AudioSurf

Sick af, played as a kid on windows xp. good memories

I use to play this when it released back in the 2000's and I was obsessed with it. It's crazy that it's 2026 and the game still gets updates from time to time. Definitely recommend it, it is the longest $10 has ever stretched a game, ever.

I, personally, find Audiosurf 1 to be superior to the second game. Despite its godawful UI, unskippable menu animations, crashing, and flashbanging white screens, I genuinely prefer the feeling of the gameplay over Audiosurf 2. Unfortunately, it is plagued by a handful of issues if you intend to play this game via Proton: - Frequent crashes. This game crashes all the time on Proton versions 9+. Changing to Proton 7 or 8 seem to mitigate a lot of it. - Missing fonts. This game uses a bunch of fonts that are not technically free, but are provided with Microsoft Windows (E.g. Arial, Consolas, Times New Roman). Proton will substitute missing fonts with Linux's built in font library, but the game expects the fonts to have a specific size. Liberation Sans is not the same size as Arial, so it will cause text drift in the menus. Fixable by installing Protontricks and running `Protontricks 12900 corefonts` in the terminal. (Always double check what terminal commands do before entering them, malicious people exist) - Directory Confusion. The game expects a C:/ drive on your PC. Navigating to your Music folder takes slightly longer than expected, but your root directory is located under Z:/ in the game's directory menu. Check Z:/home/[USERNAME]/Music. - Archaic game engine. This game uses Quest3D as its engine, which is unstable, unsupported, and fairly locked down. Don't expect to be able to do much modding. The second game was built in Unity, so if you want modding go with that one. Overall, it's fine. Not one of my favorite games of all time, but I enjoy it nonetheless. It was obviously made with passion, and I'm just a sucker for rhythm games that let me use my own music library. I'd give it around a 7/10