7 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Guitar Hero. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Guitar Hero.
Release Date: 16/09/2007, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Osu! is a rhythm action game where you tap the screen in time to the music similar to the Elite Beat Agents games. This starts as a simple challenge but develops in speed and complexity. At higher levels, the games is an esport with people competing to...
Release Date: 17/11/2009, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Web, Wii, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Just Dance 2022 is part of a physically active rhythm game series. Dancing in front of each other isn’t something we often do in families. Just Dance is released with new songs and features each year. It gets parents, carers, children and even...
Release Date: 21/06/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Just Shapes & Beats is a two player rhythm game where you dodge bullets in time with the music. As well as this unusual premise, play extends the novelty as you have to both avoid the various shapes and move to the Beats. It’s a new spin on the shoot...
Release Date: 05/12/2017
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Board and Cards
DropMix is a fast-paced music-mixing game. You combine loops of well known music from a wide range of genres by placing physical cards on the DropMix peripheral. Each card you place combines with those already in play to create an automatically...
Release Date: 28/08/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Hexagroove: Tactical DJ is a rhythm game where you mix music using an intuitive and tactical control system. Each level sets goals for you to combine musical loops in real-time. Success is not just a matter of matching instructions but creating...
Release Date: 06/10/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Rock Band 4 is a music rhythm game. Play along with licensed music using specially made plastic controllers acting as guitars, drum kits and microphones. The game comes with 65 songs spanning the 1960's to 2010's. The music appears as coloured blocks...
Release Date: 16/09/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Grid
Trombone Champ is a rhythm-action game where you play a trombone in time to on-screen directions. Play is unlike other music games, because you can play a trombone note at any time and the focus is on fun musicality rather than accuracy. It stands out...
16 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Guitar Hero. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Guitar Hero.
Release Date: 09/09/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
The Artful Escape is a narrative adventure with running and jumping sections that combine platform action with music-playing. You are Francis Vendetti as he traverses the universe, jamming on his guitar and harmonising with the various bizarre creatures...
Release Date: 23/01/2023
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Hi-Fi Rush is a rhythm fighting game where wannabe rockstar Chai uses the beat to fight an evil corporation. You play by exploring the world and fighting enemies. The twist is that everything moves to the beat, and you must attack in time to do the most...
Release Date: 19/11/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a rhythm-action game where you control a running, flying, dancing or motorbike-riding character to collect coins and hearts in time with pop music. The neon visuals and emotively voiced story make this an unusual and compelling...
Release Date: 13/08/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Geometry Dash is a running, jumping game. It features over 20 stages where you play as a customisable small cube, which you used to dodge 2D obstacles to the rhythm of electronic music using a single button to control the cube. If you hit any of the...
Release Date: 25/01/2019
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
A Dance of Fire and Ice is a one-button rhythm game where you control a pair of spheres. You press a button to the beat of the music to progress through the mazes. Each press pivots the direction of motion of the paired spheres to make turns and cross...
Release Date: 04/11/2010
Out Now: Oculus, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Dance Central is a dancing rhythm game you play by moving your body in front of the Xbox Kinect camera. The focus on full body movement celebrates accurate, well-timed and energetic moves. As opposed to Just Dance's rough choreography, Dance Central...
Release Date: 26/02/2021
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game about shocking patients' hearts back in sync with their heartbeats to save their lives. You press a single button on the 7th beat to defibrillate each patient. It sounds simple but each level has a unique illnesses based...
Release Date: 05/04/2012
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Rhythm Thief and The Emperor's Treasure is a narrative rhythm game told with cartoons interwoven with rhythm-action challenges. You play an 18-year-old boy with a secret identity as an art thief. He’s searching for his father and, in order to find...
Release Date: 11/10/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Eloh is a puzzle game with an unusual dual focus. You may start playing to solve the puzzles, but it soon draws you in to appreciate and take time over the rhythms you create in doing so. It creates a low pressure puzzle with a meditative feel.
Release Date: 22/09/2016, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Klang 2 is a psychedelic rhythm-action game. You take on enemies in this symbolic universe of three attacks: stikes, dashes and holds. The simple system interplays with the pulsing music to create a rhythm based high-speed combat challenged. Like the...
Release Date: 15/10/2014
Out Now: Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved is an Xbox Kinect camera dancing game using your whole body. Its narrative follows Disney’s Fantasia film as you take a musical journey to earn your sorcerer’s hat. Sweeping your arms to trigger the orchestra, pointing...
Release Date: 10/11/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Cards
Fuser is a rhythm game where you are a DJ at a large concert. You can combine four songs from a list of records. Each of the records has four tracks represented by colours and instruments: drums, guitar or vocals. You build up an evolving mix of music...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Ratatan is a rhythm game from the team behind Patapon, where you tap buttons in time with the beat to control your little army in a real-time battle. In this way, you use instruments to issue commands to your troops as they defeat powerful enemies and...
Release Date: 11/10/2013, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Soundodger 2 is a rhythm game where you move a small circle to avoid obstacles to the rhythm of the music. While it's a simple concept, the variety of deadly obstacles, the speed, and the precision needed (not to mention the extra game modes and...
Release Date: 29/09/2016, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor is a rhythm-based role-playing game where you play a group of heroes as they dance their way through an epic quest. You collect loot, learn new moves and challenge foes to dance battles on your journey to save the...
Release Date: 16/02/2012, updated in 2023
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Grid
Theatrhythm Final Bar Line is a series of rhythm games where you hit notes and perform actions in time to the music. In Theatrhythm Final Bar Line, you play along to tracks from the famous Final Fantasy Series and...
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