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The Metronomicon: Slay The Dance Floor
Developer Puuba
The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor is a rhythm game developed by American indie studio Puuba. The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor was originally released on September 29, 2016, for Microsoft Windows and macOS, under the name "The Metronomicon". On August 29, 2017, Puuba added new content and released the game for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 30, 2017, under the expanded name "The Metronomicon: Slay… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
197 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
147 positive · 46 negative
95% range 70–82%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
338 of 408 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 197 · most liked firstCan I just start by saying I really wanted to DISLIKE this game. I am a pretentious DDR player who played for 4 years and beat almost all content DDR, ITG, and Stepmania had to offer. So this game strolls along and is all like "look at me, I'm a dancy game" and I thought it was just stupid, I mean look at that guy with the afro, is he a wizard, is he a disco dancer? wtf is this game?! Then I played The Metronomicon at pax and ho-ly-crap I was instantly addicted. Everything just made sense,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No jokes. Serious review. Deadpan serious. This is literally DDR with an RPG laid overtop of it. Down to the song menu and difficulties. If DDR doesn't appeal, tread carefully and watch your time played in case you want a refund. I only have a bit clocked as of this review but I can tell you it's DDR with an RPG. If you're into rhythm games like DDR, FFR, and Stepmania then you'll find yourself at home rather quickly as the game gently insists there's totally room for an RPG in Stepmania.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not playable on anything but easy mode on a controller. You can't hit right and left at the same time on a controller, devs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love rhythm games. I've played everything from Gitaroo Man to Rock Band to Project Diva. I'm not amazing at rhythm games. There aren't many that I'm able to consistently do well on the highest difficulties of, but I can make it through all of them without much issue. I love RPGs, from Final Fantasy to Baldur's Gate. I like to think I'm pretty good at those. Before I go on, I should probably speak towards my short time playing this game on Steam: The controller support was finicky and so I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is very similar to a game called Before the Echo (previously Sequence), which is probably one of my favourite games. It's basically Stepmania + RPG elements and combat. You have several lanes with tracks following the song, each with different spells and attacks. The problem with Metronomicon is that it goes waaay too far into the rpg field with little care of how (or rather IF) the two genres synergy. In Sequence, you had 3 lanes: an attack lane, a defence lane, and a spell lane. Each…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →rithm game meets pointless grind + only local multiplayer + music is kinda repetitive and gets boring fast + controller support is terrible (i have to emulate my xbox one controler to be seen as a 360 controler so the game recognize it + it doesn't register controller inputs correctly)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to live in this universe. I love everything about this game. I want to impress gay raving squirrels while striking flawless disco moves to summon lightning bolts to smite the most stylish and colorful succubi. Really though, the mood and atmosphere click so hard with me it's unreal. Everything involved - creatures, locations, fashion, combat maneuvers, attitudes, dance-combat, juxtaposition of the mundane and the exotic - is so wild and outlandish and curiously it all works together…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game should specify which gamepads it works on. You cannot play on a standard 4 arrow as the game requires 3 additional buttons besides the directionals.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metronomicon is a DDR/Stepmania RPG, complete with fantasy tropes, level-ups, character abilities, equipment, side-quests, and pretty much every other box you'd want checked when investing in an RPG experience. The main problem it suffers is that beyond combining these two separate genres in a serviceable manner, there isn't much else on offer in terms of interesting or unique content. The game is only playable with the included soundtrack, which ranges from pretty good head-bopping anthems…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game does what I consider the cardinal sin of rhythm games: the controller input doesn't feel related to the music.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sleek artwork and interesting concept, mixing rhythm beat and battles Good quality and variety of music included, though the voice acting included is terrible. Terrible controls, especially if using joystick or in a Deck, and the battle animations do break the flow of the rhythm beats, so the only reason to get the game would be for the battle system, which is fairly interesting and certainly unique. Overall, overpriced compared to its full fledged competition. Passable, but not memorable.