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Arcaea

New Dimension Rhythm Game

Ratings

Age

13+

Category

Games

Languages

English

Arcaea is a 'New Dimension' rhythm game that features a unique dual-layer input system. Players must tap notes on a traditional ground lane while simultaneously tracking 'Sky Notes' and 'Arc' sliders that move in 3D space. Set in a world of white where two girls awaken to rediscover memories through music, Arcaea offers a compelling narrative alongside its intense gameplay. With over 350 songs from more than 200 artists, multiple difficulty levels, and a real-time online competition mode, it caters to both casual players and hardcore rhythm game veterans.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

95/100

Arcaea is widely considered one of the best rhythm games on mobile, and for good reason. It successfully bridges the gap between traditional 'falling note' games and the more complex 3D lanes found in arcade rhythm cabinets. The 'Sky Input' mechanic—where you have to tap and slide notes in a layer above the ground level—is a literal game-changer, adding a level of verticality and challenge that most mobile games simply don't have.

The music selection is incredible, featuring a massive library of high-energy electronic and indie tracks from renowned rhythm game artists. But what really elevates Arcaea is its presentation. The 'Light' vs 'Conflict' theme is reflected in everything from the UI to the cryptic, visual-novel style story mode. It has a high difficulty ceiling, but the progression feels rewarding as you slowly climb the ranks and unlock more complex tracks. It’s an polished, stylish, and deeply addictive experience that every rhythm game fan needs to have on their device.

Dinsun reviewed on: Sun May 19 2024

Features

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Innovative 'Sky Input' 3D gameplay mechanic

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Over 350 songs from top electronic artists

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Immersive story mode with stunning illustrations

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Real-time online multiplayer (Link Play)

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Frequent content updates and collaborations

Tips & Walkthrough

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Q&A

Yes, Arcaea is free to download and includes a significant amount of free content, with additional song packs available for purchase.

Ratings & Reviews

The most fun I’ve had with a rhythm game
Sat Jan 27 2018 The Eye of Belial

Arcaea is absolutely worth the money I’ve spent on it. Most songs have a play style that feels completely separate from the others. Levels can be incredibly difficult, but always seem to be doable. Even when they are ridiculous, the music is good enough to keep you coming back for more (I’d go as far as to say that the best music goes with the hardest songs). The game updates fairly regularly, and adds free songs, in addition to packs that you can pay for. Unfortunately, none of the free songs come close to the level of difficulty presented in the paid songs. The 3D space allows for really beautiful level design, and this translates into the song feeling amazing to play. Playing on a tablet makes the game easier, but playing on a smaller screen is still possible, even on difficult levels. In terms of improvement, I would really like to see an option to have arcs fade out instead of turn red when you mess up, like before the most recent patch. The bright red can be very distracting on more difficult levels and cause you to lose more notes. I would also like to see a way to restart levels faster, either through an option to require only 1 tap to pause, or even through a partner that has a skill that instantly restarts the level if you miss a note (for when you’re trying to full recall something). Finally, I want to see the story and characters developed more. My favorite level so far is Sheriruth. Keep up the good work!!

This is just what I want
Fri Jan 04 2019 HeAteMyHeart<3

I love this game so much!!! I want to master this game, so I am playing in Past, Present and Future. I know it’s hard for starters, but after I played this for literally 24 hours, I managed to master the Past and the Present. But if you want the truth.... I freaking hate Dandelion 😡😂 I played it so many times, but always end up with 1 or 2 far. 😂 I guess it’s because I played too much Present and became used to very fast and many notes. The art is also very beautiful. But what I hate the most is that the other Music Maps are not free and you have to pay the real money 💵 But I’m not going to underrate this game because of this, because there still are many other music to play. I personally think that you should make the ‘memories’ obtainable too. Like you can get them through the World Map, or by watching videos, or something like that. You know what?..... when I grow up a little, I’m gonna work in your studio and help you to invent many interesting games. 😂 Believe me I will be a big help. I know 5 languages, know how to draw beautifully and have many ideas for games that’s gonna help you. 😂 I’m serious 🤨🧐👍 By the way, keep up the good work.

