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Rising Star 2

Gilligames · 2020-08-12

Steam

IndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 12, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 12, 2020 (Mac)

Start a band, and take on the world in this music industry simulation/role-playing game. Success doesn't come without hard work, and making connections in your local music scene is the only path to stardom.

23
playing now
94%
positive of 689 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

23 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 23 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 42 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 57% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 689 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2025-08-04)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
363620202026Week of 2020-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2692026-08-12 04:00 — 13 players2026-08-12 20:00 — 20 players2026-08-13 11:00 — 14 players2026-08-14 03:00 — 9 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 10 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 21 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 26 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 22 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 18 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 16 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 11 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 17 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 13 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 18 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 24 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 13 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 12 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 16 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 13 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 9 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 14 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 14 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 18 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 25 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 23 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$1.992020-08-122026-07-092020-08-12 — best price $29.992020-12-01 — best price $29.992021-01-05 — best price $29.992021-02-15 — best price $29.992021-03-22 — best price $29.992021-05-10 — best price $29.992021-05-31 — best price $29.992021-07-08 — best price $29.992021-08-17 — best price $29.992021-10-03 — best price $29.992021-11-01 — best price $29.992021-12-01 — best price $29.992022-01-05 — best price $29.992022-02-03 — best price $29.992022-04-04 — best price $29.992022-07-07 — best price $29.992022-08-15 — best price $29.992022-11-29 — best price $29.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-07-13 — best price $29.992023-11-28 — best price $29.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-01-15 — best price $29.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $9.992025-08-04 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.6%
earned "It's...a Song"
53.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing4 DLC

6 supported languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3130%129

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DRPGIndieMusicRetroEconomyRealisticManagementOpen WorldRock Music

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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