Buy Audiosurf 2

this is a fun game and allows you to chill out and listen to music while forgetting about all your problems
recmommend getting it.

Its looks awesome, and it is the two first minutes. but after that you dont really know what else to do in the game. I ended up refunding it. Its a boring game.

Nice game with music

Buy this game. I just want you to try and beat my scores. Only two of my friends own this game.
I dare you. I'm good at this game.









THEY DONT CALL ME QUICKEST FOR NOTHING

This game let me play through Rush's 2112 Overture and I made the leaderboards.

ITS REALLY HARD TO BEAT THAT FEELING OK?

9/10

Don't try to 'collect' the spikes like I did.
It doesn't work.

Great game, great price. Pick up and play whatever songs you have. A big improvement on the first one, too. Can't complain

Game is absolutely amazing.
Only problem is how hard it is to import music into the game, there is Soundcloud support but it seems it doesn't work and haven't been working since the release. So that's kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ of the devs.

A dream come true would be if this game in some way had Spotify Integration.

This is a great game for when ever you looking for some time to relax with your music. I really enjoy using that muscle car skin while playing some old school jams.

The differences between Audiosurf 1 and 2: this one is newer, mod friendly, and there seems to be more recent leaderboard activity (probably due to the fact that it is newer) but Audiosurf 1 had the benefit of being "loved" by the developer.

A U D I O S U R F 1:

What I mean is that Audiosurf 1 is a little more simple, but the gamemodes, options, multipliers, and menus all feel much more refined even if they are a little dated by current standards. You start it up, you get the theme music in the background while you look through the nicely sized selection of stock gamemodes, each with unique playstyles and points of difficulty, in a straightforward menu. You pick a song and start playing on a track that, while it doesn't have a ton of fancy skins available like what you can subscribe to in Audiosurf 2, is decently good looking and is defined clearly enough to play well. There are a few easily understood powerups that can be collected, and there are a few different goals that you can shoot for to multiply your score.

Once your song is finished, you get to see scores on your song sorted by difficulty and by locality; even if you play music that's a little obscure, there's a good chance that at least someone else in the world has played it on one of the many different gamemodes and difficulties, and their name will appear on the boards regardless of your own selection of options, and you can compete with them. If there are mods available for Audiosurf 1, they aren't very prominent as I've never heard of them, but they aren't necessary anyway, because Audiosurf 1 is a great experience by itself with plenty of ways to play songs.

A U D I O S U R F 2:

Early experience:
I heard that a new Audiosurf was coming out a while back, and I believe I picked it up while it was still in early access. What I saw and felt while I played it was acceptable by early access standards; the nice, familiar, upbeat theme music of the first game was missing, and in addition the 3rd-party-music-playeresque (and perhaps a little tacky albeit comfortable) design of the menu was replaced by black boxes and generic text font, leaving the menus feeling pretty lifeless in comparison to the first. I figured hey, it'll probably have the charm of the original all built into it once it's done though, right?

It really hasn't changed much since then. The exciting sort of amped up feel of starting up Audiosurf 1 is still gone, the UI is still boring, and it's not as straightforward compared to the original in my opinion.

The new emphasized gamemode was the wakeboarding thing which I haven't played in at least a year or more; it was alright, and I started out by playing a few songs that way, but it didn't take long for me to migrate back to the familiar gamemodes of the first, which I find to be much more engaging and fun. A bunch of gamemodes and different difficulties were missing when I played, but I figured "well they'll be added later, I'm sure it'll be fine"...

Spoiler, they got cut completely in favor of a few of the basic gamemodes with no difficulty selection. I still think that the gameplay of the first was more entertaining and had a greater variety than the stock gameplay of Audiosurf 2, but they did add workshop mods to Audiosurf 2!... about those mods...

One of the things I enjoyed most about the original Audiosurf was that you could find a leaderboard to climb for almost any song, because all scores were put in in a kind of standardized way; all the gamemodes were stock, and within the same difficulty bracket you could compete with anybody else on any other gamemode. In Audiosurf 2 however, there is a much smaller selection of default gamemodes with difficulties simply being abolished; the standardized scoreboard is gone now completely, scrapped in favor of gamemode specific scoreboards, and this means that whatever song you like, your basically out of luck finding competition unless you play one of the few default gamemodes, the most popular workshop gamemodes, or unless the song is really popular itself. I think there's also a smaller playerbase for Audiosurf 2 compared to the amount of people who played (and perhaps continue to play) Audiosurf 1 over the years, meaning that fewer scores have likely been accumulated for fewer songs. It certainly feels that way.

Basically, mods have killed the old score system that practically guaranteed competition, but you do get more gamemodes... the mod that I personally play more than anything is literally just a reacreation of an Audiosurf 1 gamemode that got cut, so take that how you will.

E P I T A P H:

As I said earlier, it just really feels like this one was unloved. The first one was packaged up to be a solid experience on its own, and thats very much the feeling that I get whenever I play it; the whole thing, loading screens, tracks, music and all, just feels very deliberately put together. This one on the other hand just feels like the dev decided to create another one, but once it occured to them that they could use the workshop as filler for a lack of options, they cut corners and they just created sort of a skeleton of the previous game and shipped it out without putting the heart into it that the first one had.

That's really what it feels like, a framework for workshop content rather than a solid game by itself. If that appeals to you, or maybe if you don't care about the scoreboards and just want to play a nice looking track with a bunch of different gamemodes, you'll probably enjoy this one. I still play every now and again, and it IS fun having the ability to challenge your steam friends and all, but I have to say Audiosurf 1 is the better game in my opinion. You should atleast get that one first, if you don't have it already.

Best music game.