- Custom Mixtape Editor! [Bits & Bops Version 1.13.0 Released!] - 29 August 2026
Welcome to our second major update for Bits & Bops!If you've been reading our patch notes, you'll be aware that we've been working on a custom mixtape editor for some time now. In this patch, we're finally ready to release it to the public! Head to the workshop (the new area of the store that unlocks once you finish the main game) to check it out! The editor has a brand new visual style, including light and dark modes.To celebrate, Bits & Bops will be 20% off for the next two weeks! Now is a great time to grab a copy if you haven't already, or consider gifting one to a friend if you'd like to support us and the continued development of Bits & Bops. We've also created some super cool Steam Animated Avatar Frames themed after the four mixtapes and the community computer, which will be available very soon. Keep an eye on our Steam Points Shop so you can grab one to show off to your friends…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.12.0 Released! - 27 June 2026
Welcome back for more patch notes!This is a small quality of life update that bundles a bunch of little improvements and bug fixes that we've made in response to all the feedback we got from you during our mixtape contest.Speaking of the mixtape contest - submissions are now closed! Keep an eye on our Discord server for more details, or head over to the Steam Workshop to play some of the entries for yourself!As always, we're continuing to take on feedback and prioritise features and fixes, so please keep reporting bugs and making suggestions, and we'll keep doing our best to address them. We're most active in our Discord server, but we also keep up with our Steam discussion board and our [email protected] inbox. Thanks for playing!Game updatesScheduled hits are now implicitly enabled during autoplay for sample-perfect audioMixtapes that are still downloading now display at the t…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.11.0 Released! - 4 June 2026
Welcome to our first major update for Bits & Bops!Last patch we soft-launched our Steam Workshop integration, and we've had lots of great testing and feedback from our community. This patch brings a handful of new features for the jukebox, including the ability to import mixtapes from places other than Steam Workshop, and the ability to sort your list so it's easier to find what you're looking for.To celebrate the 1.0 launch of the custom mixtape player, we're hosting a mixtape competition with guest judges DaftHusky and MCMDesigns! If you're interested in joining the competition (or you just want to get access to the editor to make custom mixtapes), join our Discord server for details!We've also added a couple of bonus achievements that you can earn for trying out our new features. A few players pointed out that these achievements went live before you were able to earn them in game, an…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.10.0 Released! - 25 March 2026
Welcome back for more patch notes!This release brings a whole new feature: Steam Workshop integration! Once you've finished the main game and seen the credits, you'll now unlock a new area in the shop. Head over to our Steam Workshop, subscribe to any custom mixtapes that catch your eye, and they will be loaded directly into the game!As always, we're continuing to take on feedback and prioritise features and fixes, so please keep reporting bugs and making suggestions, and we'll keep doing our best to address them. We're most active in our Discord server, but we also keep up with our Steam discussion board and our [email protected] inbox. Thanks for playing!Game updatesFinishing the game now unlocks the workshop!Bug fixesThe Perfect Tracker is no longer selectable before it is unlockedThe TTS message that reads when the screen reader is disabled has been restoredThe screen reader…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.9.0 Released! - 5 March 2026
Welcome back for more patch notes!This release brings some new languages, a collection of bug fixes, and some groundwork for a new feature! If you want to be involved as we continue to develop Bits & Bops, please consider joining our Discord server.Our major news for this release: the game is now available in both French and Italian! We'll be working on more translations over time, so if your language is not yet available, we want to hear from you so we know which languages to prioritise. We also have many dedicated language channels in our Discord server where you can chat with your fellow community members!As always, we're continuing to take on feedback and prioritise features and fixes, so please keep reporting bugs and making suggestions, and we'll keep doing our best to address them. We're most active in our Discord server, but we also keep up with our Steam discussion board and ou…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.8.0 Released! - 10 February 2026
Welcome back for more patch notes!This release brings a highly-requested feature. For those of you chasing high scores, we've added a setting on the community computer that will show whether you're on track to get a Perfect! To unlock it, you'll need to score Amazing on every level, and Perfect on at least one level, then it should arrive in your mail. The setting is off by default to retain the suspense of the results screen when you don't quite know whether you hit everything, but you can freely turn it on and off once you've unlocked it.Also, the game is now available in Spanish (Spain)! This is in addition to our existing Spanish (Latin America) translation. We'll continue to work on more translations over time, so please be patient if your language is not yet available. We also have many dedicated language channels in our Discord server where you can chat with your fellow community…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.7.0 Released! - 28 January 2026
Welcome back for more patch notes!This release brings yet more improvements and bug fixes. We're continuing taking on feedback and prioritising features and fixes, so please keep reporting bugs and making suggestions, and we'll keep doing our best to address them. We're most active in our Discord server, but we also keep up with our Steam discussion board and our [email protected] inbox.On the gameplay front, we've made an update to the tutorial input display overlay to better indicate the intended timing for minigames that don't already have strong visual cues. Our intention is to help beginner players who are having a hard time interpreting some of the audio cues. If this proves to be useful, we'll also look at working this into an interactive tutorial phase to ensure players have understood the timing before letting them attempt it unassisted. Please share your feedback on th…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.6.0 Released! - 17 January 2026
