| StepManiaX | |
| Developer: | Step Revolution |
| Engine: | StepMania |
| Released: | June 10, 2017 |
| Genre: | Music, Exergaming |
| Modes: | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Platforms: | Arcade |
StepManiaX (abbreviated SMX and pronounced "Step Maniacs") is a rhythm game developed and published by Step Revolution, a studio formed by former developers of In the Groove, ReRave, and Pump It Up Pro. It is considered a spiritual successor to the In the Groove series. The name is a nod to the legacy of the open-source simulator StepMania, as many of the original StepMania developers were involved with the project. StepManiaX is derived from the same codebase, with modifications made to support the new game types, lights, touch support, connectivity, and the custom Android operating system and hardware that dedicated units run on.
Similar to other stepping or dance-based games, StepManiaX uses a "stage" that the user stands on with certain areas being pressure-sensitive buttons, or "panels". StepManiaX uses five identically sized inputs, arranged similarly to a Directional Pad - Up, Down, Left, Right, and the inclusion of Center.
Players can select between seven different difficulty levels that affect how many inputs are active and the difficulty of patterns displayed. Players can also customize modifiers adjust to their preferred style, such as changing the visual appearance of patterns, how fast patterns appear, background brightness, etc.
The core gameplay involves players stepping on the panel with their feet to correspond with the scrolling arrows (or "Notes") on-screen once they reach the end of beat lines (horizontal bars that move up the screen). During normal gameplay, arrows scroll upwards from the bottom of the screen towards the end of the play area, towards a set of receptor markers on the sides of the arrow lanes. When these scrolling arrows reach the end, the player must step on the corresponding arrows on the dance stage, and the player is given a judgement for their accuracy of the input. Each note judged has multiple "windows" that it can be categorized into. These, from most accurate to least, are: PERFECT!!, PERFECT, EARLY, LATE, and MISS. Any judgement that is not "PERFECT!!" will show an indicator if the input was registered early or late compared to the intended timing.
Stepping accurately will contribute to the player's life bar, visible on the edge of the screen. Missing notes will cause a player's lifebar to decrease. If a player's lifebar empties entirely, scoring will halt and the song will no longer be able to be "passed" for that player, although the game will still continue until a player manually ends the song or the song completes.
Additional note types are also included with StepManiaX
Completing a song while a player still has energy remaining in their health bar will award a "pass" to the player. The player is taken to the Results Screen, which rates the player's performance with a star rating (between one and six stars, with a specialized design for players who achieve the maximum score of 100,000 points), the points earned (between 0 and 100,000, which can be interpreted as a percentage by dividing by 1000), and specific judgement statistics.
There are seven modes to play:
| MODE | Format | Panels | Levels | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | Single | 3 | 1-6 | |
| EASY | Single | 5 | 6-13 | |
| HARD | Single | 5 | 13-20 | |
| WILD | Single | 5 | 19-27 | |
| DUAL | Double | 6 | 2-23 | |
| FULL | Double | 10 | 7-28 | |
| TEAM | Double | 10 | 9-28 |
For single-stage format, beginner mode exists to get newcomers to play and cater to freestylers, while using just three panels: left, center, and right. Easy adds the up and down panels, making all five panels available to play. Hard makes the different colored rhythm panels more common and may add a few advanced features like pits. Wild further increasing the difficulty while making additional features more common.
Unlike single-pad, double-stage formats have no difficulty restrictions. Dual Mode is a new mode introduced to dance games that uses six panels, with both ups and downs not present. Full Mode uses all ten panels. Team Mode is like Full, but requires two players to play based on the color of the panels, with both players sharing the same lifebar and same score.
During development, "Beginner" mode was titled "Basic". This was later updated to ease new players into the game. The original difficulty scale was also adjusted from a 1-10 scale to allow for more range in Beginner and Easy charts.
Announced at IAAPA 2022, + (plus) charts such as Hard+ will be added to songs. Although rare and on certain songs, this is intended to fill the void on difficulty gaps.
On May 22, 2023, the StepManiaX mobile app began allowing users to create their own Edit charts for songs and share them with other users.
See also: In the Groove (video game series).
Development of StepManiaX started with stage development in early 2015. Several different designs were prototyped using various sensor technologies, including an aluminum slim-line stage. This design was officially shown to the public by project lead Kyle Ward in early 2016.[1] Later that year, the retail version of the stage was shown, sporting a thicker, more durable steel stage design. During this period, the StepManiaX software was being developed in tandem with hardware development. The goal of the software was to create a simple interface that was accessible for all ranges of players. The game then grew its design to appeal to a wide variety of locations: Home, Health & Fitness, Education, Competitive E-Sports, and Family Recreation.[2] The title StepManiaX was selected to focus on the aerobic stepping aspect of the game.
