Разработчик: 4-Panel Footprint
Описание
Key Features
- EXPANSIVE SONG LIST: 85 songs from independent artists!
- DESIGNED FOR ANY SKILL LEVEL: 5-6 difficulties for every song totaling over 440 charts!
- BRING A BUDDY: Play solo or with a friend in local two player.
- MULTIPLE WAYS TO PLAY: Play with a dance pad, computer keyboard, game controller, or drum set controller.
- CUSTOMIZE YOUR SONG EXPERIENCE: Tons of song modifiers, settings, and arrow noteskins.
- GET IN THE ZONE: Unique song Effects keep songs engaging and keep you on your toes.
- WORKOUT MODE: Track your exercise intensity while playing songs with no down time.
- STEAM INTEGRATION: Compare scores in-game with friends, unlock achievements, and collect trading cards. Achievements and Trading Cards are still in development.
- AND MORE!: Remappable controls, dynamic resolutions and aspect ratio, and mouse functionality.
List of Songs
- Adraen - Killin' Your Dudes
- Azrael-II - Never Fade
- BANDETTO - Headrockin'
- Signs from There Came an Echo - Big Giant Circles feat Aureylian
- Blenderblaster - Boom
- Blenderblaster - Dreams and Nightmares
- Blenderblaster - Hyped
- Blenderblaster - Living Colours
- Blenderblaster - Satellite Signal
- Comma King - Bringing Me Down
- Comma King - Forever Blue
- Comma King - Halcyon
- Comma King - Retro-Specced
- Comma King - Smile Through the Stars
- Comma King - Zenone
- Danny Baranowsky - Crypteque from Crypt of the Necrodancer
- Danny Baranowsky - Mausoleum Mash from Crypt of the Necrodancer
- D-Mode-D - Just Love (Mayhems MMAAYYHHEEMM Remix)
- DJ DISITE - Hypnosis
- Dj-Greene - Holiday Hurricane
- Dj-Greene - Irish Trance Dance
- DustZallax orig Chipzel - Super Hexagon Remix
- Emoticon - Wishing Well
- Fredgy - Sarcolemma
- Furries in a Blender - I Ate All the Food
- Furries in a Blender - Sqweg the Dragon
- Furries in a Blender feat Entity and Lawlzy - Synapse
- Hydlide feat SquaDus - Regret
- hyi - I Control
- Idris - I Believe
- Idris - Wonderland
- Idris & Zyrion - Serendipity
- J-Mi & Midi-D - Life is a Journey (The Paradise Last Mix)
- J-Mi & Midi-D feat Hanna Stockzell - All Night Long (The Paradise Last Italo-Disco Mix)
- Jackal Queenston - Murder Machine
- Ken Wank - I Gotta Have Mix
- Ken Wank - Make Your Moves Mix
- Kitsune^2 - Hot One
- Kitsune^2 - Jetpack Cutie (Entertain Us Re-Edit)
- Kitsune^2 - Rainbow Medication
- Kitsune^2 - Steel Monster Above the City
- Kitsune^2 - Tung the Icelandic Space Warrior
- Kyle - Techno Rocker (Remix)
- Losstarot - Cosmo Memory
- Losstarot - CTRL ALT BELIEVE
- Losstarot - Lunatic High
- Losstarot - Onigiri
- Losstarot - Wildfire
- Losstarot feat GUMI - Calamity
- Losstarot feat GUMI - Starburst
- Mayhem - Laugh at Life
- Mayhem - Spinback
- MGD Assault Force - Speak Sins
- MGD Sound Team - Future Destination
- MIDIhead - Fall Awake (Lars Hausmann Remix)
- MIDIhead - Speeder Freak
- Monolithic - The Dark
- Odyssey - I Breathe Fire
- Oscillator X - Style On My Speed Dial
- PSURG Sound Team - The Collapse
- Renard - Claustrophilia
- Renard - I UPDATED MY LIST
- Renard - Kyle Ward the Space Pumpkin
- Renard - She's An Angel
- Renard - System Failure
- Rotteen - Koan
- Rotteen + Emoticon - Figurehead
- Shirobon - This Love
- Sonitus Vir - Stormy Weather
- Soul Pacific - Cali Coast (Psionics Remix) Speed Edit
- Sta - Dystopia of the Sun
- Sta - Finite
- Sta - Noiseproof
- Sta - Savvy
- Sta - Unified Chaos
- The Icarus Kid orig daniwell - Nyan Cat (Rainbow Poptart Remix)
- The liquid movement & Sta - Lovesick (Xyzzy Mix)
- The Queenstons - Commuting
- The Queenstons - Guiding Light
- The Queenstons - I Control
- The Queenstons - I Prefer the Sky
- The Queenstons - Our Special Place
- typeMARS - Sky Destiny
- WipEOut - Canon-D
- WipEOut infected - SYSTEM ERROR
NOTE: Some sections of this game contain flashing lights which may cause an adverse reaction in some users.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, spanish - spain, japanese, german
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Microsoft Windows Vista or higher
- Processor: 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z5xx or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel Integrated 915G, nVIDIA GeForce 6600GS, or AMD Radeon 9600 Pro
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 400 MB available space
- OS *: Microsoft Windows 8.1 or higher
- Processor: 3.06GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel GMA 4500X, nVIDIA GeForce 9400M, AMD Radeon HD3850
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 400 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Despite what Steam compatibility may tell you, Pulsen works great on Deck besides a few minor bugs. If your like me, this is your best bet for a DDR styled game at home. Developers, I beg you to keep updating Pulsen in 2025. Please.
