Nine Inch Nails Revenge is a rhythm game

Rhythm game

Rhythm game or rhythm action is a genre of music-themed action video game that challenges a player's sense of rhythm. Games in the genre typically focus on dance or the simulated performance of musical instruments, and require players to press buttons in a sequence dictated on the screen...

 developed by Tapulous

Tapulous

Tapulous, Inc. is an American software and video game developer and publisher headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company as part of the Disney Interactive Media Group...

 available for the iOS and Android platforms. The video game has been themed to American industrial rock

Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused...

 act Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

. It is a part of the Tap Tap

Tap Tap

Tap Tap is a series of rhythm games by Tapulous available for the iOS of which several versions, both purchasable and free, have been produced. The goal of the game is to tap each of the colored balls when they reach a line at the bottom of the screen. If the ball is hit on the beat, the player...

series, and is based on the game engine of the first Tap Tap Revenge

Tap Tap Revenge

Tap Tap is a series of rhythm games by Tapulous available for the iOS of which several versions, both purchasable and free, have been produced. The goal of the game is to tap each of the colored balls when they reach a line at the bottom of the screen. If the ball is hit on the beat, the player...

(2008).

Development

In October 2008, Tapulous announced that they were working on a Nine Inch Nails-branded version of Tap Tap Revenge, including a special NIN skin and 16 songs from the band's albums Ghosts I–IV

Ghosts I–IV

Ghosts I–IV is the sixth studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on March 2, 2008. The team behind the project included Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, studio-collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini,...

and The Slip

The Slip (album)

The Slip is the seventh studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on July 22, 2008. It was the fourth consecutive Nine Inch Nails release to be produced by frontman Trent Reznor with collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder...

, some of which would be specially edited for the game. This was to be the first non-free game in the series.

Tracklist

Song title	Easy	Medium	Hard	Extreme
"3 Ghosts I"
"9 Ghosts I"
"18 Ghosts II"
"19 Ghosts III"
"21 Ghosts III"
"26 Ghosts III"
"31 Ghosts IV"
"1,000,000"
"1,000,000 (edited)"
"Discipline"
"Discipline (edited)"
"Demon Seed"
"Echoplex"
"Head Down"
"Letting You"