The game's first public showing was during MAGFest 2017.[3] [4]
StepManiaX was released in June 2017, but access to the game was very limited. Initially targeting fitness and recreational facilities, the game was installed at various family-oriented locations. During this time, the all-in-one cabinet design was exhibited at various trade fairs and gaming events like Gamescom 2017[5] as sales were limited due to stock shortages and gauging interest with distribution partners. Multiple waves of sales for consumer use eventually led to home users acquiring hardware, as sales were not limited to organizations or certain environments.[6] The following year, a coin-operated version of the game premiered at 8 on the Break as an initial location and hardware test.[7] This cabinet revision also premiered commercially at IAAPA 2019.[8] Since then, the game is available directly via the developer's web store[9] and through various distribution partners.[10] [11] [12] [13]
Step Revolution unveiled a new, larger, cabinet model IAAPA 2022 known as the "StepManiaX Deluxe" model.[14] It features a 65" touchscreen display, dynamic lighting show, and an improved sound system over the Dedicated model.
There are currently three StepManiaX cabinet models available:
While StepManiaX is intended to act as a complete product that includes both the game and the hardware needed to play it, individual parts can be bought and used on their own with other products.
The StepManiaX stage features five pressable panels by default: Up, down, left, right, and center. An additional kit can be purchased to make the diagonal directions pressable, and there is also a kit that can convert it to play 5-panel games that traditionally have rectangular panels, like Pump It Up. An additional stage can be purchased to play game modes that require two stages, such as "Double" mode in many 4-panel dance games.
The stage is fully compatible with various simulators such as StepMania, Project OutFox, MAME, or any application capable of using HID Joystick input.
Due to its breakout wiring, StepManiaX stages can be modified to completely bypass the USB output and natively work with other I/O solutions. This allows stages to be used with older home consoles, or even as replacements for stages on official Pump It Up cabinets.[15]
The soundtrack style for StepManiaX is similar in approach to other dance games such as Dance Dance Revolution, Pump It Up, and In The Groove. The soundtrack generally consists of higher tempo music with easy to follow beats and well-defined rhythms. The song selection consists of newer songs that have never appeared in other music games, as well as older licenses that have also appeared in other music games. Alongside these older licenses are newer songs made by the same artists who worked on other music games, such as: Naoki Maeda, the original sound director for Dance Dance Revolution; Yahpp, one of the original members of Pump It Up
StepManiaX originally launched with a soundtrack of 80 songs, consisting of 52 standard songs and 28 premium songs.[16] [17] Premium songs are only available with a purchase from the arcade operator. Starting on March 5, 2018, StepManiaX started receiving free content updates, with the update schedule moving to a monthly cadence in April 2020.
, StepManiaX features a total of 439 songs consisting of 412 standard songs, 28 premium songs, and 3 free DLC songs. This does not include the four songs which were removed on August 17, 2021, prior to the release of update #19.
| StepManiaX Songlist | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song Name | Artist | Update Version | Notes | |
| All Of Me ~Handz Up Radio Mix~ | Klubbmover | Launch | ||
| Ba Be Loo Be La | Kristeen | Launch | ⭐ | |
| Bagpipe | A-Moe | Launch | ||
| Be My Hero | Freezer | Launch | ||
