Metavoidal

Metavoidal is about a drummer who fails an audition with an ominous metal band, then discovers that the band and its music are controlling and twisting everything around them. With corrupted fans overrunning a church, you fight through the band’s forces, defeat its members and try to escape the curse.

Fight through the levels

You navigate corrupted catacombs, abandoned graveyards and church halls, battling hordes with your drumsticks. This is not a rhythm game: you use the drumsticks to fight, and the drummer is replaceable. At the end of each level, you face a member of the band in a solo battle. Each has distinct abilities and a fighting style, including the keyboardist and the strings section.

Build your playlist

Each level contains lost music records. Collect them and place them in the record player at the level’s end to absorb their powers, choosing one of three tracks to add to your playlist. Tracks give you and your drumsticks different abilities, including oil, fire, lightning and holy light. Combine track elements during each run to create different effects, and use the band’s music against its corrupted fans.

The soundtrack changes with the music you collect: choosing combinations such as fire and lightning or oil and holy changes what you hear in battle. The game features 16 original songs, 72 variations and over 60 dedicated drum tracks, arranged across four elemental albums: Fire, Lightning, Oil and Holy. The music shifts dynamically based on your choices and performance, from boss themes to ambient build-ups.

Trade and improve

BingBong, a seemingly friendly voidling, runs a booth at the end of each level. You can trade guitar picks for items to use during a run or to restore some pep to your step. In the Sanctuary, a new drummer can spend the EXP, or “Exposure,” earned by a fallen bandmate to gain perks for the next escape attempt.

Key features

• Play as a drummer fighting with drumsticks.
• Explore corrupted catacombs, abandoned graveyards and church halls.
• Collect records and build a playlist of musical powers.
• Battle the members of an eldritch metal band, each with their own abilities and fighting style.
• Trade guitar picks with BingBong and spend Exposure on perks for future attempts.
• Hear 16 original songs, 72 variations and over 60 dedicated drum tracks across four elemental albums.