Stage Tour Game

How Stage Tour plays

Coloured notes scroll down a note highway in time with the song. You hit them on a plastic instrument: hold the matching fret buttons and strum on a guitar, hit the pads and kick pedal on a drum kit, or match pitch and timing on a microphone. Hit them well and the song keeps playing; miss too many and you fail out.

Every song can be played on six instrument types, each on Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert:

• Lead: the melody, usually lead guitar (sometimes keys, synths or horns).
• Groove: the backing part, usually bass or rhythm guitar.
• Drums: four pads and a kick pedal. Pro Drums adds cymbals; some songs have Expert+ for two kick pedals.
• Vocals: sing with a microphone, scored on pitch and timing.
• Arcade 4-Lane and 5-Lane: the whole band on one note highway, made for a normal gamepad or keyboard.

Game modes

• Quickplay: pick a song, instrument and difficulty and play, solo or with up to four players locally or online.
• Judgements: Quickplay with accuracy scoring: Perfect, Great, Good and Okay hits, up to 1,000,000 points.
• Karaoke: a relaxed vocals mode with the original vocals removed; you cannot fail and only timing is judged.
• Tour: a single-player roguelite run of 15 songs in five sets, from small stages to arenas, built around Effect Pedals you collect. Guitar and gamepad only at launch.
• Practice: rehearse sections of a song before you play it for real.