Love this, even years later.
Wish there was an update or sequel!!
Negative reviews seem to be mostly from people who are just mad to actually have to pay for the work artists have put into songs and mappers have put into charts. I personally am not a fan of being a freeloader and playing copyrighted songs so this game gets my full support. Furthermore, the charts are nice and vibe well with the music, and most of the songs are good too. I also like how they're unique, since I play so many rhythm games, and many of them have similar songs. So this game is a nice addition to my rhythm game library for sure!
I also find the charts to be of higher quality than a lot of the ones that one can find in games people recommend to play instead of this. Also the difficulties are perfectly fine. I guess the people calling it 'easy' are used to the kind of trash high difficulties most free vertical scrolling rhythm games churn out. But in any good triple A rhythm game I've played, the difficulty isn't about eyeraping you with bulky overcharted maps paired with insane carpal tunnel inducing button mashing that makes NO sense with the music at all. It's impressive if you can do it, sure. But it isn't fun to look at, nor to play imo. Gotta be able to vibe with the music yo. And I am vibing in this game.
The only thing I'd like for this game to improve on is that it remembers your custom settings. It's a bit annoying having to set it up all over again every time I run the game.
This is just a paid reskin of StepMania (which is open source and more importantly free) do not buy this. You're essentially paying $14.99 for a poorly made StepMania theme + a badly charted pack of songs.
Excellent! I have tried Stepmania 5 and outfox. This polished version is simple and functions without stress. The meager fee is also appreciated. The only item that could improve this game is a pump option (diagonal arrows).
While the the free alternatives have a pump option and perhaps additional game variations, they are missing instructions and those game variations are not immediately functional.
Pulsen Is fully functional and requires simplistic and easy dance pad configuration (assign pad areas to the game directions). Purchase this game and have a stress free and enjoyable experience!
Thank you for for the excellent experience, 4-Panel Footprint.
This game is not worth $15 at all. There are much better FREE alternatives (Stepmania, Etterna) ((Both of these are online downloads, not via steam.)
This game does come with a lot of good songs, with... interesting charts. Notably Kitsune^2 and songs from Crypt of the Necrodancer. Notes twist and turn and shift all around when playing, and so far I haven't found on option to turn this off. In Stepmania, there is an option to change the notes to a constant rate of speed, getting rid of these random twists and bounces. If that were added, and the price was reduced just a tiny tiny bit, then I might be able to recommend it.
Get the better free alternative! (Unless you have $5 to spend and you don't really mind, but do not spend $15 on this.)
it's literally stepmania packaged with a bunch of (pretty easy) custom charts for some mediocre songs and a few noteskins
maybe worth it for $5, not for $15
if you like this type of game, just play etterna
Nothing that really makes it stand out over it's competitors, and it appears to be have been abandoned. No workshop support, little aesthetic customisation, no options that other games dont already have, flipping the playfield invalidates scores, no editor, and the bundled maps are good, but not good enough to warrant the price tag.
Not a bad game, but there just isn't any reason to get this over stepmania.
(note, the developer comment on this is referring to a review I did for this years ago, this one you're reading is a completely different review)
I revisited this game after a few years to see how this game holds up and it unfortunately is worse to use today than it is back then. Not to say that much has changed here, but the world of customizable rhythm game clients has grown around it, and this is just unusable by comparison.
