Rhythm Games

These four games ask you to play on the beat. Notes fall, pulses cross a ring, pearls drift past on the tide, and your job is to be there at the right instant. Hits build a multiplier and misses drain a meter, so the rhythm is the rule book. Short tracks, quick restarts, and a daily seed that gives everyone the same chart.

6 rhythm games, oldest first

Scope Beat 1982 Pulses ride an oscilloscope sine wave toward a ring. Tap as each one crosses, while the tempo climbs.
Clack Cadence 1999 Keycaps fall in six lanes onto the home-row keys A S D J K L, in a 90-second song that speeds up.
Lanefall 2014 A 90-second track the game synthesises itself, with one note at a time falling down four lanes.
Tap Tides 2014 Hold to dive, let go to rise, and thread pearls that land on the beat while dodging urchins.
Gate Dash 2019 A square runs to the beat. Tap to jump, hold to glide down; spikes, pits, bounce pads and gravity gates all land on the beat. Jump on the beat for perfects.
Beat Slice 2024 Arrows glide in toward the ring, one on every beat. Swipe the way each arrow points as it crosses the ring. Every hit plays its note of a tune the day's seed writes, so the song is only as complete as you are.