An action-dance VR rhythm game with custom song support and a thriving multiplayer community.
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Turns out high-fiving balls is not as fun as slicing blocks...
The struggle of justifying playing this when I could play Beat Saber instead. Not my jam.
It's REALLY good
Fun and challenging game to keep you in shape.
Synth Riders is a cool VR game that shares the same idea as Beat Saber. You have two different colored ball glove things and punch balls of the same colors on the beat of your chosen music track.
You got blue balls (hehe), pink balls for your left and right hands and also come across yellow and green balls. The yellow ones are punched by holding your hands together and punching the ball with both hands. The green ones can only be punched with one hand and, in this case, which one of your hands used, does not matter.
The game got a fair amount of build in music packs and tracks to choose from and can be expanded by buying DLC packs or using custom tracks that you can download from the official Synth Riderz community page.
On the Synth Riderz page, many people mapped their own songs into worthy Synth Riders maps and uploaded them for you to download. I myself also mapped a fair amount of maps and although this takes a lot of time (everything needs to be mapped by hand, one note at a time), it is worth it in the end. People can leave votes and reviews on your maps, so you know where to improve. My only complaint with this system is that people leave down votes without explanation. It would work better when you needed to give a reason or some feedback on why you did not like the map.
What makes Synth Riders stand out from Beat Saber, at least in my opinion, is that it plays more smoothly and you have more control over the incoming notes. This is mainly because of the fact that you only need to focus on the colors and their positions, rather then slice a note in a certain direction, something I am really bad in. With Synth Riders, you just punch the right color and you are set. You also ride some colored rails which is very satisfying.
You can compete on leader boards and battle against other people and friends to receive the highest score, something that makes the game pretty intense sometimes.
The best thing in this game is the community behind it. Like I said, it has a official fan community website in which people can make and download custom maps, it has a discord server for mappers and interested people and overall, this game feels more alive than Beat Saber, because of its active community behind it.
Definitely recommend this game for your VR headset.
Synth Riders is a cool VR game that shares the same idea as Beat Saber. You have two different colored ball glove things and punch balls of the same colors on the beat of your chosen music track.
You got blue balls (hehe), pink balls for your left and right hands and also come across yellow and green balls. The yellow ones are punched by holding your hands together and punching the ball with both hands. The green ones can only be punched with one hand and, in this case, which one of your hands used, does not matter.
The game got a fair amount of build in music packs and tracks to choose from and can be expanded by buying DLC packs or using custom tracks that you can download from the official Synth Riderz community page.
On the Synth Riderz page, many people mapped their own songs into worthy Synth Riders maps and uploaded them for you to download. I myself also mapped a fair amount of maps and although this takes a lot of time (everything needs to be mapped by hand, one note at a time), it is worth it in the end. People can leave votes and reviews on your maps, so you know where to improve. My only complaint with this system is that people leave down votes without explanation. It would work better when you needed to give a reason or some feedback on why you did not like the map.
What makes Synth Riders stand out from Beat Saber, at least in my opinion, is that it plays more smoothly and you have more control over the incoming notes. This is mainly because of the fact that you only need to focus on the colors and their positions, rather then slice a note in a certain direction, something I am really bad in. With Synth Riders, you just punch the right color and you are set. You also ride some colored rails which is very satisfying.
You can compete on leader boards and battle against other people and friends to receive the highest score, something that makes the game pretty intense sometimes.
The best thing in this game is the community behind it. Like I said, it has a official fan community website in which people can make and download custom maps, it has a discord server for mappers and interested people and overall, this game feels more alive than Beat Saber, because of its active community behind it.
Definitely recommend this game for your VR headset.
Synth Riders is a very graphically impressive hand waving simulator. I enjoyed the visual presentation of the stages, but the gameplay requires a lot of extrinsic dancing to feel fun. There's a lot of music available, but most of it is exceedingly repetitive and about 10% too long. Very few of the tracks felt like they utilized the mechanisms appropriately in any given mode. This is just barely a rhythm game, but may be appealing as a kind of soundscape sandbox for dancers.
Not super rhythmic but fun and relaxing in its own way. Requires accurate movement of hands and arms in a way that makes it feel more like a dancing than rhythm game. Not as satisfying to try and master the tracks as other rhythm games, but worth trying all the (free) songs nonetheless.