Main series Bit.Trip Beat Reminiscent of the classic video game
Pong,
Bit.Trip Beat (2009) involves players moving an onscreen paddle in order to bounce off waves of incoming blocks to the beat of the music. As the player progresses through the game, the patterns of blocks become increasingly complex, but players can judge how well they are doing through changes in the graphics and music. The game is played by tilting the
Wii Remote rotated on its side to move the paddle, via stylus or circle pad on the 3DS, via touch on iOS devices, via keyboard or mouse on PC, or via motion controls on the Nintendo Switch by tilting the controller (or console in handheld mode), or through the use of the controller's joystick.
Bit.Trip Beat also features up to 4-player cooperative multiplayer. In March 2010, Gaijin Games released the soundtrack to Bit.Trip Core as a
digital download, first on
CDBaby, and
iTunes, then other major music stores. Despite featuring the same proportion of levels as
Bit.Trip Beat, Core's soundtrack is substantially smaller, with less than 15 minutes of music.
Bit.Trip Void Released in late 2009,
Bit.Trip Void puts players in control of the "void", a black,
pixelated circle, which players move around the screen with 8-directional control. The objective of the game is to grow the void by collecting black squares that appear, while also dodging white squares that reset the size of the void and cause the player to lose points. The size of the void can also be reset by the player without incurring point losses, which is often needed as the void grows to sizes making it difficult and/or impossible to dodge the white squares.
Void features music by guest composer
Nullsleep, and its levels are named after
Sigmund Freud's
three parts of the human psyche. The soundtrack to
Bit.Trip Void was announced in May 2010, and is now available on CDBaby, as well as through iTunes and Amazon.
Bit.Trip Runner Bit.Trip Runner (2010) is the fourth installment of the Bit.Trip series. Runner features over 50 levels. The gameplay involves players controlling Commander Video and making him jump, slide, kick, and more through various obstacles in his path. The special guest band
Anamanaguchi provides menu and credits music. Though it has over 50 levels, called Challenges, breaking the 3 level norm of the last games, these levels are divided evenly amongst 3 zones, called Levels, which each have their own distinct background and musical feel; each level houses twelve challenges, including a boss challenge. For every challenge (except boss challenges) there is a retro challenge awarded should the player collect all gold bars in the normal level. Each retro challenge is harder than the normal challenge and usually has more gold bars. The perfect completion of a retro challenge will award players with an exclamation point beside the stage and the word "PERFECT" beside the score in the scoreboard, but only if they have done everything "extra" (e.g., jumping on top of springboards that they do not need to in order to finish) in the challenge beforehand. Bit.Trip Runner won the 2011 Independent Games Festival (IGF) Excellence in Visual Arts award. On February 28, 2011, Bit.Trip Runner was released on the Steam platform for Windows and Mac.
Bit.Trip Fate Bit.Trip Fate (2010) is the fifth installment of the series. It is a rhythm rail shooter, or
shmup. It was formally announced on September the 4th, at the
Penny Arcade Expo, in the
Destructoid LIVE booth. It was released on WiiWare on October 25, 2010. The game sees Commander Video travelling across a set path, able to move anywhere along this path and shoot in any direction. By defeating enemies and collecting the items they drop, Commander Video can enhance his state, though it will drop if he is hit. Along the way, he can run into allies which temporarily give him special weapons. Among these characters are CommandGirl Video and Junior Melchkin from previous BIT.TRIP games, as well as cameo appearances by Super Meat Boy and Mr. Robotube, who are characters from other independent video games. It is the first video game to prominently feature
dubstep music.
Bit.Trip Flux Bit.Trip Flux (2011), the sixth game in the main series, returns to the gameplay of
Bit.Trip Beat while combining elements from the other five games in the series, such as beats the player's paddle must avoid. As with the other games, changes in the graphics and music of the title reflect how well the player is doing, though there are multiple checkpoints in each level, unlike in
Beat. Similar to
Beat, Bit.Trip Flux also features two-player cooperative multiplayer.
Bit.Trip Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien Bit.Trip Presents Runner2 (2013) is a spin-off and spiritual successor to Bit.Trip Runner. While having the same main character and play style, the game is only a non-canon side story in between
Runner and
Fate. This is the first game in the series to be released for Wii U, PS3 and Xbox 360. Unlike the previous Bit.Trip games, it is not 8 bit themed.
Runner3 Runner3 is a
rhythm platform game developed by
Choice Provisions. A sequel to
Bit.Trip Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien,
Runner3 is part of the
Bit.Trip series, starring the character CommanderVideo. The game was released on May 22, 2018, on
Microsoft Windows,
macOS, and
Nintendo Switch, and it released for
PlayStation 4 in November 2018,
Xbox One will release later.
Bit.Trip Rerunner Bit.Trip Rerunner is a
rhythm platform game developed by
Choice Provisions. A remake to
Bit.Trip Runner,
Bit.Trip Rerunner is part of the
Bit.Trip series, starring the character CommanderVideo. The game was released on September 19, 2023, on
Steam, May 22, 2024, on
PlayStation 5, and May 28, 2024, on
Xbox Series X/S. The game also featured a built-in level editor to create and share levels. In February 2026, a kickstarter was launched for a potential Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game.
Compilations Bit.Trip Saga/Complete The entire WiiWare Bit.Trip series was released for the
Nintendo 3DS and Wii in collections respectively titled
Bit.Trip Saga and
Bit.Trip Complete respectively on September 13, 2011, in North America and March 16, 2012, in Europe. The 3DS version of the game features new control schemes (for instance, stylus control via the touchscreen for Beat and Flux) while the Wii version has 20 extra "challenge levels" for each game, as well as bonus content related to the production of the games. Both compilations also included a CD soundtrack called "Bit.Trip Soundtrack Sampler" featuring a number of tracks from each of the individual games. The soundtrack comes with every copy of
Bit.Trip Complete, and was available as a pre-order bonus when purchasing
Bit.Trip Saga from GameStop.
The Bit.Trip A compilation of the first six games (up to
Flux) for the
PlayStation 4 and
PlayStation Vita. This collection was announced at the 2015 PlayStation Experience and was released later that day, December 5, 2015. This compilation added achievements, and retained the difficulty levels from
Complete. A
PlayStation 3 Version was planned but later cancelled for unknown reasons. ==Appearances in other media==