I understand that this isn't an 'engine', and it's a 'game', but the main problem comes from this game running on an unmodifiable version of the Stepmania 5 engine. The SM5 engine is pretty decent by itself, but the problem is that when you close it off and remove features from it, it loses a lot of its appeal. For example, you can't add any noteskins to this. You can't view or modify any of the charts in a chart editor. You can't enable assist clap or autoplay. You can't enable c-mod. It doesn't seem like you can even use a normal scoring system even after fiddling through the options. It would always give me 100% as long as I hit every note (there was an option in the gameplay settings that supposedly let you change the scoring system, but I didn't notice a difference. maybe it didn't work). There were other small annoyances I would run into while browsing through the song list (including crashing, hell yes, that's early access baby), but you get the idea.
It's unfortunate because stylistically, it's all pretty decent. The charts are good (and there's a lot of them. The store page says 85 songs but I counted over 100), the noteskins aren't terrible (mines could use a different texture), and the menus look neat, also. The song list I'm not a fan of (1/3 of the track list is Renard under various pseudonyms, the rest isn't much better), but if you dig the music, the charts are not bad at all.
So are these fancy charts worth putting up with the game's annoyances? Not for $15, I would say. And you might be thinking "Hey, $15 isn't even a lot!", and for a rhythm game, it really isn't. But you have to consider just how many good stepmania song packs and themes are available for free right now. There's an endless amount of them, with a lot of them looking just as nice as Pulsen does. This is a tough sell even if everything was perfect, so the problems amplify my hesitancy to recommend this 100 times over. If you don't care about stepmania at all, and you want an easy all in one package of dancing goodness... buy In the Groove on the PS2! Or this. But if you are already familiar with stepmania or openitg, this probably won't impress you.
The best Stepmania-inspired official games on Steam! I'm-a enjoying & loving it a lot too!
It got so much of your favorite songs or maybe the songs that you will love much. But the VVVVVV music (in this game) will really give you the great feelings of dancing to the video game music remixes assuming that you enjoyed the Nintendo games.
I always play on the hardest difficulty however I go one difficulty down if I can't get past the first half of each song but I'm not ever playing on novice or easy because I'm too good for those difficulties and it can also weaken my skills for this game.
With the Steam Workshop support, we won't even have to lose our Stepmania songs by accident since it will be similar to Garry's Mod and Source Filmmaker where you create your own contents and upload to the Steam Workshop instead of putting in a file storage for others to download. I'm happily tuned for that. Even everybody should make charts of video game music remixes too (for Steam Workshop though)!
I may need a dance pad for this game too because real girls are good at Dance Dance Revolution and other games that inspires it and 40+ year old men aren't. Even the Touhou vocals can really help out even more!
It should even be on Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Wii U too unless it can't go on home gaming systems which will be too bad.
This game is really great, it's again the best Stepmania-inspired official game on Steam ever. If you love rhythm games, you should actually buy & enjoy this game. I do.
Neppu neppu!
TL:DR: This game isn't worth $15. Free alternatives are Stepmania, FFR, and osu! mania (to an extent).
Long answer:
Out of curiosity I thought I would try this game to see how much it differs from other VSRGs. $15 is a bit steep for these types of games but I thought they might've done something interesting that would make it worth it. Here are some pros and cons I have with the game:
*DISCLAIMER*: I will be comparing this game A LOT to Stepmania, another VSRG. The reason for this is that they are so similar to each other, it would be crazy not to compare the two.
PROS:
- The game seems to have a fairly professional feel and doesn't feel like it was made halfassed
- The customizability in the settings for the game is extensive (feels VERY similar to stepmania)
- Supports replays. This is especially good for this game because Stepmania, the game that is most similar to this game, does not have this feature at the moment
- There is no prep work to get this game running with an assortment of maps
CONS For rhythm game enthusiasts:
- If you are halfway decent at Stepmania, this game will be way too easy. I've gotten platinum scoring (99%) on practically all of the hardest difficulties with only one or two tries
- The timing is way too basic. At this point, there are only two timing windows: you hit the note, or you missed it. There is no other timing windows e.g. in stepmania there is Marvelous, Perfect, Great, Good, Bad, Boo and Miss
- It's difficulty is based more on modifiers of the file rather than actual note density and patterns. Also a lot of the maps play like maps in Stepmania that are not supposed to be played with c-mod due to rapid bpm changes
CONS for caual players:
- It's just so expensive. 15 dollars for a game that could be played virtually the same and subjectively better for free is just not worth paying money for
Conclusion: This game would have been pretty good if it were the only option for this type of game genre. It's well-put together and has a good assortment of songs. Since this not the case, however, I cannot recommend it. There are other games that do this concept, in my opinion, better AND for free.
