Road to Headliner

Run a band's whole career, right in your browser

Road to Headliner is a persistent, multiplayer music-career game. You start a band from nothing and manage every part of the climb: recruiting musicians, writing and recording songs in the studio, booking gigs and full tours, growing a fanbase, keeping the finances in the black, and competing across leagues, divisions, seasons, and festivals in a shared world that keeps running whether you are online or not.

Deep systems, one simple goal: headline the biggest stage

Every part of running a band is something you manage, and every decision feeds back into a living economy.

🎸 Build your band

Recruit musicians and staff, keep an eye on morale, cohesion and fatigue, and shape a lineup that can go the distance.

🎵 Write & record

Rehearse, cut demos, and record singles and releases in the studio. Your catalog is your career.

🎤 Play live

Book shows across dozens of venues, grow your fanbase, and earn the cash and buzz to level up.

🚌 Go on tour

Route full tours across 87 cities in 13 regions, juggling logistics, costs, and momentum.

📣 Market & grow

Run campaigns, land sponsors, sell merch, and turn casual listeners into a loyal fanbase.

🏆 Compete

Climb leagues and divisions, survive promotion and relegation, and fight for festival slots every season.

Modern, deep, and actually free

The music-career genre is thin, and most of what exists is either dated or hidden behind a paywall. Road to Headliner is built the other way around.

Inside the game

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One person, no studio

MK

Hi, I'm Michal Kralovic, a Slovak developer and marketer, currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

I've loved music since I was a kid, and I actually learned the drums and stuck with them for years. Here's the honest part: I'm still not a good musician. So instead of chasing a stage of my own, I did the next best thing and built a whole world where anyone else can chase one. That idea rattled around in my head for more than 15 years before I finally sat down and made it myself, on a modern web stack.

Road to Headliner is a passion project first and foremost: a game I always wanted to play, made free for anyone who wants the same. I pay for the server and all the infrastructure costs out of my own pocket, and I build it in my free time on evenings and weekends. I don't make a cent from it. No ads, no subscription, no pay-to-win.

Interviews are welcome. You can reach me directly at [email protected].

A production MMO, built and run by one person

The interesting part for a technical audience is that one person built and runs the whole thing: a live multiplayer system with seasons, a real in-game economy, and a persistent world that keeps ticking around the clock, on a modern stack. Happy to talk through how it works.

The essentials

Logos & assets

The logo comes as a horizontal lockup and a stacked version, plus the standalone icon. Right-click and save, or open and download.

Need a specific asset, a higher-resolution image, a gameplay clip, or a review walkthrough? Email [email protected] and it will be sent over.

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