Is OSU even a rhythm game?

Is OSU even a rhythm game?

osu! is a free-to-play rhythm game primarily developed, published, and created by Dean “”peppy”” Herbert. Inspired by iNiS’ rhythm game Ouendan, it was written in C# on the .NET framework, and was released for Microsoft Windows on 16 September 2007.

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