One day prior to the planned release date of UNBEATABLE, the developers discovered a bad bug. They didn't want to release the game with that flaw in place, so they needed to delay the title, fix the bug, get the title through console certification and release. Good. That's the right call. Don't ship game breaking bugs if you can help it. Fixing the bug took a specific amount of time. The remainder of the gap between the between the bug being fixed and the game being released is represented by console certification stuff - the amount of time Sony/Microsoft take to approve a game for release. This is Steam. This is a PC. We don't have console certification delays here - a developer just uploads the game and hits release and that's it. So, D-Cell opted to withhold a finished PC build in order to have a unified release date for the title, across all platforms. That is *garbage*. You don't withhold a PC game because you are waiting for console cert. If you have to delay your game one day before release to fix a bug, you ship the game as soon as possible on each platform that it is ready for. If Sony were to get the game through certification before Microsoft, you ship on PlayStation before Xbox. You ship the PC version the moment you are done, because console certification crap doesn't exist on Steam. D-Cell has zero respect for the PC as a platform or players on PC in general. Don't buy their game, don't support them, don't give them any attention. They had ample opportunity to grasp the mistake they were making and refused. Spend your time and money on something else.

if its unbeatable then why do i keep winnin-*gets crushed by various cartoon objects*

TITLE: my keyboard is broken and i am a criminal now RATING: 11/10 (jail time) ok look. listen. i dont know what year it is. the steam overlay says its 2025. my eyes only see in two colors now: black and THE PINK. this game does not "have gameplay." this game reaches out of the monitor, grabs you by the collar, and screams ANIME OPENING into your face until you develop synesthesia. the plot is "music is illegal so we are going to play it louder" and honestly? compelling argument. i am convinced. lock me up. i missed one (1) note on a slow section and felt a level of shame that my ancestors felt in the spirit realm. the experience: - visuals: tastes like eating pop rocks while sprinting. - soundtrack: makes me want to fight the sun. - difficulty: my fingers have filed for divorce. i unlocked "arcade flawless" and i think i stopped breathing for 3 minutes. if you like hitting buttons to the beat, buy this. if you hate yourself, buy this. if you want to know what it feels like to drink 4 energy drinks and fight a government drone with a guitar... buy this. verdict: BEAT IS THE GOAT. QUAVER IS LIFE. I CANNOT HEAR SILENCE ANYMORE ONLY THE BPM.

