the music;  
*   Mix it up with a range of modifications to give you an extra boost;  
*   Use your smooth moves to master platforming levels.
∞ Shoot - Remix - Repeat ∞

Release date: 14 May, 2024

Categories: First-Person Shooter, Rhythm Game, Roguelike, Movement-based Combat, Weapon Customization, Procedural Generation, Custom Asset Support, Real-time Combat


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Below are summaries of things people say about the game per category.
Each point is assigned a weight that represents how often it is mentioned across all reviews.
What players like:
- Custom music implementation is excellent (weight 0.99): The ability to add custom music is a major highlight. Players can import their own songs, create mixtapes, and even adjust BPM. This feature enhances replayability and allows for personalized gameplay, compensating for the OST not being at Hotline Miami level.
- Combines FPS and rhythm elements (weight 0.78): The game is a top-tier rhythm shooter that combines elements from other popular games like Ultrakill, Hi-Fi Rush and BPM. It successfully integrates music syncing with combat, creating a unique and enjoyable experience for fans of both FPS and rhythm games.
- Appealing and unique visual style (weight 0.33): The game has a distinct and appealing visual style, often described as cyberpunk or retro-futuristic, with vibrant colors and well-made graphics. The art and designs are phenomenal, contributing to the game's overall aesthetic appeal and immersive atmosphere.
- Satisfying gunplay and movement (weight 0.29): The game features satisfying gunplay with a variety of unique and fun weapons. The shooting mechanics are well-executed, providing a good sense of impact and control. Movement feels good, with solid slam jumping, wall jumps, and dashes, approaching Ultrakill levels of quality.
- Incredibly fun and addicting (weight 0.28): The game is incredibly fun, addicting, and rewarding to play, with a lot of depth and replayability. Players are motivated to unlock new weapons and abilities, and the game feels polished with a great community.
- Satisfying parry and combo system (weight 0.08): The game features a parrying mechanic that is a valuable addition to the defensive moveset. Executing parries and subsequent combos provides a rush of excitement and satisfaction. The game also includes dynamic movement options like sliding and wall jumping.
- Fun and creative weapon combos (weight 0.07): The game features a variety of weapons and abilities that can be combined in different ways, making replaying songs feel fresh and interesting. Some weapon/ability combos are particularly fun and effective, and the combo system feels very rewarding.
- Innovates on rhythm FPS genre (weight 0.07): Robobeat innovates on the rhythm FPS genre with precise controls and a distinct art style. It has a top-tier OST and many different weapons, abilities, and perks that completely change the way you play.
- On-the-fly music switching (weight 0.06): The ability to change music on the fly, often described as switching cassettes, is a cool and appreciated feature. The mixtape system and custom cassette editor are intuitive, adding user-generated content value and allowing players to create seamless loops.
- Well-implemented roguelike mechanics (weight 0.05): The game is a well-implemented roguelike with addictive gameplay and well-designed level generation. It incorporates meta-progression mechanics similar to Dead Cells, such as blueprints, and is considered one of the best roguelikes in recent times by some reviewers.
- Frenetic and dynamic gameplay (weight 0.05): The game is frenetic and dynamic, emphasizing movement and requiring constant reaction to on-screen events. The gameplay is smooth and vigorous, with options to adjust the game speed to the player's preference.
- Overwhelmingly positive emotional response (weight 0.03): This cluster shows signs of review bombing due to the high number of emotional responses without specific details. Many reviewers express strong enjoyment and praise for the game, with some making hyperbolic claims. Importance reduced by 90%.