As a StepMania and osu!mania player, my opinion may be a little biased here and there.
Things I enjoyed
- Graphics
The game is probably the best looking VSRG around.
- The Music
While not the kind of music I enjoy most of the time, it works. I would personally love more high-bpm songs, hardstyle, eurobeat, etc. though.
Things I did not enjoy
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The difficult part about these maps is that it isn't the actual note mapping that makes the songs hard, it's the scroll speed changes and various effects. Coming from SM and o!m where such effects are unusual, the scroll speed changes annoy me. Yes, such effects should have a place in maps, though I feel they are majorly disruptive to the general flow of how a map goes (see CTRL ALT BELIEVE @ approx 0:45).
(Going to use some SM-terminology) In Pulsen, most of the maps I played (admittedly not many of them though) had rather simple patterns. They mostly consisted of rolls, trills and a few jumps. What I would like to see are maps that challenge you with note patterns, and not Scroll Speed changes. An example for a somewhat challenging map from StepMania would be Everytime I Hear Your Name consisting of mostly jumpstreams, rolls (1:10~) and eventually a handstream (at around 1:17). This is the kind of mapping I want to see.
I had to fool around with the Note Scroll Speed Multiplier before I realised the option for "fixed" scroll speed even existed. I would also like more options for fixed scroll speed, increments of 50 are okay, but I would like to be able to choose even more.
I realise this is something that most likely would be fixed when the editor is released, but as it stands at the moment I feel there are relatively few maps.
Incredibly important for me as I like to play "competitively", be it world wide or with others in my country.
All in all, I would recommend the game IF you aren't looking for the hardest maps, with quadstreams, jumptrills and songs with other patterns like these.
The game is more aimed towards the casual VSRG player, so it failed to cater to me as it stands right now.
Step to This
I've owned Pulsen for some time now, but it is only recently I've been able to enjoy it the way I've always wanted to. With the addition of the Songs Don't End option and Workout Mode the game has become exactly what I needed. I'm an old DDR fan (34 years old as of this writing) who fell out of the habit as I got older and moved around. I've gained 60-70 pounds since then depending on when I weigh myself, and let me tell you, most of it is not muscle! :D I have a dad gut, and now that I'm getting older cholesterol is a real concern that I have to deal with. The best way is through regular exercise, not medication.
The problem is, I've never exercised in my life unless someone was holding a proverbial gun to my head. I am former military and in that circumstance I could be fired for not exercising regularly, so I did. I never enjoyed it, though, and always did the bare minimum I could get away with. When I think about DDR, Stepmania, and now Pulsen, I don't think about exercise. I think about how much I love the music and how easy it is for me to get into the gameplay of stepping in time with the songs. It short circuits my innate aversion to taking good care of myself :P
I'm going to start keeping an "exercise" log of all my sessions in Workout Mode detailing how many songs I did at what difficulties each day, and I do plan on making this a part of my daily routine. I work from home and have literally no excuse not to now that I have a fun activity that could add years to my life. I have a 3 year old now and I'd love to stick around for her as long as possible, and as far as I'm concerned the Pulsen team are saints for helping me do that in a way that is unique to this sort of game. They're filling a niche and doing a damn fine job of it.
Bottom Line
I know I sound dramatic, but I mean every word. I can't recommend this game highly enough for people who once loved DDR and wouldn't mind stepping up to the mat once again.
Side Notes
Yes, you can download Stepmania and play a huge number of songs for absolutely free as many other reviewers have pointed out, but I don't feel like the Pulsen team is asking too much at $15 for around 100 original songs with at least 5x original step charts per song. The problem with Stepmania and any community project is that there is no quality control, the song charts you download might be good, or they might be awful, or they might not even be designed for human feet at all (keyboard play only). You don't know sometimes until you try them and that means wasted time. If you're an adult and realize how precious your time is, buying Pulsen is a good way to avoid a lot of hassle finding new quality music to step to. I'm not sure every song in Pulsen is completable on a mat at every setting, but every song is completable on at least some settings, and that is enough for me.
If your a fan of DDR or Stepmania this game is perfect. Unlike using emulators (Stepmania) the quality of the songs/stepfiles is top notch! I've been a fan of stepmania for years and I'm really enjoying this game!
Guys.... Never stop doing what you're doing.
