What Features Does ITGmania Offer?

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ITGmania is a free, open-source dance game for Windows, Mac, and Linux whose feature set centers on four things: built-in networking with online leaderboards, in-game unlock downloading, a modern pre-installed theme, and a set of player-comfort options inherited and extended from StepMania. You can play it with a dance pad or a keyboard. The current release listed on the site is version 1.3.0.

Built-in networking and online leaderboards

ITGmania can make network requests from inside the game itself. The site states that this enables full online leaderboard support via GrooveStats, with more functionality planned for the future. In practice, this means scores can be submitted and compared online without running a separate tool alongside the game.

Automatic unlock downloading

Events such as ITL and Stamina RPG use unlock content. ITGmania downloads and unzips those unlocks automatically from within the game, and you can reload them directly from the song wheel. That removes the manual step of finding, downloading, and placing unlock files yourself.

Simply Love, pre-installed

The game ships with Simply Love, described as the most popular visual theme, already installed and updated to use the new features. If you prefer something else, ITGmania is backwards compatible with StepMania 5 themes, so existing theme choices carry over.

Player-comfort and quality-of-life features

The site groups these under "And More":

  • Fast profile switching
  • Player-specific visual delay
  • Disabling windows on a per-player basis
  • Both rate mod types

These matter most in shared setups — a cabinet or a home machine with multiple regular players — where each person wants their own timing offset and display preferences without reconfiguring the game each turn.

Security and compatibility relative to StepMania

ITGmania states that it fixed many vulnerabilities found in mainline StepMania, and that it remains backwards compatible with StepMania 5 themes. So the feature story is not only additions; it also includes security fixes and continuity with existing StepMania content.

What the features do not cover

The site's feature list does not mention song content beyond the songs included with the full install (Club Fantastic songs), and it does not describe pricing, accounts, or login requirements. Downloads are offered as a full install with songs, a program-only build without songs, or a portable build containing all platforms' binaries in a single folder with no songs.

Choosing based on features

If you want… The relevant feature
Online score comparison Built-in networking with GrooveStats leaderboards
Event unlock content without manual file work Automatic unlock downloading for ITL and Stamina RPG
A ready-to-play look Simply Love pre-installed
Your existing StepMania theme StepMania 5 theme backwards compatibility
Per-player timing and display settings Player-specific visual delay, per-player window disabling
A single-folder setup Portable build (all platforms, no songs)

If online leaderboards or automatic event unlocks are your priority, those are the features that distinguish ITGmania from a plain StepMania install. If you only need a local dance game and already have songs, the program-only download is the matching option.