How do players who really played Beat Saber rate it? TrueGG Rating 91.7%

Release date: May 21, 2019 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it lower than Steam overall. Ratings tend to be steady from the first hours. Recent reviews are falling.

Good for

Players who want fun from the first hours

Think twice if you are

Players buying on the promise of future updates (complaints about the developers)
Players wary of microtransactions and DLC
Players buying right now (recent ratings are falling)

A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How

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91.7%

▼ −3.8 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 551 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 95.5%
Steam overall: 95.5%
Japanese, all time: 95.0%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 6.0% of all reviews. Their positive share is 88.4%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (10h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	61.5%	—	52
1–2 h	78.6%	—	42
2–5 h	92.2%	100.0%	129
5–10 h	92.2%	100.0%	141
10–20 h	89.0%	100.0%	154
20–50 h	94.7%	100.0%	187
50–100 h	92.0%	100.0%	113
100–200 h	90.9%	100.0%	66
200+ h	87.1%	—	31

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 46% had 20+ hours and 10% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Beat Saber has a TrueGG Rating of 91.7%: the positive share among 551 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours, close to Steam's overall 95.5%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 95.5%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 6% of the total, with 88% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

Negative reviews most often mention updates and the developers (less than at launch), monetization and DLC, and graphics and music (less than at launch). Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 95.0%, similar to all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (95.6% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on live operations and online play (Updates & developers, Monetization & DLC). These shift over time, so weigh recent reviews more than the all-time figure.

− Most mentioned complaints

Updates & developers24% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch
Monetization & DLC10% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch
Graphics & music10% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · less than at launch

+ What players praise

Fun & feel32% of positive reviews (12% of negative)

＋最高＋苦手＋ beating＋リズム＋簡単＋間違＋ exercise＋アバター− update− unplayable− pay− refund− devs− fix− can't− that's

Counted from 329 recent negative and 600 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	95.5%	All time, all languages · 76,420 reviews
Adjusted rating	95.6%	Weighted by trust (95% range 95.4%–95.8%), +0.1pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	95.2%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−0.2pt vs overall) · 608 reviews

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Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

Condition	Positive reviews	Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review	8%	25%
Very short text	29%	16%
Key activated outside Steam	11%	9%
Received for free	1%	1%
Owns very few games	4%	4%
Over 100 reviews written	7%	7%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.82	0.80

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 19.8 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

Date	Announcement	2 months before → after
2026-08-27	Beat Saber Update v1.45.0 with Hip Hop Mixtape 2	—
2026-05-28	Beat Saber 8th Anniversary Update v1.44.0 with free tracks	91% → 92% (+0.8pt)
2026-04-29	Beat Saber Update v1.43.0 with The Prodigy Music Pack	92% → 89% (−2.9pt)
2025-12-18	Beat Saber Update v1.42.0 with Coldplay Music Pack	94% → 92% (−2.3pt)
2024-12-10	Beat Saber Update v1.40.0 with Metallica Music Pack Released	93% → 92% (−1.4pt)
2024-11-12	Beat Saber Update v1.39.0 with Monstercat Mixtape 2 Released	92% → 90% (−1.9pt)
2024-10-08	Beat Saber Update v1.38.0 with Britney Spears Music Pack Released	93% → 91% (−1.3pt)
2024-06-04	Beat Saber Update v1.37.0 With OST 7 Released	93% → 94% (+0.7pt)
2024-04-09	Beat Saber Update v1.36.0 with Hip Hop Mixtape released	94% → 94% (+0.4pt)

Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2018-05	3,099	75	97.6%
2018-06	891	19	97.9%
2018-07	574	25	95.8%
2018-08	452	15	96.8%
2018-09	314	9	97.2%
2018-10	326	12	96.4%
2018-11	1,850	47	97.5%
2018-12	566	38	93.7%
2019-01	653	20	97.0%
2019-02	404	14	96.7%
2019-03	674	109	86.1%
2019-04	387	160	70.7%
2019-05	509	76	87.0%
2019-06	1,823	79	95.8%
2019-07	1,950	46	97.7%
2019-08	268	36	88.2%
2019-09	240	15	94.1%
2019-10	534	28	95.0%
2019-11	4,448	84	98.1%
2019-12	2,940	57	98.1%
2020-01	2,391	70	97.2%
2020-02	1,303	22	98.3%
2020-03	1,392	36	97.5%
2020-04	1,409	42	97.1%
2020-05	1,278	30	97.7%
2020-06	1,079	27	97.6%
2020-07	1,144	19	98.4%
2020-08	1,225	31	97.5%
2020-09	888	17	98.1%
2020-10	1,317	178	88.1%
2020-11	1,265	42	96.8%
2020-12	1,287	42	96.8%
2021-01	1,861	59	96.9%
2021-02	1,235	33	97.4%
2021-03	1,460	56	96.3%
2021-04	1,170	35	97.1%
2021-05	1,160	104	91.8%
2021-06	911	41	95.7%
2021-07	928	41	95.8%
2021-08	754	29	96.3%
2021-09	767	83	90.2%
2021-10	719	33	95.6%
2021-11	838	23	97.3%
2021-12	964	79	92.4%
2022-01	1,094	41	96.4%
2022-02	811	23	97.2%
2022-03	888	42	95.5%
2022-04	693	39	94.7%
2022-05	706	38	94.9%
2022-06	597	28	95.5%
2022-07	655	33	95.2%
2022-08	541	14	97.5%
2022-09	400	17	95.9%
2022-10	392	32	92.5%
2022-11	560	32	94.6%
2022-12	465	29	94.1%
2023-01	614	26	95.9%
2023-02	420	20	95.5%
2023-03	471	30	94.0%
2023-04	413	30	93.2%
2023-05	396	56	87.6%
2023-06	348	47	88.1%
2023-07	332	52	86.5%
2023-08	330	21	94.0%
2023-09	246	20	92.5%
2023-10	311	26	92.3%
2023-11	356	21	94.4%
2023-12	366	46	88.8%
2024-01	470	29	94.2%
2024-02	342	18	95.0%
2024-03	296	25	92.2%
2024-04	268	25	91.5%
2024-05	280	16	94.6%
2024-06	260	18	93.5%
2024-07	271	19	93.4%
2024-08	238	15	94.1%
2024-09	199	19	91.3%
2024-10	202	16	92.7%
2024-11	312	23	93.1%
2024-12	265	31	89.5%
2025-01	244	25	90.7%
2025-02	187	15	92.6%
2025-03	218	13	94.4%
2025-04	139	8	94.6%
2025-05	172	10	94.5%
2025-06	141	13	91.6%
2025-07	202	15	93.1%
2025-08	181	17	91.4%
2025-09	156	10	94.0%
2025-10	143	9	94.1%
2025-11	247	14	94.6%
2025-12	181	15	92.3%
2026-01	199	16	92.6%
2026-02	143	13	91.7%
2026-03	159	14	91.9%
2026-04	139	15	90.3%
2026-05	125	19	86.8%
2026-06	146	15	90.7%
2026-07	104	7	93.7%
2026-08	110	17	86.6%
2026-09	136	21	86.6%
2026-10	84	15	84.8%

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Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-19	2	1
2026-09-20	5	0
2026-09-21	0	1
2026-09-22	5	0
2026-09-23	3	1
2026-09-24	7	3
2026-09-25	4	1
2026-09-26	8	2
2026-09-27	6	0
2026-09-28	5	0
2026-09-29	5	0
2026-09-30	5	2
2026-10-01	8	0
2026-10-02	2	1
2026-10-03	8	0
2026-10-04	6	1
2026-10-05	7	1
2026-10-06	7	2
2026-10-07	3	3
2026-10-08	2	1
2026-10-09	3	0
2026-10-10	7	0
2026-10-11	7	0
2026-10-12	5	1
2026-10-13	4	0
2026-10-14	4	1
2026-10-15	2	2
2026-10-16	3	1
2026-10-17	5	0
2026-10-18	1	1

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Recent sentiment

Period	Positive	Reviews
Last 30 days	84.5%	193
Last 180 days	89.5%	913
All time	95.5%	76,420
Japanese, last 180 days	100.0%	10

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