Steel Century Groove takes what we love about classic music rhythm games of yore and adds a fresh coat of robotic paint
Sloth Gloss Games’s Steel Century Groove is every dance troupe movie we’ve ever seen, but with robots. The game has us tap and slide and play along to the music, but the innovation here is that we can modify the results of our interactions, like adding different effects, to almost freestyle the play. There’s an RPG element to the game where we use those elements to make bigger and better attacks and dances.
Rhythym games live and die by the music and here it’s not the most exciting. It’s okay, and it works with the game, it’s just not something like other rhythm games where it feels like full bands were hired. But again, in the scheme of things there’s so much we’re able to do within the gameplay that the music doesn’t hold us back or overpower us.
When I initially started the game it felt like it wasn’t really landing with me. But after playing other, more action heavy or deeper games I returned to this and it just sort of struck me with that A-HA moment. It’s a really fun take on this style of music rhythm games, with good timing and rhythm matching. The robot designs are great, the UI is great, and I enjoy the goofy writing.
Steel Century Groove has more in it and going for it than I thought it would, and with a dirth of music rhythm games right now this is more than a competent way to keep on dancing.
This review is based on a Steam code sent to SideQuesting by the publisher. Images and video courtesy publisher. This video first appeared on The SideQuest for February 13, 2026.
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