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Beat Saber

Moderate overall intensity

Highest flag: Spending — real-money purchases

Party/CasualSci-fi

What's in it

Spending real-money purchases

High

Optional real-money DLC music packs add extra songs; there are no loot boxes or in-game microtransactions.

Language moderate

Moderate

The base game is clean, but an opt-in setting for players 13 and over can enable songs with uncensored explicit lyrics that may include profanity.

Spending pressure optional

Low

The paid music DLC is entirely optional with no energy gating, timers, or pay-to-win mechanics.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chatReal-money spending

What it is

Set in virtual reality, Beat Saber tasks the player with wielding a pair of luminous blades to strike incoming cubes on the beat, all staged in front of vivid, abstract neon scenery. Nothing in it involves combat, bloodshed, or enemies — the activity consists of slicing shapes and ducking away from oncoming barriers. Everything centers on rhythm and body motion, producing a brisk, sweat-inducing session of exercise. Its built-in track list carries no coarse content by default, but a patch released in 2024 gives users aged 13 and up the ability to switch on tracks that keep their explicit wording intact; on accounts registered for younger children, that toggle stays disabled. Sessions run either alone or over the internet alongside other people, and extra bundles of songs are available for purchase as separate add-ons.

How it's framed

There is no story here and nothing that carries a moral message — the whole experience revolves around scoring points to a beat, hinging on precise timing, hitting targets cleanly, and staying in motion. Whatever adult wording surfaces originates only in track lyrics that a user has to intentionally enable, and the title positions its purchases as extra bundles of music instead of locking advancement behind payment.

Details

Developer: Beat Games
Publisher: Beat Games
Released: May 21, 2019

Metacritic 93critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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