Press kit

COUNTERCUT

A high-energy VR rhythm game where you're a space samurai with a laser sword, slicing giant robot bosses apart to dance music.

Fact sheet

Genre: VR rhythm action
Developer and publisher: MEW IO LLC, San Francisco
Platforms: PC VR on Steam (Windows); Meta Quest
Release: Early Access. No date announced
Players: Single-player
Play: Standing, tracked motion controllers, one blade
Songs: 30 levels in 3 albums: VOLUME ONE, VOLUME TWO and VOLUME THREE. Each level is a song with its own boss and stage
Difficulties: Easy, Normal and Hard for every song; on Easy the song plays on when the shield breaks. STRICT, in the settings, narrows the angles for the same score
Bosses: 14: BARROW, CORSAIR, GAUNT, LATHE, MAW, MORAY, NETTLE, SANDGLASS, SHOAL, TOCCATA, TRIAD, WARDEN, WEAVER, YOKE
Stages: 8: The Eclipse, The Floe, The Hangar, The Henge, The Nightline, The Orrery, The Sluice, The Soundings
The finisher: The quickdraw: hold in the ring, draw on the flash
Accessibility: COLOUR-BLIND MODE (a second pair of colours), REDUCE FLASHES, audio calibration, a tutorial
Music: Original, written and synthesized by our own code
Website: countercutgame.com
Press contact: justin@mew.io

Short description

Grab a laser sword, turn up the music and take down giant robots among the stars. A fast, fun VR rhythm game that makes you a space samurai.

Description

COUNTERCUT is a high-energy VR rhythm game that turns you into a space samurai.

Grab your laser sword and take on giant robot bosses to original dance music. They throw everything they've got at you on the beat, and you slash it all straight back. Turrets explode, armor flies off, and the boss comes apart around you. When the music stops, finish it with a quickdraw.

It's quick to pick up and feels great from your first song. When you want more, chase higher grades, step up to Hard and go back for a cleaner run.

We're making more albums.

Features

Feel like a space samurai. One glowing blade, giant robots and a sky full of stars. Every swing lands on the beat.
Dance music that hits hard. Thirty original tracks across three albums, made to move to.
Every song is a boss fight. Each track brings its own giant robot, and you take it apart piece by piece until it blows.
Fun from the first song. Jump in and you'll finish your first track on your first try. Then chase higher grades, push up to Hard and go back for a cleaner run.
Finish with a quickdraw. End every fight with one fast, clean strike.

Screenshots

From the current build, at full size (PNG). Click to download.

A PERFECT cut in the chorus: the green and white flash at TRIAD's heart
The chorus: bolts in the lanes, a cut landing
Two turrets destroyed at the verse's end
The quickdraw: the core's flash, the blade in the ring
SANDGLASS in the Sluice (Headway)
NETTLE over the Floe (Brine)
TOCCATA on the Nightline (Night Shift)
GAUNT under the Eclipse (Last Bell)
The results: BOSS DESTROYED, the grade and the score (grade A: no pilot reaches S; human seeds 1 to 4 score 78 to 80%, sloppy 0.2 scores 82.2%, and plain autoplay is perfect, SS)
Home: the Gallery, the three albums' sleeves