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Cytus is a rythm game made by Rayark, a game developer in Taiwan and the same developer of Deemo. It was first released on the iOS platform on January 12, 2012, and was later released on Android on August 7, 2012.

Cytus features a story plot that is carried through its 10 main chapters as well as a prologue. The story revolves around the protagonist, Vanessa, who lives in a 22nd century world where robots with human memories are the only remaining sentient beings while living humans are killed by a mutant virus. Due to limited memory space, human emotions are stored in the form of music in “Cytus“, and by playing the songs, the robots are able to revive their human emotions. The plot features the disaster and the protagonist’s struggle with identity. The stories are also told in-game through various cutscenes that are unique to the chapter title songs. There are also many other chapters as well, each of them carries different story plots.

The gameplay of Cytus features an Active Scan Line, a black line that move up and down across the screen. The player taps circular objects, referred to as Notes that will appear as the Active Scan Line passes over them. Three types of Notes are used. The Click Note, a single circular note, that needs to be tapped in time. The Drag Note, a continuous track of notes, requires dragging along the track. The Hold Note, a note with an extended ribbon meter, requires holding over the note until the meter is filled.

Each Note is judged by the accuracy to be either Perfect, Good, Bad or Miss. The maximum score is 1,000,000, and a minimum of 700,000 is required to clear a stage. After a stage ends, various metrics are provided to show the player’s performance, including score, max combo, a letter grade, and numbers of hits in each type of judgement.

This game can be downloaded for free in GooglePlay, but features a cooldown timer before starting each song. It will be removed when the full price is paid. There are also some songs that needs to be purchased in order to play them. But with that, you can enjoy the featured songs and the stories of each chapter.