As a rockstar, you collect loot, level up and destroy hotel rooms

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Rising Star 2 is an undiscovered gaming gem on Steam. The game is a mix of simulation and role-playing. You control a promising young musician and his band. You dream of big hits, collect particularly good instruments, level up and when your band threatens to break up, you wreak havoc in hotel rooms.

What is Rising Star 2? In Rising Star 2, you create a character and start in a city of your choice in the world. Your goal is to become a rock star.

You form a five-piece band with a drummer, guitarist, keyboardist, bassist and singer, start mowing the grass in your town’s park, set up a guitar case and play for pocket change.

But soon you’ll be able to travel the world, give concerts and trash hotel rooms. And write hits – oh, that one big hit that changes your life forever. If you play Rising Star 2, you’ll learn to dream about it.

Rising Star 2 is an undiscovered gaming gem on Steam

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Sweet Home Alabama or the 6 million city of Frankfurt

This is how Rising Star 2 begins: The game has grown like a service game over 4 years and has become more sophisticated and clever. The game has thought of many things:

  • You can of course start in a “big city” and try to make it there. But then the map is very large and it takes a long time to get from A to B. It then has maybe 6×6 trestles.
  • Or you can start like typical rock star legends do, somewhere in the countryside in Alabama, where the map only has 3×3 blocks and everything is already clear. You then work your way to one of the big centers of the music industry like Atlanta.
    • With 6 million inhabitants, Frankfurt is about 8 times bigger in Rising Star 2 than in reality. Rising Star 2 was created by an American.

    I spent 18 hours in Rising Star 2. In the first round I went to the big Frankfurt, but my hits “Bankfurt”, “Warum ist es am Rhein so schön” and “Offenbach” just didn’t work. In the second round I made my career in Sweet Home Alabama.

    To start with, you go to the local music store and look for musicians on the bulletin board. Not everyone wants to play with you – the more sophisticated amateur musicians have their demands.

    Then you mow the lawn at the local park for $250 and can jam there as a band for a change. This will bring in a little money for instruments and, above all, ideas and inspiration that you need for your first songs. But most of all, you will make a name for yourself in the city.

    Once you’ve cobbled together six songs in the studio of your bare little house, you can start playing at the local pub as the opening act for a band that’s already three or four rungs above you in the band hierarchy.

    Your first goal is to win a “Battle of the Bands” and then fame, fortune and the big city will beckon.

    The music business is simulated like a role-playing game

    This is what makes the game so appealing: Rising Star 2 depicts some of the pitfalls of the music business, but functions like a classic role-playing game:

  • You collect loot in the form of instruments, processors and amplifiers – you buy them in one of the countless music shops in every city.
  • There are consumable resources that you have to renew regularly, such as guitar strings or drumsticks.
  • You can take on smaller jobs (like quests) to earn your first money and have to deal with all kinds of problems.
    • Your version of the “Longsword +1” – a cool guitar.

    So there is the “ego” value of the band members. If it is high, the musician will be unhappy if your band does not play enough of his songs and will threaten to leave the band.

    One way to counteract this is to include the diva’s songs in your program, but you can also trash a hotel room. The more expensive the object that gets broken, the more inspiration you will get from it.

    Especially at the beginning, you can also earn good money by buying broken instruments cheaply, repairing them and selling them – or you can keep the best parts, which will give you various bonuses.

    Later you’ll have a manager who will book you tours, get you advertising deals and negotiate record contracts. But it’s a long way to go.

    Either a song is a hit or it isn’t – and most of the time it isn’t

    This is particularly clever: The songs are created using an abstract system, where a song is composed of four components that have to fit together like puzzle pieces. It is also important to always stay on trend and cover the topics that the audience wants to hear at the time.

    But quality alone is not enough to make it big. There is a hidden system in Rising Star 2 that ensures that, with a small chance, one of the 15 to 30 pieces of music you compose will have that “certain something” and be a hit. But it’s not really predictable – just like in real life.

    I’ve had two hits out of about 100 songs, one “big” and one smaller. The quality of the songs is not as important as the “buzz”.

    You can put out endless great songs, but only a few become hits and people dance along.

    Rising Star 2 offers a great learning curve and you will learn why it is important to destroy hotel rooms

    And that’s fun? Yes, very much so. On the one hand, Rising Star 2 is like a classic role-playing game and gives you the feeling that you are climbing the ranks, filling ever larger venues, earning ever more money, living in ever more ostentatious houses. But it is also a clever explanation of the music market and if you have played Rising Star 2, you will understand much more why…

  • Rockstars trash hotel rooms
  • Bands break up
  • some bands just have one hit and then never again

    • Rising Star 2 has a very satisfying learning curve. Everything in the game seems logical and makes sense. I kept finding myself thinking: Ah, clever idea.

    Undiscovered gaming gem on Steam

    How is the game received? Rising Star 2 is virtually unknown on Steam and has never had more than 107 players since its release in August 2020. But whoever discovers it is apparently happy with the game. The reviews are extremely positive at 95%.

    I spent 18 hours with the game in 2 days and for me it was worth the money.

    Rising Star 2 costs €20 on Steam – but there is also a free demo that lets you get a taste of Rockstar.

    Again and again we have discovered individual games on Steam on MeinMMO that have unjustly remained under the radar. In November 2023 we introduced you to Infestred Fortress: Nobody knows the new strategy game on Steam with a high risk of addiction – despite 92% positive reviews

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