Tied to the Beat Wiki

Every word of every song triggers an effect. 8 characters. 120+ relics. 32 talent branches. Complete guide with live-rendered characters using the same canvas code as the game.

8 instruments 80 character relics 40+ shop relics 5 build archetypes

Select Your Artist

Each instrument is an archetype with a unique scaling stat that multiplies its damage up to 9x. Hover over the cards.

Drum

Blood Berserker

Melee, low-HP scaling

Violin

Resonance Virtuoso

Glass cannon, crit chains

Tambourine

Fortune Dancer

Luck based, bouncing shots

Trumpet

Brass Herald

Boomerang AoE, lifesteal

Microphone

Crowd Commander

Summoner, echo army

Piano

Sanctuary Keeper

Tank/healer, twin beam

Guitar

Solo Dash Master

Melee slash, dash invuln

Flute

Wind Walker

Speedster, tornado invuln

Game screens

The 3 key flow screens rebuilt with CSS to match the in-game look.

Choose an Upgrade

Level up screen

Pill cards with colored square icon and lyric tag (GRAND, WINK, DARLING). Each lyric word activates pills with its tag.

Choose a Relic

Loot crate or shop

Large card with prominent icon, 6px tier border, rarity badge, description.

Choose a Branch

Talent tree picker

Spinning vinyl disc, EQ meter, tier nodes. 4 branches by 5 tiers each. T5 unlocks a unique relic.

Working builds

5 archetypes with endgame math: which characters fit, what to pick in order, what to avoid.

Crit Glass Cannon

Burst, high risk

Guaranteed crit x6. Violin and Tambourine. Oneshots minibosses, fragile.

Pure Tank

Armor wall

15 armor cap, 70% DR, 5 hard saves. Drum, Guitar, Piano.

Vampire Sustain

Heal from damage

30% lifesteal cap. Trumpet, Drum. You heal faster than you take.

AoE Explosive Swarm

Screen wipe

Multi-hit, shrapnel, neon, bassDrop. Screen cleared per frame.

Speed Summoner Luck

Utility, snowball

Tornado invuln, echo army, XP loop. Flute, Mic, Tambourine.

Hidden mechanics

What the tooltips do not show: per-instrument scalers, soft cap, defensive stack.

Per-instrument scalers

Hidden dial

Each character has a stat that multiplies its damage 1x to 9x.

Damage formula

Math layer

Additive vs multiplicative, soft cap at 4x, step by step.

Defensive stack

21 layers

Order: invuln, evasion, armor, multiplicative DR.

Stat caps

Reference

damage 3, crit 4, evasion 0.5 hard, armor total 15.

Steam Community Guide

Condensed version for Steam. Same builds, less technical detail.

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