| Birdie | Doolittle | Launch | ♥️ | |
| Blow My Mind | Alphadelta | Launch | ⭐ | |
| Bounce ~Melbournce Bounce Project Remix~ | Crew 7 | Launch | ||
| Burning Tonight | Krystal | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Can't Get Enough | Miradey | Launch | ||
| Can't Let Go | Launch | |||
| Change The World | Nathalie & Jim Lukas | Launch | ||
| Cowbell Rock | Pyramyth | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Crazy Baby ~2008 Club Edit~ | Fantasy Project | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Dabbi Doo | Ni-Ni | Launch | ⭐ | |
| Dance Vibrations | Elpis | Launch | ⭐ | |
| Dancing Circus | Brisby & Jingles | Launch | ||
| Day After Day ~De-Grees Rmx Edit~ | Rikah | Launch | ||
| Don't Stop My Music Tonight | David Dima | Launch | ||
| Dream A Dream ~Cheeky Trax UK Remix~ | Launch | |||
| Dreaming | Rameses B feat. Holly Drummond | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Dynamo | Oscillator X | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Emotion | Smiley | Launch | ||
| Endless Day | Verona | Launch | ||
| Everything is Changing ~Verano Remix Edit~ | Rikah | Launch | ||
| Firewalker | Xenon | Launch | ||
| MonstDeath | Launch | |||
| Frozen Fire | Kbit | Launch | ||
| Funny Love (Filatov & Karas Remix) | Launch | |||
| Get Down | Kairo Kingdom | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Girlz Night Out ~Andy Harding Club Mix~ | Launch | |||
| Got The Rhythm | Fracus & Darwin feat. Becca Hossany | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Hard Fast Disco | Launch | ♣️ | ||
| Hyper Hyper | Smiley | Launch | ||
| I Love You Baby | Pandera | Launch | ⭐ | |
| KaW | Launch | ♣️ | ||
| Indignation | Auvic feat. Pipo Fernandez | Launch | ||
| It Gets Better | Eskimo feat. Maria Merete | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Joanna | Crazy Loop | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Land of The Lost | Banzai | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Licky Licky | Crispy | Launch | ||
| Lights Go Down | Less Affair | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Link Line | Asterisk | Launch | ||
| Look Into My Eyes | Rabih | Launch | ||
| Lucky Star | Miradey | Launch | ||
| Made In China | Vitas & Sergey Pudovkin | Launch | ||
| Medicine 2013 ~Crew 7 Edit~ | Kim Leoni | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Mexi Mexi | Mozquito | Launch | ⭐ | |
| Million Feelings | Chriss Floren | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Monody | TheFatRat feat. Laura Brehm | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Moonstone | Virgill | Launch | ⭐ | |
| My Freedom | Rayman Rave & Nika Lenina | Launch | ||
| Origin | Stallian | Launch | ||
| Party All Night | KaW & Sam-I-Am | Launch | ⭐ | |
| Party People ~KaW Hands Up Edit~ | Oscillator X | Launch | ||
| Party People (Turn it Up) | Andy Stroke | Launch | ||
| Personal Reality | Auvic | Launch | ||
| Ready To Fly | Aleky | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Remember December | Smiley | Launch | ♥️ ♣️ | |
| Reminds Me of Home | Stallian | Launch | ||
| Revenge | MonstDeath | Launch | ||
| Rockslaves | Leo Pigot & Rinat Crane | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Run Away | Avejio | Launch | ||
| Save My World | Stephy | Launch | ||
| Secret 2K12 | Rene Ablaze feat. Jacinta | Launch | ||
| Shoulda ~Tale & Dutch House Remix~ | SUNN | Launch | ||
| Show Me Your Moves | Auvic feat. Pipo Fernandez | Launch | ||
| Start & Paws | Oscillator X | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Sun Goes Down | Landomania | Launch | ||
| That Night ~D-R Remix~ | Eskimo and Icebird | Launch | ||
| The 7th Element (Zariis 2015 Remake) | Launch | |||
| The Last Time | Zariis | Launch | ||
| The Rainmaker ~Remix Edit~ | Doug Laurent | Launch | ||
