Charming animated art and story
Mentioned in ~3 in 5 positive reviews
“Game is really pretty, the art is amazing. It has a story mode with cutscenes??? They're so well animated as well, pure cinema”
Steam review · 1.5 h played ↗
HYPNOSYNC
Worth buying? What 49 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 49 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 55%Mixed · 55%BASED KICK2026Rhythm · Arcade · Action
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 2 h ago
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The verdict
A free, very hard 12-input rhythm game with charming art, story and strong music. Skip it if you play on keyboard and won't remap keys, or if you dislike forced accounts and gacha.
Great for
Experienced rhythm gamers with a fight stick or the patience to remap keys, who like cute art and a high skill ceiling
Main risk
Controls are close to unplayable on a default keyboard, and the easier mode blocks progression
What players love
Creative, challenging 12-input gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“This game is REALLY hard. But it's also really fun in a way I like somehow”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗
Great music and charting
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“The selection of songs is excellent, and the songmaps are innovative.”
Steam review · 2.5 h played ↗
Free to play with unobtrusive gacha
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“the gacha is incredibly unobtrusive. As in, you kind of have to go looking for it”
Steam review · 2.8 h played ↗
Fight stick play feels great
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“using a fightstick for Hypnosync is awesome”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗
What players complain about
Nearly unplayable on keyboard
Mentioned in ~3 in 5 negative reviews
“Having 12 different keys to press for only 4 lanes means I'm more often focusing on which button I need to press for the upcoming notes, not when.”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗
Account creation and login broken
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews
“Game requires an account to play but you are unable to create an account.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Easier mode blocks progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“On release, this mode now gates you out of most of the games content as you cannot gain daze points, exp, or tokens”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗
Missed inputs and no offset calibration
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“notes dont register half the time and a lot of the time when they do the input gets lagged”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
Greedy gacha and slow grind
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“im not paying 30 big bucks just for one 10 roll on the gacha bro”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
Confusing color-swapped notes
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“pink and blue are each 2 diff rows of 4 keys, and they are constantly mixed together, so good luck not getting your brain to scramble for any coherency”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown500 MB
Minimum
OSWindows 10 (64 Bit)
ProcessorIntel Core i3 or newer
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsIntel HD Graphics 4600
Storage500 MB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10 (64 Bit)
ProcessorIntel Core i7
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 960M
Storage500 MB available space
OSWindows 10 (64 Bit)
ProcessorIntel Core i3 or newer
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsIntel HD Graphics 4600
Storage500 MB available space
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