A very interesting looking game released under the radar this week, and although it doesn’t look like my type of game personally, the trailer was cool enough I thought it was worth sharing. In fact, it looks totally like a Shaun Musgrave kind of game, but since it’s about 3am in Japan right now and Shaun is fast asleep (at least you better be, young man!) we’ll have to wait a while to see what Mr. Weird Game Expert thinks of this one. Anyway, the game is called iRIUM (Free) and it’s a rhythm game blended with RPG elements and a really fetching art style. Check out the trailer.

After toying around with iRIUM for just a little while I have a few takeaways about my experience. For one, this game is super free to play. Like, the kind where there’s an overwhelming amount of stuff to manage and a pretty confusing UI. It’s too early to tell how balanced the monetization system is, but this is definitely a game that will take a while to learn all the ins and outs of. That aside, my second takeaway is that iRIUM is very cool. The rhythm battling is really neat, and again, the art style and music is really top notch. This didn’t strike me as my sort of game at first, but I’m actually really enjoying it so far.

I’ll have to run this one through the Shaun-o-matic when he is around next, but if the look or the concept of iRIUM interests you, it’s definitely worth checking out for free and dropping by our forums to see what others are saying about it.