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EZ2ON REBOOT : R pairs a large music selection with solo and multiplayer options on Steam PC. At $44.99 from 
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Four key layouts and four difficulty levels per song support different play styles. Before buying, consider whether the confirmed interface languages, English, Japanese, and Korean, suit you; the description says songs are available immediately. With Steam as the activation platform and Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal as the verified payment options, EZ2ON REBOOT : R costs $44.99 at Steam.
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01About EZ2ON REBOOT : R
EZ2ON REBOOT : R is a vertical rhythm-action game where key presses complete the music. Choose 4K, 5K, 6K, or 8K play and tackle four difficulty levels per song. BASIC offers an accessible entry, STANDARD adds stricter timing and a rating system, and COURSE links songs into continuous sequences. The base game includes over 250 songs. The Steam PC version lists single-player and multiplayer. 91%% of 6,006 Steam player reviews are positive.
Credits
Developer
Neonovice Co., Ltd. · SQUARE PIXELS
Publisher
Neonovice Co., Ltd.
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$22.492025-08-13 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | Yes | — |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Korean | Yes | Yes | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-22
02Before you buy
Songs and key modes
The base game includes over 250 songs and four key modes: 4K, 5K, 6K, and 8K. Each song in each mode has four difficulty levels.
Three play modes
BASIC is designed as an accessible starting point; STANDARD uses stricter timing and a rating system. COURSE strings curated songs into a continuous sequence.
Play options
Single-player and multiplayer are listed for the Steam PC version. The description does not detail the multiplayer rules.
03Frequently asked questions
Is there a beginner-friendly mode?
Yes. BASIC is intended as an approachable starting point, and four difficulty levels per song offer room to progress.
How does STANDARD work?
STANDARD applies stricter timing requirements and evaluates performance with a rating system.
What is COURSE mode?
COURSE lets you play a curated sequence of songs continuously.
Do songs need to be unlocked?
The description says content is available immediately, without needing game progression to unlock it.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
FINAL RELEASE UPDATE: There was an update on this review before, about a half a year into early access. This review was very genuine, and had a lot of scathing critique from someone who holds an unreasonable amount of love for one of the most passionate series that should no longer be passed off. This is an update for the big release of this game, and I am so, *so* happy to finally write this. This game has evolved over the entire last year to become the best rhythm game on all of steam, and quite possibly one of the best rhythm games ever released to the home market. The polish is absolutely insane, the song list is unmatched by pretty much any other franchise out there outside of the franchise it ironically got sued to ♥♥♥♥ for being a bootleg of many moons ago. The amount of extra content, and fulfillment/brilliant execution of the games original intention of multiplayer has turned one of the most genuine rocky launch games I've ever seen (2k people blowing a discord server launched the night of release over 14 hours with zero moderation into getting review bombed for unplayable servers that required connection to play) into one of the greatest video game comeback stories most people will never have witnessed. This is a game you should no longer ignore, and one I avidly recommend that if you have even relatively fresh experience in rhythm games to take the chance on. There is a wealth of content for people of every skill level for a variety of modes, including online. I am going to keep the original early access review I made shortly after the incredibly rocky launch date up, just as a context for how much this game evolved. "R U Ready 2 go Insida DJ Box?" Do it. You won't be disappointed. --original review below, dated a couple days after launch-- I think there's a bit of context needed for this one. This game is getting a lot of reasonable negative reviews, and I hope that this review can provide a bit of background as to why you should both watch this games evolution very closely and also absolutely not purchase it unless you are prepared for a full on early access experience. EZ2 is a series with an incredible amount of history and is the one rhythm game that seems to have had everything stacked against it from the get go. Between immense legal hell, multiple shifts in developers and some insane lore, there honestly is no reason this series should still exist as long as it has. Through some of the most passionate individuals in any video game series I've ever seen in my life, it lives on. EZ2ON Reboot: R is the latest revival of the EZ2ON series of games that started in the late 2000's as a home spinoff to EZ2DJ around the time of the AmuseWorld lawsuit. This is very much an early access game. The servers are going down left and right for emergency maintenance leaving the game completely unlaunchable due to it being an only online game, there isn't enough staff on the team to provide translations for a lot of communication in discord or just in general, and they really are running a full on alpha test. FOX-B and the