Neon Pulse
A rhythm game where you play the lead synth. The band lays down the groove — drums, bass, and pads are synthesized live in your browser — but the melody only exists when you hit it. Catch the notes streaming down the neon highway and the lead sings; miss, and the song goes quiet.
Features
- You are the melody — every successful hit performs the actual lead note, live. Your accuracy literally shapes how the song sounds.
- Four original tracks — Neon Drift (synthwave), Solar Bloom (dream pop), Glass Tide (trance), and Ion Storm (dark electro), each with its own world, palette, and groove. All music is generated in real time; no recordings, no downloads.
- Three difficulties per track — Easy, Normal, and Hard are charted from the same melody, so the song stays familiar as you climb.
- Hold notes — sustained melody moments become glowing tails. Keep the lane held and the lead sings through; let go early and the sound cuts out.
- Stunning reactive visuals — a retro-future highway with an audio-reactive spectrum skyline, beat-synced grid, glowing note trails, and particle bursts on every perfect hit.
- Scores that stick — grades, accuracy, max combo, and full-combo runs are saved per track and difficulty, with personal bests on the track-select screen.
- Tunable feel — master volume, note approach speed, and an audio-offset calibration slider, persisted between sessions. The results screen reports your average hit offset (plus early/late counts) and suggests which way to adjust.
How to play
Notes flow toward the hit line on four lanes. Press D F J K (or the arrow keys, or tap the lanes) as each note crosses the line. Tighter timing scores Perfect → Great → Good; build combos to multiply your score and chase the SS grade. Hold the glowing tails to their end for bonus score — dropping one cuts the sustain but never breaks your combo. Esc pauses (the game also auto-pauses when the tab loses focus); on the results screen R retries and Esc returns to track select.
Open it when you have three minutes and want them to feel like flying.