Pitch Games: Control the Game With Your Voice Pitch

Most voice games care about how loud you are. These care about how high or low you are. Your pitch becomes a joystick: a low hum sends you one way, a high squeak sends you the other, and everything in between lands somewhere in the middle.

7 games in this category

Hum Fu

Sheep Squeeze

Cyber Ball

Chicken Eggscape

DoReMi

Lumber Jack

Mimic Game

Low and high as left and right

Lumber Jack chops the tree from the left when you use a low pitch and from the right when you go high, and Hum Fu turns your hum into kung fu moves against waves of ninja cats. These are quick to learn and get frantic fast.

Pitch as height

In DoReMi, Cyber Ball and Sheep Squeeze the note you sing sets how high something goes on screen. Holding a steady note matters as much as hitting it, which is what makes them good practice for pitch control.

Copy the sound

Mimic Game plays a sound, from a rooster to an opera singer, and scores how closely your copy matches its pitch, rhythm and length. It is the most social game on this page: everyone hears everyone else try.

Pitch games versus loudness games

If you would rather shout than sing, the screaming games use volume instead of pitch. Pitch games are kinder to a quiet room, since a soft hum works as well as a loud one.

Common questions

What is a pitch game?

A game where the musical pitch of your voice, how high or low it is, controls what happens on screen. You can hum, sing or make any sound with a clear note.

My voice is very low or very high. Will it work?

Yes. Start with a comfortable middle note and explore up and down from there.