rest of the extremely small team at SQUARE PIXELS is working their ass off to get this game in a running state and trust me when I say they ABSOLUTELY DO CARE about getting this game operational given how much care and passion they've put into EZ2AC as a whole. I'll start with the good: -This game runs smooth. Very smooth. Gameplay runs like butter and runs on lower specced machines with ease (with some flaws I'll get back to.) -If you've never played an EZ2 title, you have an insane amount of incredible songs to play through out of the get go with many wide levels of difficulties for all players. EZ2DJ is some of the best original music work in a rhythm game I've ever played, and a very large amount of the first 7 games worth of content is here for you to play. -The remastered BGA's look absolutely wonderful and make songs that were originally designed for 640x480 look incredible in HD. On the more neutral side: -There is essentially only one mode to play right now which is free play mode, more are planned. -They are planning DLC content, according to answers on the discord they are very much waiting until much further down the line for that, but some people will definitely be turned off by that. -There is a progress/XP system that doesn't functionally do anything right now, especially since everything is unlocked. And now for the real problems: -The launch servers. For being an online mandatory game, they have been taking the servers down several times since launch a couple days ago for "emergency maintenance", making it where you cannot launch the game at all or the other main issue... -Black Screens. Remember those flaws I mentioned? There are loading times between song select that we presume are the game communicating with the servers. Turns out if the server goes offline or gets overloaded, the black screen between song select or even failing out of a song can hold you in the void until either the servers respond, or if you're unfortunate enough they went offline, kick you out of the game entirely. They have promised to fix these black screens on the roadmap. -There is no pause button or restart button implemented yet. This is planned on the roadmap. -Outside of the wealth of old EZ2DJ content, there is not much in the way of new songs outside of remasters of classic songs. If you're an avid original EZ2ON player, there won't be too much new here. -Various bugs that are getting quickly resolved that can range from slightly offset timing to occasionally odd audio quality. With all of this being said, with all of these issues apparent, you'd probably ask me "Why the ♥♥♥♥ would I buy this game?". Honestly? In it's state? Unless you care as much as I do about this series, you probably shouldn't buy this game in its current state. I will say with all of my heart that you absolutely should watch this game with a close eye instead of dismissing it into the "Mostly Negative" void of steam. The devs have crunched their ass off in the past out of pure passion to keep a practically dead series alive when it should have faded into obscurity a decade ago. This context and history, in my opinion, is important to the series and this game in specific because the fans are the reason this game is still alive. BIG TL;DR: It's rough, but you should not disregard it. Wait for awhile and see how it pans out, but don't forget about this game, there's some immense potential here. If you care enough about the series and don't mind a rocky start, get ready 2 go insida dj box again and get this game. BRIEF EDIT: So it's a couple weeks later. The black screen issues are pretty much nonexistent anymore and the servers have mellowed out. They still take it down for emergency maintenance but the devs have made some pretty good progress making the game a much more fluid and stable experience. The only reasonable gripe is that this game *is* online only and probably always will be, so once the servers are down for good you have a brick on your account. Not like that hasn't already happened twice before. EDIT 2: Almost half a year later and nothing but improvements. They have added a rather slick pause menu, they have pretty proper servers now with both a Test Server branch and the main stable server, they've added a bunch of music, they've added more features and fleshed out the options menu, they've done a lot. Genuinely happy and impressed to see EZ2 get as much love as it has with this game. They also announced a DLC for the EZ2AC Time Traveler songs, understandable enough to have conflicting feelings over. Considering that licenses are definitely something they have to work around for those, it makes enough sense that it's DLC and not in the base game but I can see people getting turned off. Overall I'm still genuinely impressed at how good Square Pixels has been doing so far with the game. Highly recommend at this point.Show moreShow less
1 hours at review138 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
If your servers don't work, maybe consider not having an always-online DRM for a single player game? If you are more worried about your game getting 'stolen' than to please your paying customers, I think there is something beyond this game you need to worry about.Show moreShow less
0.6 hours at review168 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
First we got Musynx, then we got Tapsonic, then we got DJMax, then we got Deemo, and now we have EZ2ON?! It is truly a great time to be a rhythm gamer on Steam!Show moreShow less
4 hours at review85 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
