Beat Saber

The player uses VR controllers to relocate a pair of glowing sabers, which by default are colored red and blue for left and right respectively, although the colors are changeable to any color. In each song, the game presents the player with a stream of approaching blocks laid out in sync with the song's beats and notes, located in one of the 12 possible positions of a 4x3 grid. Each one may also be marked with an arrow indicating one of eight possible directions in which the block may be required to be cut through. There are also blocks with dots instead of arrows, which players may hit in any direction from the sides (not poked through the dot).

When a block is properly cut by a saber, it is destroyed and a score is awarded, based on the length and angle of the swing and the accuracy of the cut. In addition, there are sometimes bombs that the player should not hit, and obstacles in the form of oncoming walls that the player's head should avoid. The term "map" refers to the layout of these blocks, walls, and bombs in a song.

Work on Beat Saber began after the completion of Hyperbolic Magnetism's previous title, Chameleon Run. Slovak developers Vladimír Hrinčár and Ján Ilavský began creating demos and prototypes, and some of these were posted on Facebook. Czech composer Jaroslav Beck saw some of these prototypes and met the team in Prague to convince them to let him create the soundtrack for the game. After around two years of development, the game was released in early access on May 1, 2018. Hyperbolic Magnetism changed its name to Beat Games.

During its early access phase, Beat Saber received numerous positive reviews, becoming the highest rated game on Steam less than a week after its early access release. The game sold over a million copies by March 2019. By February 2021, the game had sold over 4 million copies and 40 million songs have been sold through paid DLC.

Edge thought the game was an excellent fit for VR as a medium, writing "At this point in virtual reality's development, it's still rare to encounter a game that feels native to the technology. Beat Saber is an exception."