This is a new-feeling and really solid rhythm game. I hadn't really come to much in terms of rhythm games since Rock Band ended sadly, and any I tried were typically just too much in terms of mechanics or song library. But Spin Rhythm XD does a good job of making the very easiest mode feel fun, and the skill jumps between each mode feel if not straightforward, at least worth attempting. When you're going in Spin Rhythm XD you are really Going, it feels great. The song library isn't particularly familiar, but there's a nice mix of genres and I found a lot of tracks I really enjoyed and played again for fun even though I wasn't score chasing particularly. I will probably come back to this occasionally but after finishing all the songs on either normal or above-normal difficulty I was starting to struggle a lot with getting through the next skill barrier, so for the moment I'm finished with it.

Quer ser DJ mas não tem orçamento e nem paciência? Spin Rhythm é a solução!

Sempre me interessei por DJ hero quando eu via os videos em época de criança, mas é claro que eu nunca tive a oportunidade de joga-lo apesar de ter sido viciado em GH e RB, nunca consegui encostar naquele aparelinho de DJ que tem praquele jogo, porém Spin Rhythm ta ai no PC e me trouxe uma experiência que confortou a minha criança interior.

Começando o jogo me senti confuso, não entendi muito bem dos botões e tudo parecia muito estranho pra mim, mas foi só fazer o tutorial com calma que logo consegui me adaptar levemente ao jogo. E o que achei maneiro é que a cada dificuldade você habilita funções novas que agregam pra experiência, claro que você vai ser mais difícil de finalizar ou tirar ranks altos nas músicas, porém fica muito mais satisfatório e tem tutorial pra cada função nova habilitada :)

Outra coisa que tenho a elogiar é seus controles, que são bem responsivos e precisos mesmo que o jogo não exija tanta precisão em certas músicas. Unica coisa que achei estranho é que meu Dualsense não pegou nele infelizmente, mas a experiência com mouse e teclado é boa.

Uma parada que achei paia nesse jogo foi ele não ter um modo carreira, seria bem mais daora se tivesse uma ordem das músicas estilo no GH em que tu vai habilitando novos lugares e novos personagens na telinha, mas enfim, nem tudo são flores infelizmente.

Versão jogada: PC
Tempo de jogo: 2h e 40m
Trapaças usadas: Nenhuma
Dificuldades jogadas: Difícil, especialista

SRXD is insanely solid and probably my favorite rhythm game that I've ever played - the absolute GROOVE that this game instills into you is practically unmatched in rhythm games. There's nothing quite like spinning and hitting your mouse to the beat, and I love it. The difficulty curve is extremely well done, especially with the locking of more complex mechanics behind higher difficulties.

The soundtrack for this game is additionally great - seeing a lot of glitch hop and color bass/melodic dubstep in a rhythm game is great, they feel like genres you don't see too often. Additionally, the customization options are the perfect touch to round this out.

The game's level editor is pretty well put together, even if it does feel like it drowns in hotkeys. As in: Everything in this editor is a hotkey. I do wish you could just click on something in the hotkeys list to place it, as I'm always looking there to figure out what to do next anyways. Side note - the game's custom chart offerings are great.

There used to be a time when SRXD felt more like a fun concept than a game, where the dev and designers were throwing mud at a wall and seeing what sticks. That time has long passed, and now it feels like a pretty fully fledged music game experience.

Visually it's very nice, especially by music game standards. On top of that menuing is very responsive and minor things that add up in other games are near flawless here, such as time between song restarts and load times in general.

General control in SRXD feels satisfying, and there's a myriad options to tweak to your comfort level regardless of setup, so there should be little to no barrier of entry there. On top of that, the gameplay design here is solid and feels quite unlike any other game in the genre, which is important when a lot of the peak of the genre just comes down to vertically scrolling rhythm game with [x] number of buttons. SRXD definitely stands out here as a game with fun, unique controls that also isn't restrictive to input devices, accepting just about anything you'll throw at it.

The tracklist is kind of a miss for me, but not in the sense that I dislike the music. Rather, my main issue with the game in general is track length. Songs that take upwards of 4 minutes feel way too long for a game in this genre, and often get tedious before the end of the song.

As a whole, while I don't think it quite reaches the level of quality attained by genre leaders like DJMAX, if you are looking for a music game that is less about testing your APM and more about reading charts well, this is gonna be up your alley. If you're more interested in the high APM many buttons aspect of the genre, or the long songs are too big a negative to ignore, I would sooner look towards DJMAX Respect V or EZ2ON Reboot -R- on PC, or whatever options your local arcade might have in terms of Bemani games.

This is a really great rhythm game with a really terrible tracklist. I mean idk it's probably just not to my taste but the whole thing is pretty generic club and radio friendly EDM, I can count on one hand the songs I enjoyed so that's an instant wall preventing me from really wanting to get in and engage with the mechanics. The custom chart designer is pretty impressive but it has the same issue a lot of these indies do which is they're designed for the perverts who have already played this game for 2000 hours and are dominated by like Vtuber rap music or smth, so if you can even find a song you've heard of it's usually only in the hardest difficulty, not fun

Finished every song on Normal difficulty, still running through on Hard, and will continue playing this for the foreseeable future, but wanted to log it.