Let's get into this.
I am probably THE MOST (arguable) hardcore rythm gamer out there. I have definitely played it all with the exception of OSU because frankly, its just not viable without a certain peripheral like Guitar/DJ Hero.
This game gets a lot of comparison to stepmania and rightfully so.
The Kicker:
This game offers things that other indie games do not, Consistency.
NOT ONCE have I felt I dropped a combo because of a misplaced, very random note.
Not to mention that some of the challenge modes of the songs offer very unique twists such as;
-Twisting notes
-Skipping around the screen to the beat
-Flipping the note gates around
-Bending the path
-and many more..
Great game. Only reason I even wrote a review was because just finished the challenge mode on Nyan Cat and felt compelled to.
I will be pushing this to freinds and members of my community.
Starting tonight you can view step setups on my stream. twitch.tv/xbootlegx
Sure it people compare it to stepmania, I have played both. Personally I prefer this the arrow maps are all carefully made and the music is good. They have recently released a path which is a vast improvement over the previous version. There are a lot of special effects like invisible notes random speed boosts and slow downs and frankly they made it pretty unfair. The recent path has got rid of a lot of this nonsense so now it is more pure and I guess a bit more like stepmania but better. Definitely recommend it :)
I always wanted to like DDR, But the music always sucked and I never could connect to the beat.
BUT HOLY SWEET GODS OF DANCE, THERE IS FINALLY A FUN AND CHALLENGING DANCE GAME.
PULSEN <3
I'm a really big fan of rythm games, having played DDR, ITG, PIU, osu etc..
Sadly pulsen feels like a gimped version of existing software out there.. Sure it's easy to install since it's on steam but overall it has been a negative experience..
From the viewpoint of someone who is hardcore into Rhythm gaming I just can't recommend Pulsen for its cost.
If you're looking for a packaged standalone experience that requires no additional setup and is super casual friendly, then it might be the game for you. But for an advanced user, who is already accustomed to modifying a game like StepMania to fit my needs, I find the experience lacking. There is the promise of a song editor coming eventually and steam workshop integration, but nothing you can't already get in SM for free. No custom themes, noteskins appear to be limited to paid DLC, limited mod-ability.
The chart gimmicks are cute, but I don't really feel the same depth in them as other packs. Look up WinDEU or charts made for D.O.W.N.S. for some examples. And as far as overall difficulty, even the most challenging of charts was relatively tame compared to the majority of what I commonly play on SM/FFR.
If you're a pad player, you can expect a similar experience to picking up an old console copy of DDR or ITG in terms of content and customization options. And if you're OK with that, and you rather not deal with setting up everything yourself (if you haven't already) then you should probably get this game.
Nothing but respect to the developers, they are trying, they do listen to feedback. Its simply not something I'm looking for as a veteran rhythm gamer.
At the time of writing this review the game is still in early access, so everything is subject to change and update.
After roughly 15 years of playing DDR & later moving on to ITG, I was excited to finally see a new take on 4 panel rhythm games. I actually owned this game before it was on steam around 2012. Sadly not much has changed since then. The skin the game is running over StepMania is pretty much the exact same as it was almost 4 years ago. The song selection is pretty decent at the time of writing this, fairly wide varity of genres. I didn't expect to see songs by Renard which was a nice surprise.
The song unlock system is a good idea but at the end of the day, if you are a high skilled player at DDR or ITG, unlock songs feels more like a task than a reward. You get points after beating songs, you then use those points to choose what songs you wish to unlock. At the end of the day I had already unlocked every song with points in about 2 hours of play simply because the game is so easy.
None of the songs really offer much of a challenge after playing song packs for SM like Pendulum or even some songs on ITG like Vertex or Hardcore of the North. Which I get it can't be to crazy as to allure to new players. But the fact I full combo every song without really trying is kind of sad. Probably the only thing that throws me off are the lifts. The are hugely annoying when playing on keyboard as I'm not holding down the panel after hitting a single note as I would while playing on a pad.
All in all, this is a great rhythm game for what it is and I can only hope that it gets updates and support. Things like multiplayer online, marathons, higher difficulties and new songs.
Starting off with 3 songs is not the greatest espically if you are new to this type of game. I would like to see harder songs as well. I purchased the game and with in 30 minutes I have beaten all the 12+ difficulty songs with a 98% or more. I do like the simplicity of the game and would recommend it for new players that enjoy rythm and dance.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | 4-Panel Footprint |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 19.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 71% положительных (34) |