Turba
A match-3 that dances to your own MP3s, as long as those MP3s have an obvious kick drum. Lovely idea, brittle beat detection, and a player base that never forgave it.
GamerScout Verdict
Worth a night for rhythm-puzzle curiosities with a pop-heavy library; skip it if your playlist has no obvious downbeat.
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About Turba
Audiosurf turned your music folder into a neon highway. Turba turns it into a match-3 board, and the difference that matters is timing: you aren't just clearing colored blocks, you're clearing them on the beat, and the beat is whatever the detection thinks it heard in your file. Feed it clean four-on-the-floor pop and the whole thing sings. Feed it post-rock, jazz, anything with a loose pulse or a long quiet intro, and the grid stops agreeing with your ears. That gap explains why the Steam crowd soured on it while critics were kinder. There's real craft in the reactive visuals, and scoring rewards short, greedy runs with leaderboards and achievements to chase. But a music game built on your library is only as good as its worst guess about that library, and Binary Takeover's 2010 detection guesses often. Worth an evening if your playlist is obvious. Frustrating if it isn't.
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Minimum
- OS
- Microsoft® Windows® XP/Vista/7
- Processor
- 2.5 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4
- Memory
- 512 MB
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (can run on integrated machines, but performance might suffer) DirectX&…
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Game Info
- Developer
- Binary Takeover
- Publisher
- Binary Takeover
- Release Date
- Jul 6, 2010