Suppose again to the 90s. I wasn’t alive throughout it, however I’ve listened to sufficient Nirvana and performed sufficient of the Nintendo 64 — and not using a cell phone in sight — to think about what it’d’ve been like. I do know that this period of extra and lots was the time that video video games exploded in recognition and made obscene technological developments, when dressing up in neon colors and unhealthy haircuts have been deemed a hell of much more modern than it’s now, and when the music was nice. 90s nostalgia is actual, and even at the moment the love for its music, specifically, lives on.
Suppose Weezer, Crimson Sizzling Chilli Peppers, and Beastie Boys. Metallica, Motley Crue. Pavement, Sonic Youth. The 90s noticed Oasis launch Wonderwall, for God’s sake. The music that can fairly actually by no means die, irrespective of how many people are uninterested in listening to it performed at any bar throughout the north of England every weekend. God forbid somebody breaks out a guitar at a celebration.
Rockbeasts — which I used to be briefly proven throughout Team17’s Showcase final in late February 2025 — is an upcoming sport developed by Lichthund that harkens again to the period of different music and unhealthy haircuts, tasking you with changing into the supervisor of an upcoming rock-and-roll band and serving to them skyrocket to fame. Or aiding them with changing into full sellouts. Your name.
As a administration simulator, you possibly can anticipate to must handle the band’s time; when (and if) they eat, rehearse, carry out publicly, and so forth. However you can even anticipate to get to know your band, and the entire different 100+ wacky characters they are going to run into on their journey to the highest (or backside), on a a lot deeper stage.
This solid, which consists of all types of anthropomorphic animals that any Bojack Horseman fan will drool over (together with a bass-playing sea bass, in fact), boasts an look from The Stooges’ Iggy Pop, in addition to a variety of voice actors from Baldur’s Gate 3, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Alan Wake 2.
The sport doesn’t look to draw back from the darkish underbelly of rock ‘n’ roll stardom within the 90s, both – with cutthroat, comedic dialogue that doesn’t dial down the swearing. Very like its visible model, dialogue takes inspiration from grownup cartoons similar to Beavis and Butthead, Daria, Bob’s Burgers, and even Household Man. So you possibly can think about the kind of humour that the sport goes for.
Whereas we didn’t get a lot of a take a look at it throughout our time with the sport, Lichthund did allude to life as a rock band supervisor not being all sunshine and roses. It appears as if there’s extra to Rockbeasts that merely conserving your band in line and touchdown them larger exhibits; there’ll little doubt be battle and controversy — maybe inside the band itself, in addition to from exterior forces — to handle within the raging capitalist society of the 90s, all a part of your band’s ascent to fame.
I actually anticipate my band to get booed off stage greater than as soon as, that’s for positive, and I think that’s not even the start of issues that might go mistaken for a rock band supervisor in Rockbeasts…
Rockbeasts is predicted to launch in 2025.
