A talented creator has made a game where playing the piano in real life is the only way to survive against waves of monsters.
The project is called Midi Survivor, a rhythm-based web browser survival game that turns a real piano or MIDI keyboard into your main weapon. Every note you play directly attacks enemies as they swarm your castle, blending live musical performance with wave-based action.
As shown in the video, players can build combos to get higher scores and hold notes to deal with enemies that linger on screen. If you miss too often, the castle will be overrun, and you’ll be sent reeling to the Game Over screen.
Playing piano has never been so deadly
While the game supports MIDI keyboards, you can still use a normal keyboard to play and rack up a high score.
The creator, @measure_plan, who experiments with computer coding, gaming, and animation, says the idea fits into a much bigger goal around skill-building software.
“I’m very bullish on creating personal software to level up at hobbies: learning an instrument, improving sports form, new languages, etc. Feels like there’s unlimited potential with the advancements in computer vision and large language model (LLM) tools.”
This isn’t the only music-driven game the creator has been working on. On January 15, 2026, they revealed another prototype inspired by DDR and Guitar Hero. The game detects what players are actually playing, guides them through chord patterns, checks accuracy in real time, and tracks scores as they improve.
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