God of Riffs: Battle for the Metalverse

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Release date

October 4, 2022

Publisher

VYERSOFT

Website

https://www.godofriffs.com/

Rock like a god in God of Riffs, the heavy metal VR rhythm brawler that turns your headset into a full thrash session. 🤘🤘🤘 Swing twin guitar axes to the beat and smash through hordes as you fight to save the Metalverse.

Version 3.0 adds new songs from Awake at Last, Thirst, Hatriot, Versus Me, Nervosa and Of Virtue, along with major quality of life upgrades for smoother shredding.

Unleash pure metal mayhem.

💀 KILLER MAPS AND ENEMIES

Explore a wide range of maps while slashing swarms of riff-crazed skeletons and monstrous flying beasts!

🎵 EXCLUSIVE SOUNDTRACK & CROSSOVERS

9 rockin’ original tracks, hits from Awake at Last, Thirst, Hatriot, Versus Me, Nervos, Of Virtue, & Frank Klepacki and The Tiberian Sons, plus crossover tracks from The Good Life, YIIK, and Popslinger!

🎸 UNLOCK THUNDEROUS NEW AXES

Boost your journey with guitar customizations to get to full rock star glam!

🔥 BECOME THE HERO THE METALVERSE NEEDS!

Challenge other players around the globe and rise to the top of the leaderboard!

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Supported platforms

Meta Quest 2

Meta Quest Pro

Meta Quest 3

Meta Quest 3S

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Ratings & reviews

4.15

73 ratings

Oculus rating

Player reviews

Has potential but not there yet

This is quite obviously a metal-themed clone of Beat Saber. On paper this sounds amazing, in practice it's unfortunately not great. First off the music library is tiny. As far as I can tell there are exactly five playable songs. Then there's the game play itself - you hit stuff, just as in BS, so far so good. However, they left out the direction and the obstacles. It doesn't sound like much of a difference, but during play it very quickly starts to feel tedious and repetitive. After trying this one for a bit I played a few songs of Beat Saber and in direct comparison BS feels so much more elegant and refined and - most importantly - fun. I'm still undecided whether I'm going to get a refund - I might book this for myself as a donation for an indy dev - but it has not been worth the money for me. Edit: Thanks for the response. I really, really want a good metal rhythm game, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and keep the game. Please make it awesome!

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Proud of the the team!

Congrats on getting v1 out there.. can't wait for more songs and quality of life upgrades!

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It’s about time!

Finally, something in VR with some balls! You will definitely work up a sweat and get your heart pumping and the arm swinging. It is so satisfying to bash these skulls with my axes, and the original artwork in here is spectacular in the new story mode. I would keep watching this Vyersoft team because they’re doing things right! This is exactly the kind of soundtrack I need for my workout. The kind that says you can’t stop swinging or else you’re gonna get all these bones in your mouth!

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Potential is there

Played for about a hour altogether, so a few points I got out of the game. Not really impressed with the environments as rather blocky, but once in gameplay it doesn't matter as such. In the tutorial it tells you how to get the lightning coming down( again blocky), but doesn't say if it effects game score, or even if it does. The gameplay is your basic two colours sort of thing, with a switch at times to one colour but holding the grab button instead(you can keep the grab button held at all times anyway. You have like little demons running towards you in various orders and position and flying skulls, so you get a lot of movement at times. To be honest tried the hard level on it and was too much for me trying to keep up with the changes, but sure that wouldn't be the case for younger people. But I did enjoy the gameplay on the whole. But I am convinced that some hits of mine showed up as missing. It is debatable if it is me or a glitch in the game. But as a new release any glitches will get sorted. You get ten tracks for the time being, with more coming early in 23, with a story mode. Music is subjective in taste. But I really thought it was rather average and forgettable and I can't see me really playing this much even with the promise of more tracks. I hate to be negative about the music as I think the developer is a part of doing the music as well as the game(could be wrong) You may be wondering why I gave it 4 stars, yet be rather negative towards it. I can see a lot of people enjoying the gameplay, it's something different to exercise to.

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