Backbeat Nintendo Switch

Discover Backbeat on Nintendo Switch!

Use the spatial rules of musical composition to navigate grumpy shift managers, suspicious security guards, and kids with sticky fingers, all while playing gigs and gaining fans.

Over time, you'll unlock new music, tips, and stylish locations soaked in the desaturated suburban vibes of 1990s America.

Stephanie "Watts" Watson, an aspiring bassist, has bounced from audition to audition, never quite finding music that truly resonated—until she discovered the magic of funk.

Caught up in the groove, she gathers a band of misfits from her hometown to take on the darlings of La Tormenta Art School in the Battle of the Bands.

Each character in your group moves through the map in different ways, encountering unique solutions and obstacles. Moving a character consumes a turn and part of the timeline, setting up interactions with other characters and enemies at specific moments. Rewinding a turn undoes your move, allowing you to find better solutions and new ways to solve problems.

Control each character separately, rewinding or fast-forwarding through the timeline as needed to reach their current point in time. Time shifts reflect in the past and present actions of each character, creating new possibilities—or eliminating others.

Each character has a unique, resource-limited super move that can be triggered under certain conditions. Tiptoe through tight spaces with your bassist, glide past guards with your keytarist, vault walls with your drummer, or blast enemies with your mighty saxophone. Strategic use of super moves increases the number of solutions in each puzzle and is key to achieving the highest score.

Four resource-based musical metrics determine how and when you can move and interact with objects in the levels. Mismanaging them can block your progress, while mastering them creates incredible musical chains and high scores.

PUBLISHER Clear River Games
GENRE Puzzle, Strategy, Music
FORMAT Physical cartridge
PLATFORM Nintendo Switch
AGE RATING PEGI 3

A mix of puzzle and strategy gameplay.

Rewindable, multi-path rhythm-based environmental puzzles

Player-driven songs created from your movement choices

Real-life jam band music rules and tricks to maximize your score

Character-driven story set in 1990s suburban America across 40 levels of strategic madness