Welcome back for more patch notes!This release brings some more improvements and bug fixes. We're continuing taking on feedback and prioritising features and fixes, so please keep reporting bugs and making suggestions, and we'll keep doing our best to address them. We're most active in our Discord server, but we also keep up with our Steam discussion board and our [email protected] inbox.Since many players were missing the new feature with the record player, we've given Bit some extra dialogue in her post-game speech to hint that the record player speeds have some relation to the minigames. We've also changed the record player to revert to normal speed when an incompatible level is selected as an extra hint that something didn't work. We want this feature to stay somewhat hidden, but we'll continue to tweak it to make it more intuitive for the people who go looking for it.On the…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.5.0 Released! - 9 January 2026
Happy new year, and welcome back for more patch notes!It's been just under a month since we launched! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought the game and supported us so far. As we've said in previous updates, we're still taking on feedback and prioritising features and fixes. Please keep reporting bugs and making suggestions, and we'll keep doing our best to address them. We're most active in our Discord server, but we also keep up with our Steam discussion board and our [email protected] inbox.While many bugs have been fixed, there a couple of rare but important ones we're still trying to track down. If you're not being awarded Perfect stickers when you think you should be, or if your game is hanging or the display is freezing for long periods of time, we want to hear from you. Every log file we get from an affected user gets us one step closer to fixing these bugs for g…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.4.0 Released! - 28 December 2025
Welcome back for more patch notes!As with previous patches, we're still taking on feedback and prioritising features and fixes. Please keep reporting bugs and making suggestions, and we'll keep working through them into the new year. We're most active in our Discord server, but we also keep up with our Steam discussion board and our [email protected] inbox.You can now have up to three save slots! If you want to let your little brother try the game out on your computer, or you just want to be able to play the game from scratch, you can now do that without manually copying save files around; just pick a new slot from the menu at the start of the game.Many people were having trouble with Molecano, mostly due to the tutorial not consistently punishing extra inputs when players were tapping on every beat instead of every second beat. While the game generally doesn't punish inputs whi…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.3.0 Released! - 21 December 2025
Welcome back for more patch notes!We’re continuing to listen to feedback, and we’ve been prioritising the most important features and fixes. We still have more to do, so please keep reporting issues or suggestions when you have them. We’re most active in our Discord server, but we also keep up with our Steam discussion board and our [email protected] inbox.Many players were reporting that they struggled to understand Octeaparty’s tutorial, but found that the level itself was quite intuitive. To address this, we’ve added a dedicated 5/4 version of the tutorial music, which has a similar feel to the level itself, and provides a much more natural framing of the cues when you first encounter them.Pantry Parade continued to be a stumbling block for new players, so we’ve made some further adjustments aimed at helping people to understand the rhythms and stick to the beat when the visu…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.2.0 Released! - 16 December 2025
Welcome to our second proper set of patch notes for Bits & Bops!We’ve been continuing to listen to feedback from players, and making adjustments to address the most common issues people are running into. We’re still not done, so please keep reporting issues or suggestions when you have them. We’re most active in our Discord server, but we also keep up with our Steam discussion board and our [email protected] inbox.We’ve made a small audio cue update to Steady Bears to help prevent players accidentally faceplanting right at the beginning of the tutorials, and also generally smooth out transitions into the minigame when it appears in mixtapes. On the public beta channel, we have a further draft change to help people get back on beat after the off-beat steps, but we’re continuing to take feedback on that from players before deciding whether we want to include that change in the mai…
- Bits & Bops Version 1.1.0 Released! - 11 December 2025
Welcome to our first proper set of patch notes for Bits & Bops!We've been listening to feedback from players, and we're trying very hard to address subjective issues as well as crashes and other bugs preventing people from progressing. We still have a long list to go, and we'll continue pushing out patches to address these over the coming days and weeks before we go on Christmas break.We’ve noticed some players being brick-walled by Pantry Parade and Steady Bears, which was not our intention. As an immediate fix, we’ve relaxed the hit window in those games to smooth out the overall difficulty curve of the game. Longer term, we would like to invest some time into improving the cues and feedback given in those minigames to help players better keep time, at which point we may tighten the windows back up to their normal size.We’re also aware of confusion in President Bird owing to the lack…
- Thanks for a wonderful launch day! - 10 December 2025
We’re so happy to see everyone enjoying Bits & Bops! We’ve been working extremely hard to help everyone who needed support, but we’re only a small team, so if you’ve reached out to us and not heard back, please feel free to ask again.Here’s what we’ve been up to!Shortly after launch, we pushed some small changes in version 1.0.1:For players with specific rare configurations, the game no longer crashes when trying to start the main gameThe drum roll cue in President Bird no longer plays persistently for an extended time for some playersAs people played through the game and reported issues, we identified a number of other things that were hindering progress through the main game, so we’ve just now pushed some more changes in version 1.0.2:Some players were experiencing severe audio crackling when the “Strict buffer” setting was enabled. To address this, we are trialing a change that disab…
- BITS & BOPS IS OUT NOW! - 10 December 2025
Bits & Bops is live right now on Steam!Thank you so much for your patience, we really hope you enjoy the game!If you’re looking for something extra, we also have these bundles available:Bits & Bops + Soundtrack BundleGet the game plus the entire OST!Bits & Bops + UNBEATABLE BundleGet the game plus UNBEATABLE, which also launched today! Tempo Lab + 7th Beat BundlePick up the entire catalogue of 7th Beat Games, including Rhythm Doctor and A Dance of Fire and Ice, both games we absolutely adore!Thanks again and have fun!- Tempo Lab
- Upcoming Special Announcement! - 28 November 2025
A very special Bits & Bops announcement will air during the Wholesome Snack Showcase on December 9th at 12pm PT! You won't want to miss it!Click the "Notify me" button in the bottom left corner of the Wholesome Snack YouTube video to get a reminder.See you there!
