Pianistic

This game truly makes you immerse yourself in the role of a pianist. You have to sync your mind and hands to the rhythm, and once you get into the flow, it’s incredibly satisfying. The difficulty progression keeps things engaging, from easy tunes to more complex classical pieces.

It's relaxing yet challenging, a great way to unwind and de-stress while still feeling accomplished. For the price, it's absolutely worth it. If you love rhythm games or classical music, highly recommended!

i do not like very bad mechanics, should be more arcade this kind of game, and a controller support a must

Great concept, terrible execution. The most counter-intuitive controls I've ever experienced in a rhythm game. There is also the problem of latency. I can't fathom how this game has a "Very Positive" review score at the time of writing the present review.

Locked at 1920x1080 resolution, developers? Have you seriously released this product on the market? If you decide to do your job properly, I might think about purchasing this game again at the next sale. Until then, I'm asking for a refund of my 0.99 euros.

Cool concept but filled with latency issues and bugs. My primary monitor is 1440p but the game is locked at 1080p and showing controls outside of the box to the left, partially clipped by the edge of the monitor. There is no option for keyboard only or a slower, more relaxed pace for those looking to enjoy the concept and the achievements without entering some leaderboard. Adding content is nice but fixing bugs is better. This game could benefit from workshop support.

Pianistic has the makings of a GREAT rhythm game, but has some struggles. On several songs either the mapping or the syncing was off. Understanding it to be likely my error at first, I go to check my latency settings, as I'm not using headphones right now. The only options are for the game to set your latency or for you to manually set it with no adjustment tool like in some other rhythm games. Would flip to positive if they add a workshop and/or a mapping tool for community songs. For now, however, I don't recommend you buy this specific game unless it's on serious sale (I got it for $0.44, so can't complain enough to justify returning it).

This game is SOOOOOOOOO Hard to play., I have played Piano for about 20 Plus years now. This is NOTHING LIke a Piano. They DEVS Need to fix it where you can play the game. 1 - 10 this game is a 20 being HARD TO PLAY. You Can play about 1-2 Songs and then its just Game over. I would had loved if this game was playable.

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Start the fire, grab the glass and tickle the ivories.
Of course these are not ivories and you'll totally miss the rhythm if you drink from that glass, but you get it.
It's hard, but totally worth it.

A good Game and a stylish creative new way to play piano on the PC!
although i have to say i wish there was some kind of a slower tempo in practice mode,
so i can know which key I'm going to press next.

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First of all, I'm a person who has devoted most of my life to rhythm games. I've played a lot of rhythm games, and I can say that my understanding is quite high. The gameplay was really impressive, and it's fun once you get used to it. It may be difficult for the average person, but at least for me it felt fun.

In my personal opinion, it's a bit out of sync, which is quite inconvenient when playing fast songs. To be precise, the song comes out a little faster. No matter how much you increase or decrease the number using the Sync Compensate feature, you won't notice any difference. Also, it's a great way to keep long notes played until the end. However, because of that method, when two long notes come out in succession, and the gap between them is narrow, it does not play well.

Personally, I think it will be the best indie rhythm game if these things are solved well. And please keep updating the game.
I want many people to see this game. Thanks for reading this long post.

Fix the syncing and latency issues and you have yourself a really good game

I didn't play this for very long but the things I noticed were too noticeable and impactful for me to even play that long

1: the tutorial takes way to long, instead of having a separate section for each note, like the repetition of essentially the same keyboard note, have like, one type note for shift, then move on. Having a separate section for ASD and space, that's just tedious and unnecessary

2: the syncing and latency and double presses is absolutely atrocious. This is the main reason why I stopped playing the game, if you pressed your 1 key, even a quarter of a second after hitting your mouse key, it missed the note. and I could not fix this for the life of me

please just fix the syncing though, the tutorial is nothing compared to it

It's a relatively unique rhythm game despite not looking like anything special. I was thankful there were alternative control schemes (1-5 on the keyboard or left shift,a,s,d, space bar). I found the secondary layout to be much more intuitive but this game is brutally difficult no matter what your buttons are. Constantly asking you to keep track of not only which keys your left hand is pressing but also the timing and positioning of your mouse is daunting.

