Spell Beats

Spell Beats is a spell-casting rhythm game set in a realm where malevolent beings have imprisoned your soul. You fight through their coliseum to earn your freedom, using rhythmic inputs to cast spells while responding to enemy attacks, positioning and elemental states.

Cast spells to a rhythm

Each spell has an expected sequence of input keys, with an interval and sound cue for each key. Playing the inputs at the right times produces the spell’s distinctive beat and affects its power. You can cast punches, hammer throws, healing and elemental spells. Punches and hammers can use fire, water or ice, and you can change your elemental defense to suit the fight.

Fight and manage stamina

Enemies use ranged, melee and special spells. They can heal, change their elemental status, throw elemental hammers, and use punches and ground attacks. You can dodge with a dash or parry specific punches, but both actions drain stamina. Running out of stamina leaves you exhausted and limits what you can do for four seconds.

Use elemental strengths

Enemies can have no elemental status or be aligned with water, ice or fire. Fire is strong against ice but weak against water; ice is strong against water but weak against fire; and water is strong against fire but weak against ice. Enemies always cast elemental spells that match their elemental defense, giving you a basis for choosing which attack to use and which defense to switch to.

Fight through the coliseum

The coliseum is an enclosed battleground surrounded by embodied statues of the malevolent beings who imprisoned you. The game currently has ten levels, combining tutorials and boss battles. The ninth and tenth levels let you use all available spells.