Really needs a disclaimer for its "always online" BS. If other games can provide it, there's no reason why this game shouldn't. Its misleading and there's no reason for a game that has a single player mode to have be always online. Just require me to connect to the internet if I need to run a ranked game or something.Show moreShow less
0.2 hours at review43 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
29.01.22 edit : Everything below still stands, the game is in an even better state (97% positive recent reviews), online play, course mode, basic mode has been added. Patterns are update and new patters are added. More songs are added. Game feeling and sync keeps improving. It's a jewel in the making and the best PC rhythm game you can get at the moment. ====================== This review is aimed at newer rhythm game enthusiasts looking for another game to play and wondering if this game is for them. What is EZ2ON ? EZ2ON is a PC spinoff of the arcade series EZ2DJ (now called EZ2AC for legal reasons, more on that later) which is an hardcore (and I mean hardcore) rhythm game heavily inspired by beatmania. The series is considered extremely high quality by rhythm game standards and is beloved by a niche, almost exclusively Korean, really hardcore fanbase. EZ2ON first released as a free to play game in 2008, shutdown then revived in 2013 with a new interface and some new songs, then shut down again as the free to play model wasn't viable. The game was also exclusive to South Korea. It is released again, with this time a buy to play model. Back then you needed to grind heavily to unlock songs and there was an energy system preventing you to play as much as you wanted unless you paid for premium items. Now everything is unlocked from the start and you can play as much as you want. The gameplay is very simple and similar to what osu! players call "mania games", notes scroll vertically in separate lanes and you have to hit them when they reach the bottom. Like beatmania and DJMAX, the game is "keysounded" which means each note has a n associated sound file that plays when you hit the key, regardless of your timing. This means if you play offbeat, parts of the music will be offbeat. This gives you a really great feedback and makes you feel you are actually playing the music. Keysounded games are really expensive to make and considered premium quality. The difficulty of the game mostly lies in its tight timing windows and sometimes brutal note patterns. That said, it is still a game for everyone as all songs come with Easy, Normal, Hard and Super Hard patterns, and lower level patterns are suited for beginner of the genre. What do I get for the price tag ? As of now, you get a single "Free Play" mode, giving you access to the entire song list and pattern library, with customizable note scoll speed, noteskins, lane skins, and score tracking. More than 200 songs are available, with 10 to 16 patterns each (split between 4Key, 5Key, 6Key, and 8Key modes) It's up to you to decide if you are interested in a pure arcade single player experience. There is no story mode or mission mode and nothing to unlock, but plenty of content in my opinion, with sufficiently difficult note patterns to last you for years. Note that live multiplayer lobbies will happen, as the game was originally a multiplayer only game ! Why should I buy the game ? To put it simply : this is not an early access cash grab. This a product made with love and passion by a tiny team of developers bringing their game series for the first time to a worldwide audience, a game series that has suffered many legal battles against KONAMI, but still has developed and thrived over the years thanks to a passionate community and developers with a steel resolve. Right now it is a really solid game. The mechanics are tight and clean and miles above what the osu!mania engine can offer. As an avid, long time rhythm game player who has played many games including beatmaniaIIDX and DJMAX for more than 10 years, I can tell you this is a legit, high quality, high skill ceiling competitive game. By buying it you support the team and will allow them to continue to update the game and help them bring a high quality multiplayer rhythm game experience complete with new songs and new patterns. Please remember that you are buying an EARLY ACCESS game that is not finished and that is intended to an hardcore audience. Why the negative reviews ? The game definitely has technical issues. I didn't meet too many of them yet, but the biggest putoff right now is a 30s+ loading times when returning when the song selection screen. Other players report crashes, some are unable to boot the games and some are stuck with black screens. The Negative/Positive ratio has been getting better this last few days as devs are already pushing out updates to make the player experience better. Please remember that the dev team is extremely tiny and doing what they can to bring out the best experience possible in their limited budget and manpower amidst a torrent of salty negative reviews. That said, a rhythm game with 1k+ reviews two days after early access release should give you an idea of how passionate and hyped the playerbase actually is despite the apparent salt and tears. Afterword Thank you NEONOVICE and SQUARE PIXELS for bringing the EZ2 series to a worldwide audience, as a western player I am really excited to play your game.Show moreShow less
1.3 hours at review54 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
