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2007 · ppy · ~100h to finish

The purest execution test in the catalogue and one of the cheapest failures — nothing is lost when a run ends, which is exactly why people attempt the same map four hundred times.

rhythmPC

Global—UNRATED

Baseline difficulty6.0PUNISHING

Sustained pressure. Progress is earned.

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510

Execution

7.5

Reaction

7.0

Grind

6.2

Obscurity

4.6

Learning Curve

4.4

Punishment

1.0

Puzzle

0.8

Strategy

0.5

PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST

Execution drops 1.9 points — you handle this better than most.
Reaction drops 1.8 points — you handle this better than most.
Assist options shave roughly 4.6 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS

55% · ~60hExecution
the plateau every player hits in the same place, at the same tempo
▲ 28
70% · ~90hReaction
the point where finding the next note is harder than hitting it
▲ 27

Assists & accessibility

0/4 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

Game speed control [unsourced]Half Time and Double Time change playback rate; scores are marked accordingly.
Practice / training mode [unsourced]Instant retry on any map, and rate adjustment for drilling a section.

MOTOR & INPUT

Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

VISION

Scalable UI & text [unsourced]Cursor size, UI scale and background dim are all adjustable.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A free rhythm game played on a community library of hundreds of thousands of charts, where you click, drag and spin to a circle appearing anywhere on screen.

Where to go from here

Argue with these asks

The same shape, one rung harder. The next thing, not the hardest thing.

Geometry Dash

2013 · RobTop Games · ~40h

7.0BRUTAL

One input, no health, and no checkpoints outside practice — a level is a single unbroken performance, so failing at ninety-eight percent costs exactly as much as failing at two.

UnratedREA 9.0EXE 8.3GRD 7.3

EXE 8.3REA 9.0STR 0.3PUZ 1.0GRD 7.3PUN 4.2 — you asked for forgiving

Thumper

2016 · Drool · ~8h

6.5PUNISHING

Rhythm violence at speeds that stop being readable. The later levels are memorised rather than reacted to, whatever it feels like at the time.

UnratedREA 8.8EXE 7.2PUN 5.5

7.2

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

2023 · Team Ninja · ~35h

6.9BRUTAL

The hardest thing here is unlearning defence — you cannot outlast anything, and the deflect window is the entire game.

UnratedREA 8.6CRV 7.0EXE 6.6

6.6

The same shape, one rung harder. The next thing, not the hardest thing.

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