Crumbeats
Revive a silent speaker and rebuild the beat in this music-driven incremental arcade game. Shatter Crumbs, collect Echoes, unlock instruments, and stack upgrades into an evolving groove.
About
Break Crumbs. Build the beat.
Crumbeats is a minimalist music-driven incremental arcade game where every action feeds the rhythm.
Revive a silent speaker and move through an abstract field of Crumbs. Your waves pulse with the beat, breaking shapes apart, releasing Echoes, and slowly turning simple impacts into a layered musical system.
A simple loop with musical consequences
Move, position yourself, and let your speaker's waves do the work. Each run starts small, but every destroyed Crumb helps you grow stronger, faster, louder, and more rhythmic.
- Emit waves on the beat
- Break Crumbs and release Echoes
- Collect Echoes during each run
- Buy upgrades between runs
- Increase wave damage, radius, tempo, Groove duration, Crumb quantity, and more
Unlock instruments
As you progress, the board becomes more musical.
- Guitar links Crumbs together and resolves them rhythmically.
- Bass sends heavy directional shockwaves through dense clusters.
- Piano creates pulsing resonance effects around contaminated Crumbs.
Each instrument changes both the sound and the way you read the board.
Enter the Groove
Collect enough Echoes to trigger Groove mode. During Groove, one instrument takes the lead, effects intensify, and the screen becomes more reactive to the rhythm.
The stronger your build becomes, the more each run starts to sound like a track forming around your actions.
Minimalist, abstract, readable
Crumbeats uses simple shapes, shadows, waves, and particles to keep the screen readable while the music grows more complex.
The goal is not to overwhelm you with noise, but to make every upgrade feel like a new layer being added to the system.
Features
- Music-driven incremental arcade gameplay
- Automatic rhythmic waves
- Run-based progression
- Persistent upgrade tree
- Instrument unlocks: Guitar, Bass, Piano
- Groove mode with stronger rhythmic feedback
- Abstract black-and-white visual style
- Short sessions with scaling progression
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System requirements
Minimum Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible GPU DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 500 MB available space Sound Card: Any Recommended Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Dedicated or recent integrated DirectX 11 compatible GPU DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 500 MB available space Sound Card: Any
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Minimum OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / SteamOS 3.0 Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz Memory: 4096 MB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520 / AMD Radeon HD 7750 / NVIDIA GTX 650 or better Storage: 1024 MB available space Sound Card: ANY Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. Native Linux x86_64 build only. Recommended OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / SteamOS 3.0 Processor: Quad-core 2.5 GHz Memory: 8192 MB RAM Graphics: Intel Iris Xe / AMD Radeon Vega 8 / NVIDIA GTX 950 or better Storage: 1024 MB available space Sound Card: ANY Additional Notes: Steam Deck compatibility should be tested separately.