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 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 3
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 1
A bit hard for newcomers to this style of gameplay (coming from osu! at least) but I'm having fun! Also run perfectly on Steam Deck, and it quickly became my go-to rhythm game on the Deck.
Steam User 1
honestly almost a 10/10.
Sliders are a bit janky. I use a Project Diva hori minicontroller though, im not sure if its janky on regular controllers.
Thats the only criticism i got other than,, pls add font size settings and/or ui size settings.
so,
an 8.5/10. And its still early access.
All that said, get the game its amazing.
Steam User 0
Awesome!
I played in every Hatsune Miku Project Diva game, so Project Heartbeat is the game that I dreamed for! It in one time combine ability to play in console songs and FT songs.Ability to import FT songs from my copy of MM+ also made me very happy.
Only one thing made me slightly sad - no native MacOS version. Game built on the Godot engine, so, maybe you can try to make MacOS build? I tried to built by myself but it not worked (due to my Beta version of MacOS).
Steam User 1
Technical excellence - while I'm definitely NOT a fan of this subgenre of rhythm game ("disco mashers"), I must say this is a better implementation than "Project Project D".
Note: If you have RX 6400 in Gen3 mode, use Vulkan despite it being experimental!