Ive been looking forward to this game for a year or more-ish (give or take) and right now, Im in chapter 4 now and... well... HOW do i start this? Im just gonna list things... The Good: -The songs are awesome -The artstyle is wonderful -The controls are simplistic -The humor is good -The story is interesting and has good moments -the ideas for interacting with music and doing stuff to the beat is unique and interesting ...and the BAD: -the charts feel... off, theyre unbalanced. One moment youre focusing on beats for an entire song, the next youre pulling notes out of NOWHERE with inputs that dont audibly make sense in places. The highest difficulty charts (while challenging) feel good enough in a majority of areas... but if you chose "Hard" or "normal" which is the games quoted "intended experience"... I have no other words than it feels WRONG in some songs. -THE DIALOUGE IS BROKEN! Ive seen NO ONE talk about it... but the dialouge DOESNT WORK PROPERLY. there are places where 2 or 3 people are saying shit OVER each other and the dialouge boxes either appear ALL AT ONCE or just completely OVERLAY the text box behind it. I want to understand an appreciate this story, but it simply doesnt want to be heard or read in some areas, theres no option to fix it either. -there are bugs EVERYWHERE. ive found 3 spots in game from up to the 4th chapter where it will say "Text bubble(copy)" and it will completely GLITCH the game. for instance: Go to prison "work" area. Run around to find servers near entrance, notice that behind said servers there are unremoved test text boxes that teleport you to unused areas and trigger cutscenes ahead of when they should be triggered. these wont BREAK the game, but it entirely ruins the atmosphere, the immersion, it breaks the story... it feels SLOPPY and i really REALLY hate using this word for this game, cause i want to LOVE IT... but i cant! -ON SOME AREAS YOU CAN MISS STORY BY FAILING SONGS in prison there are "dream segments" where you learn about beats back story, Since theyre early, you may mess some up pretty easily, and if you do? you dont get a SINGLE CHANCE to try it again, the story moves on and you miss out on dialouge... CHARACTER BUILDING DIALOUGE. and while we're on that topic... -The scene transitions.... Jarring doesnt BEGIN to describe some of these... some games show the passage of time or the transition from one thing to another... this game YEETS YOU into it. for some people, this makes stuff interesting, or unique... for me? I cant understand how we get from point A to B or even know whats happening at times, its... brutal. The story is NOT bad in my opinion, but it feels... broken? I cant even put it into words but, i see the creativity and the vision and i READ the lore in the journal, but the cutscenes... some of them DONT CONNECT Overall, i see the direction this game is heading in and i LOVE IT. I think it could even be one of the best games ive played in a long while, but the bad points about it... i cant defend them, the game feels done, but also feels rushed in some areas and barely coherent in others. I dont mind the voiceacting tbh, i cant really have an input on that sorta thing when i feel neutral about it. but when the game actively tries to destroy its own story with its own text bubbles... when it has test text bubbles that likely are NOT supposed to even be in the game and break it in half just by using them... when the notes dont fell like that line up at times and other feel like theyre dead on ALL WITHIN THE SAME SONG... it just doesnt feel right. This game is FIXABLE, and it requires a lot more polish and testing, but... as of launch day and after spending an entire day on it. I cant say it works... it doesnt feel fully together. TLDR: This game is good if you like rhythm games, its challenging, but simple, yet if you play those games on lower difficulties, things may feel... off, or out of tune. The story is the biggest part of why this game isnt sticking for me. if ya dont care about story, then its fine, but with how the game is PRESENTED, i do think theres a lot of love put into it, but its held together by ductape and string. The dialouge not being functional destroys the entire main mode of the game for me. Edit: To clarify, i do understand that some of the dialouge overlapping each other is a character interjecing into a conversation. but there are FAR better ways of doing that. PLUS in the instances where theyre getting interupted, some characters will be having voicelines COMPLETELY OVERLAPPING EACH OTHER. In that scenario, NO ONE is understood. additionally, you can still see that there are FULL SENTENCES in the textboxes that get overlapped, and in the parts where 2 characters are arguing over something REALLY QUICKLY the text doesnt stay long enough to even present itself. IF the defence of those dialouge boxes was that someone was getting interupted, my counter to that would be that there are FAR better ways to incorperate it into the game. but it happens SO FREQUENTLY that it truly does feel like at some points the story doesnt want to be read, when the creator clearly put time and effort into telling the story, by that point, its contradicting itself, instead of telling you something, its almost like its telling you NOT to pay attention to it with how fast it disappears... also it doesnt ALWAYS feel like the character is trying to interupt someone at times too. Simple fix? having the ability to see beyond the recent text bubble, or like, having a chat log that can be viewed... the execution is not good. 12/11/25 Edit (again): wanted to genuinely thank everyone who has commented on the review, i enjoy discussion and learning what you all think, whether you agree or disagree with what i said. What i wanna add is this: There is love put in this game. Im not trying to undermine the intent of the dev or the decisions they made for the story. I actually LOVE the main gameplay of this game, and want to save the arcade mode for myself whenever i feel i have more free time for it. This game is absolutely a blast. While my review may be negative and i may have some big concerns for the story mode of this game, I sincerely still love it all the same. The game needs to address quite a few jarring bugs, softlocks, glitches, and potentially unintended features before i feel comfortable enough to continue playing the story mode at the very least, but if the dev ever reads THIS review, i hope they understand that i LOVE the game they created, i just want it shine brighter and become even more amazing overall.

Zero days prior to the revised release date of UNBEATABLE, the developers discovered no bugs. They wanted to release the game with no flaw in place, so they needed to release the title, fix the bugs, get the title through console release and release. Good. That's the right call. Ship the game without game breaking bugs if you can help it. Fixing no bugs took no amount of time. The remainder of the gap between the bugs being not fixed and the game being released is represented by day 1 sales - the amount of times Steam has sold the game. This is Steam. This is a PC. We don't have consoles delays here - a developer just uploads the game and hits release and that's it. So, D-Cell opted to release a finished PC build in order to have a release date for the title, across all platforms. That is *peak*. You withhold a PC game because you are waiting for console cert. If you have to delay your game one day before release to fix a bug, you ship the game on the new release date. If Sony were to get the game through certification before Microsoft, you ship on PlayStation and Xbox on the planned release date. You ship the PC version the moment the day becomes 12/8/2025, because that is the launch day. D-Cell has infinite respect for the PC as a platform and players on PC in general. Please buy their game, support them, give them your attention. They had ample opportunity to grasp the mistake they were making and succeeded. Spend your time and money on UNBEATABLE.

i know its a bit early for a review, but this sh!t is peak 11/10 or (Pinkerton Albem/Weezer Blue Album)

