The PSVR 2 will get a stylish rhythm-boxing game for the first time this month with ‘Beat the beats’.

The VR rhythm genre has become crowded with developers trying to copy

BeatSaber’s “hit the thing to beat” money machine. Enter Beat the Beats, a project indeed inspired by Meta’s seminal block-slashing game, although with its own flair that really seems to set it apart from the competition.The UK/Spain-based indie Parallel Circles announced

Beat the Beats is set to launch on PSVR 2 this month, with version for Quest 2/3/Pro and SteamVR slated to arrive later this year.We’ve already played

, and it definitely proves to not only be a stylish experience, but a pretty great sweat-inducing workout too.the free demo on Steamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw3X_isMgDY

Like you can see in the trailer above, it's a fairly simple setup: hit the incoming block with either your green or pink-colored fist, block the purple slashes, and dodge the big red and black prisms. It's one thing to watch the display flash red when you miss a note. But it's another thing to play the game and get into the entrancing minimalist atmosphere punctuated with the explosions from each block. Sound effects are definitely point too, with the red-black prisms throwing out a fun little bassy whizz as they fly past your head, seemingly inspired by the light cycles from

Tron.

It’s undoubtedly an impressive first demo, which we’ll be hoping to dig more into when it releases on PSVR 2 later this month, and later on Quest and SteamVR. You can play with a VR-ready headset and computer, like a Quest 2, 3, or Pro, Pico 4 or Valve Index. You can now also

.you can play the PC VR demo too

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