I haven't seen a home release (not an arcade port, as that market is still incredibly ripe) rhythm game with this much polish behind it since the Rock Band series. Just an incredible presentation that visually delights while still keeping me locked in on the track chart. And those charts.. boy, they're just fun to play through.

I bought this thing on sale, played a few hours and immediately went back to buy both available DLCs. That's the review. That's how good it is. A must play for anyone jonesing for a rhythm game on PC.

Played mostly with the track pads on my Steam Controller, but it also plays quite well with a mouse. The track pads do a great job of feeling close enough to "spinning" a table that I highly recommend that path if you're not quite ready to drop $130 on a MIDI turntable for one game. But this seems like it might actually be worth that.... Clips of people playing it "the right way" look so cool.

It has been a privelege watching this game evolve over the years. Likely in my top 3 rhythm games of all time, it feels so goddamn good when you are on a roll, locked in, and nailing those hard segments. You can really feel yourself grow with the game, as more difficult segments become accessible as you learn and play. The custom song scene is INSANE as well, and finding great custom songs to play on difficulties you are comfortable with is easier (with the help of spinshare) than I could have ever anticipated. So whether you are playing the base game, or loading up 1000+ custom tracks, there is never a shortage of content here. Truly outstanding - and with some control scheme tweaking actually plays half-decent on the steam deck as well.

SUCH a wild and weird game. the custom song scene for it owns a lot too !

the keyboard + mouse controls are, honestly, some of the most pleasant ive experienced in a rhythm game. dualshock is also a total blast, and is typically how i play. you can even use a dj controller if you really want to, which is buckwild to me.

huge bonus points for accessibility options !! being able to make the graphics less flashy / strobe-y is a dream for me.

Came back to this after seeing some kind of big patch/console release. Hadn't touched it in a few years and WOW. This quietly became one of the nicest and well polished arcade rhythm games I've ever played. So much style and charm in every single ounce of it. A rhythm game made by rhythm games fans for rhythm game fans. The only negative I can say is that if you aren't super into electronic music the default soundtrack doesn't offer much else, but it's a PC rhythm game and you can use spinshare for customs.

Guitar Hero was my first rhythm game craze, I got so hooked on it that I wound up buying a real guitar and learning how to play, eventually even going to university to study music and working as a gigging musician and a music teacher. All this to say that I REALLY got into Guitar Hero. I've always looked out for more rhythm games to capture me the same way it did back in the day, but I haven't found one that does that. Until Spin Rhythm XD.

Instead of guitar-centric rock and metal tracks, this game features a ton of EDM, wubs and warbles and all of that. Not to mention the insane amount of custom tracks available - it seems like the game is garnering a pretty small albeit very passionate community.

Playing songs in this game feels very satisfying in a way that's very hard to describe, and even hard to convey in videos. This game might just become a mainstay in my rotation for the foreseeable future.

Ever since early access one of the main points that sold me on Spin Rhythm is that motions add so much feeling to playing a song. When you are in the zone and everything flows, you feel the buttons, the slides, the spins, it is just fun.

While playing the songs with a controller always felt good for me, even after the 1.0 release and a brand new UI there are still some rough edges for actually navigating the menus, but it is much more friendly and should be mostly good after a few patches.

Personally, I think the tracklist could be better, but really everyone will have different opinions about this. What really is reflected in my score is how good I feel like this translates the music to movement and gameplay, a very unique and solid take on rhythm games.

• in a rhythm landscape where every indie game in the field is sacrificing good charting or a functional engine in the name of being stylish and """hard""" (see FNF, Trombone Champ, Unbeatable to a lesser extent--not that i blame them, as streamer clicks are the only way games get successful today), it's so refreshing to see a game that's as quietly great as this one.
• it's especially satisfying that this game feels like its concept started from a satisfying motion and worked to build a game around how to make that motion feel even better. swiping my mouse and spanking my space bar has never made me feel so in control over a song. this is how the best of them have always done it.
• SRXD is basically a BEMANI game, down to the commissioned songs and vast spaces between difficulties. the space is better for it.

An ambitious little indie rhythm game, tries some interesting gimmicks with it's gameplay however the main gimmick the game revolves around, spinning a wheel, isn't super fun and can be frustrating unless you have the right controller set up, which is recommended to be a DJ turntable. This main gimmick also limits the charting quite a bit. The tracklist itself is made up of a lot of Monstercat EDM, which I'm not a big fan of and have seen far too often in a lot of recent rhythm games. There are some great tracks composed specifically for the game too however, including ones by Lena Raine and 2Mello. Overall a decent rhythm game but suffers from an unoriginal tracklist and some mediocre charting.
(EDIT: changed some of my wording as I feel my review was too harsh originally)

Facilmente o melhor jogo rítmico que eu já joguei na vida. Ao mesmo tempo que é simples entender como jogar, ele consegue ser muito desafiador e se tornar o inferno completo como qualquer bom joguinho de música.

Acho que a coisa que mais me pegou foi o quanto é natural e o quanto você consegue sentir a música jogando - a melhor sensação pra mim é quando você roda o círculo, já clica e volta a jogar super rápido. Mesmo em dificuldades médias, eu me sentia animado e seguindo a música, é realmente incrível.

Se você gosta de jogo rítmico, Spin Rhythm XD é um jogo obrigatório, sem dúvidas.