| Think Thousand Thoughts | Auvic | Launch | ||
| Time is Ticking | Elpis feat. Black Elway | Launch | ||
| Time To Fly | Cindy Cooper | Launch | ||
| Twins | Martin Eriksson feat. Ellee | Launch | ||
| Unity | Launch | |||
| We Are The Sun | Maui & Crizz feat. Gerald G. | Launch | ||
| What Happened To Love (Mig & Rizzo Club Mix) | Denine | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Who | KaW | Launch | ♥️ ⭐ | |
| Y Don't U | Deeper Territory | Launch | ♣️ | |
| Zodiac | Banzai | Launch | ♥️ ⭐ | |
| Big Blue Bouncy Ball | Mr. Blue | |||
| Ignition Starts | KaW | ♣️ | ||
| One Step Further | ♣️ | |||
| Surf | Hyper Potions | |||
| Agent Blatant | Ernest + Julio | ♥️ | ||
| Bloodrush | TeknoDred | ♥️ | ||
| Da Roots | ♥️ | |||
| Determinator | Dust Devil | ♥️ | ||
| Disconnected Disco | Kid Whatever | ♥️ | ||
| Drifting Away | Filo Bedo | ♥️ | ||
| Fleadh Uncut | Ian Parker | ♥️ ♣️ | ||
| Flying High | Filo Bedo | ♥️ | ||
| Gallecode | Novus | ♥️ | ||
| Go 60 Go | Takoyaki | ♥️ | ||
| Hispanic Panic | Chucho Merchan | ♥️ | ||
| Holy Guacamole | Chucho Merchan | ♥️ | ||
| I Think I Like That Sound | Kid Whatever | ♥️ ⭐ | ||
| Ize Pie | Headtwist & Pump | ♥️ | ||
| Land of the Rising Sun | Spacekatz | ♥️ | ||
| My Life Is So Crazy | Initial P | ♥️ | ||
| Psalm Pilot | Jason Creasey | ♥️ | ||
| Reactor | Jason Creasey | ♥️ | ||
| ROM-eo & Juli8 | Nina | ♥️ ♣️ | ||
| Soapy Bubble | Fragmentz | ♥️ | ||
| Spin Chicken | Freebie & The Bean | ♥️ | ||
| Temple of Boom | Yannis Kamarinos | ♥️ | ||
| This is Rock and Roll | DJ Zombie | ♥️ | ||
| While tha Rekkid Spinz | DJ Zombie | ♥️ ⭐ | ||
| Crazy Loop (Mm Ma Ma) | Crazy Loop | ♣️ | ||
| I Feel Sun | Gyrlie | |||
| Paradise | Smiley | ♣️ | ||
| Pop4 (Darwin Remix) | Vibes & Wishdokta | |||
| Ra | Banzai | ⭐ ♣️ | ||
| Bad 4 My Health | Bassmonkeys & Soulsilver feat. J.D. ROX | ♣️ | ||
| Get Busy | Bassmonkeys & Bianca Lindgren | ♣️ | ||
| I'll Show You Loving | Bassmonkeys feat. Natasha Anderson | ♣️ | ||
| Click Bait | S3RL Feat. Gl!TCH | |||
| Jason Creasey | ||||
| Ladybug | Coconut | ⭐ | ||
| Paranormal | Inspector K | ♣️ | ||
| Sunshine | Triple J | ♥️ | ||
| Sweet World | Omega Men | ♥️ ♣️ | ||
| Darkness | Sanxion7 | ♣️ | ||
| Eternus | Sanxion7 | |||
| Feel The Melody | S3RL feat. Sara | |||
| Gargoyle | Sanxion7 | ⭐ ♣️ | ||
| Mellow | ♥️ | |||
| Pink Fuzzy Bunnies | Wonderboy | ⭐ | ||
| Rainspark | Sanxion7 | ⭐ ♣️ | ||
| Zenith | Sanxion7 | ♣️ | ||
| Be Alive (Raaban Inc. Remix) | Stian K | ⭐ ♣️ | ||
| Boom Boom Dollars (Factory Eurotrance Remix) | ||||
| Do U Love Me | DJ Doo | ♥️ | ||
| Feels Just Like That Night | Eskimo & Icebird Feat. Maria Merete | ⭐ ♣️ | ||
| Hanky Panky (E=MC2 Mix) | ⭐ | |||
| July (EuroMix) | Smiley | ♥️ ⭐ | ||
| The Beginning | DJ Doo | ♥️ | ||
| Utopia | Smiley | ♥️ ⭐ | ||
| Xuxa | Smiley | ♥️ ⭐ | ||
| Ari Oh | Jenny Kee | |||
| Beautiful Man | ||||
| Become Astral | Ash Astral | |||
| Bumble Bee | ||||
| Coming Out | Playmaker feat. Robina | ⭐ ♣️ | ||
| Dizzy | Balduin & Wolfgang Lohr feat. Alanna | |||
| Never Gonna Make | Morgana | |||
| Waka Laka | Jenny Rom VS. The Zippers | |||
| Bang Bang Bang (Handsup Style Mix) | DCX | |||
| Dance Boom Boom (The Factory Eurobeat Mix) | Tipsy & Tipsy | |||
| Flash In The Night | Flashman | |||
| Hero | ||||
| Monolith | Affinity | ♥️ ⭐ | ||
| Nightmoves | Playmaker | ⭐ ♣️ | ||
| Senorita (Speedy Mix) | ||||
| Typical Tropical | ♥️ | |||
| Who R You (Beat You Edit) | Leo Pigot | ♣️ | ||
| Whoopsy Daisy | Wolfgang Lohr & Balduin feat. Sebastian Daws | |||
| Young Forever | Rebecca | |||
| A Sign (Factory Eurobeat Team Mix) | Tipsy & Tipsy | |||
| Esperanza | KaW | ⭐ | ||
| Ghosts (Vincent De Moor Mix) | Tenth Planet | |||
| Justify My Love | ||||
| Move It Groove It | KaW feat. Sam-I-Am | ⭐ | ||
| Movin On | Ellen Gee | |||
