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Rhythm Doctor

Rhythm Doctor

Dec. 6, 2025 $15.99
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Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.

About

Save lives with your spacebar! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game in a world where defibrillating patients' hearts in sync with their heartbeats has healing properties. Slam your spacebar in perfect time on the 7th beat, and they might just come out okay. But beware - every patient has unique illnesses based on complex music theory: polyrhythms, hemiolas, irregular time signatures...if you don't know what they mean, don't worry. Rhythm Doctor is designed to make you learn music and rhythm theory without even realising it! 20+ handmade levels, each with their own story. Every level introduces a different concept of rhythm theory in an accessible way A large cast of doctors and patients feature in an overarching, character-centric storyline Play the story solo or grab a friend for drop-in drop-out local multiplayer throughout the whole campaign! Robust level editor to make, share, and play community levels! Use your own music, place notes snapped to the beat, and use 50+ different visual effects and backgrounds Challenging 'Night Shift' versions of each level for the brave (Note: 2P mode only works locally. Online 2P via Remote Play is enabled for this game, but it does not work that well right now due to varying latency) Rhythm Doctor features flashing lights and colors. Please use caution if you have experience with epilepsy or any of its symptoms.

87 Metacritic
20881 Positive
332 Negative
22254 Recommendations
60 Peak CCU
34 Achievements

Developer

7th Beat Games

Publishers

indienova, 7th Beat Games

Genres

Casual, Indie, Action, Strategy, Free To Play

Categories

Single-player, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing, Steam Achievements, Steam Workshop, Full controller support, Multi-player, Includes level editor, Remote Play Together, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Custom Volume Controls, Adjustable Difficulty, Narrated Game Menus

Tags

Rhythm (259) Music (248) Pixel Graphics (240) Level Editor (235) Story Rich (230) Indie (224) Singleplayer (217) Early Access (216) Local Co-Op (213) 2D (212) Funny (210) Action (209) Comedy (207) Local Multiplayer (203) Arcade (201) Adventure (200) Co-op (199) Anime (181) Cute (177) Modern (176)

Vectors

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About

Save lives with your spacebar! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game in a world where defibrillating patients' hearts in sync with their heartbeats has healing properties. Slam your spacebar in perfect time on the 7th beat, and they might just come out okay. But beware - every patient has unique illnesses based on complex music theory: polyrhythms, hemiolas, irregular time signatures...if you don't know what they mean, don't worry. Rhythm Doctor is designed to make you learn music and rhythm theory without even realising it! 20+ handmade levels, each with their own story. Every level introduces a different concept of rhythm theory in an accessible way A large cast of doctors and patients feature in an overarching, character-centric storyline Play the story solo or grab a friend for drop-in drop-out local multiplayer throughout the whole campaign! Robust level editor to make, share, and play community levels! Use your own music, place notes snapped to the beat, and use 50+ different visual effects and backgrounds Challenging 'Night Shift' versions of each level for the brave (Note: 2P mode only works locally. Online 2P via Remote Play is enabled for this game, but it does not work that well right now due to varying latency) Rhythm Doctor features flashing lights and colors. Please use caution if you have experience with epilepsy or any of its symptoms.

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