Beat Hazard on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

Beat Hazard is a rhythm, music-based procedural generation and twin stick shooter game developed and published by Cold Beam Games.
Released on April 15th 2010 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain and Dutch.

It has received 7,362 reviews of which 6,968 were positive and 394 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 0.97€ on Steam with a 90% discount.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP/Vista/Win 7
  • Processor: 2.0GHz processor
  • Memory: 512+MB of RAM
  • Hard Drive: 40+MB of free hard drive space
  • Graphics: 256MB of video memory
  • Sound: DirectX-compatible sound
  • DirectX®: 9 or later
MacOS
  • OS: OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
  • Processor: Intel
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 250mb HD space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS or equivalent
  • Processor: x86 1.5 GHz
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 250mb HD space

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025
Get beat hazard 2 instead, this game is dated and is clunky as all hell. it's also missing many core features that Beat hazard 2 expanded upon, not mentioning better combat and more ship customization. i give this a 6/10 for old times sake. https://store.steampowered.com/app/618740/Beat_Hazard_2/
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Jan. 2025
Great game, the very 1st game that you can "Play your Music"... They have a rough start. But i loved the 2nd version of the Game. This one, the controls are quite janky, and feels off, probably because there's no protection on Asteroid hits, so this version of the game can be hard if you're used to getting hit/ run into Asteroids on the 2nd game. If you get this one on a sale, it's totally worth your time. Although the graphics can be quite outdated.
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Aug. 2024
The best way to play Enter Sandman by Metallica is with seizure inducing visuals
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May 2024
I've had this game for a long time. I mainly played it on the PS3 back when it first launched and bought it when I started doing PC gaming. If you have a vary large digital music library then you won't have a shortage of content for this game. Its currently £8.50 for me now and I believe as long as you have the music library for it you'll totally get your monies worth!
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May 2024
Simple game with good tunes. However, you do need to keep moving. If I had to describe this in a summarized way, It's like playing asteroids on steroids while in a club. Lots of action! While there's not much more to say on this one. I do recommend it as a nice time killer. 7/10
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Beat Hazard
9.2
6,968
394
Online players
9
Developer
Cold Beam Games
Publisher
Cold Beam Games
Release 15 Apr 2010
Platforms