Headliner
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From garage
to arena.

Grow your home town's music scene, train a crew of fans and send your band to battles of the bands to win over rival towns. A light multiplayer strategy game you play in a few minutes, a few times a day. Your town keeps playing while you're away.

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PHONE AND BROWSER · INSTALLS ON YOUR PHONE · APP STORES LATER

Headliner key art: a band on a lit stage in front of a packed crowd

Watch your venue grow

ONE MAIN VENUE · 12 LEVELS · 4 LOOKS
The garage venue
GarageLEVEL 1 TO 3
The club venue
ClubLEVEL 4 TO 6
The theater venue
TheaterLEVEL 7 TO 9
The arena venue
ArenaLEVEL 10 TO 12
THE GAME IN THREE BEATS

Build. Recruit. Win the crowd.

It plays like the classic browser strategy games: build, gather, attack, ally. But it's paced like an idle game, so there's always something finished waiting when you come back.

01LIVE
Your home town with open building lots around the main venue

Build your scene

Level your main venue from garage to arena. Fill your lots with a Music School, Merch Stand, Gear Locker and more. There's always one more building than lots, so every town ends up with its own style.

02ROCKSTARS COMING

Recruit your rockstars

Gear up your band and train a crew of fans: Moshers, Security, Roadies and Hype Crew. Next up: collectible rockstars with their own styles, likes and chemistry, combined into lineups.

03LIVE
A cheering crowd after a won battle of the bands

Win the crowd

Send your band on tour to rival towns, camps and silent towns. Attacks are gigs and your army is your fans. You don't destroy towns: you win their crowd and bring the loot home.

Four things to gather

FansYour crowd and crew
CashFrom the Merch Stand
GearFrom the Gear Locker
BuzzRevives silent towns

A visit takes 2 to 5 minutes

  1. 1Collect what finished while you were away.
  2. 2Queue the next upgrades and training.
  3. 3Send a band on tour, then close the app. The show goes on.
ROCKSTARS COMING SOON

Meet the rockstars

Every rockstar has a role, a signature move and things they love. Put night owls together and they play tighter. Put a night owl next to an early bird and, well, you'll hear it.

Meet all ten
Juno Blackwood with a guitar5 STAR · SEASON 2

Juno Blackwood

Guitar · farmhouse bedroom genius
IndiePunk
Rook Thunderhand behind the drums5 STAR · SEASON 2

Rook Thunderhand

Drums · drives the tour bus himself
PunkMetal
Vex Marrow at the microphone5 STAR · SEASON 1

Vex Marrow

Vocals · opera singer turned doom-metal frontwoman
MetalBallad
DJ Halcyon at the decks5 STAR · SEASON 1

DJ Halcyon

Keys/DJ · learned on turntables he fixed himself
Hip-hopPop
ALSO ON THE BILL (4 STAR) Mags Ferrante · Bass Theo Lark · Vocals Pixel Ruiz · Keys/DJ Odette Vance · Guitar Kofi Mensah-Byrne · Drums Wren Castillo · Bass
HOW BATTLES WORK

Three songs. Best of three wins the crowd.

When your tour arrives, your band plays a three-song set against theirs. Your Moshers and your band's performance push the crowd your way; their Security and home crowd push back. Every song has a little luck in it, so the stronger band usually wins, but never always.

SONG1
Magic moment: a perfect soloYOU TAKE IT
YOU 64THEM 36
SONG2
Mishap: the amp blew a fuseTHEY TAKE IT
YOU 42THEM 58
No spare fuses in the kit bag. Next time.
SONG3
Magic moment: the whole crowd sings the chorusYOU TAKE IT
YOU 71THEM 29
A snapped string in the bridge, saved by the spare strings you packed.
Winning band on stage with the crowd cheering
2 - 1 Crowd won

The battle report reads like a gig: the setlist, a crowd meter per song, mishaps and moments, loot, fans won and who's resting.

Mishaps happen

A snapped string. Forgotten sticks. A lost voice. A blown fuse. Any song can go sideways.

Pack the kit bag

Spare strings, sticks taped to the hands, tea and honey, spare fuses, gaffer tape, a laminated setlist. The right item cancels a mishap.

Magic moments

A perfect solo, a stage dive that lands, a chorus the whole room sings. Charisma makes them more likely.

Losses sting, softly

Lost units mostly burn out and rest in your Green Room, and many come back. You always keep something.

PLAY FAIR

No bullies on this tour.

Headliner is built so that picking on smaller players is pointless. Climb by playing people your size.

ALL ACCESS Home town protected
  • Nobody can take your home town.It can be raided, never taken over, and it never drops far below its best.
  • Punching down pays nothing.Hit a much smaller player and you get less loot, no fans and no ranking points.
  • The underdog crowd rallies.Much bigger attackers face a home crowd that fights back harder.
  • Raided too often? You sell out.Repeat raids pay less each time, then the town is shielded for a while.
  • Your first week is protected.Learn the ropes before anyone can come knocking.
  • No fake urgency. No guilt trips.Nothing wipes you out overnight. Come back when you like.
SEASONS NOW · LABELS AND FESTIVALS COMING

Every season is a world tour.

Each world runs about ten weeks, then a fresh map opens. Your achievements and cosmetics come with you. Soon you'll team up with friends in a label and take the legendary venues at the edge of the map in timed festivals.

ADMIT ONE LABEL Festival season COMING
Madison Hall
Madison Hall
The Colosseum Bowl
The Colosseum Bowl
Red Rocks Canyon Stage
Red Rocks Canyon Stage
Harbour Opera Shell
Harbour Opera Shell
The Field of Mud
The Field of Mud
AUDITIONS · IN DEVELOPMENT

Earned on stage. Never sold.

Rockstars will join your roster through auditions. Auditions cost Encore tokens, and you only get tokens by playing. There is no buy button. Not now, not later.

Read the audition rules

How you earn tokens

  • Winning fair fights
  • Reviving silent towns
  • Reaching Fame milestones
  • A daily check-in

Guarantees, in public

10A 4 star at least every 10 auditions
90A 5 star by the 90th at the latest

Duplicates help

A rockstar you already have becomes an Encore upgrade, up to E6.

Or take the slow road

Scout local talent at your Rehearsal Studio: a guaranteed 4 star of the role you pick.

DOORS ARE OPEN

Your garage is waiting.

Name your town, name your band and play your first show in a couple of minutes. Headliner runs in any browser and installs on your phone from there.

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