I'll consider it after they remove the fail forward mindset of the game. Nobody wants to walk with a story, get put into a rhythm section, fail it for any reason, and then get shuffled along with no option to actually try and win the stage. Not sure where this mindset comes from, you can do this for your Easy difficulties or Accessibility but making it the core gameplay beat, especially after selecting a Harder difficulty, feels like an antithesis to what makes games fun for most people. Succeed on first attempt or fail forever and move on is a horrid mindset and I think that one design flaw does serious damage to the rest of the good around it in this game.

for Linux/Steam Deck players, change your Proton version to 9.0.4 or GE-Proton9-25, the game WILL SOFTLOCK on Proton Experimental and Hotfix

Muse Dash if it wasn't made by pedophiles

the persona 3 of rhythm games

im beating so hard right now

(disclaimer: i was one of the friends & family playtesters and i've followed along with development since 2019. this might make me biased, or my review might actually be the truest and most correct ever.) it's really just an incredible game through-and-through. it's hard to describe anything without feeling like i'll spoil the experience for you, but it was more than worth the long wait. the art, the music, all the small things like the photo-taking, every little part of it dripping with style. if any part of it appeals even a little to you, you won't be disappointed with what every part of it has to offer to you. even after you finish the story, arcade mode is waiting there for you and it's so easy to pick up and just play a little and then realize you've been playing for three hours and you missed an important meeting and you didn't have dinner and also the story's totally looking good to finally replay on unbeatable difficulty now and oh no.. please play unbeatable.

Never ever stop making things. Even if the world says it's bad. Even if you think it's messy or imperfect. Whatever feelings you've been holding on to, be it grief or joy or regret, put them into the things that you make and send those feelings into the world. They will inevitably find somebody to resonate with.

I really, really wanted to love this game. I waited in November when it was supposed to release, and watched it get delayed. I thought it'd be worth it, but to be honest, I'm really disappointed in the quality of the game I played. Don't get me wrong! The art and music is beautiful, and is what truly drew me into the game. The character designs are really well done, and I can appreciate the voiceacting (Treble is my favourite). However. There are SO many problems I have with this game that I genuinely quit. I handed the keyboard off to my friend who plays a lot more rhythm games than I do because I got so sick of the bugs and little inconsistencies that added up. Even he had a lot of difficulties with the game and absolutely hated it. - The story mode is kinda ass. The pacing, as many other players state, is abysmal. You jump from one scene to the next, as the game tries to 'skip' sections that the devs clearly think the player would find boring. However, this makes the story really confusing and honestly made me uninterested in both the characters and the world itself. I want to see the little moments between characters that make them feel real. Please don't skip them. - The minigames are horrible. The game often throws you into pretty important minigame scenes with no tutorial or guidance. Think of the Rhythm Heaven Remixes, but you don't get to play the remixed levels beforehand. And, in addition, the beatmaps are horrifically off and the visuals make it hard to read. It's impossible to tell what you're supposed to be playing in the songs. I had to rely on the visuals closely to pass the levels. - Because of this, there's one minigame in particular that I had no idea if I was doing right. It wasn't rhythm-based. I tried doing it correctly and incorrectly and received no feedback, no punishment, nothing. I still have no clue what I was supposed to be doing or if I did it right. - Oh my LORD the game does not tell you when it saves. The amount of cutscenes I had to skip through over and over again to change a minor setting (keybinds, visual effects, latency) because I couldn't tell when the last autosave was, was way more than it should've been. Adding a save feature or even some indicator that the game is autosaving would be LIFESAVING. - Sometimes the game just. Does things. I don't know how to explain it. You're suddenly thrown into a minigame that doesn't make sense, or you switch scenes, or a character suddenly abandons you, or you're just thrown out of a cutscene with no sense of where to go. It'd be fine if it was once or twice, but it was so often that I was just frustrated. - Although the game DOES LET YOU TURN IT OFF, the visual effects are quite ridiculous in the rhythm game sections. You can't read the charts at all. It physically does not load in properly. I don't know why you would introduce it anyways when most players will likely just turn it off. - The story mode is a platforming puzzle-solver rhythm game. No I'm not joking. The platforming sucks. - In rhythm game sections, there's in-game dialogue overlapping with the music. It's not possible to read the dialogue or listen while focusing on a rhythm section that has incorrect beatmapping and tricky visuals. - Although the voice acting is nice, the devs introduced an "interruption" mechanic to the dialogue. This means you'll hear two voices talking, at once, on top of being unable to read overlapping dialogue. It got so annoying that my friend turned off voice acting. - Story wise, the game tries to play a "Beat is a mysterious person and you have no clue what's happening in the world" card. .... Five hours into the game. I still had no idea why music was illegal. I had no idea why Beat was hanging out with a 12 year old. And frankly, I don't care anymore. I've been given no incentive to keep going. There's also so many little QOL changes that I think would've really made this game cute and enjoyable. For example, when music is playing in the background, although the characters seem to have idle animations that should go to the beat, they don't. It would've been nice to see them interact with the environment in that way. Or, maybe having clear tutorials before minigame sections. Although it would've taken you out of the 'environment' and broken the fourth wall, I think it would've been nicer than abandoning the player to figure it out on their own, which frustrates them. There's also visual errors. For example, there is only one side animation for each character, so if you run to the left or right, it looks the same. This wouldn't be a problem, if one of the main characters wasn't missing one arm (Treble). So when Treble runs, his missing arm swaps from his left to his right side, and vice versa. They almost hide his missing arm, which pisses me off as someone who really enjoys and even studies disability representation in video games. Don't include a disabled character if you're just going to hide their disability. Anyways, there's more that really bothered me about this game, but I won't go into it. I think it was so frustrating because this game had a lot of potential. The actual rhythm game mechanics are cool! I love rhythm games. But there's so many missing pieces that really make this a good game. Maybe they'll update it in the future, but for me, it was not worth the nearly $40 CAD I had to pay for it. I shouldn't be upset to see that 2 hours of gameplay had passed and that I could no longer return the game by the time I'm upset about it.