Common complaints:
- Repetitive, lacks content, unbalanced difficulty (weight 0.39): Many reviewers found the game to be repetitive, lacking in content, and having an unrefined difficulty curve. Some found the game too easy or too hard, while others felt the need to replay levels repeatedly was frustrating. This leads to the game becoming stale quickly and lacking replayability.
- Overly difficult, tedious final boss (weight 0.24): The final boss is criticized for being overly difficult due to high health, repetitive attacks, and lack of healing opportunities. The parrying system is also inconsistent, making it difficult to time parries correctly. This leads to a frustrating and tedious final encounter.
- Uninspired, unbalanced weapon variety (weight 0.22): Many weapons feel similar or underpowered compared to the starting revolver, making the weapon pool feel diluted. Unlocks are often uninteresting or detrimental, and weapon balance issues exist. This discourages experimentation and makes runs feel less unique.
- High damage, limited healing (weight 0.11): Enemies inflict high contact damage, and healing is limited, making close-range combat risky. Some enemy behaviors are annoying, and the game punishes players for poor positioning. This leads to a frustrating experience, especially in later levels.
- Underdeveloped roguelike elements (weight 0.09): The game's roguelike elements feel underdeveloped, with minimal variation in levels and uninspired shop items. The roguelike structure feels forced, and the game lacks key features of the genre, such as passive items and persistent upgrades. This diminishes the appeal of random item builds and makes the game feel like a campaign forced into a roguelike structure.
- Repetitive level design (weight 0.06): The game's environments are visually repetitive, consisting of simple and monotonous designs. Areas lack visual variety, and room layouts become repetitive after only a few runs. This contributes to a sense of emptiness and monotony.
- Review bombing (weight 0.06): These points show signs of review bombing. Some reviewers express extreme frustration and dislike for the game, with one even claiming to have broken two monitors. These points lack specific details and rely on emotional language, memes, or jokes instead of constructive feedback.
- Subjective preferences (weight 0.05): These points contain personal preferences and subjective opinions about specific weapons, controls, and gameplay mechanics. While they provide some insight into the reviewer's experience, they lack broad applicability and may not be relevant to all players.
- Incomprehensible story, cluttered visuals (weight 0.04): The story is difficult to understand, and the visuals are muddy and cluttered, making it difficult to parse the action. The visual style is excessively jarring and makes it difficult to see what's happening on screen. This detracts from the overall experience.
- Unfavorable BPM comparisons (weight 0.04): Some reviewers compare the game unfavorably to BPM, citing issues with the color scheme, lack of difficulty, and overall feel. The game doesn't feel like a successor to BPM, lacking the intense and chaotic elements found in that game. This may disappoint players who were expecting a similar experience.
- Limited healing options (weight 0.03): These points focus on the limited healing options in the game, particularly in later rooms and before boss fights. While this is a valid concern, it overlaps with the more general point about high damage and limited healing, making it less impactful as a standalone point.

