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After her sister vanishes, Saturday and her friends investigate a strange system through rhythm charts, puzzles, and story scenes.
Released 05 Jul 2025
Investigate a Disappearance
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Rhythm-mystery hybrid game about uncovering the history of a mysterious system. The stage is set. Will you step up and play your role?
Developed by Team Vividstasis · Published by Hajimeli, SKY HOUR WORKS
Saturday begins investigating after her sister Tsuki disappears, with friends Allison and Kotomi joining her. Their search leads into a mystery involving organizations, further disappearances, and the fourth dimension.
Between story scenes, players tap notes in a vertical-scrolling, four-key rhythm game. Charts include regular notes, holds, and two-lane bumper notes that can be hit with either lane’s key, with several difficulty levels available.
The story unfolds across chapters and mixes visual-novel scenes with puzzles, including ARG-style clues. Players progress through a node flowchart to unlock story and songs; settings can lower or bypass some rhythm requirements for story progression.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often praise the mystery’s emotional story and characters, the soundtrack, and the rhythm charts’ engaging presentation. Some enjoy the puzzles and the way different genres are combined, while others find puzzles cryptic and raise concerns about chart difficulty, bumper notes, visual effects, or progression demands.
vivid/stasis is a rhythm-mystery hybrid game that follows the fates of four girls as they get wrapped up in a mind-bending adventure involving organizations, mysterious disappearances, and the fourth dimension. The game ties together an emotionally intense interweaving storyline with varying levels of music-based gameplay... and more...?
In the rhythm game section of vivid/stasis, you'll find yourself facing various levels of difficulty, with many options for customizability to play the game your way. Whether you're a casual rhythm gamer just here to enjoy the story, or a hardcore rhythm game legend looking to find a new kind of challenge, there's a good chance you'll find it here. Between "Opening", "Middle", "Finale", and the extra-spicy "Encore" difficulty, players will be sure to find something fun for their skill level no matter their prior experience with rhythm games.
Unlike other traditional vertical-scrolling rhythm games, vivid/stasis introduces the concept of "Bumper Notes"; notes that take up two lanes. These notes can be hit with either of the keys assigned to the lanes it falls under, giving the game a unique playability with strictly four keys, despite the six types of possible notes.
The song list of vivid/stasis features well-known and prominent artists in the music game scene (Tanchiky, Camellia, Silentroom), but also shines light on a fair amount of lesser known producers (A-Saph, Lundy, Spehs, and many many more).
On July 21st, 2022, Tsuki Tasogare went missing after not coming home before her agreed-upon curfew.
An investigation was picked up, but after less than a day of little to no progress, her sister, Saturday, finds the lack of enthusiasm for finding her sister confusing, and gets impatient.
And so, she decides to look into it herself. Alongside her friends, Allison and Kotomi, Saturday hopes to uncover the secret behind her sister's strange disappearance... and isn't quite ready for what she discovers.
vivid/stasis' story spans multiple chapters and multiple game genres to tell a coming-of-age story about living with trauma from a young age, and what makes our feelings "real".
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 53 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Website | Official website |
