Overall: 85%

Gameplay	■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . .	8/10
Graphics	■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . . .	7/10
Atmosphere	■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . . .	7/10
Game depth	■ ■ . . . . . . . .	2/10
Game length	■ ■ ■ . . . . . . .	3/10

VR specific:

Immersion	■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . . . .	6/10
Physical demands	■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . .	8/10
Motion sickness risk	■ . . . . . . . . .	1/10

+ You can actually feel your favorite songs
+ Play any music from online library or offline storage
+ Difficulty settings - harder mode requires agility and lot of energy

- Does not support Workshop - only 2 stages get old soon
- Does not show length of songs in menu - it would be very useful since songs over 5 minutes are really exhausting at higher difficulty

Movement: None
Controls: Vive controllers

My progress: 4 hours, finished (many times)
Recommended price: 10 €

It makes you feel EPIC, especially with high-tempo music. One of the BEST VR games currently available. Also great at getting you fit and moving! Recommended.

However, the game isn't perfect and more regular updates would be nice. It seems more like a really great Early Access game, showing great potential for the future..... but is great fun now.

It's missing a playlist or favourites feature currently, supports Soundcloud and local MP3s (not Spotify currently). The Orbs don't always go perfectly with the music (but they do most of the time). It looks like this is a Unity game, so be aware you will either need a good VR PC system to run at Higher graphics, or you may need to turn them down.

More arenas would be great (only 2 ship with the game) and more variety of colored orbs.

Right now, I'd give it a B+. But if the developer updates it with more features it could be worthy of an A range rating. Essential to buy if you own a Vive, some of the most fun you can have in VR.

Please support Stream music service like Spotify or Apple music etc...

The game is so much fun! It is worth the 20 euros you pay no questions asked. There is one problem though. You get pretty good at the game very fast. I know many will see this as a big flaw. I see it only as a minor flaw though... I can have fun even if i hit every single note on the hardest difficulty. It would be nice if the developer added more features and harder difficulties though

I'm comparing this game / VR experince in contrast to others I have had, such as Minecraft in VR and The Lab. In comparison, the content of this VR experience is light for $20. The price is acceptable ONLY because the VR game market is so thin, and filled with so many pitfalls, that this game stands out as somewhat quality in comparison. That's not really a vote in the plus column for this game as it is a sigh of disappoint for the current state of VR as of writing this review, but there it is...

In my opinion, Audioshield is more striking just above what I'd consier a minimum bar of quality. A more fair price point for this game, based on it's mechanics and level of depth, would be about $5. If this game wasn't VR, and was a trypical "flat" game, you'd probably be some free bowser based game with a lot more depth. Just looking at the game from a mechanic standpoint, you will find it has trouble syncing with a lot of songs, and it's missing some cool obvious features such as letting users create their own modified song syncs to share with friends, etc.

The graphics are "ok", not great, definatley not polished like The Lab. There are only two scenes to listen / interact music with, when there could easily be more. There's no kind of actual progression, no co-op, it's really just a bare bones experince. In my time with the game, it also crahed often, sometimes forcing me to restart SteamVR.

Still, given the rough state of many VR titles, I'm going to thumb this game up. With all the negatives above, it is still immersive and fun. When you load up one your personal favorite music scores, and you get into that virutal world that doens't seem at all that interesting in flat videos on the store poge, you'll find a TOTALLY different world and expereince in VR. Then kicks in the highs and lows of yoru favorite song, and honestly, you could be in for a surprisingly emotional experience. It's prtobably just the music of your favorite track thundering in the background ...but either way, it's about that time you might think this game was maybe actually worth the $20.

It's also worth mentionging this is the kind of game tha draws in non-gamers, such as your mother in-law, etc. Just load up their favroite song, and watch them be wow'd to the immersion of VR. The clear excersize / activity you have to extert playing the game is also a fairly good ground for buying it, just for health. For these reasons, this game really is a worthwhile purchase even at $20. If you can get a gooc sale, pick it up absolutely.

I love the concept of Audio shield. I think it is ambitious, and has great potential. Before buying my vive, I greatly anticipated playing this title. It was one of my first purchases of vive software. My reference point is that of a musician. I'm a professional violinist, orchestra director and educator. Music is my life, and what I do for a living.

I quickly have become disilutioned with this title, for one main reason. I feel that the "punches and pulses" should be curated for the best rhythm punching experience possible, but they are not. From what I have read and experienced by playing, the punching of beats is generated randomly.

This makes for an often very bizzarre experience, that does not line up with the music very well.

I wish the developers of Audioshield would add a method for the community to custom make punches (Like the Bethesda community), or have the developers create a library of curated songs, the game is just not worth spending time with.

To recap:

The pros:
Great concept (if it worked)
Awesome visual effects
Cool left and right shields, feel great and look awesome

The cons:
-Most or all of the music is OUT OFSYNC with the beat puching
-Punching is generated randomly
-There is not currently a way for the community to create custom beat puches and movements

I would be one of the first people creating beats for the game, I'm sure the game would get much more popularity if the community could have a creative avenue with content generation for the game.

Until these issues are addressed, I suggest to save your money and wait for the updates.

Love it! The videos and pics do not do this game justice. So much fun.
I almost didn’t buy this because it looked a bit naff in the videos, however, I am so glad I did. It’s like a cross between Guitar Hero and Audiosurf, but for VR. One of the things you can’t appreciate from the video is how cool it looks to have the coloured balls coming at you and how awesome it feels to pop them and get in a flow. Really easy to play, only takes 2 or 3 goes to really get in to it and then it becomes one of the best VR arcade style games out at the moment.
As always with music based games, it’s great to be able to play them to your own music too, though the tracks that appear in the game are awesome and suit the game anyway.
If you have every enjoyed a music game, give this a go and do not be put off by the videos, it’s way better than that.

10/10

I love this game!
Both myself and my parents love the game! I can play it all day long!

Pros:
A lot of songs available
Very good means of exercising
Good fun to play with friends/ family for best score

Cons:
Difficulties changes the density of the notes, but lack of variations
The song selection interface should be more intrinsive,
More shield/ room options would be better
May get a bit bored after hours of gameplay due to lack of variation.

Suggestion:
Can you add some special skills/ patterns into the gameplay?
Score Multiplier?
More Shield/ room option?

Very good, One of those quick pick up and play games, Gets a bit sweaty!