Musical games

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In musical games players create music or do actions based on played music.

List of Musical games[edit]

This is a list of free/libre musical games:



Game Screenshot Last Release Genres Description
Transcend Transcend 0.3 shot small.png 2006-08-30 Arcade/shooter, music
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Transcend
Transcend 0.3 shot small.png
Level 1, in windowed mode.
(more screenshots)
GenresArcade/shooter, music
Latest release0.3  (Announcement)
Release dateAugust 30th, 2006
DeveloperJason Rohrer
Code licensesGPL, public domain
Media licenseGPL
P. languagesC++, Dia
LibrariesGLUT PortAudio, X
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Transcend is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Transcend is an abstract 2D shooter game created by Jason Rohrer. The game's source is licensed mostly under the GPL, but with some public domain code as well.[1] The latest version is 0.3 released on August 30, 2005.[2] Rohrer was motivated to create the game out of frustration with the game industry's lack of creativity.

Its dynamic graphical engine can smoothly morph from one complex shape to another.

Frets on Fire Frets On Fire 4.jpg 2008-11-04 Musical
Frets on Fire
Frets On Fire 4.jpg
GenreMusical
Latest release1.3.110  (Announcement)
Release dateNovember 4th, 2008
DevelopersJoonas Kerttula, Sami Kyöstilä, and Tommi Inkilä
Media licenseOfficial songs is non-free.
P. languagePython
LibrarySimple DirectMedia Layer, Pygame
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Frets on Fire is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.
Available as a package in:  
OpenSUSE Logo.svg OpenSUSE: fretsonfire

Frets on Fire is a musical game where you must play a guitar as accurately as possible. The latest version of the game is 1.3.110 released on November 4, 2008.[3] It was created for the Assembly 2006 Game Development Competition; in which Frets on Fire won.[4] It used the SDL library and was written in the Python programming language.[5]

Performous Performous.png 2024-02-09 karaoke, guitar, bass, drums, dance
Performous
Performous.png
Genrekaraoke, guitar, bass, drums, dance
Latest release1.3.1  (Announcement)
Release dateFebruary 9th, 2024
Code licenseGPL
Media licenseGPL
P. languageC++
LibrariesSDL, PortAudio, OpenGL
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Performous is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.
Available as a package in:  
Openlogo-debianV2.svg Debian: performous  
Gentoo Linux logo matte.svg Gentoo: games-arcade/performous 
UbuntuCoF.svg Ubuntu: performous

Performous (formerly UltraStar-NG)[6] is a karaoke game inspired by SingStar released under the GNU GPL 2+. Version 0.4.0 introduced guitar, bass and drum features and 0.5.0 saw the addition of dance game component.

The game is written in the C++ programming language and from version 0.3.0 onwards uses OpenGL for graphics.

The main game package does not include any songs, like a player does not include any music, but there are various liberally licensed songs available from the homepage.

Auralquiz Auralquiz.png 2017-05-11 Musical, memory
Auralquiz
Auralquiz.png
Auralquiz
GenreMusical, memory
Latest release1.0.0  (Announcement)
Release dateMay 11th, 2017
DeveloperJan Kusanagi
Code licenseGNU GPL v2+ [7]
Media licenseGNU GPL v2+[7]
P. languageC++
Libraryqt
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Auralquiz is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Auralquiz is a music guessing game, which plays samples from the user’s sound file library, and lets the user guess (choose or type in) the artist or title from the file tags.

StepMania StepMania.png 2016-08-14 Musical
StepMania
StepMania.png
StepMania
GenreMusical
Latest release5.0.12  (Announcement)
Release dateAugust 14th, 2016
Code licenseMIT[8]
Media licenseMIT[9]
P. languageC++
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StepMania is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

StepMania is a dancing game inspired by Dance Dance Revolution. They do not host any songs but you can find many in the forums.

BeepSaber no image 2021-04-13 Musical
Godot Beep Saber VR
GenreMusical
Latest release0.3.1  (Announcement)
Release dateApril 13th, 2021
DevelopersHolger Dammertz
EnginesGodot
P. languagePython
LibrarySimple DirectMedia Layer, Pygame
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Godot Beep Saber VR is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.
Available as a package in:  
OpenSUSE Logo.svg OpenSUSE: beepsaber

BeepSaber is a musical game where you must cut BeepCubes with lightsabers. The game requires a VR headset and is currently being ported to Godot4.



  1. ↑ Copyright file for Transcend at Debian packages
  2. ↑ Homepage for Transcend
  3. ↑ Sourceforge.net download page for Frets on Fire project
  4. ↑ About page for Frets on Fire
  5. ↑ Frets on Fire's sourceforge.net project page
  6. ↑ Performous: A Challenging and Fun Karaoke Software for Linux, an October 2009 blog post by Jun Auza
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 license
  8. ↑ Licenses.txt at Github
  9. ↑ smtheme-fiftyOne
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