One level. One note.
Layers arrive as a single note and every level-up buys exactly one more. Nothing is handed to you finished - the wall of sound is assembled one note at a time, and by the late waves it is taming everything on screen.
ROGUELITE · INCREMENTAL · MUSIC COMBAT
Roguestorm Beats
Tame the wild notes. Your weapon is the jam you write.
A bullet heaven where the enemies are wild music notes and your weapon is the jam you write. Every level-up hands you one note. Put it on the bar: it plays as music and fires as an attack, forever. By the last wave your beat is taming everything - and it goes on your shelf.
A real sequencer, live, mid-fight
One bar. Sixteen steps. A playhead sweeping it at tempo, firing every note it touches. Spacing is the constraint: a kick wants two steps of room, a crash cymbal wants eight. You cannot machine-gun a layer - you have to arrange.
Every sound is generated live
There are no audio files. The guitar is Karplus-Strong, the electric piano is two-operator FM, the choir is additive with detuned voices. Every run draws a chord cycle in its own key, and your bar re-voices itself to follow.
Arranged like a song, not a loop
An arranger plays your bar the way a producer would: a fill from your own kit every fourth bar, a soft crash at the top of a phrase, and when a boss walks on, a riser, one held breath, and the drop.
A career built in acts
7 ranks from STUDENT to LEGEND, 7 stages from the PRACTICE ROOM to the WORLD STAGE. Book your own nights off a weekly sheet, read the risk against the money, and climb.
The Booth
Composing mode. Pick your kit, set the chords, the key, the tempo and the swing, then PLAY IT - the game performs your track as an actual run, and the beat stays in your career.
Eighth notes rush you. Sharps zig-zag. Flats lean in heavy. Whole notes soak damage. Every one of them is a note that got away, and taming it feeds the jam. The rests are silence with guns - the short ones run with the swarm and shoot, and the long ones are the bosses. A longer silence is a bigger boss.
EIGHTH NOTErushes you
QUARTER NOTErushes you
BEAMED PAIRsplits when hit
SHARPzig-zags in
FLATrushes you
HALF NOTErushes you
WHOLE NOTErushes you
SIXTEENTH RESTshoots
EIGHTH RESTshoots
QUARTER RESTshoots
24 layers, each a synthesis family the desk did not already have and an attack shape nothing else does. 7 channels, one bar, and over seventy-five thousand possible desks - no two runs converge on the same arrangement.
KICK
Kick Drum
Six beaters slam the floor in a wide ring around you. The shock rolls out through the boards and shoves notes off them.
- Attack Thump
- Room 2 steps
- Up to 8 notes
- Gear room 150 fans
GUITAR
Guitar Riff
Stabs a row of spikes out in front of you. Pierces everything it touches.
- Attack Cone
- Room 2 steps
- Up to 8 notes
- House kit - yours from day one
BASS
Bass Guitar
A huge slow wave of low end. Enormous reach and brutal knockback.
- Attack Shockwave
- Room 4 steps
- Up to 4 notes
- House kit - yours from day one
CHOIR
Choir
Voices appear and orbit you while the chord sustains, cutting anything close.
- Attack Orbit
- Room 4 steps
- Up to 4 notes
- Gear room 1,050 fans
LEAD
Synth Lead
Fires seeking notes that chase down whatever is nearest.
- Attack Homing
- Room 2 steps
- Up to 8 notes
- Gear room 1,200 fans
BRASS
Brass Section
Plants a bar of horn across your front. It holds the ground it takes.
- Attack Wall
- Room 4 steps
- Up to 4 notes
- Gear room 2,300 fans
SWELL
Reverse Swell
Sucks the wild notes into one point while it rises, then lets go all at once.
- Attack Vortex
- Room 8 steps
- Up to 2 notes
- Gear room 2,900 fans
GONG
Tam-Tam
A shell blooms out of you and stands there, dragging incoming fire down to a crawl.
- Attack Block
- Room 8 steps
- Up to 2 notes
- Gear room 3,100 fans
14 house songs, each with its own chord loop, key, tempo and swing. Every act of a show is a new one, on an empty bar.
THE CLIMB
the original - a rising minor loop that keeps leaning forward
KICKSNAREHIHATBASSGUITARLEADCHOIR
OPEN ROAD
straight-ahead and driving, with keys and records flying
KICKSNAREHIHATBASSGUITARKEYSVINYL
ANTHEM
the big loop at full sprint - guitar stabs on every beat
KICKSNAREHIHATBASSGUITARLEADCRASH
SUNRISE
bright and high - claps, keys on the off-sixteenths
KICKCLAPHIHATBASSKEYSLEADCHOIR
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