Just Shapes & Beats is an arcade developed by Berzerk Studio, released 31 May 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Google Stadia. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Just Shapes & Beats is
Just Shapes & Beats is an arcade game developed by Berzerk Studio and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Just Shapes & Beats is a music-based bullet hell video game developed and published by Canadian indie team Berzerk Studio. It was released on May 31, 2018, for Windows and Nintendo Switch, February 24, 2019, for macOS and Linux, May 10, 2019, for PlayStation 4 in the US, and May 30, 2019 for PlayStation 4 in Europe, Russia, and Australia. It was also released on June 30, 2020, for Stadia, and on May 31, 2022, for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. In the game, players control a coloured shape and dodge pink shapes that move to the beat of background music.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, kids and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 26 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Just Shapes & Beats holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 24 hrs, roughly 4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz 64 bits Processor, 8 GB RAM and DirectX 11-compatible graphics card with at least 512MB of video memory. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Just Shapes & Beats launched on 31 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Just Shapes & Beats yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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