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Music, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
OpenCritic84IGDB84
Thumper is a rhythm violence game. It combines classic rhythm-action with breakneck speed and brutal physicality. Thumper strips rhythm gaming down to its core. Classic rhythm-action is combined with breakneck speed and brutal physicality. With one analog stick and one button, you control a space beetle while hurtling through stunning and treacherous worlds. There's no blood or gore, but you'll feel the violence.
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Relentless, overwhelming, dark and demanding.
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Paste MagazineGarrett MartinOct 201610/10Pac-Man, Dark Souls, the best Metroids and Marios and Zeldas—the true classics, the cornerstones of the medium that have made an indelible impact on how we play and think about games. Thumper is right up there alongside them. It is an essentially perfect realization of its own unique goals and concerns, and a game we’ll be playing and celebrating for decades, even if it leaves us afraid and confused.
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IGNChloi RadOct 20169/10Thumper’s brutal, breakneck speed and precision-based musical action kept me entranced for all nine of its bizarre, nightmarish stages, which contained enough nuanced high score-chasing tricks to demand several replays already. To really master Thumper’s many layers of rhythm-based mechanisms would take much more time than the 10 or so hours it takes to complete the first time – and that’s a challenge that I eagerly accept.
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GameSpotPeter BrownOct 20169/10Thumper's unrelenting speed and menacing percussion are overwhelming, seeping into your subconscious in the best way possible.
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TechRaptorSamuel GuglielmoNov 20165/10Thumper looks great and has some interesting ideas, but it's bogged down by strange decisions, obstacles that blend in with the environment, and a soundtrack that doesn't have much to do with the on-screen action.
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Game InformerJeff CorkOct 20165.8/10Steer a metallic beetle down a fast-moving track, avoiding obstacles and collecting doodads along the way
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IGDB rating 7.9/10 from 104 ratings.
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