

Kinacoustic
Maithonis Studios · 2016 · Casual, Simulation, Indie, Music, Platformer
PC
Positive93% · 14
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About Kinacoustic
Kinacoustic is a music composition game and a new musical experience. You can control the elements of music by bouncing melodic Drops onto colored Note Lines that you place. In doing this, you can create basic or complex songs - your own composition or a cover.

Kinacoustic is full of features that help you create songs and enjoy the game:
So what are you waiting for? Pick up Kinacoustic and start Kina-Composing today.

Kinacoustic is full of features that help you create songs and enjoy the game:
- Rhythm - Sometimes referred to as beat, the pace at which notes are being played. Control this with the Drop Emitters and the Clock.
- Pitch - A,B,C,D,E,F and G notes in seven different octaves all with their sharp, flat, and natural variants. Control this with the color of the lines you draw and the length of them.
- Tone Color - The type of instrument playing the notes. Control this with the type of Drop Emitter you use. In Kinacoustic there is Workshop support (Sound Pack support). So you can add other people's Sound Packs to your game, directly from the Steam Workshop. Or if you are tech savvy you can make your own and upload if you like.
- Dynamics - The volume at which a particular note is being played. Control this by making the lines thinner and thicker.
- Sustain - How long a note is being held. Control this by creating a Sustain Orb. Whatever passes through a Sustain Orb has it's Sustain changed to the value on the Sustain Orb.
- Drag Box Tool - Use this to copy and paste chunks of a song and move it.
- Global Gravity - Adjust the Rate at which all the drops in the scene fall at.
- Clock controls - So players can better control Rhythm.
- PDF Manual - A manual to guide you through all the intricacies of the game.
- In Game Tutorial - Teaches you the basics while you create the beginning of the popular nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
- Fully Resizeableable Game Window - Great for looking at sheet music and the game simultaneously. Even on cramped screens.
- Platformer Mode - Tired of composing? Turn on Platformer Mode to run and jump on your placed lines. Even create full 2D platform levels with some of the special lines to add diversity.
- Steam Workshop Integration - Seamlessly subscribe to user-made content or upload your own to the Steam Workshop for the world to see.
- Steam Trading Cards - Play the game to unlock cards you can trade on the community market or with friends.
So what are you waiting for? Pick up Kinacoustic and start Kina-Composing today.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate Kinacoustic's unique and creative concept of making music through visual, spatial interaction, with many enjoying the sandbox freedom and intuitive learning curve. However, expectations set by promotional materials often exceed what players can realistically achieve, and some find the learning curve steep once past the basics, while audio quality concerns are occasionally mentioned.
It sucks. Dont let the video fool you. You will never be able to do that.4 found this helpful
To be honest — at the moment I've lost a fight with this game. xD In comparison with classical musical tabs I've got used to long time ago I mostly have not enough patience for this. It is easy to understand the way of how it works and how to use what you have to create something, but as already been said here — this thing is easy to learn but hard to master. But still I love it as something quite unique. Myself I have both musical skill and above basic knowledge how to correctlty compose music, earlier I've sometimes had a mood to write polyfoniac melodies on many different voices, but I've got used to tabulature programs such as Guitar Pro or Power tab and tabs/notes themselves (actually, not counting them as a programs since I'm not a pro and usind them for personal joy), and this game at some point made me wonder — if it will be better to reccomend it for people who hates solfège to show that solfège as it is is not such a difficult thing as they may see it, or quite opposite — to reccomend it for ones who see solfège like crazy dark woods but still want to try to write songs somehow that they have in their minds. I can't say that game itself can really help to understand many-…3 found this helpful
This game is very good, i love how you have all the choice in what songs you can make, it has been a pleasure so far playing this and im loving it. i rate it 10/103 found this helpful
Kinacoustic, developed and published by Maithonis Studios, is less a conventional game and more an interactive musical sandbox that invites players to think about sound in a visual, spatial way. Instead of following a set of levels or challenges, it hands you a system and asks what you can create with it. The core idea revolves around placing colored lines within a space and releasing small bouncing elements that interact with those lines to generate tones. As these interactions repeat and overlap, they form patterns that evolve into melodies, turning what begins as simple experimentation into something that can feel surprisingly expressive. What makes the experience interesting is how it reframes music creation into something tactile and immediate. You are not dealing with timelines, tracks, or traditional instruments—instead, you are building an environment where sound emerges from movement. Adjusting the placement of a single line or altering the path of a bouncing element can completely change the resulting composition. This creates a loop of experimentation where trial and error becomes the primary method of discovery. Over time, players can begin to understand how different …1 found this helpful
Nice! Great Idea! I just played around a bit after the tutorial and had a good time :)
I just bought this and i love the concept! The only negative thing I can say about this is that the sound quality isn't the greatest in the world. However, I cannot wait to do full songs with this!
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