The browser-based musician life sim

From nothing.To the top.

From a street corner to a sold-out stadium — every choice is yours.

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Develop Skills

Practise, take lessons and turn raw talent into real musical ability.

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Play Music

Start small with busking and build towards gigs, venues and much bigger stages.

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Earn a Living

Find work, manage your time and money, and keep the musical dream alive.

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Find a Home

Move from rough accommodation towards safer, more comfortable places to live.

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Build Fame

Grow from complete unknown to a recognised artist as your career develops.

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Make It Big

Release music, climb the charts and chase the biggest achievements in music.

Development status

A musician's life, one hour at a time.

Rock 2 The Top is actively being developed. The core life-simulation systems are already taking shape, with the music career itself expanding on top of that foundation.

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✓ In The Game Now

  • Create your musician and choose a starting musical role
  • Talent, Charisma, Intelligence, Health and Energy
  • 24-hour calendar for planning each day
  • Sleep and Rest with housing-based recovery and disrupted-sleep events
  • Practise primary and secondary musical skills, with housing affecting effectiveness
  • Music teachers, lessons, venues and appointment booking
  • Jobs, applications, interviews, offers, shifts, workload and quitting
  • Dynamic job vacancy market with contract and working-pattern details
  • Housing with costs, Comfort, Safety, rent, eviction and hardship consequences
  • Health, illness, injury, exhaustion and enforced recovery
  • Buy and use musical equipment with Quality, Condition and wear
  • Busk for money, experience and early exposure
  • Write songs, build a catalogue and refine completed material
  • Record demos and commercial versions at home or in studios
  • Find gig opportunities, book performances, perform and receive reviews
  • Find bands through adverts and attend role-specific auditions
  • Form your own band and advertise for specific musicians
  • Persistent NPC musicians can respond to recruitment adverts and attend scheduled auditions
  • Band rehearsals develop Tightness, repertoire and relationships between members
  • Personal Affinity and Professional Respect shape persistent relationships between bandmates
  • Busk with a bandmate, share the earnings and let the experience affect your relationship
  • Go to local gigs with a bandmate for shared experiences, inspiration, discoveries and music-scene networking
  • Meet recurring musicians through busking, build relationships and discover useful local knowledge
  • Persistent People and portraits keep recurring musicians recognisable across the game
  • NPC musicians can write songs, vote on band material and pursue activity independently
  • Songs have deeper personalities including Catchiness, Longevity, Originality and Live Appeal alongside Quality
  • Send demos and receive delayed feedback, including early promoter interaction
  • News feed reporting the musician's developing life and career
  • Release finished recordings as singles with persistent release histories
  • Daily streams, sales, revenue, fans, Fame and release momentum
  • A weekly Singles Chart where player releases compete directly with AI artists

◷ Coming Next

  • Deeper friendships, rivalries, band chemistry, creative disagreements, departures and evolving musical identity
  • More organic collaboration and shared experiences between recurring musicians
  • Expand releases beyond singles into EPs and albums with richer promotion and persistent catalogues
  • Add the Albums Chart and deepen chart lifecycles, movement, re-entry and long-term history
  • Promotion, radio, press, reviews, interviews, music videos and an evolving music media world
  • Expand the emerging promoter/contact system into managers, agents, producers, publishers and record labels
  • Touring, travel, support slots, festivals and progressively larger venues
  • Gear repairs, specialist equipment, home rehearsal rooms and recording-studio upgrades
  • A living AI music industry where artists form bands, release music, chart, split, reform and go solo
  • Career history, milestones, awards, comebacks, legacy careers and longer-term multiplayer possibilities

Roadmap

September 2026 Core life systems plus jobs, housing, Health, practice, lessons, songs, recording and early live performance.
Autumn 2026 Deepen the now-live relationship and collaboration systems, releases, demos, Fame, fans and the connected music-career progression loop.
Q4 2026 Deepen the live Singles Chart and release systems, add richer song lifecycles, audience growth, industry contacts, AI careers, integration, balancing and wider playtesting.
By 31 December 2026 Target: public playable beta.
2027 & Beyond Touring, a deeper living music industry, long-term careers, legacy systems, more content and multiplayer possibilities.
Current target: Playable beta by the end of 2026.
Development targets may move as systems are tested and expanded.
The long game

From a dingy bedsit to a sold-out stadium.

The aim is not simply to click a button and become famous. Your musician has only 24 hours in a day. Work pays the bills but consumes time and Energy. Better housing helps you recover and practise. Lessons cost money. Musical ability takes time to develop. Songs, gigs, recording, relationships, band commitments and nights out in the local music scene already compete for those same resources. Releases, demos, charts, fans, the Singles Chart and audience growth add another layer; albums, touring and a wider simulated music industry will expand it further.

You might become a virtuoso nobody, a chart star with modest musical ability, a successful songwriter, a working session musician, a band leader — or somehow make it all the way to music legend.

Built in public

The stage is still being built.

Rock 2 The Top is currently in active development, so features, balance and presentation will continue to change. The immediate goal is a complete, enjoyable single-player career that can be played from struggling beginner through to genuine music success.

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