The open source world has many pc games with unique features. Go ahead and discover!
Sing And
karaoke
Games
Melody Mania
Melody Mania is probably the most thoroughly developed game in our ecosystem. It is a commercial fork of UltraStar Play to finance UltraStar Play development and was started in 2021 by solo developer Andreas from Germany.
Technology behind is the mighty Unity engine and C#. Melody Mania fully supports official UltraStar Song Format v1. We highly recommend it for casual players.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOs
Tune Perfect
Our new hope. Tune Perfect is a young karaoke game for browser made with TAURI and RUST. Its official first release will be in 2025.
This is one of the promising projects that go the web technology way. It supports smartphones plus the official song format v1 and you can already play a party mode as well. Developer is German web programmer Nico. We like the minimalist UI and support the project 100%.
Platforms: Windows, Linux and Mac
AllKaraoke
The hidden champion. We know the UI is underwhelming, but the technology is not! This Singstar inspired karaoke game for browser could be the revolution we’re waiting for.
Allkaraoke allows you to directly stream from Youtube and flawlessly connects any smartphone or mic with your browser. Developer Aleksander from Poland made it with TYPESCRIPT in 2022. And the communities just missed it.
Platforms: Any common web browser like Chrome or Edge
UltraStar Play
Ready for the future? UltraStar Play is the modern successor of UltraStar Deluxe. In 2020 it was meant to be a 1-1 re-build with the very famous Unity game engine based on C#.
The new big version of June 2025 v1.5.1 provides online mode and tournament mode. It’s the best time to try it out or to contribute. Stay tuned!
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android
Vocaluxe
Our cherished Vocaluxe is the original successor to UltraStar Deluxe started in May 2011. The developers wanted to bring open source singing games on a sustainable technology. The game turned out to be a rewrite from scratch, written in C# with MS Visual Studio.
Today Vocaluxe is still popular for it’s song selection screen and re-design in 2024. But we evaluate it as legacy game by then because of deprecated and complex code.
Platforms: Windows
UltraStar Deluxe
The classic. UltraStar Deluxe cloned PS3 SingStar in 2008 for the PC. And did this so good that singers still play it today after 16 years.
It may be still the most well known sing game. But it’s time to say goodbye. The original team quit long ago and no developer uses PASCAL code anymore.
We keep the love going with modern games. Promise!
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
United by one format
All six sing game projects support our goal and co-operate with each other. They share a common song format: the UltraStar Song Format. Most of them even made their code public. We recommend using them.
Mind that all games are delivered without songs. You may find third-party providers that provide content separately from games as “UltraStar Songs”. Always consider the copyright laws in your country.
All games compared
Every game has its own advantage. We try to unite and consolidate them as good as possible.
There are so many games because the technology and the platforms are so diverse. And some solo-devs simply don’t know all the games and their history.
Band And
Dance
Games
YARG
YARG is a highly ambitious open source band game started in 2021 that you definitely should play as rockband or guitar hero fan. You can rock guitar, keys, vocals, bass or drums.
The game is written in C# (Unity Engine) mainly by developer “EliteAsian” and supports lots of formats like .chart .mid .sng and CON.
Absolute highlight is the legal safety. No copyright infringements like in Clone Hero. And the developer team “YARC” even provides legally licensed song packages.
Platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux
StepMania
StepMania is a cross-platform dancepad video game with custom songs. It was originally developed in 2000 with C++ as a clone of Konami’s arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution.
Since then it has evolved into an extensible rhythm game engine capable of supporting a variety of rhythm-based game types. It supports SSC and SM dance format.
Platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux
Performous
The All-In-One Music game for singing, instruments and dancing – that’s Performous. If you want a free community-driven project that mix band and dance game together this is it.
The game was first released in 2006 and is written in evergreen code C++. It supports UltraStar song format v1 and many more formats. Today the project is still in development and the team is working on a more modern Look & Feel.
Platforms: Windows and Linux
Why open music games?
Big 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 like UltraStar Play or Tune Perfect you can keep your collection over time because they can evolve with the future as long as it has a contributing community behind it.
Other karaoke projects
These game projects rejected co-operation with us. 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.
Game
UltraStar
The original from 2005 made with PASCAL code and re-started in 2020
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Game
UltraStar World Party
The spanish community fork of UltraStar Deluxe in old PASCAL code from 2013
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