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.
Game Discussion
Steam User 5
As someone who has poured hours into the Project DIVA games (and Mirai) in the past, this game gets a highly recommend from me. It's like the controls and gameplay of Project DIVA and the community of osu! had a beautiful baby.
HOWEVER, if this is your first experience in the Project DIVA gameplay and you want to pick this up as a 'cheaper alternative' to Mega Mix+ on Steam, DO NOT DO THAT. A majority of charts in this game are catered towards the veteran crowd, you won't find many easy charts here.
There is no learning curve here, and especially if it's your first experience of this gameplay you won't enjoy it. But I mean if you're a masochist go ahead I guess?
If you're new, just pick up Mega Mix+ or any other previous DIVA game to get a grasp on how to play, then come back here for the fun shitpost charts. :)
Steam User 5
I really enjoy this game. Huge workshop potential and you can import your songs from PPD and Mega mix+ (including mods) onto heartbeat 9/10
Steam User 9
Not for me sadly.
I will use osu! terms to describe why I can't really play this well.
The approach rate of the objects is very long, thus there are always a lot of objects on the screen.
The timing window can be changed, but that doesn't mean it will change how quickly the flying objects approach.
Also similar to osu!taiko, I get the keys confused. That one is mostly just practice, but I've tried this in other games too, and it's sadly just not for me.
I would like to see more than just BPM and difficulty when selecting a song.
For example the timing window, approach rate, note per second.
I do like that it shows beforehand what kind of notes are gonna be in the chat.
Wish I could rate it neutral tbh for me at least.
Steam User 4
What a FANTASTIC platform for button mashing rhythm players.
Really appreciate the work the community has made on the DIVA skin and various charts.
In my skill level which is max 9 on songs I listen to all the time and live in my brain there are plenty of charts in the community which provide a fair challenge to better my skills.
Thank you so much for making this EIRTeam and community! <3
Steam User 2
I largely recommend Project Heartbeat...if you've played Project Diva and like Project Diva. PD is a lot easier to get into since its arcade-y and super beginner friendly, compared to Project Heartbeat, which is largely community driven, there are a few official maps that are really well done and have all difficulty levels, but once you want to actually play the whole purpose of its existence, the community content, it gets a LOT more dicey if you don't already like Project Diva type gameplay (especially since a lot of community maps are EXTREMELY HARD for no reason, just awfully mapped (I'm not one to talk...I've made two bad maps myself, but it is still something that you need to be willing to sift through).
Now with that said, this is even BETTER than Project Diva in a rhythm game sense to me, while I started (and still do) play Project Diva for the Miku game aspect, Project Heartbeat is just a lot better *technically* in its engine and hit registration. Also because it doesn't have any 3D rendered background like a lot of Project Diva songs have, it means the game will basically run flawlessly since the background will just be a static image or video.
Something that I honestly really love PH for is the autodetection of Project Diva and Project Diva mods if they're installed on your PC, it doesn't make too much sense for me to use, but if I just feel like playing a map on a better engine I can just hop into PH and play it here instead. It's also useful to just download a bunch of mods that are incompatible with each other within Project Diva that PH will read just fine.
As much as I dislike the amount of Extreme 8*+ levels and the amount of songs that I want to play but just can't because of some mapper's quirks, I'd rather have the option than not, and it is legitimately just a "skill issue" of mine at that point. The in built workshop support is really good, being able to both subscribe from the Steam Workshop site, or the inbuilt Workshop browser is a nice touch as well. The ability to just not download the video for songs is also useful for the people who upload disgusting "60fps upscaled" background footage for their map (or possibly stolen PPD map).
Steam User 2
Really fun, and fair game, I have high hopes that people make and release more charts for the various songs out there, be it from anime to show tunes.
I recommend this for the very avid Rhythm Game fan, and Rhythm Game Vets. alike.
5 Stars. 10/10!
Steam User 3
as a rhythm player playing mainly arcaea, I have to admit that this game is really good! I hope that the game will continue grow!