Beat Saber vs Golf With Your Friends
Beat Saber is a sports game from Beat Games (2018) while Golf With Your Friends is a simulation sports game from Blacklight Interactive (2020).
What each one is
Steam files Beat Saber under Sports. In contrast, it files Golf With Your Friends under Simulation and Sports.
Slash the beats, get moving, and experience the world's most popular VR rhythm game!* Duck, dodge, and flow through 300+ handcrafted songs from artists like Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, and Metallica. Play solo, compete online, or pass the headset at your next party. Jump in with 60+ songs included!
Why have friends if not to play Golf... With Your Friends! Nothing is out of bounds as you take on courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players!
At a glance
| Beat Saber | Golf With Your Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| GamingPickz Score | 8.2/10 | 7.8/10 |
| Steam rating | Overwhelmingly Positive (95%, 76,245) | Very Positive (87%, 75,430) |
| Critic aggregate | 93/100 | No aggregate |
| Price | $19.99 | $1.49 |
| Install size | 0.2 GB | 4 GB |
| Steam Deck | unsupported | verified |
| Released | 2018 | 2020 |
| Developer | Beat Games | Blacklight Interactive |
Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.
Beat Saber vs Golf With Your Friends, point by point
Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.
Genre and premise
Beat SaberSports gameGolf With Your FriendsSimulation sports gameWhat each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.
How it plays
Beat SaberRhythm, Music, ModdableGolf With Your FriendsCasual, Mini Golf, SportsThe tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.
Reception
Beat Saber ✓Score 8.2 · 95% on Steam · 93 criticGolf With Your FriendsScore 7.8 · 87% on SteamThe GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Content and scale
Beat Saber76,245 reviews · 278 add-ons · 0.2 GBGolf With Your Friends75,430 reviews · 18 add-ons · 4 GBReach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.
Price
Beat Saber$19.99Golf With Your Friends ✓$1.49Read live from Steam and subject to change.
On a Steam Deck
Beat SaberUnsupportedGolf With Your Friends ✓VerifiedValve's own Deck compatibility rating.
Golf With Your Friends takes 2 of the marked rounds to 1. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.
The two on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueBeat Saber and Golf With Your Friends on the axes the GamingPickz Score is built from, on the full 0 to 100 scale so each dot is its real position. Change either axis to compare them on any measure.
2 games have both
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
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- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Which to pick, by what you want
- The higher-rated of the two: Beat Saber (GamingPickz Score 8.2)
- The cheaper right now: Golf With Your Friends ($1.49)
- Better on a Steam Deck: Golf With Your Friends (verified)
- Lighter on storage: Beat Saber (0.2 GB)
What they have in common
Both are tagged by Steam players with:
SingleplayerDifficultMultiplayerIndieSportsGreat SoundtrackCasualEarly Access
Where they differ
VRRhythmMusicModdableFast-PacedFirst-Person
Mini GolfGolfFunnyFamily FriendlyCo-opPhysics
Tags players apply to one game and not the other.
Difficulty and who each is for
By the tags players apply, Beat Saber is demanding, for players who want a challenge. Golf With Your Friends is demanding, for players who want a challenge.
System requirements, side by side
| Beat Saber | Golf With Your Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum GPU | Nvidia GTX 960 | GTX 460 / Radeon 6870 / Intel HD Graphics 630 |
| Minimum CPU | Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge | Intel i3-2100 / AMD FX-6300 @3.1GHz |
| Minimum RAM | 4 GB | 2 GB |
| Install size | 0.2 GB | 4 GB |
Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Beat Saber · Golf With Your Friends.
Accessibility features
Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for Beat Saber and 1 for Golf With Your Friends. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
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Common questions
How different are Beat Saber and Golf With Your Friends in scope?
Beat Saber has drawn 76,245 Steam reviews, ships 278 add-ons and installs in 0.2 GB. Golf With Your Friends has drawn 75,430 Steam reviews, ships 18 add-ons and installs in 4 GB.
Is Beat Saber or Golf With Your Friends better?
By the GamingPickz Score, Beat Saber rates higher (8.2 to 7.8). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.
Which is cheaper, Beat Saber or Golf With Your Friends?
Golf With Your Friends is cheaper right now at $1.49, against $19.99. Prices move, so this is read live from Steam and can change.
Do you rank one above the other for a fee?
No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.
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How we compare, and what we will not do
The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.