Trap the cubes
Lay a mine, wait for a cube to roll onto it, fire. Take a green cube and its trap blows a whole area at once.
Cubic Trance
Trap the cubes. Climb the towers. Dance with the bosses.
A rhythm puzzle roguelite where waves of cubes roll toward you to the beat, inspired by the PlayStation classic I.Q.: Intelligent Qube.
Windows · macOS · Gamepad ready · EN / ES / 日本語 / 简体中文
The game
The floor is your life.
Blocks of cubes rise at the far end and roll toward you, row by row, to the music. Lay a trap under a cube and spring it to take it. Let a cube go over the edge and the scale tips: a row of floor crumbles under your feet. Run out of floor and you fall with it.
Each stage is a new piece of the course: paths lying flat, then towers you climb, sometimes two faces at once round a corner. Between stages you pick cards and build the kit that will carry you to the bosses.
- 9kinds of cubes
- 15+upgrade cards
- 22D&B tracks
How it plays
Five things to know
Never take a black cube
Black cubes must roll off the edge. Take one and the floor pays for it.
Climb the towers
Paths turn into towers. Hang on the wall, dodge the cubes, and cross the corner when two faces roll at once.
Build your kit
Wider blasts, extra mines, lives, guardian angels and new power cubes. Every run deals a different hand.
Dance with the bosses
Against a boss the cubes dance to its song: steps forward, steps back, feints and swaps right on the beat.
Know your cubes
Nine cubes, nine rules
Plain
Take it. Let it fall and the scale fills up.
Green
Leaves a trap that takes a whole area when you set it off.
Black
Never take it. It costs you a row of floor.
Red
Sweeps its whole column, black cubes included, at no cost.
Yellow
Slows the beat for a few seconds.
Blue
Gives rows of floor back.
Magenta
The red beam turned sideways: sweeps its row.
Cyan
Turns the rolling cubes into ghosts you take just by touching them.
Violet
Pushes the whole wave one row back.
White
Lightning: takes every cube on the track but the black ones.
Along the course
The cubes dance to their song
BOSS 1
The DJ
A head of cubes at the turntables. Its cubes dance to the beat and won't wait for your traps.
BOSS 2
The Ballerina
A black swan of porcelain cubes, dancing in the rain. Watch where you step.
BOSS 3+
???
Something is watching from beyond the void.
Screenshots & trailer
See it move
Devlog
News
Press kit
Fact sheet
- Developer
- Monoku
- Release
- Coming soon · free demo out now
- Platforms
- Windows · macOS (demo)
- Genre
- Rhythm puzzle, roguelite
- Players
- Single player · full gamepad support
- Languages
- English, Español, 日本語, 简体中文
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Press contact
- [email protected]
Description
Cubic Trance is a rhythm puzzle roguelite. Waves of cubes roll toward the player to the beat of licensed drum & bass; trap them before they reach the edge, never take a black one, and keep enough floor under your feet to reach the bosses, whose cubes dance to their song.
Downloads
Support
Before you play
System requirements
| Windows | macOS | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit | macOS 14 |
| CPU | Quad core | Apple M1 |
| RAM | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| GPU | DirectX 11, integrated is fine | Apple M1 |
| Disk | 2 GB | 2 GB |
FAQ
Is there a free demo?
Yes: the course up to the second boss, out now on itch.io and coming soon to Steam.
Can I play with a controller?
Yes, the game is made for one. Keyboard and mouse work too, and every control can be rebound.
Do I need to be online?
No. Online is only for the world ranking.
It runs slowly on my computer.
The first launch measures your machine and picks a lighter look if it needs to. If it still stutters, write to us with your graphics card.
I found a bug.
Thank you! Tell us at [email protected] what happened and on which stage.