Rhythm
Agents of Groove
A story-driven rhythm game in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese .
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Description
A story-driven rhythm game in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese . Join the undercover dancers of secret agency G.R.O.O.V.E. and help them master the real power of the Rhythm as they stumble upon a sinister plot and attempt to stop it! Dance to unique music tracks that adapt to your performance across different genres; spin a disco ball with the crank in time with the beat, match button prompts and occasionally tilt the console. Tailor your experience to your tastes at any time with a rich suite of granular difficulty and accessibility settings. Need a break? Listen to the full 22-track soundtrack in the Jukebox. With four gameplay variations you may have to learn to rhythmically sneak behind your enemies or loudly face bosses… when all else fails the only way to solve a dispute may be a good old-fashioned dance-off. You and the agents of G.R.O.O.V.E. will meet many characters as a fun and fully localized story unfolds via gameplay and conversations.
- Crank: Required
- Tilt: Used
- Microphone: Not used
Credits
🏆 Supports Playdate Achievements ! “Dripping in style in a way that most Playdate games (hey, maybe most games) cannot manage […] Agents of Groove is a charming story-based rhythm game with a strong sense of identity” — Playdate Unofficial “The story and characters are effortlessly charming and the main game mode is some of the most fun I’ve had in a rhythm game recently […] Easily worth the cost of entry, especially if you are a fan of lighthearted yet challenging rhythm games like PaRappa the Rapper and Rhythm Heaven […] Agents of Groove delivers one of the most polished efforts in the genre on the Playdate platform […] Talk about a homerun” — Cranko! “The music is SO good […] If you're into rhythm games, definitely worth considering Agents of Groove […] I had a lot of fun” — Your Cool Uncle Marisa Made by humans without the use of GenAI Development: Nicola Cocchiaro - programming, design, music and audio, writing, Italian localization Kimberly Cocchiaro - art, animation, graphic design Joshua Kashdan - music composition and production Localization by Warlocs: Christophe Pallarès - project management, French localization Irene Igualada Baeza - Spanish localization Shu Miyasaka - Japanese localization Toki Okada - Japanese localization QA Stefano Rossitto - review of Italian localization QA by Lollipop Robot: Iván de Rosa - QA management Daniel Benzal - QA testing Daniel Garin - QA testing Playtesting: Ophelia Bee Ludovico Gardenghi Oatcup Bruce Stringer Ryan Walker Special thanks: BK Box BigTung Nicholas Cocchiaro Aurora Cocchiaro Stefano Paolucci Miki & Ryan Schneider Andrew Walker Notices: Synaptic Sugar™ and Agents of Groove® are trademarks of Synaptic Sugar LLC.
Accessibility
This game may use the A and B buttons, the D-pad, the crank and occasionally the accelerometer in various combinations. It requires a fair amount of precision and holding down buttons by default, but provides granular configuration settings to modify both the precision and the types of input required, or to simply remove all penalties from making mistakes. Additional accessibility toggles can disable screen shake and flashing effects. This game can be played in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese.