If you are buying from Poland, do not. Grab it on gray market keyshop since devs are basically scamming people in Poland. At the moment people from Poland pay more by: Japan: +61.46% South Korea: +53.60% Australia: +20.65% Canada: +20.44% USA: +14.66% EU: +9.16% All of those regions are richer than Poland but paying over 60% more than Japan is just unacceptable. Just to put it into perspective Japan median salary per month 3,470 USD Poland median salary per month 1,568 USD I dont mind when some poorer regions pay less, thats why regional pricing exists and how it should work, but its a joke when poorer regions pay more than richer one for no good reason at all. While the current suggested steam pricing makes no sense, ez2on isnt made by one person that have no clue about economy. Do not let steam and devs scam you, vote with your wallet.Show moreShow less
79.7 hours at review34 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Despite my playtime, I'm a guy living in South Korea and Ez2On has been one of my favorite rhythm games which I've been playing since 2008 whenever it was available to play. This is a game that has come and gone a few times over the many years, with questionable monetization and management decisions from the developers which I believed caused any relaunch attempts of Ez2On to fail (My recollection may not be very accurate). Now after many years, it's come back to Steam. I've seen many comments about how it the game crashes and the loading times being very long. This isn't something I've experienced on my end, but I do understand it's something that can happen to people with different PCs. If you suspect something like this will happen on your computer, I would advise waiting until all those issues are fixed before buying the game. Since it works fine for me, I will not be addressing that aspect of this product. I believe the game is in the best form it has been since it first came to be. The UI, while simple at this point in time, looks very good and works very smoothly. You can use whatever notes and skins you want without having to deal with currency, and I do hope they don't make any cash or in-game currency shops too expensive like they once did in the old days. The old songs I used to enjoy are available and you don't need to buy or do anything to unlock them all, and I do hope they keep it that way. They used to lock songs behind levels, and you could only play a song three times a day which is a ridiculous system I hope they don't go back to. It certainly feels much freer to be able to play whatever song you want, whenever you want. Quitting a song takes very little time and you can skip the score screen after a song very quickly as well, which makes the game feel less time-wastey. Well, to address the elephant in the room, the type of people who play this game are also going to be playing DJMax Respect. So how do the two compare. DJMax Respect is waaaay ahead right now. Features, visuals, music, gameplay, DLC collabs. Though Ez2On looks good right now, it can't really beat all the different notes and skins DJMax Respect has right now, even if they imported all the stuff that the old Ez2On games used to have. Not to mention they're going to have to do more than just have static skins because the ones in DJMax are animated and look really nice. I'm kinda worried Ez2On won't be able to match up and they'll just be releasing new skins but they're static and simple. Let's be honest, the goal for Ez2On right now is not to lose any face when being compared to DJMax and they're going to have to do new things we haven't seen before beyond just adding in more stuff from it's old versions. It practically has to become a new game that pops as much as DJMax does. I don't think anyone expects it to surpass Respect, but I would like to see Ez2On make an effort to become its own thing. The music is a bit dated, even though I have a bias due to nostalgia. Sure every rhythm game is going to have its fodder, but I'm well aware some of the lyrics and songs are going to be very weird for native English speakers. I noticed that they've added a few new songs to the selection. Very nice, I enjoyed all of them and I hope they keep adding more, and I'm also interested in what sort of collaborations Ez2On will have with other brands and games. Switching between the two games is going to be very weird. The judgement for Ez2On is much more difficult than DJ Max, so players are going to be feeling the difficulty when they play. The judgement line is a little different between DJMax and Ez2On as well, so if you're going to be switching between the two games often, it's going to be feel really weird on one once you get used to the other. By this I mean, you could be hitting all the notes accurately on DjMax, but when you switch to Ez2On, you'll be feeling like you're pressing all your notes too fast and it's really hard to consciously change your reflexive play which makes it so I don't want to play one game after I've gotten used to the other. I wish there was a way to adjust the judgement line for Ez2On so it can feel more in match with DJMax, because if I finish DJMax for the day and want to play some Ez2On music, I don't want to be failing all the notes because my timing is off and I need to spend an hour getting used to the Ez2On judgement. Other than that, if I had to say a word to the devs, Korean players are going to be vicious and flame you for not fixing the game fast enough. There's an entire "customer service entitlement" thing in Korean culture so please don't be discouraged and do your best to build the game up. I personally wish you guys the best and hope you do this game that has been a huge part of my life the justice it deserves. I'm cheering you all on. To the people considering buying this game, give it a try, but refund it if you face any issues and purchase again when the game is fixed to your liking. It's early access and of course it's going to have problems, but be supportive to the devs. There are some real banger songs in this game and the new tracks are very promising. I know this review might have felt all over the place, but thank you for reading. I love Rhythm games and hope to see more of them on Steam in the future.Show moreShow less
