Tap Shap - The World's First Multi-platform Reaction Game

Tap Shap - The World's First Multi-platform Reaction Game

KIDA STUDIOS · May 15, 2023 · Incremental, Point & Click, Arcade, Strategy, Casual

Tap Shap - The World's First Multi-platform Reaction Game is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Tap Shap - The World's First Multi-platform Reaction Game price

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About Tap Shap - The World's First Multi-platform Reaction Game

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Test your motor skills with Tap Shap!

Tap Shap is a unique, free-to-play, addictive game!
Speed the characters through the obstacles while matching their colour patterns. The endless gameplay has one hand control and is good for children to build their motor skills and for older people who could be losing theirs.
Unlock new items from the marketplace, improve your reflexes and compete with people around the world to be the best at this fast-paced game!

How to play:
Tap Shap is an extremely easy-to-play reaction game for all age groups!

- Press the space bar to rotate the ball through each obstacle and match the ball with the coloured obstacles.
- You must follow the colour pattern on each obstacle to cross it.
- If you make the ball pass through the obstacle without coordinating the colours, you will have to start again.
- You can change the objects in your game from the marketplace by using the KIDA CREDITS received during the game.

Tap Shap - The World's First Multi-platform Reaction Game — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Tap Shap - The World's First Multi-platform Reaction Game is a minimalist reaction game where you rotate a ball to match incoming color bars, but players find the core mechanic simplistic and repetitive. Common complaints include poor mouse controls that should use arrow keys instead, underwhelming minimalist graphics that feel lazy rather than artistic, and confusing UI including a hard-to-find quit button. Players do not express confidence that this game is worth purchasing.

Recommended Apr 9, 2024
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10 found this helpful
Not recommended May 17, 2023
1. It's not a clicker. 2. Mouse control is a terrible idea. It should be an arrows keys.
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 1, 2025
"Tap Shap - The World's First Multi-platform Reaction Game" is a completely garbage minimalist QTE/reaction game, like, Super Hexagon but with less gameplay. What do you do in the game? Move your mouse around to orientate the ball so it matches the oncoming colour bars... that's it. This is pointless garbage. This game features very lacklustre minimalist "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy". Yes, contemporary 3D graphics take a lot of time and effort to create. That doesn't mean it's okay not to bother! Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts like this. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 6 concurrent players... this…
3 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 5, 2024
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1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 21, 2026
It's a real simplereaction game. You use the space bar to guide a ball through obstacles, matching the colors as you go, and getting it wrong means starting over. Simple idea, but I had fun with it.
Recommended May 16, 2023
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