KickBeat: Special Edition

KickBeat – Special Edition offers up a full-length single-player campaign, beautifully hand-drawn animations and a strikingly unique art style.

64 16 September 2014

Adventure Arcade Fighting Music Action

KickBeat: Special Edition is an adventure developed by Zen Studios, released 16 September 2014 on PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One.

Verified 23 Aug 2026 Sources: IGDB

What KickBeat: Special Edition is

KickBeat: Special Edition is an adventure game developed by Zen Studios and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One.

How it plays

Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players.

How it was received

KickBeat: Special Edition holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

KickBeat: Special Edition launched on 16 September 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Bayonetta 2 and Destiny. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Bayonetta 2, Destiny.