Pistol Whip (2019)

Cloudhead Games

Meta Quest 2 · Oculus Quest · Oculus Rift · Oculus VR · PlayStation VR · PlayStation VR2 · SteamVR

4.08 from 71 ratings

504 members have it in their collection · 16 playing now · 228 backlogged · 26 wish listed

Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards.

Release dates

  • Nov 07, 2019 (Worldwide) Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, Oculus VR, SteamVR
  • Jul 28, 2020 (Worldwide) PlayStation VR
  • Feb 22, 2023 (Worldwide) PlayStation VR2

Rating distribution

5 stars
25
4 stars
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3 stars
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1 star
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Volt2742

Status Volt2742 Sep 6, 2025

This game is really fun and cool. Shooting enemies in these maps is one thing, but doing it to the beat adds another level of fun. My only complaint is that the base games songs kind of suck. Sadly the playerbase for this game is not big like Beat Saber, so even though it has official mod support compared to …

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This game is really fun and cool. Shooting enemies in these maps is one thing, but doing it to the beat adds another level of fun. My only complaint is that the base games songs kind of suck. Sadly the playerbase for this game is not big like Beat Saber, so even though it has official mod support compared to Beat Saber's unofficial mod support, there aren't that many custom maps, and the ones there are aren't very good. The actual base game maps are good, but most of the songs I just really don't care for.

I still have a couple of base game maps to try out and the "story" mode, so I definitely have a lot to get to still. In the end, similar to beat saber, this is a "Gameplay is King" type of game, and the Gameplay is fantastic, but the music (a huge feature in a Shooting Rhythm game) to accompany the Gameplay is just so bad compared to the actual Gameplay, I have to knock it down a little bit. Light 9/10

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Etrail

Status Etrail Aug 1, 2023

When they go and drop the new Overdrive track on my leg day. This one was pretty cool. New models, heavily stylized map, song is okay once you get into it and it was a solid challenge with some interesting enemy arrangements. Recommend!

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Etrail

Status Etrail Jul 14, 2023

So there are 3 tracks out for the new Overdrive series. The music is kinda meh, though better than the average arcade tracks and matches the maps well. But holy shit these maps are crazy! Could use some more immersive aesthetics but the layouts are really solid and have me struggling even on Normal.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Jun 18, 2023

The new update with custom level support is out and, so far, it's fairly underwhelming. There are only around 40 levels (which is not surprising given how recen it is). A bunch of them seem to be other versions of one of the game's songs and the ones I played where not very good and the songs are meh.

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The new update with custom level support is out and, so far, it's fairly underwhelming. There are only around 40 levels (which is not surprising given how recen it is). A bunch of them seem to be other versions of one of the game's songs and the ones I played where not very good and the songs are meh.

I'll wait and see. It takes time for a community to develop and for people to learn how to use the tool and make good levels that, for example, don't spawn enemies off-view.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Jun 13, 2023

The other day I booted this up with the intention of trying the new and old tracks that I hadn't played. They were generally underwhelming and instead I played through Smoke and Thunder again; such a great campaign with all great songs.

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killerstar

Status killerstar May 1, 2023

One thing that I really appreciate about this game is that it's a rhythm game that dares not to play only EDM.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Mar 14, 2023

Ok, here's one genre that is going to change forever thanks to VR. Rail shooters. Al the fun of playing of playing Time Crisis 2 without other people hogging the arcade.

Not like this is a big genre, though.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Mar 11, 2023

Played the first campaign (pretty short) and it was fun, but I don't know if the level design will hold long term.

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zachbrownies

Status zachbrownies Mar 3, 2021

This game is so cool!

I like Beat Saber and Audica a lot, particularly Audica. But sometimes I wished I could play a game that made me feel a bit more like I was in an action sequence. This game lets me still have rhythm gameplay but there's something so satisfying about feeling like you're taking down real enemies as …

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This game is so cool!

I like Beat Saber and Audica a lot, particularly Audica. But sometimes I wished I could play a game that made me feel a bit more like I was in an action sequence. This game lets me still have rhythm gameplay but there's something so satisfying about feeling like you're taking down real enemies as you journey through a map, instead of just standing still hitting red and blue notes.

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GigaDeathNullGolem

Status GigaDeathNullGolem Nov 10, 2019

played this for about 10 mins on my friends Oculus Quest. Really fun game and looks like one of the better ones. It's a bit of a mix between a rail shooter game and a beat matching rhythm game. My friend thought it was a bit like Beat Saber and the way you push for time is like time crisis …

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played this for about 10 mins on my friends Oculus Quest. Really fun game and looks like one of the better ones. It's a bit of a mix between a rail shooter game and a beat matching rhythm game. My friend thought it was a bit like Beat Saber and the way you push for time is like time crisis (the running segments are i guess). I thought it was actually a lot like 3d World Runner or Space Harrier! :D

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