Dead as Disco

That’s the question hanging over Dead as Disco: sustainability. The core idea is immediately distinct and satisfying, but rhythm-driven systems can risk feeling repetitive if they do not give enough meaningful variety. My hope is that each new level and boss will bring a different kind of flow to master. Based on this preview, that promise feels believable. More importantly, the game already understands what makes its central idea compelling. By automating the timing of attacks, it removes the most common friction point of rhythm games and replaces it with something more fluid. If the full rel

The main thing that's been added to Dead as Disco in its early access period is the first chunk of its campaign, which sees Charlie Disco going up against his former bandmates, known as Idols, to try and reunite them and find out how he died. There are currently four Idols in Dead as Disco's early access release, with each having its own dedicated stage and boss battle. These boss battles are epic affairs, but they're not too long on their own, with each taking around 20 minutes or so to beat. If you just want to play through these boss battles, you'll get around two hours out of Dead as Disco

Once you've defeated an Idol in Dead as Disco, you'll find them back at the game's hub world, the Encore Bar, and can find out more about them by chatting with them. This is where the campaign opens up its replayability, as each Idol will require specific items found by replaying levels or completing challenges. This incentivises you to replay the story missions to pick up collectibles and advance the story with the Idols. The Encore Bar itself can also be upgraded and brought back to life with trinkets and repairs, which you'll need to purchase using Fans earned by completing levels. Fans are

The official Steam page for Dead as Disco has shared a roadmap and all the current plans for the game as it aims for a 1.0 launch at some point next year. Those planned features include more Idols, a proper endgame, Hard mode, co-op, more music, more skills, BPM detection for uploaded songs, and much more. Suffice to say that Dead as Disco is only going to get bigger in the next year or so, as the developers clearly have a lot planned for the game. We'll keep updating this guide as more and more content is added to the game, but there's still plenty to do in this first go of its early access.