About the Game
Indie Game × Indie Music
Music is at the heart of Beat For Speed and we believe great music deserves to find its audience. We're excited to bring you songs from independent artists and labels, including Epidemic Sound, Kitty Ray, Sunday Cruise and The Pom-Poms through Lauren Records, alongside indie rock band tears please and more.
Experience their music through handcrafted rhythm levels, and discover your next favorite artist along the way.
🐱 A Special Gift for Early Riders!
Purchase Beat For Speed and launch the game for the first time within the first 14 days after release to receive 1 of 6 randomly selected kitties as your little riding buddy!
Turn Any Song Into a High-Speed Rhythm Ride
Import your favorite songs and transform them into playable racing experiences.
Beat For Speed is a rhythm game where every beat becoms a challenge. Ride through dynamic tracks generated from your songs, from genres like Pop, K-Pop to Hip-Hop, Rock, EDM and more. Every song becomes a brand new ride.
Play Your Music, Ride in Real Time!
With Live Audio Mode, music playing on your PC becomes a rhythm ride in real time. Open your favorite music app or browser player, put on a playlist and start riding. No song import needed.
Prefer local files? You can also import your favorite songs and turn them into playable tracks.
We spent countless hours creating thousands of handcrafted levels and built our own system based on that experience. Designed to recognize musical structures, rhythmic patterns and energy changes across different music genres, it transforms your songs into unique tracks.
Create, Share and Discover Endless Community Content
With full Steam Workshop support, explore a growing library of community-created experiences or create your own. It never ends.
Steam Workshop & Editor
Massive Custom Levels: Discover custom tracks created by players worldwide in Steam Workshop.
Custom Protagonist Models: Personalize your experience by importing unique character models.
Level Editor: Use our built-in Level Editor to manually craft rhythm masterpieces with frame-perfect precision.
Share your creations with the community!
Climb the Leaderboards
See how high you can score and compete with players all over the world. Whether you're climbing the rankings or beating your personal best, there's always another reason to ride again.
Find Your Flow Through Music
Every lane shift, collision, and dodge movement is synchronized with the rhythm. Put on something fast and test your reflexes, or pick something mellow and enjoy the scenery. Ride through cities, forests, coastlines and snowy mountains, with different weather and skies to match your mood.
Put on your favorite song. Let’s ride.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Fixed music player and audio output connection issues introduced in the previous update.
- Force editor updates to the latest version.
- Unified general bug reporting with the Live Audio Report a Problem experience.
- Added customizable editor key bindings, starting with horizontal page scrolling (Shift + Mouse Wheel).
- Fixed an issue where the game would not fully exit when closed.
- Fixed an issue where closing the game could also close independently opened browser windows.
Thank you for your feedback and support. We will keep doing it.
- Added the Wheelie Action. Trigger it by pressing a key or using a specific chart note.
- Added 3 new featured songs.
- Changed the default marker in the editor to Start Marker.
- Reorganized note genres in the editor.
- Added an error message when audio output fails, preventing the countdown from getting stuck at 0.
- Fixed an issue where Live Audio could not be re-entered after restarting the music player in certain situations.
- Improved problem reports to help us further investigate Spotify playback issues and Linux/Proton compatibility.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some Steam achievements from being unlocked.
Thank you so much for your supports and feedback. We will keep it up.
Editor
- Fixed dog passing notes
- Added note genres
- Added exact beat position markers
- Added ending markers
- Added a foldable lyrics area
- Renamed "Camera Note" to "High & Distant Third Person"
- Fixed the playhead incorrectly jumping to the beginning after reaching the end of a song
Audio & Compatibility
- Improved audio connection compatibility on some Windows systems
- Fixed audio sometimes remaining silent after switching tracks
- Improved audio output device detection and connection checks
- Improved compatibility with Windows Media Player and Microsoft Store Spotify
- Fixed a Linux/Wine crash when using custom audio routing
- Improved audio and device diagnostics in bug reports
Other Changes
- Achievements: Added progress compensation for two Live Audio track-switching achievements
- Local Music: Fixed some music folders not appearing in the file picker
- Leaderboard: Tied scores are now ranked by achievement time
- Graphics: Changed Bloom quality options to Low / Medium / High
- Fixed black screen flickering in certain situations
Thank you for your feedback. We will continue improving the game.
Hey! Thank you for an amazing launch day!
We're incredibly grateful to everyone who jumped into Beat For Speed today, tried out the new features, and shared their feedback with us!
We also know that launch day hasn't been completely smooth for everyone. We've been actively collecting your reports and working on fixes, and we're happy to share that our first post-launch update, v1.0.2, is now available!
Here's what's fixed and improved:
Improved audio output connections to address various connection issues
Fixed an issue where audio playback could stop after switching tracks
Fixed an issue where output device checks could occasionally cause the game to get stuck
Added support for Windows Media Player
Improved troubleshooting for browser-based music players
Fixed screenshake behavior so that all screenshake effects, including crash shake, are disabled when the screenshake setting is set to 0
Fixed several UI display issues
How to update
Steam should automatically download and install the latest update. If the update hasn't appeared yet, try restarting Steam.
Still experiencing issues?
We're continuing to monitor player feedback and investigate any remaining problems. If you're still experiencing audio issues or anything unexpected after updating, please let us know!
For Live Audio Mode issues, you can use the "Report a Problem" button in the Live Audio Mode tab to send us relevant game files, which will help us investigate the issue more thoroughly.
Thank you for riding with us!
We're a tiny 3-person indie team, and seeing so many of you playing, sharing feedback, and helping us improve Beat For Speed means the world to us.
We'll keep making the game better with every update.
With love,
CyanCoast Studio
- Improve audio output connection problems
- Fixed audio might stop playing after switching tracks
- Fixed output device check randomly causing stuck problem
- Support connection with Windows Media Player
- Enhanced troubleshooting for the browser player
- Turn off all screenshake including crash when shake level is 0
- Fixed several UI display issues
Thank you for your feedback. We will keep improving the game and bringing new contents in the following updates.
Current Release
Build 26477689
Uploaded Nov 06, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
beatforspeed.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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