Links to games outside of the wiki

This table presents all music-related games that were found on the internet. Additionally there are non-musical titles, if they are used somewhere on the wiki as a reference, or game-style components without specified rules (card decks, or sets of musical dice).

With non-musical omitted:
by title
by author
by availability
by year

Smaller tables by topic:

About Plagiarism in Games
Board Game Geek
Body Percussion
Dice
Inspire cards
Itch.io
Karaoke
Memory
Modular Synth and Studio
Notation Cards
Oblique Strategies
Rhythm game
RPG
Rule Cards
The Art of Adaptation
Tonic (Card Set)
Toy Instruments

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	Berridos	Paz Navarro Moreno	2019 sold	A game of quick reflexes and animal sounds.
	Cowlien		2023 sold	A limited communication card game where you "moo!" to give signals.
	Music Doctor Improv Cards and Picture Prompts	Jim Oshinsky	2021 sold	Educational cards with instructions on the fronts and images on the backs
	Sea Dracula	Jake Richmond Nick smith	2008 sold	A comedic RPG where as an animal-lawyer you may rap, sing, or dance.
	Ani Beee, Ani Meee	Federica Monzio Compagnoni	2023 sold	A game based on animal sounds themed around a band
	Rohema Groove Cubes		sold	A set of dice for drumming
	Igloo Pop	Heinz Meister Klaus Zoch	2003 rare	Listening to igloo-shaped maracas
	echoes: The Dancer	Matthew Dunstan Dave Neale	2022 sold	First in the series of "audio mystery games" solved through listening to samples
	Juego de Tonos	Agustín Lozano	2013 sold	A universal deck for musical activities based on pitch classes.
	Musical Casino:The Major-Minor Game	Carl W. Grimm	1910 rare	Notation cards for forming chords and hand management.
	Muzoracle	J. S. Kingfisher	rare	The Tarot of Music, a system with cards and dice
	Burmeister cards	Elam Rotem	2022 sold	Cards showcasing a theory from early music sources
	Ooga Booga	David Boniffacy Daniel Quodbach	2011 sold	A memory-based party game about a cavemen language with some body percussion
	Shanty Hunters	Tristan Zimmerman	2022 sold	A role-playing game (GUMSHOE engine) with a quest to gather sea shanties (and sing them on your way)
	Dragons of Despair	Tracy Hickman Carl Smith et al	1984 rare	An AD&D module with music provided to be sang by one of the characters
	Do It for the Music	David Berg	2014 free	An RPG about a band on a jazz-rock scale, with encouraging options for music-making
	Guitar Craft Aphorisms	Robert Fripp	2022? sold	Inspirational cards with three decks: Discipline, Silence, Love
	Musical Dominoes	C. W. Grimm	1893 rare	Classic Dominoes adapted to musical notes
	Songwriting Cards	Eric Grivilers	2023 sold	A set of chord progressions and Circle of Fifths operations for songwriters
	Music Rocks		2013 rare	A set of dice with words/objects frequently occurring in popular songs
	Yogi	Bez Shahriari	2017 sold	A party game, and also a set of general physical constraints
	Ell Deck	Bez Shahriari	2017 sold	Abstract game system with numbers, letters, and patterns; design contests are regular, and a musical ruleset is yet to be seen
	Wordy Connections	Bez Shahriari	2022 free	A soundscape game based on words forming sentences
	Das Neunundneunzigmusikspiel	Lee-Sean Huang	2009 free	A goose roll-and-move game made of 99 carefully chosen musical prompts
	Cute Comical Creatures	Bez Shahriari	2022 sold	A redrawn Wee Whimsical Creatures
	What's That Sound?	Jonathan Favre-Godal Corentin Lebrat	2021 sold	Listening, guessing, and performing sound effects
	Musical RPG in 12 words	odolany	2023 free	A nano-RPG (here, limited to only 12 words due to game jam concept).
	Fairy Prank	Jeremie Kletzkine	2020 sold	Charming game of found sound and listening