When you're flowing the game feels great but boy is the learning curve steep. If you're a hardcore rhythm game lover like me there's something great here but for a more casual audience the difficulty may be too much.

My only gripe is that, to my knowledge, you basically have to progress each song one by one instead of having free range of what you want to play. This is troublesome if a song you know you like is locked while a song you aren't super into forces you to beat it. I'd like to see a currency system introduced to let players unlock songs as they go or just not lock songs in general.

Overall strong first showing, I think it's 5 dollars well spent!

pretty good
but practise mode so fu**ing useless this is just no fail mod, i even can't choose what part i want to practice

You have to set your mind and brain to believe you are pianist !!! in order for it to work and synchronize in harmony with your hands to get the rhythm down of each classical song and of course learn from your mistakes. Highly recommended with various levels from easy to more difficult. Very relaxing game to easy down and make you day more stress free and positive in a good way. They did good work on this project and its worth the cheap price.

to be frank im so slow im jealous how others do it but i have to accept the fact that i cant even complete the last lesson in tutorial play with keyboard and mouse.

Refreshing rhythm game completely focused on piano, really satisfying to play, there seems to be a huge difficulty spike in song 10, probably due to poor mapping on the song. Either way, great game with a lot of potential!

To devs: Release a track mapper and watch your game blow up!

Not a bad idea, but its a little over challenging. But a very simple way to fix that and make this game much, much more enjoyable would be to have a option to use keys only.

Good:

- Music selection

Bad:

- Resolution locked at 1080p
- Some songs have unnecessary silence at the end
- The judegment line is hard to predict when respawns from the left, because it changes speed every time.
- Because of the previous point, lots of unpolished/clunky charts.

Even just completing one song is feels like great achievement. I love the different style of every song, its hard at some songs, but this game also enjoyable. 9.5/10

To dear developers

Give a feedback on a (potential?) bug. I once failed to unlock the third piece even if I've completed the first two with score over 95%. (But somehow I tried to restart the game and press "enter" on the locked third piece for many times, and luckily succeeded to enter it. The problem remained when I quit the game with the third uncleared, but once cleared it seemed to back to normal.) I don't know why but my OS isn't English (Chinese).

You guys have made the excellent game. I enjoy playing it so much and I feel like I'm really playing a piano. Look forward to more pieces to be added.

This game has a gorgeous interface and the recorded piano sound for it is fantastic. They even have the keyboard option set up that conforms to where your fingers rest which is very comfortable. That being said... I'm left handed. I would love it if there was a left handed option in the comments but both settings that they have better conform to right handed people. I... am not good at using the mouse right handed as I normally don't which made this game awkward to play for me. It's a shame.

I'd recommend this if you're right handed.

This game. This game right here, is amazing. Very good rhythm game that focus on mostly classic and jazz music which I honestly love, really fun to relax with the music as you play along with it.

The gameplay is really fun, you either choose the number layout (1,2,3,4,5) or the keyboard layout which I find easier to use (Left Shift, A, S, D, Space bar) to hit the notes at the right time, the mouse being involved with the notes to is really cool and fun to play around with even tho I suck and sometimes can't read some of the music fast enough and end up panic tapping or clicking.

The songs are a good choice of songs, songs you have heard of for years and songs you might have never heard of. The list of songs is just 20 songs, you would think that's pretty short, but trust me you would play these songs more than once to just hear how good the music sounds and just your hand tapping and clicking while just feeling yourself. I really hope they do add more songs tho so I can get mad at myself for not being able to read these fast songs sometimes.

Overall though Pianistic is a really fun piano rhythm game to play if you're into piano, classical music, rhythm games or overall music. The price right now is fair enough for you to buy it and try it out with how good this type of gameplay feels like, even tho 5 bucks doesn't seem to high neither for how great this game really is. All I'm saying though is if you got some spare money and you are interested in this, go ahead and give it a shot, trust me you will love it :)

Refreshing rhythm game completely focused on piano, really satisfying to play, there seems to be a huge difficulty spike in song 10, probably due to poor mapping on the song. Either way, great game with a lot of potential!

To devs: Release a track mapper and watch your game blow up!