Beat Saber
2018
Audio: German, English, French, Korean, Japanese, Spanish
- music
- sport
- indie
- arcade
- action
- science fiction
- kids
- party
- single player
- multiplayer
The story
Beat Saber is an immersive rhythm experience you have never seen before! Enjoy tons of handcrafted levels and swing your way through the pulsing music beats, surrounded by a futuristic world. Use your sabers to slash the beats as they come flying at you – every beat indicates which saber you need to use and the direction you need to match. With Beat Saber you become a dancing superhero!
What it’s like
Glowing neon blocks rush toward you through a dark, starfield void, and the whole room seems to pulse with the track, a clean synth-and-electronic soundtrack with a crisp, punchy beat that rewards precision. The visuals are stylised and minimal: geometric tunnels, flashing lane lines, and colour-coded cubes in saturated red and blue that flare with each clean cut, all rendered in glossy digital sharpness. Sessions move at a brisk, escalating tempo, with short bursts of high-energy slashing and quieter rests between songs, and the emotional register is exhilarated, playful and a little triumphant. It suits a high-energy evening session, a warm-up before a workout, or a loud solo dance-off in your living room. Violence is absent; the only "combat" is abstract cube-slashing, with no blood, gore or fear, though the speed and sweat can feel intense. It is for people who want to move their bodies to music, enjoy a satisfying rhythm challenge, and like a sleek sci-fi backdrop to the beat.
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