	Theatre in a Box: The Musical Theatre Board Game		2020 sold	A game of songs and trivia
	Songnario	Kevin Williams	2021 sold	Find and perform a song fitting to a given scenario
	Smash or Trash	Jeanine Calkin Daniel Calkin	2008 rare	Sing a famous song but make up new lyrics for it on a given subject
	Rhythm Blox	Wes Crawford	sold	A rhythm game with notation cards and backing tracks
	CopyCat	Scott Hughes	2019 sold	A call-and-response card game to teach ear training, from the author of Tonic
	Art of Noises	Kim Foale	2014 free	Words-to-music game with an open license
	Swan Song	Oliver Hong Syncope Coding	2020 mix	A dark comedy LARP in a corporate setting played in a karaoke booth
	Cascade	rpgnatalie	2020 sold	A vowel-based songmaking game with roles for hero, monster, and chorus
	Empty Orchestra	Jeff Stormer	2018 mix	A free-form LARP of karaoke and revolution
	Songerist	Kanding Tuquiero	2022 sold	A tabletop roleplaying game about making a song on your own or with other people
	If It Wasn't For...	Starshine Scribbles	2020 sold	A cooperative storytelling game about drunken singing and nostalgic tales
	Orchestrion	Eaves Mendes	2019 sold	A Song for Five Players and One Listener Online
	Sing Out	Occasional Ell	2020 sold	A virtual LARP based on singing shanties
	Jammonit!	nemoinslumber	2020 free	Constraints for genre, instrument, and structure of a song
	Three Chord Twister	Jess Driscoll	2018 free	Funny chord randomizer concept
	Symphony	Iliya	2021 free	A process for co-creating a duet
	Silent Prayer	Eric Stein	2020 mix	An extension of John Cage's 4'33'' to solo tabletop RPGs
	Mixtape	Ian Feral	2019 mix	A humming karaoke game with a little bit of roleplay on top
	Grand Staff Flash Cards	Kasper Hviid	2020 free	A set of helpful notation cards for treble and bass clefs
	Morning Phase	Kyle David Frost	2021 mix	Drawing/listening-only (to Beck) and nostalgia cartography solo RPG
	Music, A Role-Playing Game	Jared Sinclair	2019 mix	Thinking-only, a reflexive RPG like an old-school event
	Tasty Score	Kosmologym	2021 free	A larger spatial piece of found sound, rhythm, and recipes
	Four Sung Mechanics	Eleanor Estragon	2021 free	Playtesting version of token mechanics suitable for RPGs
	Music Bravo	Rrrrrose Azerty	2022 free	Rule cards and inspire cards combined
	Noisy Neighbors	Westley Ciaramella Keith Millman	2018 rare	A game of making noises, listening, and guessing
	Beeline	Joyce Johnson Colleen McCarthy-Evans	2006 rare	Non-musical, but with a buzzer
	Kazoo That Tune		rare	Guessing songs played on kazoos
	Shake'n Play		rare	Acoustic memory (Memo-like) game with 16 shakers of 8 distinct sounds to listen
	Play that Tune		2003 rare	Song recognition with a sound-making stepping mat
	Kleine Musik-Maher	Dietlind Löbker	2014 rare	German children game with four bells
	Host Your Own Music Night		rare	Many modes, props, and four kazoos for song recognition
	Chief Boom Pat-a-bang	Stefan Dorra Manfred Reindl	2014 rare	Native American setting, a drum, and rhythm recognition
	Ding Dong Forest	Dietlind Löbker	2012 rare	Two toy instruments and five educational games to be facilitated by an adult
	Cinematique	Alan Skinner Linda Skinner	2006 sold	Comes with kazoos for film-related tune guessing
	Benny Goodman Swings into a Game of Musical Information		1940 rare	Challenges on (old) pop and classical, like guessing a song played on a xylophone
	Noteability		1990 rare	A guessing game with a small electronic plastic piano
	Pit	Edgar Cayce Harry Gavitt George S. Parker	1903 sold	Old and non-musical but vigorous, open-outcry trading game with a bell
	Heroic Echoic	David B. H. Barton	2020 sold	Assemble a super-hero team by playing cards with sound effects from comics
	Jazz: The Singing Card Game	Anxietydecending	2013 rare	A memory game organized around scat vocals