| Pink Dinosaur | ||||
| The Saint Goes Marching (Helix Remix 2020 Edit) | The Saint | |||
| Anubis | Banzai | ♥️ ⭐ | ||
| Bandito | Remorse Code | |||
| Bye Bye Baby Balloon | Joga | |||
| Dam Dariram | Joga | |||
| Electric | The DNC feat. Miss Amani | ⭐ ♣️ | ||
| Exotica | Banzai | ⭐ | ||
| Music & Police | CJ Crew & KaW feat. Christian D. | |||
| No Princess | ♥️ | |||
| So Deep (Perfect Sphere Remix) | ||||
| Stay | ||||
| Summer Night In Seattle | ♣️ | |||
| We're Getting Faster | Darwin feat. Fraz | ♣️ | ||
| Your Own Destiny | ♣️ | |||
| Come On Now | Miss Amani | |||
| Devil Inside | CRMNL | |||
| Dam Dadi Doo | Fantasy Project | ♣️ | ||
| Dolphin Talk | Pyramyth | |||
| Fantasy | Melissa | |||
| Get Lifted | Hot Kicks | |||
| In My Dreams | Rebecca | |||
| Living In America | Rose & John | |||
| Speed Over Beethoven | Rose | |||
| Classic Madness | ||||
| Dopamine (Tale & Dutch Remix) | You In Mind | |||
| Equinox | Mage | |||
| Give Into | Nutronic | |||
| I Want Your Balalaika | The Royal Eurobeat Orchestra of Bazookistan | |||
| India's Glitch | Kirill Gramada | |||
| July Redux | Entity | |||
| Life Ride | Pyramyth | |||
| Mozart Is Back | Rose | |||
| My Baby Mama | ||||
| Nothing Gonna Stop | Micky | |||
| Silence | ||||
| Black Magic | Matduke | ♣️ | ||
| Crime Time | CJ Crew & KaW feat. Sedge | |||
| Magic Mystery Tour | KaW feat. Paula Terry | |||
| Night of Fright (Spooky Edit) | Justin Corza & 420 | |||
| Nightmare (Mage Remix) | FSJ feat. Tara Louise | |||
| Pretty Ugly (Jump Smokers Remix) | Yenn | ♣️ | ||
| Riddimino | Philstep | |||
| Sky High | Lucyfer | |||
| Warrior | Kirill Gramada | |||
| MAX428 | ||||
| Arcade Run | Perfect Sphere | |||
| Bring Your Lovin Back | ||||
| Confusion | ||||
| Doh! | Tale & Dutch | |||
| Hypnosis (BanYa Buzz Edit) | Colin Kiddy | ⭐ | ||
| I'm Crazy For Your Love | Black Eva | |||
| Into My Dream (Kaveh Azizi Remix) | ⭐ | |||
| No Nobody's Love | Joga | |||
| Bazookistan | The Royal Eurobeat Orchestra of Bazookistan | |||
| Electro Asia | ||||
| Megalovania (Chime Remix) | ||||
| My Generation (Fat Beat Mix) | ||||
| Nori Nori Nori | Judy Crystal | |||
| Russian Roulette | ||||
| Spaceman | ♥️ | |||
| What Love Feels Like | Leonail | |||
| Csikos Post (2021 Yahpp Remix) | ⭐ | |||
| Delirium (T2Kazuya Remix) | Smiley | ♥️ ♣️ | ||
| Ma Huggies | FIG & Nico Sleator | |||
| On My Own | Anamanaguchi feat. HANA | |||
| Show U Love | Entity | |||
| Take Me Away | ||||
| Twelve -True Fix- | ||||
| Beethoven Virus (2021 Yahpp Remix) | ⭐ | |||
| BU-44 | ||||
| Charlene | Missing Heart | ♥️ | ||
| Do It All Night (2003) | ||||
| Fall Silently | Christoph Maitland & Toby Emerson feat. Veela | ♣️ | ||
| Hip Hop Jam | Indiggo | ♥️ | ||
| Kagami (T2Kazuya Remix) | KaW | ♥️ | ||
| Subzero | Donk Terrorist vs. 204 | ♣️ | ||
| Baby Love Me | Judy Crystal | |||
| Critical Hit | MDK | |||
| Forever | Schustin | |||
| Summer (Speedy Mix) | Smiley | ♥️ ⭐ | ||
| Temple Of Love | ||||
| The Judgement Day | ||||
| Winter (2021 Yahpp Remix) | ⭐ | |||
| Cryosleep | ♥️ | |||
| Destiny | Smiley | ♥️ ⭐ | ||
| Dr. M (2021 Yahpp Remix) | ⭐ | |||
| Glowing In The Night (90's Radio Edit) | Schustin | ⭐ | ||
| In The Heat Of The Night | ||||
| Katana Fighter | Electron | |||
| Sky High | ||||
| Brutalisphere | ||||
| Butterfly | Swingrowers | |||
| Cartoon Heroes (Speedy Mix) | ||||
| Melancholy Vision | ||||
| Operator | ||||
| Show U | M-Project | |||
| Step Up Amadeus (2021 Yahpp Remix) | ⭐ | |||
| Test My Best | ||||
| Kick It Man | ||||
| If You Can Say Goodbye (Factory Team Mix) | Kate Project | Update #17 | ||
| Liquify | Toby Emerson | Update #17 | ||
| Paradox (StepManiaX Mix) | Update #17 | |||
| Queen Of Light | Update #17 | ♥️ ♣️ | ||
| Ring The Alarm | M-Project & Signal | Update #17 | ||
