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String Theory

Zenisport · 2016-02-17

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 17, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You've played rhythm games, but have you ever played a music game? String Theory is a unique audio puzzle game that trains the player to recognize musical chords. Pit your ear against 20 different BGMs, each with 14 different chord variations. Learn to recognize chords played on over 20 different instruments and synthesizers.

75%
positive of 53 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 46% of 25,925 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 53 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2016-11-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220162025Week of 2016-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-02-17 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieMusicCasualPuzzleEducation

Census log

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

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