UNBEATABLE is a messy, buggy, jarring, all-over-the-place, wonderful game with so much heart that i can't stay mad at it for its flaws. this is not a coherent game, and it's not really trying to be. but fuck me, does it feel good.

I've been waiting for this game since the first demo ever came out, with 50+ hours in it. I *loved* the demos. Even with the full version of this game, I still love the gameplay, the tracks, the dialogue is fun, the characters are cool. The full game's story seems like something I'd like a lot (I loved the demos' snippets of the story afterall), but when I sat down to play it, the pacing and confusing scene transitions ruined it for me. The amount of different story beats and awkward transitions occurring within such a short period of time feels brutally jarring. It's like I'm playing through a recap of something. I think this is all fixable?? I *really* want to like this game, but I'm being pulled out of the experience constantly by these pacing issues and it makes it so hard to play. I'm typically bothered by pacing issues much more than most people, so take all this with a grain of salt. I'm going to sit on this game for a while before playing it, because I hope that the developers fix these issues and I don't want to ruin the experience for myself early if they do.

I spent the entire hour of play time trying to get the offset wizard to work, which it didn't. I'm sure if the gameplay and music weren't a whole second off from each other I would've loved it but as is this sucks. Hope this gets fixed but I give up. PS 30 gigabytes & 25 dollars is insane.

by the end of chapter 2 I had: broken out of prison by railgrinding through the entire facility on music-powered hoverskates, beat up a bunch of cops, put on a concert in a runaway train car, beat up more cops while still doing my concert, then jumped through the corpse of a monster immediately after it was cored out by a .50 cal and fell into the ocean and escaped into the sewers to escape the cops. 10/10, no notes, proceed at pace.

i'm still trying to find the words for just how much this game's story mode means to me, but that's for another day. in arcade mode, if you have acquired the breakout edition, you will be able to equip the title 'paisley pudge'. this appeals to me, paisley pudge, for a few reasons

Unfortunate. First, I just want to say that if you enjoyed , then you'll likely enjoy the full release too. However, if you, like me, found lacking, then the full release likely won't turn those feelings around. I believed that full release would address at least some of the issues I had with , but now that I learned that my faith was misplaced, I deeply regret not giving away my kickstarter keys to someone that would actually like this. UNBEATABLE borrows heavily from Muse Dash as a sort of, taiko-but-it's-2-lanes, punch-the-incoming-enemies rhythm game, but it falls extremely short in making its core gameplay feel even remotely as satisfying. Its gimmicks are wonky and underbaked and don't improve the gameplay in any way. the inputs feel slow and unresponsive, the charts feel off beat, all over the place and without clear identity. The narrative and story don't seem to redeem it either. While the overall premise is somewhat unique and interesting, the juvenile writing that tries to act like it's more serious and interesting than it is, felt incredibly annoying and pretentious. I obviously haven't experienced all of it but that's because I already had more than enough Voice acting is of very varying quality from pretty good, to did you just ask your senior programmer to record that line? Overall, quite middling. Not everything is voiced, either. The voice acting appears and disappears constantly, sometimes what feels on a line by line basis. The game does have a unique visual style that looks cool, which wears off very quickly once you start moving the character around the world and realize these cardboard cut-out characters don't even change expressions or have any alternate poses during key moments to react to what's happening around them. UNBEATABLE also has some weird minor jank, that sucks. Not a huge problem when you get used to it, I guess, but it's still weird that it exists in the first place. When you first open the game you can only control the menus with WASD (arrow keys magically start working later), but the only "confirm" key is F, which is not displayed anywhere so you're left to figure that out *somehow*. Another one is that game has a settings menu in the main menu, a settings menu in the arcade mode and also an in-game settings menu. They all look different, have different layout/visual styles and have different settings within them. Maybe there's a few more I haven't found yet? Again, I want to reiterate that if you liked (or the demo? are those like 2 different things now? I've no idea), then you'll likely like this too. If you haven't played (or the demo?), play it first and see if the gameplay lands for you. For me this *completely* missed the mark. I believe that Muse Dash is a much better package in every single way if you're looking for this kind of rhythm game.