Gameplay feedback:
- Rhythm-based FPS with custom music (weight 0.28): Robobeat is a rhythm-based FPS where players shoot to the beat, with mechanics inspired by games like Ultrakill and Dead Cells. Players can import custom music, and faster songs increase enemy speed and spawns. However, the rhythm aspect is primarily tied to shooting and parrying, which can feel disjointed.
- Fast-paced movement, high skill ceiling (weight 0.2): The game features fast-paced movement mechanics, drawing inspiration from Ultrakill, but some reviewers feel it doesn't quite match the fluidity.  Abilities and weapons are diverse, but some are considered underpowered or situational. Mastering enemy attack patterns and utilizing movement are crucial for success.
- Roguelike elements add replayability (weight 0.19): The game incorporates roguelike elements such as permadeath and randomized weapons, similar to Dead Cells. Progression relies on player skill and knowledge of enemy patterns, with unlocks and upgrades earned through multiple runs. However, some reviewers feel the roguelike elements are not well-developed.
- Random weapon and perk acquisition (weight 0.07): Weapons and utilities are acquired randomly, with some working better in combination with others.  The game features a system for upgrading characters with buffs during each run. However, some reviewers feel that many perks are useless, making selection feel random rather than strategic.
- Parrying is a crucial mechanic (weight 0.05): Parrying is a key mechanic for deflecting projectiles, increasing shot damage, and enabling weapon combos. Mastering parrying is essential for dealing with certain enemy types and maximizing damage output. Projectiles, melee, hitscan, and explosions are attack types in the game.
- Custom music support is central (weight 0.05): The game allows players to import custom music in various formats and adjust the BPM manually. Players can also set loop points within songs. This feature is central to the game's appeal, allowing players to personalize their experience.
- Exploration and hidden rooms (weight 0.04): Exploration is a key element, with hidden rooms containing unlocks. Room variation includes parkour and timed target shots, adding variety beyond standard combat. However, the dungeon map layout is random, and there's no control over room placement.
- Simple, fun combo system (weight 0.02): The combo system, which mixes parrying and charging instead of reloading, is simple yet enhances the fun. The initial revolver weapon can automatically crit up to 6 enemies after a parry, followed by two charged shots. The reviewer learned that the revolver's auto-aim is very strong.
- BPM affects boss difficulty (weight 0.02): The reviewer suggests using slower BPM songs for difficult mid-boss and boss encounters. The reviewer suggests parrying all of the final boss's attacks except for the shockwaves. The game automatically sets the rhythm for imported songs, but the accuracy is not reliable.
- Card builds have wide power range (weight 0.01): Card builds have a wide power range, with some being overpowered and others useless, leading to potential run failures based on luck. Passive effect cards can create synergies, making lucky runs particularly enjoyable.
- Bosses lack unique mechanics (weight 0.01): The game includes 4 bosses and 5 maps. All bosses require parrying with the same timing, lacking any variation.
- Parkour room rewards underwhelming (weight 0.01): The game features parkour rooms where players jump over spikes, but the reward is often worse than the player's current equipment, making it not worth the time. Gift rooms are not valuable, containing only mediocre loot; only the shop and card rooms are worthwhile.
- Adjustable rhythm settings (weight 0.01): There are two methods for adjusting the rhythm: setting the BPM and manually adjusting rhythm keys. The tempo (cassette speed) can be changed on the fly.
- Developer streams reveal techniques (weight 0.01): The reviewer used a boomerang, crossbow, and nuclear sniper rifle build. The reviewer learned gameplay techniques from watching developer streams, such as using block to deflect explosive barrels for area-of-effect damage.
- Controller-friendly combo system (weight 0.01): ROBOBEAT eliminates swap combos for static arsenal chain combos, making it suitable for controllers. ROBOBEAT is a Rhythm Roguelike game with core gameplay similar to BPM (bullets per minute).
- Lacks narrative depth/level variation (weight 0.01): The game prioritizes gameplay over narrative depth. Levels are always the same, lacking procedural generation or variation.

Performance notes:
- Good optimization across platforms (weight 0.03): The game demonstrates good optimization across various platforms and configurations. Reviewers have specifically noted smooth performance on Steam Deck OLED, HONOR MagicBook X14 laptops, Proton, and even older operating systems like Windows 7, indicating broad compatibility.
- Progression-blocking and inconsistent bugs (weight 0.02): Players have reported encountering bugs that impede progress, such as bosses not dying when reaching zero health. Additionally, some enemies exhibit inconsistent attack patterns, attacking faster than telegraphed or without any warning cues. These issues can disrupt gameplay and require restarts.
- Lacks latency calibration tool (weight 0.01): The absence of a built-in latency calibration tool can pose challenges for players with audio or video latency in their setups. This can lead to synchronization issues and negatively impact the gaming experience, especially in rhythm-based gameplay.
- Basic graphics, nice color detail (weight 0.01): While the graphics are simple, the changing background colors synchronized to the music is a visually appealing detail. This adds a layer of immersion and enhances the overall aesthetic despite the basic graphical fidelity.
- Engaging, immersive gameplay (weight 0.01): The reviewer was so engrossed in the game that they didn't notice the resolution had dropped. This indicates that the gameplay is engaging and immersive.

