Cadence
Cadence is something different: a hybrid of game and music sandbox. Understanding how to bring these two worlds together has been a quest 8 years in the making. It’s now finally here for you to enjoy.
How you spend your time with Cadence is up to you. Some people will enjoy relaxing with the game and solving levels. Tinkerers will enjoy fiddling with music in the sandbox. The crazy ones will program things we didn’t even know were possible.
Game play
You don’t need a sense of rhythm or a good ear to play Cadence - just your thinking cap and a bit of patience will reward you with gentle zen melodies. Puzzles start simple and build up to complex head-scratchers.
Make some noise
If you’ve tried music production you’ll know it’s intimidating. Cadence’s sandbox mode has been meticulously designed so that “time to first sound” is mere seconds. It doesn’t matter if you’re a composer looking for inspiration or you’ve never made a note of music in your life - Cadence is an entirely new and playful way of interacting with music.
Many are better than one
Cadence goes deep: underneath the game there’s a Turing complete logic system and a host of music production tools for you to explore. What’s possible with Cadence is an open question.
That’s why Steam Workshop is deeply integrated with effortless one-click import:
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play the best community generated levels
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collectively learn new techniques
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show off your proudest creations
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Rytmos
Rytmos is a relaxing puzzle game, where you create music by solving mazes.
Travel from planet to planet and discover the music hidden inside.
Solve the six puzzles on the sides of the planet by drawing a path that ends where it started, creating a loop.
Hear the music slowly unfold as the loops generate unique musical sequences that layers together with the rest of the planet’s loops.
Play on top of the music from the planet with a great selection of fun unlockable musical toys.
The universe is full of cubic planets, which all contains six maze-puzzles to be solved. The path in the maze is drawn by swiping the cursor in a given direction, and it will draw as long as there is a surface underneath. By hitting so-called sound emitters on its way, the cursor activates different tones, percussion elements or musical chords.
Each time you solve a new side of a planet a new musical loop is added to the previous one, revealing more and more of a musical composition.
A WORLD OF MUSIC
During the game you will explore music inspired by genres such as Zimbabwean Kalimba-based music, Ethiopean Jazz music, German electronic music from the 70’s, Circuit bending, Indonesian Gamelan music, Japanese environmental music and much more.
THE MUSICAL TOY IN THE GAME
As you play the game you will unlock musical instruments or modifiers, that lets you jam along and modify the musical loops from the planets.
You will among other things unlock instruments such as a Kalimba, Percussion, Vibraphone, Gamelan percussions and 80’s Synthesizers.
Furthermore you will unlock musical modifiers such as a Bit crusher, Lowpass filter, Delay and Scale changers.
The further you get in the game the more complex modifications and jams you can do.
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Hidden Folks
If you enjoyed searching for Waldo, you’re going to enjoy this game. However, there is no easily identifiable character like Waldo; instead, each area has a list of people or things to find. At first some are daunting, both due to the size of the areas and due to the size of the items (golf ball, for example). However, each item to find comes with a clue and the clue points to a bigger thing to search for. For example, one item to find is a mushroom and the clue is that a pig is about to sniff it out. So instead of looking for a little mushroom, you can look for a much bigger hog. In fact, I was never stuck on an area due to the smallest items, and the couple times I did get stuck a little, I just wasn’t seeing what was right in front of me. In fact, in addition to the verbal clues, there are auditory clues. I didn’t discover this until the last few areas when I heard someone crying out in distress and looked for the source of the sound, but it’s a nice feature.
– Real player with 16.6 hrs in game
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Remember that kid from school who’d draw in his notebook, filling entire pages with massive amounts of tiny squiggles? Enter Hidden Folks, a HOG that captures that precise feeling and manages to distinguish itself through a combination of silly writing, small mouth sounds, and crowded, fully animated landscapes. Best of all, previous DLC-only content has been merged into one, so provided you don’t look up solutions, provides amazing gameplay value for every single age–especially small children.
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game