DrumBeats VR

First off, I absolutely adore this game so far! The sounds are very accurate on each part of the drum sets and that's awesome. I mostly spend my time in free play with the Metallica drum-set playing together with Spotify songs which I LOVE! I feel like you don't get too many songs with the game but the ones that are there are well made. Now onto some pros and cons: Pros: +Good Hit Sensitivity +Very Accurate Sound +Well Made "Starter Songs" +Addicting (In A Good Way ;) ) Cons: -Custom songs sometimes lags and goes out of sync with the drum pattern you are supposed to play -There's only 3 scenes you can play in, in my opinion that's to few, some more ones would be nice. -No workshop for customs. -No race-wheel pedal support. Ideas for the developers to consider: 1. A workshop of some kind where the community can add custom songs and custom scenes would be really nice. 2. Support to use race-wheel pedals to use the high-hat and kick-drum would make a world's difference. I currently find it very "clunky" to play the kick-drum and the high-hat since you have to use the buttons on the controllers. Support for pedals would be awesome! :D Summary: This game was great for me since I don't own a drum-set but always wanted to play drums. Overall this game is very fun and addicting and I can't recommend it enough to any kind of musical people! :D 7/10

Amazing game for the price, But needs an easier way to get custom songs, Like maybe even steam workshop or an ingame custom song thing where people can upload custom songs and allow other user to download them directly, Other than that i don't really have much to complain about other than it doesn't come preloaded with enough songs.

This is a poor concept, but executed as well as possible. Drumming is all about rhythm and precision. And the whole idea of an air-drum without the feedback of physically hitting a surface makes precision difficult - this will be a problem with all VR drumming games. In addition, the air-drums are arranged in an arc around the user, like a real drum set, and the notes coming at you are to be hit when they line up with their drum. This sounds good, but in practice it means that there is no constant line on screen that determines when a note should be hit - different drums are hit at different distances. If I wanted play a drumming game, a setup like Rock Band that includes physical drums to hit and shows the notes with a constant "hit-line" on-screen is a much more pleasant experience. Unfortunately, this isn't possible in VR, and while DrumBeats VR manages to make the best of it, even including a custom song mechanism, VR air drumming just isn't all that intuitive, precise, or fun.

It's okay in a way, The only problem I have is the delayed sound as a result from the hit detection, in which I have to hit around 100 MS earlier if I want to be on-time with the music. On top of that, when you focus out of the game window, game audio doesn't work. This is a game changer if you're looking at charts in the background or playing along to Rock Band charts.

For a $10 VR game, this isn't that bad! As a rhythm game, this is insanely fun, but if you're looking for a game or an experience where you go behind a drum kit and can play whatever you want (like free drumming) don't bother. This is a great game ONLY if you deal with the rhythm game aspect of it. However, focusing on the rhythm game aspect is very weak. The fan base is lacking, so that means a lack of user generated content. Trust me, there's one review here that just says "dead game" and they're not exactly wrong, at least in terms of fan support. Customs are a blessing for this game, it allows for more content out of this game and it's even supported by the devs right out of the gate (Although the notes they give you are very limited and actually wrong with the cymbal placement). It's very hard to recommend this game purely because of the lack of user generated content, but as someone who can chart rhythm games and put songs into the game (and trust me, with how fun this game is, I will) I can get behind it. All I can say is that it doesn't deserve the mixed review is has right now, but I can understand why it does.

[h1]REVIEW UPDATE JANUARY 2023[/h1] This game has come a LONG way from its very rough roots. It used to be a mess, and the sea of bad reviews stem from that time, but now? If you try any of the 170 or so custom songs (at time of writing), it's just fantastic and it does feel like sitting at an actual drumkit. The hit detection is great, the haptic feedback from hitting the drums is spot on. Installing custom songs is super-easy (just download and add to a songs folder in the game's install location - [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2858101455]instructions here[/url] for both the Steam and Oculus standalone versions (I have both). Playing customs is where this game excels. For the in-game songs, it's a bit of a different story. They're all great (original) songs but they seem to have been coded differently to the customs (for example: miss a beat and the music drops deliberately - neat feature but this seems to de-sync the track, a fault not encountered in custom songs). At higher difficulties, they start to glitch a little more. As a result, my recommendation is to use the earlier difficulties for in-game songs to acclimatise to the game, but then try out the customs by Rocker and ac6950 in particular (found in the discussion forum for the game) once you start to get the hang of it all. The experience is just so much better because customs never glitch. A final note: the game is still early-access and the menu interface could probably use a bit more love, but it's getting there. The developer is still posting occasional updates but, even if no further updates are made, it's definitely one to add to your library if you enjoy rhythm games or you just fancy experiencing a little of what it's like to drum if you can't try the real thing. I've had a blast, and am still having a blast. Note that the Oculus standalone version available in the Meta store works just as well (I have several hundred hours in that version too).

I'm a drummer of 15 years, there is no hit reg on the drum heads, your sticks go right through them, sounds in terms of velocity is wayyyyy inconsistent, there's like 2 halfway decent scenes to play on, you cant move drums or cymbals, if you're not playing PERFECTLY in time you will fail which is ridiculous due to latency from vr naturally. The only way this game is interesting for more than 5 seconds is if you do freeplay and pretend while you listen to Spotify or Apple Music, in other words, if you're actually a drummer and not someone who is just messing around, stay far away from this ish.

Quite a cool game, but I have some complaints Hit detection and registration is a bit scuffed, apparently they've rebuilt it over development from scratch but it still feels pretty janky. This is especially apparent with faster songs. Song selection is limited, but to be fair this game is in early stages so it's fine! Overall for a 10 dollar game, I'd say it's very good fun, and it has a bright future, developers seem nice, it's good for casual fun but not for actual serious drumming.

This game is absolutely amazing. Very similar to Ragnorok, the VR viking drum game. One thing that was weird is how the snare works. If you hit it too hard it sounds like you're hitting it on the edge. Hit it less hard, you get a beautiful, hard sounding snare hit. I'd prefer turning off the former entirely, or at least having better detection when you hit the edge.

Very will made and enjoyable experience (for me its the best in its genre). any chance for similar simulation game for Guitar (Acoustic-Electric)?