Project Heartbeat

Project Heartbeat is a rhythm game featuring Eurobeat and pop music, including songs from artists associated with the genre’s popularity through the Initial D anime and manga. You hit the indicated buttons to build your score across more than 25 hand-charted songs, with two play styles and a multiplayer mode for playing against friends.

Songs and competition

The included music comes from artists and labels including SuganoMusic, TORAV4, Galaxian Recordings and Odyssey Eurobeat. Official and community-made songs have leaderboards for every difficulty, where you can compare scores with other players. The game also tracks detailed statistics and progression history through its website.

Create and share charts

Use the chart editor to make and share custom charts on the Steam Workshop. Community-made songs have their own leaderboards, and you can use video backgrounds in custom songs. The Workshop includes more than 2,000 community-made charts, and you can import charts from an existing PPD install using the PPD manager tool.

You can also share and play community-made resource packs, create custom note graphics and change the user interface with skins.

Audio and input

Project Heartbeat uses Shinobu, its open-source audio engine built for rhythm games. The engine uses a tickless system for sub-frame input accuracy.