Indie · January 24, 2019

A Dance of Fire and Ice (2019)

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A Dance of Fire and Ice is a simple one-button rhythm game. Press on every beat of the music to move in a line. Every pattern has its own rhythm to it. It can get difficult. This game is purely based on rhythm, so use your ears more than your sight. Note that it is quite strict and unforgiving. If you've played the Rhythm Heaven series - this is about as strict as that. Explore the cosmos: Soar through each genre of music in a variety of colorful fantasy landscapes. Predict every moment: With a track that shows you every rhythm ahead of time, you’ll learn to sight-read levels as they come. No tricks, and nothing is reaction-based. Play new levels for free: Tackle new songs and new rhythms as we expand the game with free level patches Steam Workshop Support: Create, share, and play countless user-made custom levels through our Workshop Calibrate your experience: Manually adjust your calibration on-the-fly, or use our auto-calibration method. The game is precisely timed, and you won’t experience any slow desync over time like you might with other music-based twitch games. (We’re musicians and off-sync games hurt us.)

Indie releases from 2019

38 Indie titles launched in 2019 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume73.5k Steam reviewsTop 5% in Indie
Positive rating94% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 30%
Concurrent peak1.9k playersTop 5% in Indie by live player count
Engagement hours18 h averageTop 33% for session depth among Indie

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Rhythm · 466
  • Music · 374
  • Difficult · 314
  • Level Editor · 303
  • Singleplayer · 267
  • Indie · 262
  • 2D · 260
  • Arcade · 256
  • Fantasy · 244
  • Colorful · 244
  • Psychedelic · 236
  • Casual · 231
  • Action · 228
  • Atmospheric · 226
  • Family Friendly · 223

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Korean
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Japanese
  • Spanish - Latin America
  • Polish
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Vietnamese

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on Phone
  • Remote Play on Tablet

Input & Comfort

  • Partial Controller Support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Includes level editor
  • Family Sharing

Reception Metrics

Steam community

94%Very Positive · 73.5k reviews

69.1k positive · 4.4k negative

Curator recommendations

72.8k

Peak concurrent players

1.9k

Press Quotes

“This game is fantastic ... ingenious level designs ... visualizes rhythms in a way no rhythm game has done before.” 9/10 – Etienne

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

18h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

5h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

1h

Current engagement

Achievements

47

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJan 24, 2019
Developer7th Beat Games
Publisher7th Beat Games, indienova
Base price$4.79 -20%
DLC / Add-ons3 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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