Happy Drummer VR Reviews
Firstly, please allow us to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratefulness to all our early access players who gave us a lot of good suggestions to make this experience better. We really enjoyed collaborating with you guys! Happy Drummer is a music VR game on HTC Vive.
App ID | 575210 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Lusionsoft |
Publishers | Lusionsoft |
Categories | Single-player, Steam Leaderboards, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, VR Support |
Genres | Casual, Simulation |
Release Date | 24 Jan, 2017 |
Platforms | Windows |
Supported Languages | Japanese, English |

51 Total Reviews
43 Positive Reviews
8 Negative Reviews
Mostly Positive Score
Happy Drummer VR has garnered a total of 51 reviews, with 43 positive reviews and 8 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mostly Positive’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
581 minutes
Happy Drummer is really unique. I like it! The atmosphere is good, the hit on drums feels more real than I expected! The god is really funny, LOL
👍 : 5 |
😃 : 1
Positive
Playtime:
18 minutes
while this game is what i was looking for as in cheap drum game. The limits of the game is why i give it a bad review and don't like it. Sure it works great and i hope people that play on my pc like family will like it. But While it works my issues with the game are it's very limited you can read what it says. 2 scenes night and day with a differant set of drums. So you have to beat one level to get to the next. So it's like 8 songs total. Which you can't choose till you beat one to move to the next. The no instructions i can live with easy to figure out. but i was hopeing there was more to it like real drums. Overall it's good but i feel ripped paying more then 4 bucks for it.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
139 minutes
Funny game.
Easy to grasp the operation of the game. Amusing game graphics and scene interaction
Look forward to more music and updates.
👍 : 4 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
39 minutes
Nice looking rhythm game with happy vibes and lots of dancing characters.
Having the 'shaman' fly over you and start throwing beats down from the opposite direction is a good touch although i'm fairly tall and thought the drums were a bit low. Moving closer helped but still sometimes accidentally hit them with those oversized clubs. Yeah, i get that they're big ass drums but it's still a game of precision and control felt awkward compared to Music Inside or AudioBeats. Those games allow you to raise/lower drum height and i don't know if that might help in this game too.
A fun game with some minor annoyances that will probably get prompt attention by the devs.
Rating: 8/10
👍 : 4 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
18 minutes
I want to be all positive about this game and support it. I tend to be positive about everything experimental, but currently the drums aren't functional. It is not playable because of the ergonomics is designed with traditional game mechanic (collision detection) instead of airdrumming. The change needed should be simple, but the difference would be huge on usability.
I saw on the forum a 2 months old post pointing 3 simple flaws that make the game unplayable. So far, no fix was done. I'd watch the topic and wait. Chances are alternative games are abandoned. If that remains the case, I'd say that, as sweet as it looks, in practice it is not usable by humans and you would do best passing this one.
The flaws are:
- hit detection: it register on virtual space collision, which is not intuitive when air drumming. When actually playing, you need to look away from the drums. Hit should be first about movement and second about space. It's quite impossible to hit tempo consistently like this. See video below to how it's done well.
- hit areas kinda overlap to make things worse, and they register any slight contact
- no strength sensitivity, any contact is recorded fully and loud which is bad considering the above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CavlglPYVvQ
I'm sorry to sound like the average nitpicker reviewer, but those are genuine problems that have solutions very straight forward and simple to implement. I hope this gets fixed because it's very close to be a fun experience, but as is, it is nothing fun. It's the difference between having a road trip and having a road trip on a car with one driving tire flat. You wouldn't do the second.
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
52 minutes
A fun guitar hero like game (although honestly never played guitar hero). The music is fun, the characters are cute and the graphics are well done. This casual game should fun for all ages and has increasing difficulty levels. I hope to see this game expanded with more music and maybe different levels with different drum setups and scenery. This game is worth the price and I'd buy it again.
👍 : 9 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
23 minutes
This game has a lot of potential. It is a lot of fun if you are into rhythm games. The early access price is very reasonable and it is a great game to demo to family and friends.
👍 : 6 |
😃 : 1
Positive
Playtime:
171 minutes
game is good, needed more content though but sadly no more updates, id get this game onsale only for a little fun app to mess with when your bored. or good beginner vr game.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
12 minutes
I play alot of rhythm games. This unfortunetly is more or less broken IMO as the drums trigger multiple times extremely often. First of all you have to stop your drumsticks from going "thru" the drums otherwise you'll end up hitting either the drum you just went thru or the drums on either side when you raise them up to hit your next beat .. the "drumsticks" are too large and i found myself bonking drums unintentionally quite often. The music is fine. The graphics are good. The gameplay is broken IMO. If the drums worked perfectly I would be comfortable saying buy it if you've got young kids or are really into rhythm games and have already gotten sick of Audioshield/Thumper/Holodance..
👍 : 17 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
168 minutes
i love it! , some notes, hope we could open up settings graphics, audio, sampling etc, next i hope the drums wont bypass - meaning it wont go thru the drums since whenever the drum sticks came under it will still hit it , making me do double taps rather than one over all ! i wasnt dissapointed , i wanted to try this game soon as i saw it on the list !
👍 : 12 |
😃 : 0
Positive