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The Beat: A Glam Noir Game

Also known as The Beat: A Glam Noir Game, bagn, beat a glam noir

In The Beat you take on the role of Leo, a closeted cop investigating a murder in the gay community. Each choice you make has a meaningful effect on the story and the more drama you create the higher your score.

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24 May 2026

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SecurityPublished 03 Dec 2025

A Big Risk for The Beat

I'm taking a big risk with this release of The Beat and I'm hoping you'll come with me. Over the last two years I have rewritten the game code from scratch and today I am ready to share it! This new version is better in…

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September 2023
The Beat streaming eventAs part of Melbourne International Games Week we join the developers of The Beat in a rare play-through and/or post-mortem of the classic Noir indie game, The Beat.Announcement18 Sept 2023
April 2023
Update notes for 6 April 2023The Beat v1.1.1 - TheVoice edition add: Voice over narration (for day one only -- we're trying it out) add: disable interactive on some characters when they are not part of the script to reduce player confusion when scr…Announcement3 changesUI/audioGameplay05 Apr 2023
March 2023
Updates Notes for 22 March 2023v1.1.0 - "Daniel's Birthday" edition add: warn player when there is no internet connection add: new script "Out In The Open": Jackson can be present when Dylan tries to kiss you (thanks Joe Yun) add: new script "Sharing…Announcement4 changesGameplay22 Mar 2023
October 2022
Now on MacThe Beat, our game about a closeted detective investigating a murder in the gay community, is now available on Mac OS X, including M1 and M2 machines. If you own the game on Steam, the Mac version should be automaticall…Announcement1 changeGameplay23 Oct 2022
September 2022
Fix resolve clash between work solo and work default scripts (20) resolve clash between bar solo and bar default scripts (9) resolve clash between beach solo and beach default scripts (8) replace broken tooltip on setti…v1.0.25 changesGameplayPatch notes26 Sept 2022
August 2022
Update Notes 24 Aug #3fix: follow up issue where light bulb csv was not included with build and causing an error on windows. Now the missing files have been added.Announcement1 changeGameplay24 Aug 2022
Update Notes for 24 August #2fix: on Friday evening a similar issue can occur with the video texture as the previous update.Announcement24 Aug 2022
Update Notes for 24 Augustfix: video texture was trying to load before scene loads in At First Sight scene and this caused a crash in the windows build. Now the texture waits for the scene to load.Announcement1 changePerformance24 Aug 2022
June 2022
Brand new trailer for The BeatAnnouncement18 Jun 2022

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