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Indie Heardle

Indie game music quiz: guess which game the music is from in a few seconds of listening: Hollow Knight, Hades, Celeste, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Cuphead, Outer Wilds…

About Indie Heardle

What is Indie Heardle?

Indie Heardle is a free music quiz in the browser, inspired by Heardle: you hear 1 s of a indie game track and guess the game, with longer clips if you need them. Every day brings a new daily challenge, the same for everyone, plus a 30-level quest and unlimited free play.

How to play Indie Heardle

  1. Press play to hear 1 s of a track.
  2. Type the game. Not sure? Unlock a longer clip (1 s, 3 s, 6 s and 12 s).
  3. Points: 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 depending on how much you listened, +2 more if you type the track title straight away.
  4. You start with 3 hearts and lose one per mistake.

Free play has several modes: Classic, Sudden death (one heart), Time attack (90 seconds), Reverse (find the right clip among three) and Single game. Correct answers in a row build a combo, and the best scores go on the leaderboard.

The music of indie games

Often written by a single person, indie game music has marked a generation: C418 on Minecraft, Christopher Larkin on Hollow Knight, Darren Korb on Bastion and Hades, ConcernedApe on Stardew Valley, Lena Raine on Celeste or Kristofer Maddigan and his big band on Cuphead. Undertale has a universe of its own, with Deltarune.

271 tracks from 20 games.

GameTracks
Minecraft19
Terraria20
Bastion9
FEZ7
Hotline Miami12
Journey10
The Binding of Isaac9
Transistor11
Shovel Knight11
Ori and the Blind Forest9
Stardew Valley17
Hollow Knight23
Cuphead20
Celeste35
Dead Cells6
Katana Zero6
Outer Wilds7
Hades14
Pizza Tower13
Hollow Knight: Silksong13

Free, no sign-up

Heardles runs in the browser on phone and computer, with nothing to install. An optional account syncs your progress between devices.