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A dysfunctional three-piece band enters a lethal music contest, using customizable turn-based battles to fight its way out.
Released 08 Aug 2023
Fight With Music
Kick Down Doors
Customize Band Classes
The party-based RPG where you kick down doors and fight with music as a 3-piece band of idiots.
Developed by Deathbulge, Five Houses LLC · Published by Deathbulge, Five Houses LLC






Play as Faye, Ian, and Briff, a band of friends drawn into a cursed battle-of-the-bands contest where music has fighting power and losing can be fatal.
Explore colorful areas, meet eccentric characters, take on side gigs, and choose when to engage enemies visible on the map. Field abilities can help you avoid encounters, and kicking down doors is part of the band’s approach to exploration.
Combat combines turn-based actions with a moving measure bar that can be changed by attacks and status effects. Customize the band with musical classes, abilities, and battle-jacket patches; items share a refillable stock resource rather than needing individual supplies.
Players often praise the unusual turn-based combat and its tactical turn-bar system, along with the funny writing, distinctive characters, and memorable soundtrack. Many also enjoy experimenting with different builds and exploring the game’s detailed world. Some reviews find later combat repetitive or slow, and a smaller number mention tedious backtracking or difficulty spikes.
You play as Faye, Ian and Briff, a 3-piece band of dysfunctional friends who unknowingly stumble into a cursed battle of the bands contest, where all entrants can attack with music and must fight to the death.
Kick down every single door you come across. If you're gonna rudely enter every RPG house despite lack of invite, might as well enter in style.
Customise the band with 9 musically-themed classes to choose from, each with their own attacks, perks and COOL OUTFIT. Inspire your bandmates as a BUSKER or recklessly deal huge damage at the cost of damaging yourself as a HEADBANGER.
Fancy combat system that focuses on MEASURE EFFECTS. What happens BETWEEN turns makes all the difference, combining real-time elements with turn-based combat in a way that we're ALMOST CERTAIN has never been done before. (It's been over a year since release and no one's said otherwise yet!)
Other features:
Roughly 15-20 hours of game time.
Late game dating segment.
Sew patches of band logos onto your BATTLE JACKET for extra perks in battle.
No Random Encounters! Monsters will be shown on the field for your avoiding leisure, and 3 different FIELD ABILITIES with which to avoid them.
Unique item system. Say good bye to individually stocking up on consumable items! Once you get a piece of MERCH, you keep it forever, and it simply costs STOCK to use, a refillable global resource for all your merch.
Original soundtrack that'll make you say things like SIIICK and OH RIGHT ON.
Incredibly rich world boasting a wide variety of colourful characters whose dialogue changes as you progress through the game. Every single NPC is unique, armed with their own dialogue portaits to express themselves TO THE MAX.
Even the ITEMS have personality. Say bye bye to the generic "health potion". Local NPC Barry Friendly is taking care of the soothing beverages around here. Sink into a warm cup of BARRY FRIENDLY'S TEA whenever your health is low. Maybe you'll even have the pleasure of meeting Barry at some point.


| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 24 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |