Games

It's time to play! The open source world has lots of pc games with unique features. Go ahead. Discover!

Recommended games

The main projects - check their websites and download!

UltraStar Play / Melody Mania

UltraStar Deluxe goes Unity Engine

GitHub / Trailer

Song format v1.1.0 ✅

Vocaluxe

UltraStar Deluxe goes C# (Visual Studio)

GitHub / Trailer

Song format v1.1.0 ❌

Performous

The All-In-One Music game for singing, instruments and dancing in C++

GitHub / Gameplay Demo

Song format v1.1.0 ✅

UltraStar Deluxe

A classic - the well known fork from 2008 that uses old PASCAL coding

GitHub

Song format v1.1.0 ❌

Allkaraoke

Singstar inspired karaoke game for browser

GitHub

Song format v1.1.0 ✅

The game projects above support our goal and co-operate with each other. In future they will have common rules in song format. Most of them have made their code puplic (open source). We recommend using them.

Mind that these games are all delivered without songs. You may find third-party providers that provide content seperately from games. Always consider the copyright laws in your country.

Why open music games?

Commercial games shut down if there's not enough revenue. Or just new consoles coming out. You loose all the songs you bought when changing the device. With open music games you can keep your collection over time because they can evolve with the future as long as it has a contributing community behind it.

Cause open source software is free it can also powering other new projects. For instance: If you support performous maybe a dj-music game can evolve in future based on performous code.

Other karoke projects

You may also like these singing games.

UltraStar

The original from 2005 in old PASCAL coding

Song format standard ❌

UltraStar World Party

The spanish community fork of UltraStar Deluxe in old PASCAL coding

Song format standard ❌

These game projects do actively not co-operate with us. They don't reacted or even declined invitiation without reasoning. It's okay if everyone do their own thing. But we hope they have a change of heart. Original UltraStar is not open source anymore. Both games do not support the new song format standard.

Band and dance Games

Aside from singing these open source pc games are also recommendable.

YARG

Band Game written in C#/Unity Engine

GitHub

StepMania

Classic Dancepad Game written in C++

GitHub

Due to capacity issues we didn't contacted StepMania and YARG yet. But there are plans for exchange in 2025 cause there seems to be intersections between all games especially in song formats.

Besides the listed projects there are the band games PHASE SHIFT and Clone Hero (made with Unity Engine). But they are closed source and seem to stay that for a long time.