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Agents of Groove
Nick Simberg
2025-12-23
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Scoreboards
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01 - First Day (easy)
- 1 wildbat 2,650
- 2 TNT 2,550
- 3 8173702409510029 2,050
01 - First Day (normal)
- 1 uko 2,650
- 2 GimmeUmaBebida 2,650
- 3 SamSpudd 2,650
- 4 3505204715734489 2,650
- 5 wildbat 2,650
- 6 9506798452792943 2,600
- 7 9209334932975526 2,600
- 8 attackslug 2,600
- 9 Orloft 2,600
- 10 FrostyDaSkid 2,600
01 - First Day (hard)
- 1 SamSpudd 2,550
- 2 wildbat 2,450
- 3 0306701312819242 1,950
02 - Getting All Hyped Up (easy)
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02 - Getting All Hyped Up (normal)
- 1 3052862497475958 3,162
- 2 5982715857422952 3,162
- 3 SamSpudd 3,096
- 4 Orloft 2,936
- 5 GimmeUmaBebida 2,911
- 6 row 2,897
- 7 MouflonCloud 2,885
- 8 1604605757346928 2,709
- 9 9162574859577880 2,659
- 10 Argger 2,631
02 - Getting All Hyped Up (hard)
- 1 wildbat 1,367
- 2 0306701312819242 1,167
03 - Putting It All Together (easy)
- 1 DocNo 13,331
03 - Putting It All Together (normal)
- 1 SamSpudd 21,607
- 2 Orloft 20,352
- 3 1604605757346928 19,323
- 4 9162574859577880 18,989
- 5 attackslug 18,691
- 6 Argger 17,385
- 7 THEJacobG 16,832
- 8 Benni 16,625
- 9 cosmos_revenge 16,431
- 10 Ratmachine 16,394
03 - Putting It All Together (hard)
- 1 0306701312819242 12,735
04 - The Cat and Fox (easy)
- 1 oatcup 39,668
- 2 Bomadeno 30,223
- 3 M.Trenz 29,345
- 4 BigTung 9,625
04 - The Cat and Fox (normal)
- 1 9162574859577880 47,380
- 2 SamSpudd 42,326
- 3 5982715857422952 40,747
- 4 TheGameLlama 38,317
- 5 Orloft 38,258
- 6 cosmos_revenge 36,744
- 7 FewRules 36,008
- 8 jojonoid 35,385
- 9 3505204715734489 34,397
- 10 Feakins 33,238
04 - The Cat and Fox (hard)
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05 - Hot On The Trail (easy)
- 1 BigTung 11,594
- 2 oatcup 8,058
- 3 Bomadeno 6,605
- 4 M.Trenz 6,396
05 - Hot On The Trail (normal)
- 1 SamSpudd 12,203
- 2 cosmos_revenge 11,274
- 3 Argger 11,212
- 4 9162574859577880 11,105
- 5 TheGameLlama 10,639
- 6 1604605757346928 10,034
- 7 Buizy 9,754
- 8 8805949869267642 9,630
- 9 Sallo91 9,277
- 10 javibrow 9,040
05 - Hot On The Trail (hard)
- 1 uko 7,188
06 - Between A Robot And A Hard Place (easy)
- 1 BigTung 3,471
- 2 3314612517549408 2,205
- 3 Bomadeno 2,087
06 - Between A Robot And A Hard Place (normal)
- 1 SamSpudd 4,409
- 2 TheGameLlama 3,901
- 3 9162574859577880 3,870
- 4 wildbat 3,637
- 5 Buizy 3,589
- 6 FewRules 3,438
- 7 cosmos_revenge 3,426
- 8 9209334932975526 3,385
- 9 Argger 3,363
- 10 Sallo91 3,314
06 - Between A Robot And A Hard Place (hard)
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07 - Mission: Improbable (easy)
- 1 BigTung 9,950
- 2 Bomadeno 6,926
- 3 3314612517549408 5,965
07 - Mission: Improbable (normal)
- 1 SamSpudd 11,260
- 2 cosmos_revenge 10,829
- 3 FrostyDaSkid 10,505
- 4 javibrow 10,327
- 5 Argger 10,188
- 6 Buizy 10,038
- 7 9162574859577880 10,018
- 8 TheGameLlama 9,982
- 9 Waszker 9,550
- 10 8805949869267642 9,374
07 - Mission: Improbable (hard)
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08 - Out Of The Pan, Into The Fire (easy)
- 1 Bomadeno 50,393
- 2 3314612517549408 49,752
- 3 BigTung 43,906
