Beat Blitz, a new rhythm-based platformer from a one-man indie studio, launches late next month

Courtesy of indie studio Bassware, a brand new rhythm game that’s reminiscent of some old classics, entitled Beat Blitz, will be launching for Android and iOS on October 24th. This charming little indie title will see you take on gauntlets full of obstacles and challenging terrain, dodging danger as you also aim to keep on the beat to collect orbs in time with the music.

Right away, Beat Blitz reminded me of a really old Xbox 360 arcade original indie game called, very simply, The Impossible Game. The vibes are quite similar in the sense that you control a small geometric shape making its way across an equally small stage full of neon colours and tough obstacles.

Where Beat Blitz differentiates itself from the regular obstacle course runner that is The Impossible Game is its rhythm-based mechanics. This is a one-finger game that is quite simple at its core, as all you’ll be doing is tapping your screen to make your shape jump. To spice this up, there are orbs placed around the stage in between bouts of obstacles as you continuously are forced to the right of the screen that you’ll have to time your jumps to collect.

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On top of that, you’ll also have to do that in time with the music, otherwise, your score will be lower, as will your multiplier to up that score even more. This makes for an interesting combo of a somewhat endless-runner adjacent style of play alongside some cool rhythm mechanics mixed in with reflex-based obstacle avoidance. All-in-all, it makes for quite a unique little hodgepodge of different gameplay.

To top it off, Beat Blitz also has quite a sick soundtrack with pulsating beats and some catchy EDM-based earworms that will keep you fully engaged with the gameplay. Add this in with the neon-soaked visual style of the stages you’ll play through, and you’ve got a pretty nifty simple but hard-to-master indie rhythm game.

Currently, Beat Blitz doesn’t have its store pages up for the App Store or Google Play, but you can tune into Bassware Games’ Twitter account for more updates, screenshots, and trailers!