- Demo Version 0.17 Released! - 31 October 2025
Welcome back for more patch notes! We're already one month into Q4, and we're still working hard to bring you the full version of Bits & Bops by the end of the year! This release of the demo is mostly small updates and bug fixes that we've been patching along the way. We've also reverted the One Button setting to be off by default, as this is the way we expect most players will want to play Bits & Bops at release. If you run into any issues, please report them to us in our Discord server!You can now also play the Bits & Bops demo in:Ukranian - thanks to erulairy!We've also had substantial updates to many of our fan translations:Chinese - thanks to Kirbysfan!Polish - thanks to Maksymilian Król!Portuguese - thanks to Ghostabo and teu!Special thanks to all the translators!UpdatesOne Button mode is now disabled by default (but you can re-enable it via Settings > Other > One Button)The game…
- Demo Version 0.16 Released! - 1 September 2025
Welcome back for more patch notes!This release contains a collection of small fixes and updates based on feedback from our wonderful community in our Discord server! Most notably we've added some new cues to B-Bot to make the spin move easier to identify, and we've squashed a ton of bugs. We've also enabled "One button" mode by default to smooth out the experience for new players, but you can switch back to the regular mode in the Settings menu under the "Other" tab.We've also had substantial updates to many of our fan translations:German - thanks to Lucas Waldhauer!Japanese - thanks to shiomichu!Korean - thanks to Big Jaekuk!Portuguese - thanks to Ghostabo!Spanish - thanks to valentinmacc!Vietnamese - thanks to Đào Đức Trung!Special thanks to all the translators!UpdatesThe B-Bot spin move now uses a record scratch audio cue"One button" mode is now enabled by defaultThe new "Preview tut…
- NEW MINIGAME! Demo Version 0.15 Released! - 9 June 2025
Welcome back for more patch notes! This release brings our biggest demo update yet - we've added a whole new level for Steam Next Fest! You can now see your favorite dancing trio from the trailer in B-Bot & the Fly Girls! Please download the demo to try it out, and leave your feedback in the #demo-feedback channel of our Discord server! We've also had substantial updates to many of our fan translations: Chinese - thanks to Kirbysfan! Korean - thanks to Big Jaekuk! Polish - thanks to Maksymilian Król! Russian - thanks to hydrosu! Spanish - thanks to Valentin! Vietnamese - thanks to Trung!Special thanks to all the translators!Features addedB-Bot & the Fly Girls has been added to the public demo!The custom engine now supports most ASIO-compatible audio drivers (must be selected in Settings > Audio > Device)UpdatesThe default keyboard bindings now use J and K to accommodate 2-button gamesTh…
- Demo Version 0.14 Released! - 31 March 2025
Welcome back for more patch notes! This release brings a handful of new features that will make the game a more complete and polished experience, including pausing, input rebinding, and calibration options for players who are stuck using high latency devices. We've also made more fixes to the Custom engine which should enable it to run on more devices. If you're using the Fallback engine, you'll be switched back to the Custom engine automatically next time you launch the game. Please report any issues you encounter in our Discord server! With the release of the input rebinding feature, we'd like to thank Nicolae Berbece (Xelu) for his Free Controllers & Keyboard Prompts pack! The pack is generously available in the public domain and saved us from spending a bunch of time drawing buttons. Thanks, Nick! You can now also play the Bits & Bops demo in German - thanks to Drowzee! We've also h…
