How to play Verse vs Verse
A beat plays, your bars scroll past, and every bar ends on a word you have to land on. Rap it, then listen back with your friends and vote on who did it best.
PLAY NOW1. Start a lobby
Open the game, pick your character and press Create. You get a four-character lobby code. Click the code to copy a link and send it to your friends. Up to 8 players can join one lobby, and everyone can talk over voice chat the whole time.
2. Pick a game mode
- 1v1: two rappers battle, trading turns over one beat. The winner stays on and takes on the next player in line. Nobody is ever out.
- Solo: freestyle the whole beat on your own. Good for practice.
- Verse Royale (3 to 8 players): everyone raps every round, and the lowest score is knocked out until one rapper is left.
- Free For All (3 to 8 players): everyone raps every round, nobody is knocked out, and a leaderboard keeps score.
3. Set up the round
Whoever won the last round runs the next one (the lobby's host does before anyone has won). They choose:
- The beat, from a library of trap, boom bap, lo-fi and other instrumentals.
- Total bars (8, 16, 32 or the whole song) and bars per turn, from one bar each up to 16.
- The rhyme scheme: AABB, ABAB, ABBA, AAAA, or none. It decides which prompt words rhyme with each other.
Then everyone who wants to rap presses Ready. Anyone who'd rather watch can sit out and still vote.
4. Rap your bars
After a countdown and a two-bar count-in, the beat starts. Your bars scroll up the screen in rows of four beats, and the cell that lights up shows where you are in the bar. The last beat of every bar holds a prompt word. Your job is to end the bar on it. The first few bars are an intro where everyone raps at once, then the turns begin.
Your whole battle is recorded on your own device and stitched together with your opponent's afterwards, so you won't hear their verse while you rap. On a computer, wear headphones so the beat doesn't leak into your mic.
5. Listen back and vote
When the beat ends, the game mixes every rapper's bars into one track, and the whole lobby plays it back together. While it plays, tap 🔥 on any bar that hit. After it ends, the players who weren't rapping vote for the best verse.
A vote is worth 5 points, each 🔥 is worth 1, and the single most-🔥'd bar of the round is worth 5 more. Then the next battle begins.
Tips for your first battle
- Don't worry about making sense. Landing on the word is the challenge, and a fumble is half the fun.
- Look ahead. The next few bars are visible, so you can plan your way to the next word.
- Short on rhymes? The rhyme lists are the same words the game prompts you with.
- If your bars sound early or late on playback, run the latency test in Settings.
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