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quick Score: 3/5 Notes: A relatively unique twist on the 4k genre. However personally wasn't a huge fan of the soundtrack overall, the characters/story/dialogue is extremely bad only really enjoyed probably 25% of the OST, and the entire rpg mechanic of the game never really is all that relevant. And by that I mean even on hard difficulty, there are numerous fairly obvious builds and setups you can use that make it so you don't really need to pay attention to the main gimmick of the game at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you dig Guitar Hero or DDR, you will love this game. The soundtrack is amazing, and the play is super interesting and fun. Be warned: You HAVE to be decent at rhythm games, or you will find this game incredibly difficult, even on easy. If you suck at Guitar Hero, you will suck way way worse at this, because there is a lot more going on than just hitting keys at the right time- you are also planning attacks, switching between heroes, and strategizing. You have to be able to think quickly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beneath the forgettable story, terrible dialogues and somewhat uninspired art, there is a pretty damn good rhythm game. It has been evidently made with a lot of love and has a lot of content. The music is mostly pop which is not my preference, however, there is a bit for everyone (one song is reminiscent of Dan Deacon for example, and another track during the last boss has some prog which is unusual for these games, plus there's some a bunch of somewhat metal tracks), so overall it was better…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only complaint I have about this game is the lack of exposure. I have been searching for rhythm games and this never popped up! I'm glad I finally found it. It's tricky, because you have to jump around your squad, keeping in mind what sequence their abilities are located, executing combos with no misses, etc. I like that part. Keeps my mind on my toes and my toes on my mind.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My controller works about 50% of the time.i can't recommend for gamepad players.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not an objectively bad game, it's just... not for me, I guess. I enjoyed Guitar Hero/Rock Band back in the day, but keeping track of one stream of notes was hard enough, let along four separate streams of notes and health bars... Playing The Metronomicon felt like being in the middle of a hurricane, all sorts of things flying around and I'm just focused on not getting blown away and not having fun at all. Sorry devs, seems like a well-made game, for people who can handle it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought two copies to gift to my friend to play with him online - CHEATED by the STEAM tag - says multiplayer and local multiplayer. In truth, there is only LOCAL multiplayer. Game looks good, but that still cost you a dislike.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty fun with good electronic music. Runs well with WINE on Linux.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought this game sounded great, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting into it. Having to switch back and forth between different party members as you play is very awkward and messes up my rhythm. I also really don't like how you get kicked out of a song if you run out of hp. There really needs to be an option to play for fun/workout purposes so that you can keep going until the end of the song. I was hoping to play this with a small child, but she can't last 15 seconds at the easiest…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very unique game, really fun so far. Has a lot of good songs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am playing the first indie game I ever livestreamed - from 2016, Puuba's The Metronomicon, which released 10 years ago today. Rhythm gaming with RPG battles. As the subtitle states, let's "Slay the Dance Floor." Streaming live now at www.twitch.tv/djtatsujin
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game... this game is just a work of art. A diamond in the rough. I'm so sad this game isn't known, the word needs to be out to all lovers of Rythm-based games. Because this is my absolute #1 favorite Rythm matching game in the whole wide world. The gameplay is exiting. The story halfway takes itself seriously, the voice acting is enthusiactic,, the soundtrack BOPS and the cutscenes are incredibly cheesy, but looking past the cringe it really adds some charm to the game and its characters.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game doesn't seem to know it's audience as the difficulty of the steps cap out at around a measly DDR 13 or ITG 8. Charts are well written and work great with an index playstyle so it's a shame that the difficulty level never went up to anything interesting. The battle system is difficult to learn as it's hard to keep up with what is going on and what affects what all while following the steps. Later it gets pretty easy to cheese the bosses and it becomes a slog of playing through the same…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, rythem RPG. I played this game for hours without getting bored. It's just so much fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let me start with the fact that I refunded the game. I think it's a good game but it needs a major fix for me to play. Pros. -Visuals -Fun factor -Well done rhythm game Cons. -Can't play your music library -To me I dont like the switching lanes so much. I would rather have one hard line and play that. -The music in the game, most of it just isn't my style. -The game breaking con? If you use a X360 controller and obviously that includes if you use something else that makes yours emulate one…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely hands-down the BEST soundtrack to a rhythm game I've ever played! I was huge into DDR and RPG's in the early 2000's (still am really, lol), so this is the best of both worlds with an absolutely amazing song list, fun characters and challenges that will make you question your expertise in ups downs lefts and rights! Worth every penny!