Vinyl
Short description
Vinyl is a dynamic indie music game created by graduate students at the University of Utah EAE program, that experiments with the aesthetic distance between gameplay and music.
- Developer
- Manipulation Machine
- Publisher
- Manipulation Machine
- Release
- Fri, Jul 01, 2016
- Price
- Free
- Reviews
- 6
- Positive
- 50%
- Followers
- 407
- Owners (estimated)
- 50K – 100K
- Concurrent players
- 1
- Genres
- Action, Casual, Free To Play, Indie
- Features
- Steam Leaderboards
- Tags
No revenue estimate: this needs both a review count and a launch price, and at least one of them is missing.
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Media
History
2 data points since Jul 30, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
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