Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)

Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)

Fair · Action · 2019 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a BANGER price before.

Today

$14.99Fair

On its price record

$3.30BANGER

Length
1.5h
Value
$9.99/hr
Reviews
95% positive
It needs 78% off ($3.30) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $8.66.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$9.99
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
2,702 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 560, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

A musical bullet-hell where all things beautiful are deadly. Dodge well little nanobot, you don't have much time.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement3% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$9.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Length1.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 397 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

October 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. It has been discounted 7 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 18 weeks between sales. $3.30 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Just Shapes & Beats ($19.99, scores 91) and BARRIER X ($2.99, scores 65) both outscore it.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 397 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 342 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

35% start to 3% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 1.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

Players

11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 06:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

ok before i start this review i do want to say that the game right now only has one chapter and all the workshop content. so this review is largely based off of the few levels that are in the game and the workshop content that i've played. as a result, take this with a grain of salt! (this also means i'll exclusively be reviewing the gameplay, as there's few music tracks in the game and barely any story so far)...
doodlebotRecommendedafter 1.9h4 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam
game is cool and fun :D. but new name suck like suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck.
scarNot recommendedafter 30h3 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia) scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/440310/afterbeat-project-arrhythmia
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVitamin Games
PublisherKwalee
GenreAction
Released2019
Achievements21