The Metronomicon – A Rhythm game Rpg

We got some hands-on time with The Metronomicon at Pax east this weekend and it was love at first sight. Let’s take a look at a game that I feel does to rhythm games to what Puzzle Quest did for the Match-3 genre.

About the game – Packing in a full-fledged story mode with a colourful cast of musically-empowered heroes and villains, The Metronomicon sees you take control a party of eight newly graduated masters of the “rhythmic combat arts” to wage musical warfare against a multitude of dance-mongering fiends. By switching between four concurrent hero-controlled tracks on-the-fly, you’ll select and activate a wide array of abilities and spells, buffs and nukes, with your performance and timing all-important in ensuring the effectiveness of your moves. In the RPG spirit, you’ll need to improve your characters’ stats, hunt down powerful equipment, and combine a multitude of newly-learned abilities – switching between tanking, healing, buffing, and damage-dealing classes as required in real time.

The Metronomicon features a fantastic, fully-licensed soundtrack featuring some of the hottest electronic, synth wave, chiptune and indie artists, including an exclusive track from Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence. As a side note as someone who spent their childhood following MSI around the country and has seen them 65 times live it is fun seeing jimmy lend his unique talents to gaming. Also an unreleased track from Shiny Toy Guns, along with tracks from YACHT, Perturbator, J-Punch, Dj CUTMAN, and much, much more. As much a soundscape as it is a soundtrack, the music behind The Metronomicon is set to be every bit as varied and exciting as the gameplay itself.

With all this packed nicely into a nice little package, The Metronomicon is something any rhythm game fan should have on their radar. Please check out their steam page for more information on this fantastic title.

The Metronomicon releases in 2016 on Steam. leave a comment below and tell us how you feel about the game and please follow us on Twitch for more Metronomicon coverage!