Ipad use recommended.
Sat Oct 28 2017 Nowlind

Now I would not consider myself as one of those master of Rhythm Games but I play a lot of Cytus, Deemo, and Voez (All Rayark) and I get many of Full Combos, Masters on songs, ect. But this is not a game you can get those with on a small screen. Now I have an Iphone 7+ and even that is not big enough (and no I have average sized fingers). In general I love the game. Unlike most, keeps you playing to earn songs though there are only 20 you can unlock without real money (an extra 6 if I remember with the DLC songs). However this game does have it’s issues. The ‘Advanced’ Settings has it to where you can adjust the Offset of the notes. It is determined by increments of five while in the ‘Basic’ settings the Note Speed can be adjusted to all numbers and even down to one tenth if needed. I’m trying to play this game with Air Pods but with the ‘Advanced’ setting set to where it will tell you if you’re on early or late seems to always be a bit off. I hope you can manage to adjust it to a smaller degree in the future but otherwise don’t use any sort of bluetooth headphones I suppose. tl;dr I’ll give it a flat Four Stars. A lot of Rhythm Games are easier on a bigger screen but this one can handicap you to the point where it’s unplayable if you have a small screen. And of course, it’s hard to get it right in terms of the right calibration but precision is what rhythm games are all about. Try and makes it as accurate as possible if you can.

Excellent gameplay, HORRIFIC in-app purchase structure
Mon Jan 16 2023 Citizen Abel

I play every music game i can find. Arcaea is one of the more interesting games I have encountered. However, i ended up paying over 20 dollars before I saw the appeal. The interface is extremely obfuscated. nothing is very clear until you spend an hour browsing. Everything appears to be locked until you pay for it and there is no clear path to unlock more songs through gameplay. instead of enjoying myself instantly like i did with cytus and deemo, I felt awful… as though i was being scammed into buying each and every song. I read here that songs can be unlocked through the “World mode”, but the path is so hidden. I got so upset trying to figure it out, i had to take a 20 min walk before trying again. This is a disturbing level of disrespect toward the customer. i have never seen this level of “sleazy car salesman” tactics in any music game before. I like the play style here but i would recommend pretty much any other top tier music game over this unless you’re ready to put down $100 to get the basic level of enjoyment from arcaea. The only free songs are boring and easy… the interesting songs are in harder levels and you have to pay to get them… i dont see a free path to unlock them. Overall, it was a frustrating experience. I even wanted a refund a few times. No game should ever have such an esoteric interface; no game should ever present all the songs as locked by a pay wall. The vibe of this is just scam-like, regardless of the decent gameplay… be prepared to pay an arm and a leg for this one.

Please add this
Wed Mar 10 2021 MmXtu--

Honestly one of the greatest rhythm games I've ever played, the paywall could be outlandish but its far from unreasonable. If your new and you don't pike the paywall, putting only 5$ into the game and buying a pack that has a diff 11, could literally keep you occupied for months until you get a pm full score on it. If you spend money on a rhythm game to play the chart once, and just ignore it for the rest of the time, your loosing months of enjoyment. And if you really sink enough gameplay in, it wouldn't even matter what device you play on (I use a iPhone7 thumb play) I couldn't find complaints if i tried, except for the world lvl 18-30 grind. Again since I use a smaller device, when I unlock and use a partner, you pretty much only see the face. Like the new CHUNITHM partners from a while back, you cant even see awakened Isabelles gun, or seeles sword. All around I doubt you'll see and add this, but it would be cool if there was an art scale factor. Smaller devices can make art more visible on the stage clear section, and larger devices like ipads, could use it if they wanted to zoom in and have less detail etc.

Love this game + A Request, IPHONE XR BUG!!!
Sun Apr 14 2019 Y So Aggressive

This game is absolutely amazing. Can’t stop playing if I had to be honest. Although you do have to pay for songs, you can unlock quite a few of them for free through the world mode. I was wondering if you guys could make a song pack that had the song 2 Min Fighters (the SDVX version) in it. When playing this game, I think of songs that would be good if they were mapped and released in the game. This song is one of them. PLS 😓 Edit - there is a bug with the IPhone XR that makes certain taps not register what so ever. You can experience this on the IPhone XR if you play a map with a holding sky note and tap note underneath the sky note, the tap note won’t register at all. I’ve tried adjusting my offset, looking at my fingers while pressing, playing with a different play style other than thumbs and the results are still the same. Sometimes you can even see that it’s not registering the press by doing the same presses when there are no notes as when you press the screen, the spot you press highlights but if it doesn’t highlight its not registering which with this certain press it doesn’t highlight. This is disappointing because the game is almost unplayable if I want to play for combo or fcs. 😓

