- Sample this! A huge new OFFBEAT update is here - 7 October 2026
Wotcher! The latest OFFBEAT update is here and all about making more from what you’ve already got.Chop up old tapes, throw your own sounds into the mix, dig through past creations and turn them into something different and new. With a brand new sampler, new musical objects (including a coffee grinder that definitely shouldn’t be used for anything but coffee) 11 new jobs, guest sample tapes and plenty more to play with, there are now even more ways to make noise. As usual, to celebrate the launch of a new update, we’ve made another wonderful music video for you. Check it out below: So, what's new?Three new musical objects: a sampler for chopping up and recycling your tapes, the strange and slightly haunted Autochord, and a coffee grinder for bitcrush-style distortion.11 new jobs: soundtrack the news, chop up a dumbass CEO's voice memo, record an EP and more.The Archive: browse all your o…
- Demo Update! - 8 September 2026
Wotcher! We've decided that the old OFFBEAT demo didn't quite do the game justice, so we've decided to update it. This update comes with nicer graphics, access to the upgrade system, lots and lots of quality-of-life features, greater stability, and the save files are now compatible with the main game, meaning if you decide to get the full version, you'll be able to pick up right where you left off. The one small downside is that if you were midway through the old version of the demo, you might find your save file no longer works. However, don't worry! If this is the case, you'll get a call when you hit New Game from our pal Electric Lacey, who will talk you through using a cheat code to skip back to where you were. Plus, all your old exported audio will be right where you left it.
- The Studio Essentials Update is OUT NOW! - 2 September 2026
Strings at the ready, the Studio Essentials Update, OFFBEAT’s first major Early Access update, is OUT NOW! To celebrate, we’ve released a new music video for ‘Pepperoni Pizzicato’, composed entirely in OFFBEAT. Please stand, if you’re able, for the national anthem and watch it below: Now, onto the update: It's a doozy, we've added strings, reverb, EQ, effect buses, 11 peculiar new jobs and somewhere to hide all the stuff cluttering up your desk. Most importantly, you can now express your deepest sorrows using the World’s Tiniest Violin. 🎻 make a sad song, add some reverb and If it all gets too much, that’s okay, just take everything and hide it in a box under your desk! Just like real life!Full feature list: Three new musical objects!Meet the latest additions to your increasingly unconventional studio:The World’s Tiniest Violin - Add strings to your songs and upgrade the violin to unlo…
- OFFBEAT | Early Access Roadmap - 5 August 2026
Hello musical maestro! It is precisely TWO WEEKS since OFFBEAT launched into Steam Early Access and wheeeeeew what a couple of weeks it's been! Hearing all the beautiful works of auditory art created by the new community here has been a joy to behold. Thanks for investing your time and creativity into the game - and please do keep sharing your work with us.We wanted to take a moment to outline our plans for the weeks and months ahead, as we have SO much in the works, and wanted to share what's coming. The Road AheadA little caveat at the top: this is game dev, so who knows what the hell the months ahead have in store, but this is the roadmap we're confident putting out into the wild, and striving our best to deliver on. We are confident in the roadmap and broad dates below, but we just wanted to couple with that little note - we're a small team, and things happen sometimes. Ok! Boring b…
- Hotfix Day 1 - 1.0.1 - 23 July 2026
Hark! Thank you for an incredible first 24h! We're truly blown away by the reception so far. Just a quick patch to fix some of the issues encountered by the community!fixes fixes fixesFixed a softlock that was preventing new jobs appearing in Chapters 1 and 2 Amended several jobs whose requirements were confusing (goodbye, Q1 engine!) Fixed bugs in the notebook, end-of-chapter star animations, and sequencer pattern view Added a 300fps framerate cap, for those of you playing the game on turbocharged rigsJoin the Discord and keep sharing your music and feedback with us x
- OFFBEAT is OUT MIAOW! - 22 July 2026
Welcome to your first day on the job!The day is finally here! OFFBEAT has just dropped and welcomes all you beat-makers and disc jockeys. So, dust off that tiger piano and get working. Your uncle's got a job for you to start with!The job itinerary to get you started...Unboxing the strange package from your uncle is only the beginning...The EA release of OFFBEAT comprises of 7 different musical objects spread across 22 different jobs and two game chapters. You'll also be introduced to the upgrade system which allows you to upgrade all of your instruments once or twice (instrument dependant) further customising your setup in the process.Upon first booting the game, you'll be introduced to our character customiser that allows you to choose an avatar along with a name for your record label and yourself. Players new to the world of music composition fret not! Checkout the handy notebook on y…
- Playing the riff from Smoke on the Water on a cat piano may be possible in composer sim Offbeat, if you've got more musical talent than me - 22 July 2026
Duh, duh, duh. Duh, duh, de-duh. Duh, duh, duh. Duh, duh. That's how the riff to Deep Purple's tune about a fire burning down a Swiss casino goes. As with any riff, it's just a sequence of inputs you make on your instrument of choice. Usually, this would be a guitar. I've been trying to use the cat piano and singing gnome of jobbing composer sim Offbeat, which is out in early access today , July 22nd. Sadly, I don't think I've cracked it, but I have been having plenty of fun making funky jingles and wedding tunes. Read more
- 50,000 Wishlists!! 📈 - 21 July 2026
