Highlights

  • Hi-Fi Rush receives one final update, focusing on fixes for a smoother gameplay experience.
  • Fans show support for the game by leaving positive reviews on Steam, boosting its approval rate to 98%.
  • Patch notes detail various improvements, including smoother transitions in fights and corrected text issues.

With the shutdown of developer Tango Gameworks announced just over a week ago, rhythm-based action-adventure game Hi-Fi Rush has received its final update. The final patch for Hi-Fi Rush went live on May 15, 2024.

Hi-Fi Rush was released without any advanced notice to the gaming community on January 25, 2023, for Xbox Series X|S and PC, with a PlayStation 5 port following just two months later. The game's launch saw rave reviews from fans and critics, who praised Hi-Fi Rush for its gorgeous visuals and comic book-like stylistic choices, as well as its combat system. However, earlier in May, Xbox announced the shutdown of three developers under Bethesda Games Studios, including Tango Gameworks, with a fourth developer, Roundhouse Studios, being absorbed into ZeniMax Online Studios.

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Despite the announced shutdown of the four Bethesda studios more than a week ago, Hi-Fi Rush has received one final round of updates. These updates are all designed to make the game run more smoothly, fixing several text issues and other problems that players had still been running into. Multiple changes have been made to the fight with QA-1MIL in Track 1, and while the notes don't go into the minutiae of all of those fixes, they do indicate that there should now be smooth transitions between phases of the fight and no more issues with players clipping through the ground after the battle. Other notable improvements include adjusted drink prices in Vandelay vending machines, cutscenes playing correctly during Track 3, and the fixing of bugs affecting Macaron's Gravity Well while a player is attempting to rhythm parry.

Amid the final update, fans of Hi-Fi Rush still seem to be reeling from the unexpected shutdown of the game's development studio. Following the announcement of the closure of Tango Gameworks, players began reverse-review bombing Hi-Fi Rush en masse, leaving positive reviews for the game on its Steam page. Hi-Fi Rush currently sits at an Overwhelmingly Positive 98 percent approval rate among Steam's recent reviews, with an overall approval rate of 97 percent. Although it was released nearly 16 months ago, more than 2,800 reviews have been left for Hi-Fi Rush on Steam in the past 30 days, making up more than 12 percent of the total reviews for the game on that platform.

Hi-Fi Rush Update 9 Patch Notes

PlayStation 5 and PC

  • (Track 01) After reducing QA-1MIL to zero health, a collision issue would occur where players would fall out of the geometry. Chai will now properly fall to the ground, instead of into the abyss.
  • (Track 01) Fixed an issue during the latter half of the 2D area whereby the camera would not follow Chai when the elevating lift falls.
  • (Track 02) Corrected a defect whereby if you touched Rekka during her electric charge, your final Rank would not correlate with the Chorus score.
  • Some issues would occur when trying to use Macaron’s Gravity Well while Rhythm Parrying an enemy. Well, this is now fixed!
  • (Track 03) Cutscenes previously would not play correctly if a Health Tank was consumed during the fight with the HG-0G. Feel free to block a few more hits with your face because this bug is fixed!
  • Fixed various text issues.

All Platforms

  • (Track 01) We also QA’d some other issues during the QA-1MIL fight, particularly around transitions between phases.
  • Fixed even more text bugs! They just don’t stop!
  • Drink prices adjusted in Vandelay vending machines to reflect local currency conversion.