Summary
With the shutdown of developer Tango Gameworks announced just over a week ago, rhythm-based action-adventure gameHi-Fi Rushhas received its final update. The final patch forHi-Fi Rushwent live on July 10, 2025.
Hi-Fi Rushwas released without any advanced notice to the gaming community on June 05, 2025, for Xbox Series X|S and PC, with a PlayStation 5 port following just two months later. The game’s launch sawrave reviews from fans and critics, who praisedHi-Fi Rushfor its gorgeous visuals and comic book-like stylistic choices, as well as its combat system. However, earlier in May, Xbox announced the shutdown of three developers under Bethesda Games Studios, including Tango Gameworks, with a fourth developer, Roundhouse Studios, being absorbed into ZeniMax Online Studios.
Despite the announcedshutdown of the four Bethesda studiosmore than a week ago,Hi-Fi Rushhas received one final round of updates. These updates are all designed to make the game run more smoothly, fixing several text issues and other problems that players had still been running into. Multiple changes have been made to the fight with QA-1MIL in Track 1, and while the notes don’t go into the minutiae of all of those fixes, they do indicate that there should now be smooth transitions between phases of the fight and no more issues with players clipping through the ground after the battle. Other notable improvements include adjusted drink prices in Vandelay vending machines, cutscenes playing correctly during Track 3, and the fixing of bugs affecting Macaron’s Gravity Well while a player is attempting to rhythm parry.
Amid the final update, fans ofHi-Fi Rushstill seem to be reeling from the unexpected shutdown of the game’s development studio. Following the announcement of the closure of Tango Gameworks, players beganreverse-review bombingHi-Fi Rushen masse, leaving positive reviews for the game on its Steam page.Hi-Fi Rushcurrently sits at an Overwhelmingly Positive 98 percent approval rate among Steam’s recent reviews, with an overall approval rate of 97 percent. Although it was released nearly 16 months ago, more than 2,800 reviews have been left forHi-Fi Rushon Steam in the past 30 days, making up more than 12 percent of the total reviews for the game on that platform.
Hi-Fi Rush
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Feel the beat as wannabe rockstar Chai and his ragtag team of allies rebel against an evil robotics enhancement megacorp with raucous rhythm combat! From Tango Gameworks, the studio that brought you The Evil Within® and Ghostwire®: Tokyo (no, really) comes Hi-Fi RUSH, an all-new action game where the characters, world and combat stylishly sync to the music!CHAI VERSUS THE WORLD: Labeled ‘defective’ after a shady corporate experiment mistakenly fuses a music player to his heart, Chai must now fight for his freedom in a slick animated world where everything – platforming puzzles, enemy attacks and even the colorful gags & banter - are synced to the beat.OPEN UP THE MOSH PIT!: Take on armies of corporate drones (read: actual robots) in satisfying, rhythm-amplified combat. Time your moves to pull off flashy Beat Hits, hard-hitting special abilities and even combination attacks with your allies! Want to show off? Go further and tap into the beat to amp up your skills and earn those covetous S-rank scores.ROWDY REBELS VS. BADASS BOSSES: Lead a squad of colorful teammates and take the fight to the heart of an, er, heartless corporation. Square off with each department’s boss, from Production to Marketing to Finance, each more ready to protect the company’s bottom line than the last in over-the-top battle sequences accompanied by their own music tracks!GRAB YOUR HEADPHONES: Tap your toes to a killer mixtape of original music, as well as songs by Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, The Joy Formidable and more! Want to show off your skills to a live streaming audience? Fret not: Hi-Fi RUSH includes a streamer-friendly alternate audio mode which replaces those licensed songs with original tracks made especially for streaming Hi-Fi RUSH.
