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Beat Saber is a 2019 virtual reality video game in which players must slash boxes with digital lightsabers to the beat of a song.

History

On May 1st, 2018, developer Beat Games released Beat Saber on Steam. ^[1] Later that year, PlayStation released a trailer for the game's release on PlayStation VR (shown below). The game was released that month.

The following year, on May 21st, the game was released for Windows.^[2]

Reception

The game received mostly positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator MetaCritic,^[3] the game received a score of 86. IGN wrote of the game:

A good session with Beat Saber literally leaves me breathless. When I’m in the groove, swinging red and blue sabers to precisely bisect an onslaught of incoming boxes as fast as I can might be as close to the feeling of being a Jedi at a rave as I’ll ever come. This challenging rhythm game is definitely a little light on tracks out of the box, but what’s there is both catchy and highly replayable due to the way its scoring system encourages pinpoint accuracy and followthrough, plus a handful of alternate modes to play them on.

On June 12th, 2018, YouTuber ragesaq published a Let's Play video on the game. The post received more than 11.8 million views in less than two years (shown below, left).

Later that year, on November 22nd, YouTuber PewDiePie published a video on the game. The post received more than 20 million views in less than two years (shown below, right).

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