Honestly one of the best mobile games I’ve ever played
Tue Oct 15 2019 .eight

I downloaded this game because I was looking for a decent rhythm game... and I was pleasantly surprised at the execution of this game. For one, I was expecting to have paid some money to get access to the majority of the content, since this is a free game after all. However, there is so much accessible to you for free that in my first 3 weeks of consistently playing this game I have had barely encountered any pay walls. There aren’t even any ads within the game itself. I really admire the developers’ approach to monetization and I will probably be buying some song packs in the near future just to support this awesome game. Next, the actual gameplay feels so smooth and the menus and loading screens are polished to an elegant, easy to use app. Finally, the music selection, though not varied in genre, perfectly matches with the overall aesthetic of the game itself and really contributes to the experience that is Arcaea. I highly recommend this game for anyone looking for an excellent mobile rhythm game.

Why is it all pay to play???
Sun Apr 14 2024 LETMEUSEANICKNAME!

I got this game yesterday because I wanted to try a rhythm game (obviously). At first, it was going good, you get a tutorial and you get to try the some songs out as well as playing the first part of the story. Here’s the thing though, you have to pay to continue on the story with these things called memories. With the memories you have to pay for packs which also help you unlock more songs. So the only free songs you get are the ones on the Arcaea main story pack, sometimes you have to pay fragments to unlock them (you get fragments by playing through songs). On world mode you’d start to think it gets better, but then you realize that there’s these things called energy with goes down each time you play a song. Once you’re out of energy, you’re can’t go on in world mode and have to wait 5 hours I think before it refills OR you can use ‘MeMoRiEs’ to get your energy back right away. Yeah so if you want to do any of the side quests, pay. Unlock new songs? Pay. Those are basically the two main things of the game. You should have just made the game be purchased with money instead of allowing us, the community, to just download it for free. I would have never gotten this game had I known I would have to spend money.

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News found!

In Falsus Launches 9 September on PC — From Arcaea’s lowiro - GameTrader.SG

In Falsus Launches 9 September on PC — From Arcaea’s lowiro  GameTrader.SG

GameTrader.SG Sat Sep 05 2026

Arcaea studio's new game In Falsus blends mouse-and-keyboard rhythm gameplay with a near-future mystery visual novel following five girls. Out September 9 - AUTOMATON

Arcaea studio's new game In Falsus blends mouse-and-keyboard rhythm gameplay with a near-future mystery visual novel following five girls. Out September 9  AUTOMATON

AUTOMATON Thu Jul 23 2026

In Falsus Launches September 9 On PC As Arcaea Developer Lowiro Reveals Narrative Rhythm Game - Noisy Pixel

In Falsus Launches September 9 On PC As Arcaea Developer Lowiro Reveals Narrative Rhythm Game  Noisy Pixel

Noisy Pixel Tue Jul 21 2026

I tried the Sony WH-1000XM6's new gaming feature, and at least half of it works - SoundGuys

I tried the Sony WH-1000XM6's new gaming feature, and at least half of it works  SoundGuys

SoundGuys Sun Jul 05 2026

DJMAX RESPECT V Dives into a New Dimension with Arcaea Collaboration Pack - TheXboxHub

DJMAX RESPECT V Dives into a New Dimension with Arcaea Collaboration Pack  TheXboxHub

TheXboxHub Thu Sep 11 2025

In Falsus Revealed: A Fusion Of Visual Novel And Rhythm Game Arrives On Steam In 2026In Falsus Revealed: A Fusion Of Visual Novel And Rhythm Game Arrives On Steam In 2026

lowiro, creators of Arcaea, reveal In Falsus—a story-rich visual novel rhythm game with emotional depth and 70+ tracks, launching on Steam...

Noisy Pixel Mon Jul 28 2025

In Falsus Revealed: A Fusion Of Visual Novel And Rhythm Game Arrives On Steam In 2026 - Noisy Pixel

In Falsus Revealed: A Fusion Of Visual Novel And Rhythm Game Arrives On Steam In 2026  Noisy Pixel

Noisy Pixel Mon May 05 2025

10 Hardest Rhythm Games - TheGamer

10 Hardest Rhythm Games  TheGamer

TheGamer Sat Sep 09 2023

Three mobile rhythm games you should try this 2023 - YugaTech Gaming

Three mobile rhythm games you should try this 2023  YugaTech Gaming

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tn-shi - Revelation  YouTube

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