$9.99Beat Hazard Your music is the weapon
Fly a spaceship through battles generated from your own songs, where the beat drives your firepower and the enemies.
Is Beat Hazard worth it?
Beat Hazard is worth it if…
- you have a music library you would love to play, not just listen to
- you like fast arcade shooters in short, intense bursts
- you want a local co-op game that fits in one song
- you enjoy chasing high scores and climbing ranks
- you do not mind a screen full of flashing explosions
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Two pilots, one screen
Local two-player turns your music library into a shared arena. Grab a friend, pick a track you both like, and fly side by side through the waves it generates. Prefer rivalry? Head-to-head mode settles it the old way: same song, two ships, one high score. Sessions are as short as a single track, so it is easy to jump in, play a few songs and hand the second stick over. The chaos scales with the music, which means arguing over the playlist is now a tactical decision.
The song decides everything
Every track becomes its own battle. Loud, fast passages crank up your firepower and throw more enemies at you; a quiet bridge slows the whole fight down until the drop hits. Pick a driving rock anthem and you get a frantic barrage, put on something mellow and the screen breathes with you. Weapon pickups push you toward max power, where you can unleash the Beat Hazard weapon and simply erase what is on screen. No two songs play the same way, and your library is the level select.
Modes, ranks and one more track
Survival Mode dares you to last an entire album. Boss rush lines up the huge capital ships for you to break apart. Custom ships, perks and missions give runs different shapes, and ranks climb from rookie up to Elite pilot and beyond, with Suicidal mode waiting at the top for anyone who thinks they are ready. Leaderboards track your scores per track, so a favorite song becomes a personal record to beat. It is easy to learn and genuinely hard to master, and runs are short enough that one more go is always tempting.
Can you play with any music?
Can you play it with your own songs?
Yes, that is the whole point. The game reads your music files directly and builds a battle from each track, so your library becomes your level list. It supports common formats like mp3, wav, ogg and flac, and there is a built-in rock album if you want to start playing before sorting out your files. Internet radio works too, in every mode.
Do you need to be good at rhythm games?
No. This is a twin-stick shooter, not a rhythm game: there are no notes to hit or timing bars to match. The music drives how intense the fight gets, but your job is flying, shooting and dodging. If you can handle an arcade shooter, you can handle this.
How long does a session last?
As long as a song. Each run is one track, so a session can be three minutes or a full album if you take on Survival Mode. That makes it an easy pick-up-and-play game, and also an easy way to lose an evening one song at a time.
