Midnight Riff

Honestly, I feel like it's a very original concept, a Roguelike mixed with a Music game, and I really like the combat system, it gives you this sort of freedom to build up your own style into the songs and how to actually play them. It was a bit hard to understand at first, but once you get the hand of it it becomes smooth, though it could use some quality of life upgrades (Like, notes having a sound based on them being hit or not, incorporating animations and more sound effects). Considering it is a college project and therefore, free, it's a gem, would love to see it more developed and I feel it has a ton of potential on becoming an unique and distinguished roguelike.

Pretty solid little game, that beat map for resonance could use some worj though. It may be because im usdes to it having way more notes in other games i have played that song in though. but yeah neat little rhythm rogue like, give it a shot it's literally free.

"Midnight Riff" is an incredibly bad rhythm/QTE game (think Dance Dance Revolution but awful) taken from the design perspective of someone who doesn't understand the primary point of these games is to learn the songs and moves, and thus cleverly replaced all such content with mindless, soulless, repetitive procgen. You know how amateur developers often think procgen is "ezmode" for content creation? This is a great example that proves why they're wrong. So this really only has one job and it failed... hitreg and repsonsiveness is unpolished and janky, where in this genre they need to be beyond precise. That's a big failure on top of an already incredibly weak technical delivery. So it's no wonder this was a huge failure on Steam Direct. The amateur pixelcrap visual presentation here at best could have been an attempt to use "retro" as a crutch, a weak excuse to avoid admitting the developer wasn't capable of doing the job of a game developer this decade and creating cutting edge, high quality 3D visuals. While a lack of skill or funding is the explanation for this failure, it's no excuse. The end result of this incompetence is a game that looks dramatically inferior to profes…

It was quite a fun game hope it gets updates in the future

Fantastic game! Plays like classic guitar hero/beat saber mix with some groovy tracks. The story, levels, and modifiers add a fun element and also lots of replay-ability

Nice game, but for the love of god, I can't get past the blind one 😶