Project Heartbeat
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About the GameProject Heartbeat is a cute community-driven rhythm game inspired by titles such as Clone Hero and Project Diva, featuring music from top artists of the Eurobeat genre made popular by the Initial D anime and manga.
Play officially licensed high-quality songs from many different artists!
Project Heartbeat features songs from SuganoMusic, TORAV4 and Galaxian Recordings! More than 15 songs are in development! Hit the indicated buttons to build your score and conquer the fast adrenaline pumping Eurobeat and pop songs!
The game allows for two different styles, hopefully you will enjoy both of them!
Play, create and share custom content on the Steam Workshop!
Try our bespoke editor, create your own charts and share them with your friends on the Steam Workshop, all community-made songs get their own leaderboards and you can even use videos as backgrounds!
Additionally, you can also share and play custom resource packs made by the community!
The Project Heartbeat community is highly welcoming to new players and content creators!
Compete against other players in the global leaderboards!
All songs, including community made ones, get their own leaderboards for all difficulties! Try and match and beat the scores of other community members!
Featuring the Shinobu engine: An audio engine specifically made for rhythm games
Project Heartbeat includes its own custom open source audio engine named Shinobu, this is a game changer that improves performance, battery life, latency and makes de-synchronization impossible!
Features
- Hit notes to build up your your score.
- Compete for the top spot in the leaderboards for official and community-made songs!
- Create and share your own charts!
- Play against your friends with the multiplayer mode
- Import charts from your existing PPD install using the PPD manager tool.
- Play with the included songs from top artists from popular eurobeat circles such as SuganoMusic and Galaxian Recordings or from independent artists like TORA_V4 and Katfox, with a total of more than 15 songs in development.
- Complete Steam Workshop support, play the existing 100+ community-made charts.
- UI skinning support (currently in the beta branch)
- Use background videos for your songs.
- Challenge yourself with the higher difficulty songs.
Steam User 6
this game is like if osu and project diva had a baby and I honestly love it for that. plus, if you have project diva mm+ on steam OR you've ever played ppd you can import songs from both (and in the case of mm+ it ALSO imports any song pack mods you may have! which is huge bc I have a lot of modded songs lol) and just from playing for an hour I already wanna recommend this to everyone I know who loves project diva as well as community-driven projects like osu.
HOWEVER there is ONE major issue I've come across that may be a deal breaker for some people; if you have hundreds of songs, such as through importing mm+ songs, the game does not have appear to have any measures of clearing memory for unused songs. so once a song is loaded, even if it's just for the preview, it's permanently added to the game's memory usage, which can absolutely skyrocket by several gigabytes from not even a minute of scrolling through songs. this obviously causes performance issues as well as straight up crashing the game once it runs out of memory lol. I'm not easily annoyed so it's more of an inconvenience to me but from a developer perspective this is still a major issue that needs to be fixed *yesterday.*
again it's not something that bothers *me* that much, I can deal with it, and there's a sort of "fast scroll" option that skips songs while scrolling, but that only delays the inevitable. I still recommend it personally, but please keep this memory problem in mind if you plan on importing hundreds of songs pfft
Steam User 2
Pretty Solid. This game is pretty good for a broke man like myself who has project diva withdrawals.
Steam User 2
i cannot recommend this game enough, it’s basically a lightweight project diva, and it runs reallyyy great on my laptop ^_^ i love this game so much, you can customize literally everything to your liking, and tons and tons of steam workshop songs are available, which i love, i do however wish there was an official arrow note skin, whatever though there’s one in the steam workshop. i love how this game makes you a profile and shows ur misses, leaderboard ranking on songs ect, gives me a really big osu vibe. TOTALLY worth the price, can’t believe i picked up this absolute gem for only $4 CAD
Steam User 3
I got this thinking it would be a cheap knock of Project Diva but it ended up being a kinda Project Diva with the custom maps and skins features of OSU which was very nice
This also adds back the standard flicks of F/F 2nd (not the tech lines but still)
Game also has this wonderfull option to link to the offical Project Diva and play the maps from it WITHOUT the videos which makes it so much easier to play them
Multiplayer also worked fine in the game i played with my mate who talked me into buying it
What I played the game is good and builds onto Project Diva
Steam User 4
a lightweight rhythm project diva like game, my recommendations!
Steam User 1
Fun affordable option for anyone who can't get Diva, songs being downloable inside the game itself makes it seemless to add new ones whenever! It's also nice to have both Arcade and Console style gameplay in one package too. My only issue with this game is the fact that the timing is slightly more strict then Diva which took me a bit to get used to but still, it's a fun time!
Steam User 1
This is a fine Project Diva simulator, but I recommend it only for experienced Project Diva players.
As to be expected with fanmade Project Diva charts, there is a huge jump in difficulty. In addition, because it is mostly created by the community, some charts may not necessarily be up to snuff. I have a lot of experience with Project Diva and I can handle the higher difficulties, but for these reasons, I also recommend waiting for a sale.
Overall, the game runs smoothly and is much more lightweight than MM+, so that is already a plus.