About This Demo

NOTE: Project Heartbeat makes no use of generative AI in the game code or its assets.

Project Heartbeat is the ultimate cute community-driven rhythm game, featuring music from top artists of the Eurobeat genre made popular by the Initial D anime and manga.

This demo allows you try the game with a limited official song selection and no workshop functionality, the full version has many extra features!

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Play over 25 hand-charted official songs, enjoy the insanity of multiplayer or make your own using the chart editor!

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!

With our bespoke professional-grade editor you 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! You can create your own note graphics and even change the whole UI completely!

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! You can get in depth stats and progression history by visiting the website!

Featuring the Shinobu engine: An audio engine specifically made for rhythm games

Project Heartbeat uses its own custom open source audio engine named Shinobu, refined after 5 years of development, it results in the lowest latency, most responsive rhythm game experience!

Shinobu also makes use of a tickless system (popularized by Counter-Strike 2) to ensure sub-frame accuracy of inputs, truly delightful!

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 Odyssey Eurobeat, with a total of more than 25 songs, with more to come!

• Complete Steam Workshop support, play the existing 2000+ community-made charts.

• UI skinning!

• Note skinning!

• Full FFmpeg integration, so you can use video files in your custom songs!

• Challenge yourself with the higher difficulty songs!