Middle-Aged Gamer: Synth Riders — New Fun In VR

Beat Saber gets a lot of love as the “active” virtual reality gaming experience. But hold on to your light sword — we have a new contender and it suits this middle-aged gamer just fine.

Synth Riders from Retrowave VR

My lifestyle changed over a year ago (90 pounds lost — and continuing) and I added virtual reality to my workout regiment. I fell in love with music-based rhythm games (alright, I’ll say it … Beat Saber … I even wrote about it before Forbes did …) and started looking for something similar that scratches a different itch.

I’m a child of the 80s. Neon, retro synth music, David Hasselhoff … So once I heard about a music game that featured these things (yes, even The Hoff is there … unofficially, of course) and was well under $20?

That’s an impulse buy in my book.

Alas, it will be compared and contrasted to Beat Saber — which does it a great disservice. Yes, it has two-colored “hands” that dispatch similar colored items flying at you — all synced to music. That’s where the comparison needs to end.

Does this look like Beat Saber to you? Me neither.

Before I get into details — let me tell you something very important. IMHO, any music game without this feature is…