Beat Hazard

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 7,348 reviews of which 6,954 were positive and 394 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Beat Hazard into these genres:

Rhythm Music-Based Procedural Generation Twin Stick Shooter Bullet Hell Shoot 'Em Up Music 2D Space Indie Action Arcade Shooter Casual Colorful Co-op Local Co-Op Multiplayer Atmospheric Singleplayer Replay Value

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

A novel way to experience my song library. I can only describe it as eye rape 10/10.

Aug. 2024

The best way to play Enter Sandman by Metallica is with seizure inducing visuals

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!

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

April 2024

A fun arcade-style game you can just pick up and kill some time. Just beware of the sensory-overload, soon as the beat drops your screen will light up like a pin ball machine having a nervous breakdown during a rave.

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9.75€

9.2

6,954

394

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Developer

Cold Beam Games

Publisher

Cold Beam Games

Release 15 Apr 2010

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