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Sound Shapes

Play, Compose and Share in a unique take on the classic side-scrolling platformer where your actions make the music. Equal parts instrument and game, Sound Shapes gives everyone the ability to make music. Play…

87 7 August 2012

Sound Shapes is a music developed by Queasy Games, released 7 August 2012 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.

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What Sound Shapes is

Sound Shapes is a music game developed by Queasy Games and released in 2012. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sound Shapes is a music and platform video game developed by Queasy Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. It was originally released in 2012 and a port for the PlayStation 4 was released in 2013. The game, designed by Jessica Mak and Shaw-Han Liem, is a side-scrolling platform game with a musical focus. The game also features the ability to create and share levels with other users. The Vita version of the game features use of the touch screen and back touch pad to place sounds of different musical instruments during creation of levels. Sound Shapes was shown at industry conference E3 in 2011 and picked up nominations for best of show…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Sound Shapes holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 483 rated music games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Players rate it 80, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Sound Shapes launched on 7 August 2012, within three weeks of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs and Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition.

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When did Sound Shapes come out?
Sound Shapes was released on 7 August 2012 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.

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