Build Songs Together, Then Play Them as Levels. Vibe Together, a Multiplayer Music Playground, Coming to Steam
Solo developer The Music Unc reveals today Vibe Together, a multiplayer music-making game coming to Steam and browsers that has been 3+ years in the making. Players can build songs in a new visual interface with friends, then play their creations in different game modes. The core idea is that making music should be accessible to everyone and feel more like playing a game than operating production software. The Steam page is open for wishlists.
Instead of arranging clips on a timeline, players build together in a shared space of placed nodes and connections. Music is visualized: rhythm is defined by the distance between objects, and pitch is shown by color. Signals travel along the connections, triggering beats and melodies as they reach each node. Players can see how their song works and reshape it while it plays, alone or with up to seven other people.
Anyone can make amazing music in this visual music sandbox, as a procedural music system with a music-theory core that follows scales, keys, and chord progressions is built in. Everyone can make a banger, and the player is always in control of the composition!
Any song made or discovered in Vibe Together can become a level in a variety of arcade modes. Just like a playground, you can choose the music experience that speaks to you from roguelikes to rhythm games. One turns the song's instruments into projectiles to defend you, while another turns the song into a set of obstacles to dodge on the beat. Defend the Vibe and Ride the Vibe!
Friends join by link, or anyone can drop into a live lobby. Players can find their place in the community by publishing their work, discovering new music, remixing compositions, entering a weekly battle of the bands, or leaving comments as their DJ avatar. Each path has its own progression, whether you're here to create, listen, compete, connect, or play. Even the reveal trailer's soundtrack was built in the game [see/listen here]
The Music Unc team built Vibe Together over more than three years, starting with the procedural music system, then the synth engine, the non-linear sequencing system, and real-time multiplayer. It grew out of an earlier music automation game whose best part turned out to be the sandbox.
“My two biggest loves are music and indie games. Vibe Together was born by bringing those two loves together: a place where music making feels more like playing a game,” said The Music Unc. “Music in its earliest forms was all about community and celebration. Instead of prompting our creativity away, games are a path to bring those fundamentals back so the act of making music digitally is playful, social, and alive.”
A Steam demo is coming soon, with the Steam release date and price to follow, and it will include local sessions, controller support, Steam Deck support, and additional surprises. Make songs you can see, then play them!