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A mysterious entity is absorbing and corrupting your music before your very eyes. You must battle through your own song collection and fight to reclaim your music!

Symphony is a music, indie and shoot 'em up game developed and published by Empty Clip Studios.
Released on August 06th 2012 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 1,494 reviews of which 1,255 were positive and 239 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.53€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Symphony into these genres:

Music Indie Shoot 'Em Up Action Rhythm Casual Bullet Hell Music-Based Procedural Generation Arcade Singleplayer Shooter Procedural Generation

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP SP3 / Vista / 7
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 500 MB
  • Video Card: MB, DirectX® 9.0c-compatible, Shader Model 3.0 or higher
  • DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
  • Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible
MacOS
  • OS: OS X 10.8 or later
  • Processor: Dual core, 2 GHz or faster
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 (with shader model 3 video card or higher)
  • Hard drive: 500 MB available space

  • Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics, Mac Mini's or early generation MacBooks
Linux
  • OS: Major Linux distributions from 2012
  • Processor: Dual core, 2 GHz or faster
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 (with shader model 3 video card or higher)
  • Hard drive: 500 MB available space

  • Not recommended for any integrated graphics GPUs

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025
First off, I want to say that for what this game has to offer, the price of admission is very cheap. I can truly only imagine the time and effort that went into making this well-made game, and it is indeed a well-made game. Symphony is a rhythm bullet hell game. You choose from a selection of tracks offered in game and it creates enemy patterns based on the tempo of the song, the beat, and so on. I mean, you can choose the in-game songs if you want to. But most of the appeal lies in you being able to use YOUR own music collection in game. You heard me right. A game where you CHOOSE the soundtrack for each level. How freaking amazing is that? Now, while this isn't the first game to have done this, and it certainly isn't ground breaking, it implements rhythm elements rather well. The enemies fly in at you from the left or right of the screen, and their flaying and movement patterns are all based on your music. Now, I own a varied source of music, and my first play through of this game was with the Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Soundtrack. Let me tell you, enemies come and go with the sound of the music. It's so cool. But this is especially true for the easiest difficulty. On piano, I admit I am finding it hard to pinpoint an enemy-musicality pattern. This is most prominent on faster tracks. There is a quasi-story mode. Not sure what else to call it. I haven't beaten the final boss yet, however, I still want to say something about it. It's pretty hype. You have this entity trying to gain access to our world through our music, and he turns music composers into slaves to do his bidding. I mean, it's not a groundbreaking story. It's more reminiscent of arcade game stories. But it's neat. It's executed well. I really have no complaints about this game other than two things. THE CONS: - A max song length of ten minutes, apparently, according to another reviewer on here (I haven't personally run into this yet, but I do own many songs that are well beyond thirty minutes even; I just have yet to use them - A min song length of one minute and thirty seconds (which sucks for us soundtrack buffs) These two little nitpicks of mine by no means ruin the experience. There's Audiosurf +2 and Beat Hazard +2 & 3, so I'll be able to use my shorter songs in some way in one of these games. So, I'm not losing any sleep over the song length min and max limits. In my unsolicited, non-professional opinion, this game is worth more than its selling price. You get hours and hours of fun. A snappy, colorful (too colorful actually) UI. The game is easy to navigate with either mouse and keyboard or controller. This *experience* is just an overall good time. It's fun, looks pretty, functions as it should, is optimized, et centera. I recommend this to anyone who likes rhythm games or who wants to get more mileage out of their music collection. Trust me when I say that you will gain a new appreciation for the music that you own after experiencing it through this game.
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Oct. 2024
I had to download another program to make it work, since it's so old, but that was quick and easy. Symphony is a relaxing rhythm game. It's simple, but it's fun and i'm enjoying unlocking different weapons and power ups.
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Oct. 2024
It's an OK retro arcade shooter with some unlock and ship configuration mechanisms. The real feature, of course, is the way it makes levels out of songs. Helped me to get reacquainted with my ancient music library, but also made me afraid of any sweeping refrains in my songs. Interface for browsing songs and such seemed pretty bare bones and the game didn't seem to like alt-tabbing when I was trying to make sure it got all my folders, but it's fine for what it is.
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Sept. 2024
You can turn literally any song (over 1:30 minutes) into a level in this game, and it always feels perfectly on beat. I do wish they let you unlock "demon" as a difficulty setting after you beat the game though. It's a bit of a shame that those can only appear once per story.
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July 2024
A rhythm game that combines Clone Hero with Geometry Wars. A weird digital demon has stolen the souls of all the worlds best composers and you have to shoot down enemies to the rhythm of the song that you pick. As long as it's an MP3 file, (and over 1 minute and 30 seconds long) you can play it in this game. I've defeated digital demons to the dulcet tunes of Weird Al, SiIvaGunner and various Friday Night Funkin songs. Seriously, this game is only as good as your musical tastes.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Symphony is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

Symphony is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

Symphony received 1,255 positive votes out of a total of 1,494 achieving a rating of 8.02.
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Symphony was developed and published by Empty Clip Studios.

Symphony is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Symphony is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Symphony is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Symphony is a single-player game.

Symphony does not currently offer any DLC.

Symphony does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Symphony does not support Steam Remote Play.

Symphony is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Symphony
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8.0
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Empty Clip Studios
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Release 06 Aug 2012
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