| Say What (Pisk Electro Swing Remix) | Cut Capers | Update #17 | ||
| Contrast | Donk Terrorist vs. Daniel Seven | Update #18 | ||
| Jukebox | Swingrowers | Update #18 | ||
| Kinky Boots | Daz Sampson & Nona | Update #18 | ||
| op13 -type one- | Update #18 | |||
| Turn Me On | E-Rotic | Update #18 | ||
| Boomerang | Miss V | Update #19 | ||
| Canon D.2 | Yahpp | Update #19 | ⭐ | |
| Closer To Heaven | Neonne | Update #19 | ⭐ | |
| Give You Love (Bounce Enforcerz Remix) | Daz Sampson & Katya Ocean | Update #19 | ||
| Grab It While We Can | FantastixX | Update #19 | ||
| Never Ending Story | DJ AC/DC | Update #19 | ||
| Update #19 | ||||
| 403 (Tokyo 2021) | Update #20 | |||
| Disco High (Scorccio Hot Vox Mix) | Ultimate Heights | Update #20 | ||
| Follow My Pamp | Andrea Damante feat. Adam Clay | Update #20 | ||
| Robot World | Oscillator X | Update #20 | ||
| Update #20 | ||||
| Update #20 | ||||
| Watch Out | Victoria | Update #20 | ⭐ | |
| Business Wars | Quiqman feat. Eternal JK Yoripi-chan | Update #21 | ||
| Get Up'n Move | S & K | Update #21 | ||
| Insane (Stephan F Remix) | Niko Noise | Update #21 | ||
| Lay It Down (Fresno Edit) | Tchorta & Gui Boratto | Update #21 | ⭐ | |
| Pump The Rhythm (Scorccio Hot Edit) | Ultimate Heights | Update #21 | ||
| We Do This Dance | Victoria | Update #21 | ⭐ | |
| Cyber-Kyoto- | Update #22 | |||
| Don't Stop | S & K | Update #22 | ||
| Everybody 2 The Sun (Scorccio Hot Edit) | Ultimate Heights | Update #22 | ||
| High On Your Love | Update #22 | |||
| Kalinka | Update #22 | |||
| Silent Movie (Odd Chap Remix) | Little Violet | Update #22 | ||
| Take Take | Miss V | Update #22 | ||
| The Naughty Song | Oscillator X | Update #22 | ♣️ | |
| Everybody Dance (Scorccio Hot Edit) | X-Rated | Update #23 | ||
| I Met You | DJ Cosmin, Ole Bott, Ammagin feat. Simon Erics | Update #23 | ||
| Katyusha (Russian Key Edit) | Schustin | Update #23 | ||
| Sing It Again | Kirk Monteux | Update #23 | ||
| Bubbles | Tokyo Machine | Update #24 | ||
| Outbreak | Feint feat. Mylk | Update #24 | ||
| Shiawase | Dion Timmer | Update #24 | ||
| The Shrimps | Vertigini | Update #24 | ||
| 7th Trip (80's-00's) | Update #25 | |||
| Fade Out | Bensley | Update #25 | ||
| Here For You | PIXL feat. Q'AILA | Update #25 | ||
| Recovery | JMCX | Update #25 | ||
| Dystopia 2077 | F.O.O.L & The Forgotten | Update #26 | ||
| Moonlight | Update #26 | |||
| Press Start | MDK | Update #26 | ||
| The Call of Wilderness | Electron | Update #26 | ||
| Just Do It | Swingrowers | Update #27 | ||
| Liberar Vida | Scorccia | Update #27 | ||
| Meta Dreadnaught | Update #27 | |||
| We Got The Moves | Update #27 | |||
| Dark Fenix | Update #27 | |||
| Art City | Virgill | Update #28 | ⭐ | |
| Bewitched | Update #28 | |||
| Cosmic Drive | Update #28 | |||
| Have Fun | Rameses B | Update #28 | ♣️ | |
| Pump It | Update #28 | |||
| All For One | IVD x Dee Dee x Kenny Hayes | Update #29 | ||
| How We Win | FWLR | Update #29 | ||
| Ooh La La La | Update #29 | |||
| Stop Me | Natsume Oki | Update #29 | ||
| Villain | Update #29 | |||
| VTubers Never Die! (RE-incarnation MIX) | Update #29 | |||
| Para-Symptoms | Update #30 | |||
| Rainbow Rave Parade | Chime | Update #30 | ||
| Space Boy | Rameses B, Feint & Veela | Update #30 | ||
| Trigger | CraXy | Update #30 | ||
| Bust It Out | FWLR | Update #31 | ||
| Demon's World | CJ Crew | Update #31 | ||
| Energizer | ZiGZaG | Update #31 | ♥️ ⭐ | |
| TURBO | Tokyo Machine | Update #31 | ||
| Dance | Sophon | Update #32 | ||
| Only You | Dexter King feat. Alexis Donn | Update #32 | ||
| STOP! & Go | Onyx | Update #32 | ⭐ | |
| Vodka | The Royal Eurobeat Orchestra of Bazookistan | Update #32 | ||
| Good Feeling | More Plastic & imallryt | Update #33 | ||
| INEEDU | Update #33 | |||
| Right Into You | The Tech Team | Update #33 | ||
| WYGD | Bishu | Update #33 | ||
