Rift of the NecroDancer

Brace Yourself Games / Feb 5, 2025 / Action, Indie, RPG

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96 playing now

That's more people than live in the Pitcairn Islands.

The NecroDancer's back in an all-new rhythm game! Dragged into a strange new world, Cadence must engage in musical combat with monsters surging through the Rift! Face pulse-pounding Rhythm Rifts where every beat is a battle, all set to an original soundtrack by Danny Baranowsky & friends.

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What's new

1.15.0-b23349 Hotfix #8

2026-06-15

🛠️ Fixes • Fixed an issue where fails were not being counted correctly in savedata (not visible from within game) • Fixed an issue with StageType being designated incorrectly for Custom Music tracks and Shopkeeper Challenges • This was the cause of incorrect unlocks of items in the Rift Profile inventory or Steam Achievements (in the case of Custom Music), and items/achievements related to the Shopkeeper Challenges not unlocking correctly • If you would like us to reset a Rift Profile item you feel was achieved incorrectly as a result of this bug, please do the following: • Reach out via Discord using the #support-ticket channel, or send us an email support@braceyourselfgames.com • Send us a bug report from the main menu with the following content • Your discord name/email • The content you would like us to reset for you

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• Once we follow up with you, confirm the reset worked for you

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What players say

Very Positive

94% positive, 3,366 reviews

Recommended17 hrs played

I overall recommend the game, because it's a fun rhytm game. Paying for each extra song isn't fun though.

70 found this helpful, 2025-11-29

Recommended18 hrs played

This will put you in the most insane flowstate ever only for you to do the rhythm game equivalent of falling down a flight of stairs

35 found this helpful, 2026-04-14

Not recommended2 hrs played

I really want to like this game but I just am not having fun with it. The gimmick of the notes being monsters with different movement patterns is a fun idea but for me at least it makes the charts unreadable with any high amount of notes, turning it into just a game of memorizing the charts instead of the usual mix of memory and sight reading that is found in every other rhythm game. I'll keep trying it on and off...

163 found this helpful, 2025-10-31

Recommended1,112 hrs played

To put it bluntly, the game is awesome. It's 3 lanes and on-beat focused gameplay differ it from other games in its genre. Given the simplistic approach, they had the idea to make it so there are different types of monsters which each have their own quirks instead of "1 monster = 1 note = 1 tap" approach. And it works phenomenally. The game does come with a story mode, which is serviceable at best, but it's more of...