Suri: The Seventh Note Sets October 30 PS5 Release With Rhythm Haptics Engine

After four years of development, PlayStation India Hero Project studio Tathvamasi has set a release date for its debut game. Suri: The Seventh Note launches on PlayStation 5 on October 30, 2026, Tathvamasi Studios confirmed in a post on the PlayStation Blog, with pre-orders now live on the PlayStation Store.

The rhythm-action platformer follows Ajira, a girl racing to find a magical fruit that can save her mother's life on the mythical island of Suri, a world torn apart by a mysterious, corrupting rhythm. Every environment, character and animation is built around Indian artistic traditions, blending Rajput forts, Theyyam performance culture and Himalayan monastery architecture into a single fantasy island that Tathvamasi describes as both familiar and original. A new release-date trailer shows Ajira running, climbing and dodging through several of those settings while chasing a driving musical score.

Two editions, one October 30 launch

Tathvamasi is shipping Suri: The Seventh Note in two versions at launch. The Standard Edition includes the base game plus a 20% pre-order discount for PlayStation Plus members. The Digital Deluxe Edition adds an exclusive Chandini skin and extra story DLC, along with three days of early access ahead of the October 30 release. Both the skin and the DLC are exclusive to the Deluxe tier and will not be sold separately after launch, though players who upgrade later will still receive them.

• Standard Edition: base game, plus a 20% pre-order discount with PlayStation Plus
• Digital Deluxe Edition: base game, exclusive Chandini skin, extra DLC and three-day early access, plus the same 20% discount

Inside the Rhythm Haptics Engine

The studio's central technical challenge was translating music into something players physically feel rather than just hear. Tathvamasi calls the resulting system the Rhythm Haptics Engine, a proprietary tool built with direct support from PlayStation's own development team so that a track's structure comes through as DualSense haptic feedback as much as through sound or on-screen cues. The studio says every track is broken down into layers that separately drive audio, visual effects and controller feedback, so a soft melody and a corrupted downbeat register as physically distinct sensations in a player's hands.

480 milliseconds to the beat

Getting that feedback loop to feel responsive rather than laggy took years of tuning. Game Director Glen Martin has said the team settled on a fixed 480-millisecond gap between a track's main beats after extensive trial and error, calibrating the window to match how quickly a player's thumbs can realistically respond on a controller. A longer gap risked making the game feel slow and disconnected from its music; a shorter one risked making failure states too subtle for players to register. That single number, Tathvamasi says, now shapes how every level, enemy pattern and platforming sequence in Suri is paced.

“After a lot of trial and error, we found the sweet spot: for us, it's around 480 milliseconds, so we need to maintain a gap of 480 milliseconds between the main beats of the game.”Glen Martin, Game Director, Tathvamasi Studios

Music built from Indian traditions

About 80% of Suri's soundtrack was recorded with real analogue instruments rather than synthesized substitutes, a decision Tathvamasi made specifically to preserve regional texture: a veena stands in for a sitar in the island's southern reaches, while Rajasthani desert instrumentation takes over in its dunes. Because fully authentic Indian rhythms don't map cleanly onto the game's fixed 480-millisecond timing window, the team built what it describes as its own hybrid genre, layering Indian percussion textures over a hip-hop-style structure so the beats stay legible during fast platforming and combat sequences, rather than sticking to any single traditional form.

Built through the India Hero Project

Suri: The Seventh Note is the first game to ship from Tathvamasi under the PlayStation India Hero Project, Sony Interactive Entertainment's incubation program for studios based in India, which offers mentorship, refundable development funding and a path to first-party publishing. Tathvamasi says the program's support was central to finishing the Rhythm Haptics Engine and getting its PS5-exclusive debut ready for launch, four years after the studio began work on it. Suri: The Seventh Note arrives on PlayStation 5 on October 30, 2026.

Suri: The Seventh Note's official release-date trailer, posted to PlayStation's YouTube channel on September 28, 2026.