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An absolute ton of fun from start to finsh. Unique idea, well executed - bright, colorful, inviting, quirky and beautiful. A good balance is struck between the DDR and RPG elements so that neither one feels incomplete or in isolation without the other. Played for hours and keep coming back for more - highly recommend!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Metronomicon: Slay The Dance Floor is an older game from 2016. It's a venerable 8 years old at the time of this review. It's an unabashed, lazy ripoff of Guitar Hero (Copyright Activision Blizzard, 2005). Many lazy "amateur" developers don't pay attention to their obligations under copyright law, and often steal the ideas of actual, real game developers without credit, such as the "developer" here has done. At this stage no legal action has been taken by Activision Blizzard against the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has so many good songs...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4/10 This game is trying to be to many things at once Ive played rockband, guitar heros, guitar hero ds, osu, elite beat agents-100% that on hardest settings, crypt of the necrodancer, fearless fantasy, melody's escape, and so on. i find myself unable to beat the 1st level of this game on normal settings. But on easy i can hit every single note the entire level + you can change notes to be the same color as the xbox controller buttons, helped a ton 4 lanes is to many for one person, this game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even though The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor is a few years old, I bought it recently after it was featured in the Save&Sound Indie Music Festival. While this game definitely has its flaws, it is overall among the best rhythm-type games I have played on Steam to date, and might be worth picking up if you are after that type of experience. This game is a hybrid RPG-rhythm mashup, but the rhythm aspect outshines the RPG. The rhythm portion of the game is exactly along the lines of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent Soundtrack, Responsive controls, and an entertaining story. Not really much more to say, it's fun and worth the price of admission.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting mechanics, and I suspect it would be good fun in co-op, but I find the songs fall flat more often than not for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get ready to grind that beeping! Requires too much focus and is too hard to play after a workday even on easy difficulty. 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty fun if you like rythem music type games plus an rpg party system you have to deal with and select what abilities to use on the enemies. You can also equip your party with differint stuff to help you win the battles which is cool. It's like DDR and Beatmania but instead of sticking to one line you need to switch to another of your choice quickly to help your party beat the foe or heal them up. Pretty cool honestly but if you hate music type games which are becoming more rare for some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Upsettingly bad art direction, unfunny dialogue, voice acting so bad it horseshoes twice around to being bad again, and music that is.... fine..... Like, if this game didn't come out 10 years ago, I'd be suspicious it was AI generated. Not because it's slop, just because it's.... fine.... All of the above would be forgivable if the mechanics of the game didn't also grate. Button combinations are annoying to execute with the control layout options available. Tracking enemies' elemental types is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some good music in here, and I found the overall conceit to be really charming! But I have three major issues with this game: First, engaging the elemental systems requires looking at the monsters on the right side of the screen, and that means taking your eyes off of the notes that need to be watched and hit accurately. Second, this is a music-driven game but not a music-reactive game. That is a design choice and not a flaw as such, but for me personally it makes a rhythm game far less fun…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RANDOM GAME 30 I don't think I've ever been this disgusted by an art style. Also the gameplay and especially the songs suck. Like those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ songs are just NCS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ making my ears bleed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →okay indie rhythym game. Lag spikes in rhythm games are fatal, and this one has it on the regular. No quality slider to maximize fps and minimize lag.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been burned by "You like A? You like B? How about A + B!?" games before, but this one actually really works. The rhythm part is what you would expect from a falling arrow rhythm game, but the fact that you have to decide which abilities to use and switch between characters makes it feel completely different from a standard rhythm game. You will use two parts of your brain and it is really fun. My only criticism of the game is that while there are a few gems in the song list, for the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look this game is absolutely amazing, when Discord gave current nitro users 1-2 years free access (depending on your sub) to their game library I found this game. Possibly the greatest thing to happen since I've had a blast probably putting quite a big play time into the game through discord Now why am I buying it on here? Well there's two reasons, one is that I simply want to actually buy the game and have the DLC and two, discord not letting you switch payment for your nitro so I lost my…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you love Crypt of the Necrodancer, then you will love Metronomicon too. I think, they done well, to combine Rhythm games with RPG's. The nature of the characters are a bit anime like and childish, but ok. Little introduction: Like in all Rhythm games, timing is key and in combination with music, much better. RPG elements: You fight with 4 characters simultaneously and you change the current character with 'shift' buttons. Each character have a passive ability (activated after a certain…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is so good so far! I'm loving the execution of turn-based RPG mechanics with DDR gameplay. If you like rhythm games and are up for a new concept, give this a try!