Arpsic
Have you ever tried to understand musical notation?
With Arpsic, you can train yourself with intuitive lessons, learn the treble clef, bass clef, and more!
With a straightforward interface, free piano, and experience points to help you in your music journey.
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4 clefs to practice music notation.
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Free play mode with a midi piano full of weird sounds.
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10+ piano voices.
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10+ songs to learn, with more on the way.
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Gain experience points and level up your skills.
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Get rewards and unlock new features.
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Practice your rhythm.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1713340/Arpsic/
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Turba
The late 2000’s gave us a cool new type of game which I like to call the “media player” genre: you load up music files from your own computer and they generate the level you play, often with elements of a rhythm game. This fad gave us many classic games such as Beat Hazard and Audiosurf, and continues strong to this day with games like Melody’s Escape and Drive Any Track. It’s personally one of my favorite types of game. Unfortunately, it also gave us some real stinkers like Ugly Baby and Turba.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
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Turba is a music/puzzle game where you match the color blocks to score points while playing one of your favorite music. At first, it was fun cause you play the game while jamming your music. However, it gets real boring quickly. The problem of this game is scoring points. Why you say that? When you start to play, matching the color blocks (3 or more) will give you minimal points. To score big points, you must match the blocks from hearing the beat of the music. That’s gonna be difficult, depending the tempo of the music you play. Sure you may score well when playing a slow melody but playing a fast tempo song is gonna be hard.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
Super Chains
Having beaten and very much enjoyed the original Chains back in 2008, getting its sequel after seeing it on the Steam store a couple of weeks ago was a no-brainer. I remember spending quite a few hours on the original, even though it didn’t take too long to finish. It’s one of those games you can easily come back to – play through it once, figure out which levels you like most and replay them whenever you have a few minutes to kill.
Having now beaten the sequel, I can easily see myself coming back to it many times in the future, as well. Super Chains isn’t simply the original with updated graphics – while it brings back nearly half of the original’s levels, it introduces a number of new ideas into the mix. The main mechanic is obviously still connecting a set of colored balls, but this time around they might represent the letters of a word or poker cards – something that wasn’t explored much in the original that I found very enjoyable.
– Real player with 20.3 hrs in game
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Super Chains is not necessarily an easy game to review, not because there’s anything wrong with it, but rather because it’s so many different games, all (so far as I’ve played) done right. Enough to please pretty much any puzzle gamer several times over, I’d imagine. And I say that with a rather extensive library of “pure puzzle” games of my own from Steam.
Super Chains starts off slowly, allowing each player to become accustomed to the “connect the colored balls” variety, of which there are several. But when I say several, I don’t mean that that they are the same, or even particularly similar. Certainly not similar enough to become repetitive, and with the presence of both Global and Friends leaderboards, repeat play is very much a given. (Competition never grows old!) And with ten languages (so far), competition is global. And something else that prevents Super Chains from getting old is the superior soundtrack. Easily one of the best I’ve heard for a puzzle game.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game