Soundscape VR: 2017

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Soundscape VR: 2017 is a single player and multiplayer casual role playing game. It was developed by Groove Science Studios and was released on May 16, 2017. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Get teleported to a psychedelic world of music and light in this brand new VR experience. Take in the dazzling visual spectacle as you watch the world react to the music, then utilize your motion controllers to go even deeper.

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72%

Audience ScoreBased on 92 reviews

music19 positive mentions

gameplay2 negative mentions

Incredible immersive audiovisual VR experience with stunning graphics and visuals perfectly synchronized to music.
Highly customizable environment allowing users to add their own music tracks, modify visual effects, and share creations with others.
Constant development with new content updates, offering great potential as a social platform for live concerts and musical creativity.

Performance issues and poor optimization cause lag and low frame rates, even on high-end PCs, affecting the smoothness of the experience.
Controls and locomotion can be confusing or broken on some VR hardware, with movement and menu navigation problems reported.
Lack of integrated music playback UI and absence of a tutorial make it unintuitive and difficult to use, especially for new users.

music
88 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
22%
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The music aspect offers a highly immersive and visually stunning VR experience, praised for its interactive controls and customizable effects that sync with user-played tracks. However, some users experience issues with integrated music playback and synchronization, noting that the visualizations can feel random or disconnected without active user input. Overall, it’s seen as a unique and evolving music visualizer and social platform, with strong potential once features like music playback integration, multiplayer, and routine saving are improved.
- “An absolute visual feast with so many very convincing and dazzling light effects that create the ultimate music festival/dance club experience.”
- “Just to be clear you interact and can control the lighting and visual effects (sooo many combinations) with your handheld controllers. You can adjust the BPM to perfect the effects to your favorite tracks. It is so much more than just an auto music visualizer; if the visual effects are not in time with the music, it means you're not either, as you control it.”
- “I bought a VR headset just for this game alone after playing at my friend's house. Soundscape VR has reconnected me with my music friends at a time where all of my concerts have been cancelled due to COVID.”
- “None of the built-in sites to play music work; they just sit there and don't load, and as far as I can tell, there isn't any way to play music otherwise... so a game that is based on music but doesn't play music... if this gets fixed or I'm doing something wrong, I would love to revise this and give it a try. The visuals alone look really good.”
- “The visualizations don't feel like they're in time with the music - in fact, they seem entirely random.”
- “Aside from that, it doesn't even seem to change all that much to my music.”
graphics
18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics are praised for their impressive visuals and effects that create a dynamic music-driven experience, though some users feel the visuals can be overly busy and not perfectly synchronized with the music. Performance may require adjustment on weaker PCs due to high graphical demands. Overall, the art style shows promise with room for refinement, and users look forward to enhanced customization and more content.
- “Definitely one the coolest in-game graphics and effects, and a new approach to be a part of music events virtually.”
- “All the time I've spent in Soundscape and I feel like I never see the same thing twice, visuals are super on point!”
- “The game-mode is awesome as well with great flying and shooting (to music of course); the visuals are amazing.”
- “It feels really slapped together, like it's too overloaded with visuals at once, and everything just blends. It would be cooler if things changed up, but lots of visuals don't seem timed to the music because they just pulse on a preset timer.”
- “Art style and construction is reminiscent of someone who is just catching their balance in rendering—more experience than a beginner but hasn't really gotten their sea legs yet.”
- “If you have a weak PC, you will probably need to turn down the graphics because things can get pretty crazy and push your video card.”
optimization
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game suffers from severe performance issues and poor optimization, causing low frame rates and frequent reprojection even on high-end hardware. While visually impressive, the experience is hindered by its heavy resource demands, making it barely playable on powerful systems. Significant optimization improvements are needed.
- “The app shows potential but performance slows to a 1fps crawl during the best parts of the music, which is a shame.”
- “Upgrading to a high-end system (4080 and 5800x CPU) makes performance barely playable, but it is still far from good despite slight improvements.”
- “Although it's a beautiful looking app, performance is abysmal even on high-end GPUs like the 3080.”
- “The performance is absolutely abysmal; even a seasoned VR player will get sick from constant reprojection, even at the lowest settings on a 2070.”
- “Update: Upgraded to a 4080 and a 5800X CPU, and performance is just barely playable now, but still far from good despite the slight improvement.”
- “Horribly optimized, if at all.”
gameplay
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
60%
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The gameplay lacks meaningful interaction and does not feature any engaging gameplay loops, resulting in an experience that feels more like a non-interactive software than a game.
- “There are no gameplay loops in this software, no 'gameplay', no meaningful game-like interaction.”
- “There are no gameplay loops in this software, no 'gameplay', no meaningful game-like interaction.”
stability
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
75%
The game shows promise with impressive visuals but suffers from significant stability issues, including buggy controls and lack of active servers, leading to a frustrating experience. While it runs well on capable hardware, major glitches and limited support currently hinder smooth gameplay.
- “Runs great on my 1070, even though the scope and depth of the visual effects are unmatched by any VR title I've played since 2013.”
- “As others have stated, controls don't work, no active servers, I love the idea but far too buggy and lacking any support currently, 1* for pretty intro room!!”
- “Great concept, very buggy.”
- “Needs to have two major glitches worked out.”
atmosphere
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's atmosphere is lively and well-suited for party settings, enhanced by vibrant in-game lighting and diverse effects that add variety to the levels.
- “Great for a party atmosphere watching or playing.”
- “Additionally, the in-game environment has a lot of lights and effects that provide a good amount of variety to the level and its atmosphere.”
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Grinding in the game may require additional resources or lives, suggesting it can be time-consuming or challenging without extra support.
story
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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humor
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users find the humor aspect unintentionally funny, particularly noting that negative reviews themselves are amusing.

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Soundscape VR: 2017 is a casual role playing game.

Soundscape VR: 2017 is available on PC, Virtual Reality and Windows.

Soundscape VR: 2017 was released on May 16, 2017.

Soundscape VR: 2017 was developed by Groove Science Studios.

Soundscape VR: 2017 has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its music but disliked it for its optimization.

Soundscape VR: 2017 is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

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