
Several of these include original songs, but several package are licensed songs featuring music and special stages from bands such as Imagine Dragons, Panic! at the Disco, Green Day, Linkin Park, BTS, Lady Gaga, and musicians signed to Interscope Records. īeat Saber shipped with ten songs, but has been expanded with several downloadable content packs. These are: Longest journey, Casual cutter, Saber surgeon, Lumberjack, Jazz hands, Fencer, Restless slicer, Nihilist, No mercy, and Air slicer. In multiplayer mode, the game awards the player with badges based on performance. The game added a multiplayer mode in which anywhere between 2-5 players can play a level together, with the person with the highest score winning. Additionally, the game includes a level editor and a practice mode that allows the player to alter the song's speed, or start playing it from any point in time, and not just the beginning. Since its early access stages, the game included a single-player mode as well as a party mode, which features a leaderboard with the player's names, which are entered after each song is played. If the bar becomes completely empty, the game will end. If the player completely misses a note, the bar will lose a larger amount. If the player hits any note in the incorrect direction, this 'health bar' will decrease by a small bit.

Underneath the path where the blocks travel is a white bar that slowly fills up as the player hits notes correctly. In addition, there are occasionally bombs that the player should not hit, and obstacles in the form of oncoming walls that the player's head should avoid. When a block is properly slashed by a saber, it is destroyed and a score is awarded, based on the length and angle of the swing and the accuracy of the cut.

There are also blocks with dots instead of arrows, which players may hit in any direction. Each one may also be marked with an arrow indicating one of eight possible directions in which the block may be required to be slashed through. Each block varies in color, corresponding to the color of the saber that should be used to slash it.

The game also features the option of playing some songs in certain orientations where blocks approach from around the player. In each song, the game presents the player with a stream of approaching blocks, laid out in sync with the song's beats and notes, located in one of the 12 possible positions of a 4x3 grid. The player uses VR motion controllers to wield a pair of glowing sabers, which by default are colored red and blue for left and right respectively. The game includes several songs with up to five levels of difficulty, starting from Easy all the way to Expert+. Main article: List of songs in Beat Saber
