MusicIcon (BETA)

A music career simulator where you start from nothing and try to become a legend.

You make music. You pick your genre. You fight for chart spots. Some weeks you'll be broke and working a day job to keep the lights on. Other weeks you'll be touring arenas and watching your streams climb into the millions.

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What you actually do

Make music— Pick your genre (hip-hop, pop, rock, electronic, R&B, or country), hire producers and songwriters (or don't, if you're broke or skilled enough to do it on your own), choose how much effort to put in, and release singles, EPs, and albums. Song quality matters. So does timing.

Climb the charts — There's a weekly Top 50 streaming chart and a Billboard 100 album chart. You're competing against AI artists who release their own music, chart, and evolve over time. Getting a #1 is hard. Staying there is harder.

Tour the world — Start in dive bars, work your way up to clubs, theaters, arenas, and stadiums. Tour across the US, Canada, UK, Japan, Brazil, and more. Each country has its own venues. Touring drains your energy but builds your fanbase and pays well.

Sign to a label (or don't) — Labels come knocking as you grow. Negotiate your advance, royalty split, creative control, and release obligations. Indie labels give you freedom. Majors give you reach. All of them take a cut.

Manage your life — You have energy, and everything costs some. Upgrade your housing from a shared room to a penthouse. Pick your diet. Burnout is real. If you go broke, you're working survival gigs just to eat.

Go viral — The algorithm is always running. Consistency helps. New releases get boosted. Sometimes a song just catches fire and everything changes overnight.

Win awards — Annual award ceremonies for Best Song, Best Album, and Best New Artist. Getting nominated feels good. Winning feels better.

Shoot music videos, run marketing campaigns, land brand deals, get feature requests from other artists, earn gold/platinum/diamond certifications — there's a lot going on.

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Free. Actually free.

MusicIcon is completely free. No microtransactions, no DLC, no "premium edition." The full game, all the content, forever. This is my first proper game release and I just want people to play it.

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Install

Windows:

1. Download the Windows file

2. Install

3. Play

Mac:

1. Download the ARM.dmg (Apple Silicon) or x64.dmg (Intel Mac)

2. Drag to Applications from the DMG

3. On first launch, macOS will say the app is "damaged" — this is an Apple thing with unsigned apps, not an actual problem. Open Terminal and run:

xattr -cr /Applications/musicicon.app  

(I promise this is a safe command and is usual for running unsigned apps on MacOS, but please search the internet and research before running, do not just trust me blindly!)

4. Open the app again and it'll work

Hilariously I made the whole game on Mac and I still get blocked :(