08 - Out Of The Pan, Into The Fire (normal)
- 1 SamSpudd 69,677
- 2 wildbat 65,948
- 3 9162574859577880 61,548
- 4 FewRules 60,171
- 5 Argger 59,700
- 6 5982715857422952 57,520
- 7 TheGameLlama 53,908
- 8 9209334932975526 51,212
- 9 Waszker 48,616
- 10 8805949869267642 47,467
08 - Out Of The Pan, Into The Fire (hard)
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09 - Master Of Disguise (easy)
- 1 BigTung 8,800
- 2 3314612517549408 8,750
09 - Master Of Disguise (normal)
- 1 5982715857422952 8,750
- 2 javibrow 8,750
- 3 9162574859577880 8,750
- 4 SamSpudd 8,750
- 5 TheGameLlama 8,750
- 6 Sallo91 8,700
- 7 Waszker 8,700
- 8 FewRules 8,700
- 9 8805949869267642 8,700
- 10 wildbat 8,650
09 - Master Of Disguise (hard)
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10 - Groovy Dreams Are Made Of This (easy)
- 1 3314612517549408 44,819
- 2 Bomadeno 43,702
- 3 BigTung 40,827
10 - Groovy Dreams Are Made Of This (normal)
- 1 9162574859577880 67,010
- 2 SamSpudd 66,215
- 3 8805949869267642 61,279
- 4 wildbat 59,557
- 5 Argger 58,333
- 6 TheGameLlama 57,890
- 7 FewRules 55,214
- 8 Waszker 53,265
- 9 5982715857422952 31,945
- 10 Sallo91 31,884
10 - Groovy Dreams Are Made Of This (hard)
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11 - A Pirate's Life Is Not For Me (easy)
- 1 TheGameLlama 5,491
- 2 BigTung 4,971
- 3 Bomadeno 3,074
- 4 3314612517549408 3,027
11 - A Pirate's Life Is Not For Me (normal)
- 1 9162574859577880 6,078
- 2 SamSpudd 5,740
- 3 FewRules 4,908
- 4 javibrow 4,678
- 5 Argger 4,672
- 6 wildbat 4,578
- 7 Waszker 4,570
- 8 Sallo91 3,385
11 - A Pirate's Life Is Not For Me (hard)
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12 - Until Morale Improves (easy)
- 1 BigTung 35,340
- 2 Bomadeno 33,388
- 3 3314612517549408 33,181
12 - Until Morale Improves (normal)
- 1 9162574859577880 47,588
- 2 FewRules 44,038
- 3 SamSpudd 42,646
- 4 wildbat 42,092
- 5 5982715857422952 39,888
- 6 3314612517549408 33,173
- 7 javibrow 29,726
- 8 TheGameLlama 28,559
- 9 Argger 28,250
12 - Until Morale Improves (hard)
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13 - ...And Your Enemies Closer (easy)
- 1 BigTung 8,800
13 - ...And Your Enemies Closer (normal)
- 1 9162574859577880 8,900
- 2 5982715857422952 8,900
- 3 Argger 8,900
- 4 3314612517549408 8,900
- 5 TheGameLlama 8,800
- 6 SamSpudd 8,800
- 7 FewRules 8,800
- 8 wildbat 8,800
- 9 javibrow 8,750
13 - ...And Your Enemies Closer (hard)
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14 - Hanging By A Thread (easy)
- 1 BigTung 27,830
14 - Hanging By A Thread (normal)
- 1 SamSpudd 39,403
- 2 9162574859577880 39,197
- 3 Argger 36,423
- 4 wildbat 33,493
- 5 FewRules 32,578
- 6 5982715857422952 31,574
- 7 3314612517549408 23,615
- 8 javibrow 23,124
- 9 TheGameLlama 20,381
14 - Hanging By A Thread (hard)
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15 - The Root Of All Conflict (easy)
- 1 javibrow 3,726
- 2 TheGameLlama 3,531
15 - The Root Of All Conflict (normal)
- 1 FewRules 4,527
- 2 wildbat 3,714
- 3 Argger 3,289
- 4 SamSpudd 3,131
- 5 9162574859577880 2,819
15 - The Root Of All Conflict (hard)
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Age note: We think this game is appropriate for everyone.
AI: This game's developer created it without the use of generative AI.