A VR rhythm-action game for Meta Quest: cut approaching targets in time with the music, in the correct direction, with real power at impact and a clean follow-through.
Step into an atmospheric dojo, wield one or two katanas, and cut incoming targets in time with the music. Samurai Quest's thesis is simple: raw force isn't enough — technique is the path. Score thresholds only clear on correct direction, real impact power, and follow-through, so flailing fast and sloppy never gets you there.
Every cut in Samurai Quest is judged on three action-virtues at once, not three separate rules:
Direction. Cut from the correct angle — happō-giri, the eight-direction form. Wrong angle grades as a miss.
Power. Tenouchi — real blade speed at the moment of contact, the difference between a good cut and an IPPON.
Follow-through. Zanshin — sustained awareness after the cut, read in the HUD as a combo aura that escalates toward gold.
Every target you cut is graded on the spot, from a clean miss to a perfect strike:
The campaign is a ten-phase journey through kenjutsu fundamentals, each one teaching a new element of the cut before the next builds on it. Campaign play is no-fail — missing a phase's score threshold only holds back progression, it never ends the run.
Find the blade line.
The honest cut — tenouchi starts to matter.
Follow through — hold zanshin.
The diagonal — cut along the sash line.
The rising cut.
Chains — no cut stands alone.
The form.
All directions — nothing left unanswered.
Precision under pressure.
The graduation.
Ten fixed dojo phases with a short story thread. No-fail by design — thresholds gate progression, not the run itself.
Endless, procedurally generated targets with a rising difficulty curve. A miss streak ends the run — chase the local top-5 leaderboard.