2.9 hours at review33 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
This should be the best rhythm game on Steam. Every single track is keysounded. The strict judgment feels rewarding. There are early and late indicators. Charts are designed for keyboard from the beginning. You can rice your UI. Prestige Pass alone might be one of the best soundtracks released this year and is easily the most worthwhile DLC I've ever bought in a rhythm game. Of course, there are flaws. A number of the historical tracks have awful BGAs that flash your screen. There's no way to easily set a consistent speed and speed modifiers are not saved per track. The biggest weakness and the reason I'm writing this review is the need to always be online. Loading a different track takes so long because the game is checking the connection. You can even be dropped midway through a course sequence and lose all your progress; it is very demoralizing. Worst of all is when the servers themselves are having issues which was made apparent to me this past Autumn Sale. If there's a drop, you get booted all the way back to the main menu. For a game that's already very demanding, especially in 8K, it gets tiresome. I can accept that one day the service will end and REBOOT : R will no longer be playable. It is for that reason, however, it is merely the best rhythm "live service" on Steam.Show moreShow less
9.4 hours at review28 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
doesn't have side track notesShow moreShow less
36.3 hours at review25 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
In brutal honesty, the game is simply not very fun for anyone who is not a fan of its old series. It seems to focus only for the hardcore players with outdated game design philosophy and recycled, old contents from its predecessors. This review will not talk about how bad the game’s stability is because it is already being discussed in more than a thousand reviews, but instead focus on its actual problems with the game design. - Their philosophy on judging accuracy of hitting notes is outdated. It’s based on an era where rhythm games were all about hitting it at the pixel perfect timing back when people used system interrupt-based keyboards and CRT monitors. Games over the years have been more lenient with difficulties and judgments due to expected latency introduced through monitors, USB/wireless peripherals, and audio drivers and devices in even regular setups, while this 2021 game is going backwards. Their recent update to make the game even harder was a testament to its flawed focus. As a person who played rhythm games for 10 years and DJMax Respect for more than 300 hours, I still cannot support the decision to first cater its hardcore fans. - A singleplayer mode (or game in this case as that is the only mode available in the entire game) should not have online-only DRM. It uses XIGNCODE3 which is known to be one of the most invasive DRMs known in the market. It will scan all of your processes and send that information to their servers. Never punish your legitimate users in fear of potential piracy. Steam is the benchmark success of intentionally avoiding absolutely all of that. - The game heavily relies on its servers performing well as the game will completely lock itself until it gets response from the server when communicating. Why are these operations not performed in the background? Even websites do not do this anymore. The technical incompetence in this game is quite baffling at this point. - Music here feel incredibly old and it becomes obvious the second you hear it. Most of its recent ones are just remasters of old music. On paper, the 200+ songs feel like a good starting point for a new rhythm game, but it quickly turns out how empty that list is once you listen to them. The game has no new songs at all according to EZ2 franchise fans and even as a player who never experienced any of their past games can feel this. They do not sound fresh or new. The game is being developed by two separate studios. They are quite small and its technical huddles were expected at launch. This review has not factored in ANY of its technical issues and bugs. It is solely based on its core flaws and it is unfortunate because none of them are likely going to be improved as they are part of the game’s foundation. Its entire reliance on recycled contents will probably be resolved with new DLC songs, but then it will all be paid on top of the game’s $45 price tag. The game feels like it wants to first draw some players looking for nostalgia, hoping they stay until they release new paid DLCs in the future. They failed to capture that quite well, and players outside of their focus looking for more of that rhythmic jam after enjoying DJMax Respect or other well-made rhythm games would likely come here to be heavily disappointed by its technical issues, backwards design philosophy and old contents.Show moreShow less
1.3 hours at review27 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
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