Rhythm of Resistance Announced
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Karlstad, Sweden, – July 8, in the year of our Lord 2025
– NetherMoon Game Studio, a small independent development studio
based in Karlstad, Sweden, unveiled today Rhythm of Resistance,
a shadow-draped adventure that fuses the somber tones of gothic
and darkwave music with atmospheric Metroidvania exploration,
creating an unforgettable game experience unlike anything you've
seen, or heard, before.
Proudly tipped to be the world’s very first Rhythm Metroidvania,
Rhythm of Resistance places explorers in the role of Aria, a
hero fighting for survival in a dystopian future where music is
forbidden, joy outlawed, and the skies hang heavy with cloying
silence. The world is ruled by shadow and steel, until Aria
discovers a relic of the old world - a cracked cassette player
pulsing with forbidden power. This ancient music player unlocks
a host of mysterious abilities, and allows her to navigate
through labyrinthine dungeons, spectral foes, and traps as cruel
as they are cursed. Each corridor hums with a forgotten melody,
each enemy a sentinel of silence.
In Rhythm of Resistance, music is your key to success. As your
adventure progresses, Aria discovers dusty cassettes hidden in
the ruined world and expands her music library, unlocking more
than 20 unique tracks, each holding the key to progression and
altering the gameplay, unlocking different stats and abilities.
Choose your playlist with care, in Rhythm of Resistance, your
chosen beats can be your saviour or your downfall, with each
track dynamically changing your surroundings, working at a
different tempo to increase or devastate your chances of
survival. Players will enjoy full freedom to choose the haunting
songs, and will watch as the entire world around them reacts to
their choices.
Expected to release in 2026 on Steam, Rhythm of Resistance
offers a host of unique gameplay features, the first and only
Metroidvania adventure where your playlist is your weapon! With
music controlling your destiny, playlists can not only alter
your surroundings, but alter enemy behaviour, reveal hidden
paths, and solve the most fiendish of musical puzzles.
Music is a key factor in the title, with two early band
announcements being Swedish goth sensation ABU NEIN, who took
the darkwave world by storm with the release of their debut
album "Secular Psalms" in 2020, and Underground Fire, a Swedish
gothic rock band formed in 2015 by the aptly named Rob
Coffinshaker in 2015. More musicians will be announced as the
game’s development progresses, but you can be sure that they
will delight any fans of the genre. Joel Fjällsby, Founder &
Creative Director at Nethermoon Game Studio commented, “I wanted
the music to be real songs with lyrics and everything. Like an
old track you could actually find on a forgotten cassette tape.
With this in mind, I reached out to bands that felt like a great
fit—and everyone so far has fallen in love with the project.”
Get your groove on and feel the beat to attack, parry, dodge,
and unleash powerful abilities, all in perfect sync to your
soundtrack. Be on the lookout for spare parts to upgrade your
music player and unlock new powers as you traverse a vast,
haunted landscape of crumbling cathedrals, rust-choked
catacombs, and decaying factories echoing with the whispers of
lost, solemn songs as players guide Aria to uncover clues of a
long-forgotten past.
Rhythm of Resistance Feature Highlights:
World’s first rhythm based Metroidvania where every beat defies
the void, and your playlist is your weapon!
Wield the force of music to unlock exciting features and
abilities.
Discover 20+ forbidden cassette tapes,each one distorting
reality in strange and surprising ways while dynamically
changing your game experience
Choose your tracks wisely to alter enemy behaviour, reveal
hidden paths, and solve musical puzzles.
Stay on the beat to stay alive! Attack, parry, dodge, and
unleash powerful abilities in sync with the dark pulse of your
chosen song.
Traverse a vast interlinked world of cathedrals, catacombs and
factories to uncover clues of a long-forgotten past.
Collect spare parts to upgrade your music player and unlock new
abilities.
Featuring a haunting gothic darkwave soundtrack from a range of
underground artists.
Joel Fjällsby, Founder & Creative Director at NetherMoon Game
Studio commented, “I’ve always been drawn to dark music,
dystopian worlds, and of course Metroidvanias—so this project is
the perfect fusion of everything I love. Honestly, I’m surprised
no one’s made a game like this before. It’s a massive
undertaking, especially for a new studio, but I love every hour
of it. Seeing this dark, mysterious world come alive is
incredibly rewarding.”
Rhythm of Resistance - Every beat, a rebellion. Every song, a
revolution.
No word on a physical copy version of this game on this system(s)
in the US at this time.
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