Dead as Disco’s musical brawling hits the right notes in early access

A lot of action games are secretly rhythm games. You may not be fighting along to a beat in, say, Elden Ring, but you’re still very much following a tempo set by a boss and taking part in a carefully choreographed dance.Dead as Disco, a radical new musical action game that just launched into early access via Steam, is here to turn the volume up on that idea — and kick its ass into next week.