HARK! Our mob of beat-makers and disc jockeys grows ever larger as we've just hit another critical wishlist milestone just 24h before launch!50,000! 📣 That's a mind-blowing milestone to hit! And, what's more mind-blowing is the fact that almost 15,000 of those wishlists came in the last 24h. Thank you! You can start the countdown till the drop now because we're very nearly there!If you're looking for inspiration in the lead up to tomorrow and are yet to listen to Future Egg, check out this latest tune from OFFBEAT Radio below...See you tomorrow!Pantaloon & Whetstone Games
- 30,000 Wishlists 📣 - 13 July 2026
Hello beat-makers and business buddies! Today we crossed another nice little wishlist milestone so thought we'd blow our trumpet a little bit. 30,000! 📣 What a beautiful number! 30,000 of you have now added the game to your wishlists, with nine days left until launch. But the crescendo is still building. The drop is going to be absolutely filthy.If you haven't listened to Future Egg yet, go and wrap your ears around the latest release from OFFBEAT Radio... Not long to go now...Pantaloon & Whetstone Games
- Brrrr! OFFBEAT calls you on July 22 - 2 July 2026
How do you do fellow jobbing composers!We thought you'd like to know that OFFBEAT is launching into Early Access on July 22. Yes, that's just little under three weeks from today!And to celebrate, we've released a brand-new track from OFFBEAT Radio called 'Future Egg'. Check it out below!The Early Access launch version will feature 7 different musical objects spread across two different chapters with more instruments, chapters, and features to be added throughout the Early Access period, culminating in the 1.0 launch in early 2027. Like in the demo, the early access launch will of course also feature the export function, allowing you to have WAV files of your tracks locally saved on your PC. And most importantly, you own the rights to everything you create in OFFBEAT. So, share it. Publish it. Do whatever you want!Ok that's it for now. See you in three weeks xJoin the Discord to share yo…
- TWENTY K! 🙈 - 22 June 2026
Three days after our 10k milestone post, we've passed another! OFFBEAT has now been wishlisted twenty-thousand times, which for our little game about making tunes with kids toys and garden gnomes, is wildly exciting. Huge thanks to those of you that have spent time with the Demo (our median play time is nearly an hour, which is an equally exciting metric) - we've lost a non-trivial amount of dev-time to listening to all your tracks, watching your streams and generally seeing how you interact with the game. As a game that will be going into early access before too long, this dialogue between you and us is really key, and we're going to be continuing to pay close attention. Ok that's it for now. As you were x Join the Discord to share your music with us (and share creative tips and solutions with other players).
- Ten-Meowsand Wishlists! - 19 June 2026
The first big wishlist miilestone has been hit! Off the back of the new Next Fest Demo, OFFBEAT has now seen 10,000 wishlists, and not far off the same number of Demo activations. Music to our ears.Thanks to everybody that has checked out the game so far. If you've made music you're proud of, we'd love to hear it. We've created OFFBEAT Radio as a means of publishing and sharing the best music made by our players. As the game enters early access a little later this year, we'll be collating the best tracks and - with permission, of course - sharing these via our new record label. This could be you: Join the Discord to share your music with us (and share creative tips and solutions with other players). More soon x
- OFFBEAT is in Steam Next Fest - 15 June 2026
You've found us in the ocean of thousands Steam Next Fest demos. Was it the monkey? Was it the sound of the synthwaves just waiting to be surfed? Whatever it is, here you are!OFFBEAT is part of Steam Next Fest this week. The first public demo gives you a taste of what the game will have to offer at Early Access, so setup your studio and pick up the phone - your uncle is calling. He's got a job for you!We can't wait to hear what you create!Check out our latest trailer for the game: Make music. Make money. Build the studio of your dreams. Then export your music to .wav and share it with us on the Discord!Enjoy the demo! We'll have more OFFBEAT news very soon!
- The OFFBEAT Demo is Here! - 4 June 2026
You've got all this pent up creative energy, I can feel it. It needs an outlet. It needs to be birthed into the world. Fear not. We got you. The first public Demo for OFFBEAT is here. And we can't wait to hear what you create. Check out our brand new trailer for the game: Make music. Make money. Build the studio of your dreams. Then export your music to .wav and share it with us - perhaps we'll then release it to the wider world (we set up Pantaloon Records to do exactly this). Enjoy the demo. There is much more to come...
- Make actual songs with singing garden gnomes in Offbeat, a jobbing composer sim that doubles as an audio production tool - 6 May 2026
I've never properly attempted a musical career, despite owning multiple guitars and an amp stack that takes up too much room. Maybe I'll finally get my big break thanks to Offbeat, a song composition sim that also outputs the tunes you make as WAV files, doing the job of basic audio production software. It's from the same publishers behind Boxroom , the game that turns your Steam library into a room full of posters. Read more
- Listen to the first single from OFFBEAT Radio - 6 May 2026
Hello! Ed from Whetstone Games here! We've lifted the lid! It's bloody off! We're excited to finally reveal OFFBEAT and give you a first look at the game.In putting together this announcement, we needed to create some music for the announce trailer. The game is literally about making music, so naturally I wanted to make the track using the game itself. So I fired up OFFBEAT, plugged the Tiger-01 into a delay pedal, and got to work. Anyway, long story short, Pantaloon liked it so much that they decided to release it! And that meant that our announce trailer morphed into the music video for our first single.Here's Not Your Uncle's Ringtone. I'm very proud of it:Listen on your favourite streaming platform.It all demonstrates something integral to the game, though. OFFBEAT is a game that lets anybody create and export their own music, and then potentially have their work in the game publish…
