Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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Overwhelmingly Positive (4,997) - 95% of the 4,997 user reviews for this game are positive.
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15 Apr, 2010
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About This Game

Welcome to a new experience in gameplay mechanics: Beat Hazard Gameplay Powered by YOUR Music!

Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

Power up your spaceship and watch as the music boosts your firepower. Unleash hell on the enemy ships when you max out with weapon pickups!

Beat Hazard seamlessly mixes the love of gaming and music. Together they become greater than the sum of their parts.

  • Unique music driven gameplay
  • Gameplay possibilities as vast as your music collection
  • Can you last a whole album in Survival Mode?
  • Go Head to Head in local 2 player mode
  • Or play local 2 player Co-op
  • 25 Steam achievements
  • Compete against friends on Steam leader boards
  • Get real time updates via the in game News System
  • Take on huge boss ships
  • Power up and unleash the deadly Beat Hazard weapon
  • Rank up to an Elite rated pilot and beyond (Can you survive Suicidal mode?)
  • Includes a kicking rock album to get you started
  • File types supported: mp3/wav/aiff/ogg/mwa/flac
  • iTunes, aac, mp4 and m4a support via a download for a small fee (to cover patented decoder licensing costs)
  • LastFM Scrobble support
  • Now also support Internet Radio in all modes, including online
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System Requirements

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    • OS *: Windows XP/Vista/Win 7
    • Processor: 2.0GHz processor
    • Memory: 512+MB of RAM
    • Hard Drive: 40+MB of free hard drive space
    • Graphics: 256MB of video memory
    • Sound: DirectX-compatible sound
    • DirectX®: 9 or later
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    • OS: OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
    • Processor: Intel
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Hard Disk Space: 250mb HD space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
    • OS: Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS or equivalent
    • Processor: x86 1.5 GHz
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Hard Disk Space: 250mb HD space
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Recommended
5.4 hrs on record
Posted: 14 February
Direct from Steam
Those hundred gigabytes of pirated music will come in handy now!
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15 people found this review helpful
13 people found this review funny
Recommended
52.9 hrs on record
Posted: 10 February
Direct from Steam
Get beat hazard 2 instead, this game is dated and is clunky as all hell. it's also missing many core features that Beat hazard 2 expanded upon, not mentioning better combat and more ship customization.

i give this a 6/10 for old times sake.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/618740/Beat_Hazard_2/
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3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
26.6 hrs on record
Posted: 30 January
Direct from Steam
Great game, the very 1st game that you can "Play your Music"...
They have a rough start.

But i loved the 2nd version of the Game.
This one, the controls are quite janky, and feels off, probably because there's no protection on Asteroid hits, so this version of the game can be hard if you're used to getting hit/ run into Asteroids on the 2nd game.

If you get this one on a sale, it's totally worth your time.
Although the graphics can be quite outdated.
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Recommended
1.4 hrs on record
Posted: 25 January
Direct from Steam
Beat Hazard

Has a total of 7 trading cards.
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2 people found this review helpful
Recommended
13.2 hrs on record (11.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 21 January
Steam Key
skype service 24/7-el kurva nagyot megy
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Recommended
3.3 hrs on record
Posted: 25 January
Steam Key
"Our system has detected higher than normal review activity from your account in the past few days and has automatically rate-limited your ability to write or modify a review. Please try again at a later time" I TRY TO REVIEW GAMES TO STOP STEAM ASKING ME TO REVIEW GAMES, BAN ME FROM LEAVING REVIEWS AND STOP ASKING ME TO REVIEW GAMES
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Recommended
7.8 hrs on record
Posted: 22 March
Steam Key
[63%] Visual Vortex Hazard

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3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
23.0 hrs on record
Posted: 24 March
Steam Key
Have you ever considered beating some hazards? Well this is the game for you! Nifty little thing honestly, I recommend it. There's 2 sequels, but this version is very simple, and I think there's a charm to that.
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Recommended
1.2 hrs on record
Posted: 18 March
Steam Key
Great game! Even better it came out when it did, because now it would cost like 2 bucks a song
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Recommended
8.1 hrs on record
Posted: 23 March
Direct from Steam
Seizure Warning aside, great game
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Uli
2.7 hrs
Posted: 25 September, 2024
Direct from Steam
one of the coolest games ever, i cant even tell whats going on but its cool
3 people found this review helpful
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Aclassss
13.3 hrs
Posted: 1 September, 2024
Direct from Steam
Spacies + custom soundtrack, attacks synced to the beats. 5/5

I like everything about this.
1 person found this review helpful
Hideous Kojimer
5.9 hrs
Posted: 31 August, 2024
Direct from Steam
seizure but fun
2 people found this review helpful
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CassieLassie
24.1 hrs
Posted: 19 August, 2024
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The best way to play Enter Sandman by Metallica is with seizure inducing visuals
5 people found this review helpful
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