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Beat Saber

2019 · Beat Games · ~30h to finish

Legible in ten seconds and physical after ten minutes. The ceiling is not comprehension, it is whether your arms can still be in two correct places a second from now.

rhythmPCPlayStation 5Metacritic 93
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.4MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

Price on Steam

$14.99$19.9925%

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Reaction
6.0
Execution
5.7
Grind
2.6
Learning Curve
1.9
Obscurity
1.5
Punishment
0.6
Strategy
0.5
Puzzle
0.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Reaction drops 2.2 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Execution drops 2.1 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 5.0 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 40% · ~8hReaction

    the hazards that have nothing to do with the music

    27
  2. 70% · ~20hExecution

    the difficulty where the chart stops being a rhythm and becomes a route

    4

Assists & accessibility

0/6 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Invincibility toggle [unsourced]No Fail mode lets a song finish however badly it goes.
  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]Five charts per song, Easy through Expert+.
  • Game speed control [unsourced]Slower Song and Faster Song modifiers, with scoring adjusted to match.
  • Practice / training mode [unsourced]Practice mode starts anywhere in a song at any speed.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Auto-complete QTEs [unsourced]No Bombs and No Obstacles modifiers remove the non-rhythm hazards.

COMFORT & SAFETY

  • Reduced motion / camera shake [unsourced]Reduced debris and static lights options.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A VR rhythm game where you cut approaching blocks in the direction they point, with two sabers, while dodging walls and bombs.

Where to go from here

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