It's a great experience with mods, but I don't think I've ever had this many problems modding a game before, and that's coming from someone who fighted for their life with Minecraft modding when they were 12.

I only play occasionally which means that every single time I've been wanting to play Beat Saber for the past two years I've had to reinstall my mods and fight with the very unstable "Mod Assistant" you have to use. They are at the moment allowing people to switch to a legacy branch and therefore get rid of all the incoming updates so I'm hoping that I won't have to reinstall anything for quite a while - but considering Beat Games' history with keeping legacy branches I don't have much faith in this method being sustainable.

I'm not really sure if I should make this review positive or not since I do enjoy the game, but I feel like that enjoyment is only saved by mods and the fact that Beat Saber happened to be the first rhythm game for VR. All official songs are at the moment $400, I think that speaks for itself.

It's a fun and fairly simple but also simple to grasp VR rhythm game. a little more presentationally polished, and bespoke beatmapping versus a good portion of the auto generated rhythm games.

I like those more in a way because even if it's semi shoddy mapping, they do have all the tracks I like. Those fell off when streaming platforms became a little too stingy for small indie devs. Which is pretty saddening. The positive here in addition is that it almost -can't- break permanently, or at least to the extent any other game will or won't.

The difficulty isn't quite for me, content to play medium across about 6 years of rock band. That makes the modding community a bit of a disappointment, as custom songs are way too hard, untested and broken or both. But it's nice to see so many put genuine effort in making their songs accessible. I also feel like the game's ramping of the difficulty didn't make a lot of sense in the campaign. The modifiers added were on top of already increasing song difficulty and this happened super quick to where I hit a ceiling for how often I played.

The songs themselves included are fine, and a couple are pretty catchy. But nothing so memorable as to earn a regular listen from me. The DLC is also a little sparse when compared to other rhythm games in general.

the visuals are a polished basic look, like a futuristic foam tunnel.

Still, it is one of the most solid VR rhythm games and due to its popularity has stayed strong in its support, and it's not entirely daunting to out of shape rhythm game casuals like me, since it does provide a variety of customization options save for the main campaign.

Played this on launch on my HTC Vibe way back, but only recently grabbed it again as a Quest 2 title to play the new Daft Punk DLC. In my mind this is THE essential VR game. Owning a VR headset without this game just doesn't make sense to me. There's a reason this game is offered bundled with new Quests. Now after multiple years of updates the included list of songs is really good and there's a huge variety of quality dlc packs to grab. There's tons to love here.

My one complaint that I've held for years at this point is that the menu ui is awful. It seems built more for showing you things you can buy than for actually letting you find music efficiently. I shouldn't have to go through multiple steps to just see a list of songs I own. I also really wish the game gave a better estimate of how difficult songs are. Playing $100 Bills and ANY saber Camellia track on Expert are worlds apart in terms of difficulty, but there's no easy way to actually know that.