Akiba's Beat (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Akiba's Beat

Akiba's Beat is an action RPG developed by Acquire and is the sequel to Akiba's Trip. The game takes place in Akihabara where the party getting stuck in a world of delusions, trapped in a repeating day-long…

46 15 December 2016

What Akiba's Beat is

Akiba's Beat is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by ACQUIRE Corp. and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Akiba's Beat is an action RPG developed by Acquire and is the sequel to Akiba's Trip. The game takes place in Akihabara where the party getting stuck in a world of delusions, trapped in a repeating day-long cycle on a Sunday.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Akiba's Trip series

Akiba's Beat is the fifth of 9 entries we hold in the Akiba's Trip series. The next entry was Akiba's Trip 2+A in 2017. Its critic score of 46 is 3 points above the series average of 43. The highest-rated entry is Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed at 64.

See all 9 Akiba's Trip games in release order →

How it was received

Akiba's Beat holds a critic score of 46 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Akiba's Beat launched on 15 December 2016, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.

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