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO YOU HATE TURN BASED RPG AND THE HOURS AND HOURS OF GRINDING TO LEVEL UP? DO YOU HATE HITTING NOTES IN RYTHM GAMES AND JUST SITTING THERE LIKE AN IDIOT OR FEELING AWKWARD AT THE CENTER OF A CHUCK E' CHEESE AS A GROWN ADULT MALE/FEMALE HOLDING A GIANT PLASTIC GUITAR?! Then you came to the right place. Metronomicon is the bridge between RPG's and Rythm games that gets rid of the annoying aspects of both. If you like rythm games you will love how you can feel the beat in each button press and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The soundtrack so far in this game is phenomenal. If you like electronic music with a good rhythm, this game has that covered in spades. It takes ideas that started in stuff like Guitar Hero and appeared again in Sequence (or Beyond the Echo or whatever the heck they changed it to?), and expounds upon them to deliver a dance-themed, colorful, silly universe. I tried a battle on Hard, and wow is it hard. Easy so far has been fairly challenging, all things considered. I had a nice time until the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have spent an hour trying to get multiplayer to work. It will not recognize input serperately for a second keyboard or a controller at all. Finally, it stopped allowing me to choose multiplayer at all. If I could get a refund for a Humble Bundle purchase, I would be by now. So diassapointed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Haven't played too much yet, but lots of fun. Does not have a great indicator of when you miss beats, but there's a consecutive beats counter in the corner that works well enough. Biggest pet peeve so far: If you're doing a challenge that, for example, requires 80 consecutive beats, you can't just get to 80 then exit the stage, or go afk, you have to actually play it through. Zzzzzzz. Some of the tracks are pretty long, and if they're not a challenge, it can be boring. I guess I should…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely loved it! It has a lot of charm and it's loads of fun. I couldn't put it down.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If, like the game says, you're into Guitar Hero and DDR but don't like classic rock or anything with '-metal' in it, this is the game for you. I may have misread the summary, so the existence of exclusively uninteresting music was a disappointment to me. Does it have good beat? Yeah. Was that what I was here for? Yeah. But the music itself I could care less about. I'm not going to enjoy playing a bunch of indie/techno/whatever stuff the way I would Foreigner or Queen. 6/10 for being…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was once that guy who had to have all the rhythm games to convince myself that I actually had rhythm. Well the days of the plastic instruments and dance pads are in my review mirror, but here comes this game, The Metronomicon, that just gives me a nostalgic rush. The thing is that this game has a bit of a twist. Now I know that the next statement, the mention of the genre, will have some of you scratching your heads, but I swear the developer actually made this work almost to complete…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great blend of rpg mechanics and rhythm gameplay. I loved that I could choose to play on the hard difficulty without needing to level up or unlock anything. If you enjoy DDR or stepmania and want to try and put a spin on things then I would highly recommend this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its gets difficult at some points but i love the game regarless awesome music too
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic combination of RPG and rhythm game elements combined with an excellent art style and eclectically brilliant sound track make for an amazing game play experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The music is awesome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♫ Shinji Hosoe - Zombie Chase ♫ ⚪──────────────────────────────────────── ⠀ ▐▐ ⠀►▏ ⠀⠀──○─ 🔊 ⠀0:00 / 4:11 ᴴᴰ⚙ ❐ ⊏⊐ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE5twz5dTII
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are sevearal significant problems with this game that really killed any enjoyment for me. 1- No Story 2- The Dance Animations aren't very good or varied. Its essentially seems like the same pose repeated, which is pretty bad considering the relative simplicity of the characters, and the fact that you spend most of the game watching the same ones. 3- There doesn't seem to be much to decide or impact in terms of strategy in this game. There IS management in the fight and knowing what…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very unique dancing game to play. I grew up for years and years on Dance Dance Revolution, so this was a bit of a good nostalgia kick for me. Adding in all the adventuring fun of RPG made the dancing-part of the game feel much more worthwhile/productive than the good o' days of "just hit this arrow and get points". Not saying that isn't fun - not by any means - but this is a really fun game that has much, much more; including mutiplayer to run the party mechanics with you! Even if I hadn't…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The songs sound great, the beats are fresh, and the gameplay is satisfying. Get yourself a copy and throw it down on the dance floor.
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