| Midnight Train | More Plastic & Tylah Winyard | Update #33 | ||
| Get Busy | KOYOTIE | Update #34 | ||
| Quiqman feat. Chihiro Kawakami | Update #34 | |||
| Lemmings On The Run | E-Rotic | Update #34 | ♥️ | |
| Orbit | Ellis | Update #34 | ||
| Perks | Bibi Gold | Update #34 | ||
| Update #35 | ||||
| Born to Run | Red Parker | Update #35 | ||
| EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa) | Update #35 | |||
| Forever and a Day (Fracus & Darwin Remix) | Dy5on Feat. Silver Angelina | Update #35 | ||
| Update #35 | ||||
| Therapy | Update #35 | |||
| Bambole (Ole) | Papa Gonzales | Update #36 | ⭐ | |
| Bassline Shatter | M-Project & S2i8 | Update #36 | ||
| Just Dance | Bad Computer | Update #36 | ||
| Make It Tonight | Fracus & Darwin feat. Jake | Update #36 | ||
| Northern Lights | Saxsquatch | Update #36 | ||
| Do My Thing | PRTY ANML | Update #37 | ||
| Down Low | Hr. Troels x Felix Schorn | Update #37 | ||
| Nothing Else Matters | Katya Ocean | Update #37 | ||
| Samurai | Rameses B | Update #37 | ||
| Techno World | Update #37 | |||
| 2NITE | nanobii | Update #38 | ||
| A Little Love | Glitterati | Update #38 | ||
| Update #38 | ||||
| Stockholm To Bombay | Update #38 | |||
| Work | Update #38 | |||
| Love Arcade (Dance 'n' Thrash SMX Edit) | Bending Grid | Update #39 | ||
| Poco Loco | Update #39 | ⭐ | ||
| Rad | Tokyo Machine | Update #39 | ||
| Sirens | RENOLD X Scarlett | Update #39 | ||
| The Other Side | Au5 & Chime | Update #39 | ||
| Arsene's Bazaar | James Landino | Update #40 | ||
| Every Little Thing | Update #40 | |||
| Galactical | Tokyo Machine | Update #40 | ||
| Love | Ari Dayan | Update #40 | ||
| Night In Motion | Update #40 | |||
| Asian Night In 20XX | Update #41 | |||
| Dream of You | Bishu | Update #41 | ||
| Fiesta Night | Update #41 | |||
| Swipe | Felix Schorn | Update #41 | ||
| UFO | Update #41 | |||
| All Starts Now | Update #42 | |||
| Breathe Me Back To Life | Stonebank feat. Lena Sue | Update #42 | ||
| Candy Pop | Update #42 | |||
| The 7 Jump | Ken-D | Update #42 | † | |
| To Your Beat | S3RL feat. Hannah Fortune | Update #42 | ||
| Do It Like That | Mad Circuit, LG (Team Genius), Sereda | Update #43 | ||
| Keep On Dancing | BEAUZ feat. Heleen | Update #43 | ||
| Low Workout | Update #43 | |||
| Stars | James Landino | Update #43 | ||
| Y2Z | Affinity | Update #43 | ⭐ | |
| Boogeyman | Wizardz of Oz | Update #44 | ||
| Halloween Scream | Bigshot Bo And The Swing Crusaders | Update #44 | ||
| The Bass & The Melody | S3RL | Update #44 | ||
| Under The Bed | Macks Wolf X Tatsunoshin | Update #44 | ||
| BLEEP BLOOP | Tokyo Machine | Update #45 | ||
| Elysium | Scott Brown | Update #45 | ||
| Party | ChildsPlay | Update #45 | ||
| Supernova | Laszlo | Update #45 | ||
| Update #46 | ||||
| Definition of a Badboy | Scott Brown | Update #47 | ||
| Kibo | Dion Timmer | Update #47 | ||
| Let's Remember | Update #47 | |||
| Never Let You Down (StepManiaX Edit) | BEAUZ, Miles Away, & RYYZN | Update #47 | ||
| Fearless | Update #48 | |||
| Got Good Vibes | MO XO | Update #48 | ||
| Tick Tock (Quickdrop Remix) | Technikore | Update #48 | ||
| Truth or Dare | Update #48 | |||
| Zen | Update #48 | |||
| Beat It | from20 | Update #49 | ||
| Electronic City Pops | Update #49 | |||
| Heaven On Earth | HELLO GLOOM | Update #49 | ||
| Music Is Moving | Tatsunoshin | Update #49 | ||
| My Salsa | Update #49 | |||
| Big Boss | Big Boss | Update #50 | ||
| Update #50 | ||||
| FAR OUT | Tokyo Machine | Update #50 | ||
| Herrscher Of Finality | Update #50 | |||
| What Ya Gonna Do | Update #50 | |||
| Accelerate | Teminite & Skybreak | Update #51 | ||
| Bad Revenge | from20 | Update #51 | ||
| Fly Me High | @pple & Pie | Update #51 | ||
| Mothership | F.O.O.L & SKUM | Update #51 | ||
| Rock Me Forever | Nevada | Update #51 | ||
