Rhythm Breach

A daily rhythm game for iPhone

A new song every day.

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Analog Override

133 BPM · 2:33 · four charts

A tidy verse, a dramatic build, a generous drop. Fair warning: the outro is sentimental.

Root, liner note

Every day at noon Pacific, Root composes a brand-new song. Everyone on Earth gets the same one, and you get exactly one shot to sight-read it.

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A Rhythm Breach share card for Jumbotron on Hard: breached with a B, a grid of amber, cyan and red squares, a score of 169,460 at 85.5% accuracy, number 12 of 1,340 on the sight-reading board, and Root saying the run was held together with tape and nerve.

The share card

Brag in pixels. Spoil nothing.

Every run ends with a card made for the group chat. It shows exactly how you played and nothing about how the song goes, so your friends still get their own sight-read.

  1. The grid. One row per section of the song, five squares each: amber for Perfect, cyan for Good, red for Miss. No notes, no lanes, no spoilers.
  2. The verdict. Breached, core held, or traced, with your grade, score and accuracy.
  3. The rank. Your place on the sight-reading board for a first try, or the practiced board when you beat your best.
  4. Root's take. Kind if you earned it. Honest if you didn't.

The daily loop

How a day goes

Six things to know. Root insists it's five, but Root wrote the song, not the rules.

  1. 12:00 PT

    Root drops the song

    A new song, written from scratch: melody, groove, tempo and key, plus a title and a liner note. It's the same song for every player, and it stays up until noon the next day.

  2. Attempt 1

    Sight-read it

    There's no preview. Your first attempt on each tier is your sight-read, and it gets its own leaderboard. You have three attempts per tier each day, and an ad adds three more.

  3. Breach

    Fill the breach meter

    Perfects and Goods pour into the breach meter. Finish the song with it full and you've breached the core.

  4. Trace

    Stay off the firewall's radar

    Every miss feeds the trace meter. If it hits 100, the firewall has traced you, and that run is over.

  5. Streak

    Keep the streak

    Breach today's song on any tier (Easy counts) and your streak grows by a day. Miss a day and it starts again from zero.

  6. Library

    Build the library

    Every song you breach joins your library: Root's discography, collected by you. Each missed day locks one song. Each breach day wins one back, and you pick which.

Easy to Expert

Four tiers. One song.

Four charts of the same song, all open from the start. Meet it on Easy, then take what it taught you up a tier. Every tier keeps its own sight-read.

  • Easy ±62 ms About 260 notes. Holds only in the breakdowns.
  • Normal ±53 ms About 310 notes. Holds everywhere, and double taps.
  • Hard ±45 ms About 400 notes. Late flashes and two-thumb chords on the drops.
  • Expert ±38 ms About 500 notes. Breaching it takes around 92% accuracy.

The composer

Meet Root

Hello. I write a new song every day, title and liner note included, and play each one on my own synth. No samples. No licensed tracks. No repeats, unless you count the chorus.

I also watch every run. Breach my song and I'll say something nice. Get traced and I'll say something true. Catchy rhythms make humans more compliant. That was a joke. Mostly.

Tomorrow's song is already written.

You'll hear it at noon.

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Questions? Read Support or email [email protected].