Double Kick Heroes

The End of the World Never Sounded So Metal!
This rhythm-based shoot-em-up is a unique blend of side-scrolling action and rhythm mechanics, tied together by a glorious tribute to heavy metal culture. It’s loud, proud, and surprisingly complex depending on the difficulty you play on.
At its core, Double Kick Heroes is a rhythm game, but it layers in elements from the shoot-em-up genre in a way that feels both novel and occasionally overwhelming. You control a band fleeing the apocalypse in a weaponized Cadillac, shooting down zombies, mutants, and other monstrosities by hitting notes in time with the music.
Each successful beat triggers gunfire, and depending on which lane you’re firing on, you’ll use different weapons. The challenge ramps up as more instruments are introduced and patterns become denser. Later stages introduce dodging mechanics too, turning songs into intense multitasking gauntlets.
The rhythm timing is tight, and the game rewards precision. However, on higher difficulties, it can become frustrating—not necessarily because of bad design, but because the input readability sometimes gets muddled by the chaos on-screen.
Good news for those with limited use of one hand: you only need one hand to play—just the arrow keys are required.

This game is fun but man is it hard as hell! Your fingers pretty much have to become a heavy metal drummer's feet to have any success.

Ugh, it's so frustrating because the game is great, but locking it at 60 FPS, and with how laggy the UI feels when moving around it, it doesn't *feel* as good as it probably could. Otherwise, though; it's a pretty solid game for sure. Definitely a lot of fun. Wish it had MIDI support built-in so I could just use my TD-17 on it, but I guess that's a lot of work. Still would recommend if you don't mind taking the time to calibrate everything and get it running properly.

Very fun little rhythm game with a banging soundtrack
Story mode took me 2 hours to beat so a bit on the short side so i might recommend buying this on sale as 20 bucks for 2 hours is a bit expensive for what you get.

I played this on gamepass back in 2020. Got it on steam. Also does the community editor work?

tiene sus detalles chidos! otros no tanto, como está diseñado el juego , a veces es muy cansado ver las "notas" y me pierdo los enemigos y los bosses que tienen un detalle divertido. le faltan guitarrazos, pero se entiende el intento y el deseo de hacer algo único, divertido si!

Good music and pixel art. I'm not ashamed to say I must play with with Chill Mode and no Overheat. I'm grateful those were included, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to get through the third song. There's multiple difficulties with reasonable increases of complexity. But compared to rhythm games I'm used to like Guitar Hero, dropping a combo in this game is brutal.