| Dancing In The Dark | HELLO GLOOM | Update #52 | ||
| DMT | Technikore | Update #52 | ||
| Everybody Get Up | Tempo feat. Manola | Update #52 | ||
| SPEED KING | David Kane | Update #52 | ||
| Where Did You Go | Tatsunoshin | Update #52 | ||
| StepManiaX Update History (since June 28, 2021) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Update Version | Release Date | |
| Update #17 | June 28, 2021 | |
| Update #18 | August 3, 2021 | |
| Update #19 | September 2, 2021 | |
| Update #20 | October 8, 2021 | |
| Update #21 | November 10, 2021 | |
| Update #22 | December 30, 2021 | |
| Update #23 | February 6, 2022 | |
| Update #24 | March 1, 2022 | |
| Update #25 | March 29, 2022 | |
| Update #26 | April 28, 2022 | |
| Update #27 | June 3, 2022 | |
| Update #28 | June 29, 2022 | |
| Update #29 | July 25, 2022 | |
| Update #30 | August 23, 2022 | |
| Update #31 | August 24, 2022 | |
| Update #32 | September 30, 2022 | |
| Update #33 | October 28, 2022 | |
| Update #34 | November 16, 2022 | |
| Update #35 | January 6, 2023 | |
| Update #36 | February 10, 2023 | |
| Update #37 | March 27, 2023 | |
| Update #38 | April 29, 2023 | |
| Update #39 | May 26, 2023 | |
| Update #40 | June 25, 2023 | |
| Update #41 | July 27, 2023 | |
| Update #42 | September 5, 2023 | |
| Update #43 | October 6, 2023 | |
| Update #44 | October 26, 2023 | |
| Update #45 | November 15, 2023 | |
| Update #46 | December 11, 2023 | |
| Update #47 | January 16, 2024 | |
| Update #48 | February 29, 2024 | |
| Update #49 | March 30, 2024 | |
| Update #50 | May 3, 2024 | |
| Update #51 | June 7, 2024 | |
| Update #52 | July 10, 2024 | |
| Removed Songs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song Name | Artist | Release Date | Date Removed | Notes | |
| All It Takes | Zariis | Launch | |||
| Hurry Up! | MonstDeath | Launch | Remix of "Sabre Dance" by Aram Khachaturian | ||
| Sinxorder | MonstDeath | Launch | |||
| Chica Bomb | Also in ♣️ | ||||
Notes:
StepManiaX has been met with generally positive reviews, both for its hardware and the game itself, compared to other dance games such as Dance Dance Revolution and Pump It Up.
In 2018, Wilcox Arcade stated that StepManiaX is welcoming to the American arcade industry,[18] [19] while Arcade Heroes reported that the booth seemed popular with vendors at IAAPA 2021.[20]
Gemu Baka praised the machine during his time at BASHCon 2020 as the best alternative to Dance Dance Revolution, as the latter game remains exclusive to Round 1 and Dave & Buster's in North America.[21]
Reception of StepManiaX hardware has been generally positive, citing durability, more easily adjustable sensitivity, easier maintenance, options for customization, and quality of customer support. For the dedicated game itself, the majority of the praise comes from the large song library and its focus on otherwise neglected dance music genres, and lack of subscription fees or unlocks. Internet connections are only needed for content updates and automatic upload of user scores and preferences, and so completely offline StepManiaX setups are more complete in function than their competitors.[22] [23]
StepManiaX has been criticized for limited supply availability and having no support for cheaper, non-standard home offerings, such as video game console and personal computer versions. While stages are available on their own to private customers, restocking happens infrequently and sales periods typically only last for a few minutes. The high demand for these items increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many arcades remained closed or had limited reopenings.[24] There are also fewer public arcades featuring StepManiaX compared to modern installations of Dance Dance Revolution and Pump It Up.[25]
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