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City of Beats cover art

City of Beats

Torched Hill · indie.io · 2023-05-01

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 01, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 14, 2023 (Nintendo Switch)

Shoot. Groove. Loot. Repeat. Cross an ever-changing city skyline, flowing through encounters in tune with the cityscape’s beat. From the weapons you fire, to the enemies you shoot, to the zen-like flow, the only way to win is to become one with the beat.

77%
positive of 141 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

Can you feel the rhythm? It's everywhere in the City of Beats. Music drives absolutely everything in this rogue-lite, twin-stick shooter. Listen to the beat, get into the flow, and unleash bullet hell on the rooftops of the City, blasting through legions of hostile robots. Don't worry about the damage. Humans left a while ago, and it's just us androids up here. Well, androids and robots, controlled by an ornery rogue A.I., the Zeitgeber, trying to impose its own groove on all robo-kind. Someone should do us all a favor and get out there to pull the plug, yeah?(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (37 reviews).
  • · Top 60% of 12,141 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.8k–6.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 141 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Fanatical$2.49-88%
Epic Games Store$2.99-85%
GOG$2.99-85%
Gamesplanet$2.99-85%
Humble Store$2.99-85%
IndieGala$2.99-85%
GOG$2.99-85%
GamersGate$3.00-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 3 of 30 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
343420232026Week of 2023-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$2.492026-08-062026-09-042026-08-06 — best price $2.632026-08-07 — best price $2.632026-08-08 — best price $2.632026-08-09 — best price $2.632026-08-10 — best price $2.632026-08-11 — best price $2.992026-08-12 — best price $2.992026-08-13 — best price $2.992026-08-14 — best price $2.992026-08-15 — best price $2.992026-08-16 — best price $2.992026-08-17 — best price $2.992026-08-18 — best price $2.992026-08-19 — best price $2.992026-08-20 — best price $2.992026-08-21 — best price $2.992026-08-22 — best price $2.992026-08-23 — best price $2.992026-08-24 — best price $2.992026-08-25 — best price $2.992026-08-26 — best price $2.992026-08-27 — best price $2.992026-08-28 — best price $2.992026-08-29 — best price $2.992026-08-30 — best price $2.992026-08-31 — best price $2.992026-09-01 — best price $2.992026-09-02 — best price $2.492026-09-03 — best price $2.492026-09-04 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
31.4%
earned "Didn't See That Coming"
3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil

Player tags

RPGMusicActionArcadeRhythmShooterTop-DownDifficultRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

Star Control®: OriginsImmortal: UnchainedOmensight: Definitive EditionCitadel: Forged with FireEternity: The Last UnicornRebel Galaxy OutlawTorchlight III

Similarity via IGDB.

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