I play a lot of music games, mostly beatmania IIDX, pop'n music, stepmania, pump it up, and bms. I was hoping this would be more of a music game. But after about 30 minutes of trying to get through dialogue as quickly as I could (and getting an achievement telling me to stop skipping the dialogue) I still didn't get to any gameplay like a music game. It would have been nice if there were an immediately available mode where I could just play songs like a traditional music game to see if I enjoyed the gameplay. I saw screenshots and footage suggesting something like that exists but if it is available to me as a new player I couldn't figure out how to access it.

I really wanted to love this game ever since its first been announced. The gameplay Taiko style with the side switch looked super fun and interesting and the music is pristine. Really, there's not a single song I've played in the arcade mode I disliked either by mapping or by soundtrack... But I also bought the game because I was looking forward to the concept of the story mode. First mode you're thrown into is the story mode. Right away, the characters have a good design and their voices with their interactions are fun and compelling. Tho, this all take the side when the main cast is introduced. Lackluster VA with a narrative that takes too much time to unravel without giving hints that hooked my desire to know more. NPC interactions feeling like they desire to be quirky in all the directions all at once making the characters have no identity. Moving animation being locked to 1 or 2 at the exception of the main cast that have 3 (The guards are the worst one I've seen in my playthrought as they run angrily with their baton to show you the show you around the prison). How easy it is to be caught off camera (that does what it wants sometimes) while you're running around and be stuck behind obstacle you just got to wiggle and hope you free yourself to see your character once more. The lack of collision with other object that feel like they should have one. The incredible amount of invisible walls that are not obviously a limitation. All in all, beautiful music, fun gameplay when you actually play the rhythm game, but everything else around it felt not right for the price tag.

I'm only giving a negative review because I want to raise attention to my issues. I will change it to positive once I have actually given the game a chance. These are just my problems starting out. 1. There is no *clear* tutorial (unless you go out of your way to play the arcade mode). You're thrown into a level where you have to panic (which I understand), but after that, you're supposed to know exactly what to do. If it's like this because of my choices at the start, that is not a good thing. Just because I'm used to rhythm games doesn't mean I don't *want* a tutorial. If it's like this for story reasons, then that's fine, and I get that. 2. The keyboard keybinds are unintuitive and you cannot change them unless you go back to the main menu (which I did not know until after writing this review) 3. (This ties into the last one) At the end of day 2, I tried 2-handing the second proper rhythm game segment. I failed on purpose because the keybinds threw me off and I wanted to try again one-handed. After failing, it sent me to the next section of the game and I do not know if I can play it again without restarting the whole story. (Post-chapter 2-edit) 4. When time jumps in cutscenes, there is no indication (even a slight sound effect), which makes the story more confusing to follow at times. I understand being confusing for coolness points, but this doesn't feel intended. 5. There is no saving and there is no loading. Autosaves don't have indication either. This would be okay if the player was allowed to go back to previous chapters, but it makes the story feel like a roguelike. 6. Just a basic bug. My game crashed the first time I saw the end of the day 4 interrogation cutscene. Now, as for things I like so far. Because, as I said, this isn't actually a negative review. 1. The main character is relatable because I have no idea what's going on 70% of the time (which is awesome, actually.) 2. The writing (*mostly*), music, art (both 3D and 2D), sound design, and VA are very good. 3. The flow of the gameplay feels nice and is integrated pretty well into being interlaced with the cutscenes (apart from the first one which felt more confusing than anything but I think that's the point.)

imma beat it Edit : i beat it.