Recommendations:
- Highly recommended overall (weight 0.59): The game is overwhelmingly recommended by reviewers, with many calling it a must-buy, a masterpiece, or even a game of the year contender. Reviewers highlight the fun, addictiveness, and overall high quality of the game, often emphasizing that it is well worth the purchase price. Many reviewers rated the game 9/10 or 10/10.
- Great for rhythm shooter fans (weight 0.27): The game is frequently recommended for fans of rhythm-based shooters, boomer shooters, and similar titles like Ultrakill, BPM, and Metal Hellsinger. Reviewers often describe it as a polished and stylish evolution of the genre, or a worthy successor to those games. Some reviewers consider it the best rhythm shooter currently available.
- Concerns about content/difficulty (weight 0.16): Some reviewers express concerns about the game's limited content, high difficulty, and repetitive nature, suggesting it may not be worth the full price or suitable for all players. Some reviewers recommend waiting for a sale or gathering more information before purchasing.
- Desire for more content/updates (weight 0.08): Many reviewers express hope for future content updates, Steam Workshop support, and continued development to address bugs and improve features like rhythm synchronization. They are looking forward to new content such as more customization options.
- Suggest easier difficulty mode (weight 0.03): Some reviewers suggest adding an easier mode or accessibility options to make the game more approachable for a wider audience. They also suggest improvements to visual feedback for certain mechanics.
- Fresh and exciting experience (weight 0.02): The game is considered a fresh and exciting experience with a good vibe, especially for those looking for something new.
- Good value, especially on sale (weight 0.02): The game is considered a great value, especially when on sale. One reviewer sadly returned the game.
- Needs more weapons/content (weight 0.01): Some reviewers suggest adding more weapons and content to keep the game engaging in the long term. They feel that the current amount of content is insufficient.
- Praise for developers (weight 0.01): The developers are praised for their work on the game, and reviewers express wishes for their success.

Other player notes:
- Anticipation for future content/modding (weight 0.05): Many reviewers are excited about the game's potential and are looking forward to future updates and content additions. Specifically, there are requests for a creative workshop or mod support to allow players to create and share custom levels and music, enhancing replayability.
- Incomplete and vague story (weight 0.04): The game's story is a point of contention, with some finding it intriguing while others describe it as mediocre, obscure, and incomplete. The narrative is primarily delivered through notes and in-game moments, but it often feels vague and ends abruptly, lacking sufficient guidance and resolution.
- Similar to ULTRAKILL/Metal: Hellsinger (weight 0.03): The game is compared to other fast-paced action titles like "ULTRAKILL", "Metal: Hellsinger", and "BPM: Bullets Per Minute", with an emphasis on acrobatic gunplay. It seems to blend elements from these games, offering a unique experience within the rhythm-action genre.
- Cyberpunk-style neon visuals (weight 0.02): The game features a distinct visual style, characterized by low-poly models, cyberpunk-style neon lights, and particle effects. Some reviewers describe the art style as having a 'deep fried' look, similar to BPM, with contrasting enemy colors and vibrant techno environments.
- Underrated, lacks guides/reviews (weight 0.01): The game is considered underrated, with a lack of reviews and detailed guides, and very few clues for hidden achievements. This may make it difficult for new players to fully appreciate and master the game.
- Active developer communication (weight 0.01): The developers are actively engaged with the player community and respond to reviews, showing enthusiasm for their game. This suggests a commitment to addressing feedback and improving the game based on player input.
- Exploration rewards lore/music (weight 0.01): Exploration is rewarded with lore and new music, encouraging players to delve deeper into the game's world. This incentivizes thoroughness and adds value to the act of discovering hidden areas and secrets.
- Weapon stat adjustments/nerfs (weight 0.01): Weapon stats have been adjusted in a recent update, including some nerfs. This indicates ongoing development and balancing efforts to refine the gameplay experience.
- Uses stock Source sound effects (weight 0.01): The game uses stock Source sound effects. This may detract from the overall audio experience for some players.

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