	A Clave de Candombe	Emanuel Sánchez	2012 rare	A rhythm game with traditional South American inspirations
	Zombie Crisis: Party Edition	Anthony Gill	2009 rare	A rhythm game played to an audio track
	Flail and Wail	Dave Rockenbaugh	2005 rare	A rhythm game with a CD and a transparent maraca with a dice inside
	Biff Baff		2015 sold	A rhythm game where you drum on the box
	Onk-Onk	Jean-Baptiste Fremaux Thomas Luzurier Paul-Adrien Tournier	2013 rare	As sea lions clap in rhythm, observe cards, and react
	Tempo	Francisco Gallego Arredondo	2021 sold	A rhythm game where a player marks the beat and gives to others syllables to perform
	PARTYtura	Katarzyna Cioch Wojciech Wiśniewski	2020 sold	Polish music-themed rhythm game with a quite loose synchronization
	Nebuta Beat	Nagisa Kujira	2019 rare	A rhythm game with elements from a traditional Japanese festival
	FiveLines	Takashi Saito	2019 sold	Music-themed rhythm game played to a backing track (now as: Hey Yo)
	Drakkar Tum Tum	Alexander F. Francisco	2020 sold	A rhythm game done in sync to recitation, with a rowing boat setting
	Rock the Beat	Gabriel Ecoutin	2008 sold	Gesture rhythmically to "We Will Rock You!" body percussion
	Instant Songs	Olusanya Blessing Oluwafemi	2020 rare	Song association with options
	Vocal	Pascale Loiseau Marc-Éric Gervais	1989 rare	French karaoke with betting on performance
	Lyryx	Craig Candelaria	1996 rare	Song association with a sand timer and player elimination
	Encore		1989 sold	Song association with many titles seeked to a single word
	Disney Song Challenge		2018 sold	Karaoke with challenges from corporate movies repertoire
	Sing it!	Vangelis Bagiartakis	2014 sold	A song association game with word choice and time pressure
	Hossa!	Andrea Meyer	2000 sold	A cooperative song association game
	Spontuneous	Rob Ridgeway	2010 sold	A direct application of song association mechanic for singing snippets of songs
	Art Deck	Holly Gramazio	2018 rare	Non-musical, rule cards for drawing pictures
	Karaokards	Ste Curran Holly Gramazio	2013 rare	A game for karaoke with combining cues
	Are You Phrazy? Holiday Carols Edition	Dave Rockenbaugh	2005 rare	A game based on singing existing songs about winter
	The Songwriting Decks	Friedemann Findeiser	sold	From Holistic Songwriting, text-based, split into Melody, Harmony, Lyrics, Rhythm, and Structure
	Morgan Page Quick Tips	Morgan Page	sold	48 cards with longer tips from a Grammy-nominated producer
	FlipSpark: Music Production		rare	An announced Kickstarter project for the studio game with 4 types of cards
	Music City	Ian Howard	2022 rare	A full musical micro-game made as a promo for a board gaming convent
	Tonic	Scott Hughes	2015 sold	This game comes with dice and a deck where each card is a simple improvisational activity
	Oblique Strategies	Brian Eno Peter Schmidt	1975 sold	Traditionally used in the studio this deck is now the classic of a rule cards genre
	Etudes	Sharon Gal	2020 sold	Cues deck with occasional non-standard, involved typography and Tarot inspirations
	Muse	Jordan Sorenson	2017 sold	Beautiful set of inspire cards; one of inspirations explicitly tells to hum a melody
	Improvisation & Composition Inspiration Cards	Joy Morin	2011 free	A set of clip-arts for piano teaching studio
	GSG Strategy Jam Cards	Actitect	sold	Rule cards targeted at live electronic jamming with polished graphics
	Cobra: Game of the Normandy Breakout	Brad Hessel David James Ritchie	1977 rare	Only a wargame, but also an inspiration and namesake for John Zorn's gamepiece
	Patch: The Card Game	James Cigler	2020 sold	A deck for exploring modular synthesis with card types like "Abstraction", "Progression", or "Disruption"
	Wee Whimsical Creatures	Bez Shahriari	2021 sold	In full: "A game about WEE WHIMSICAL CREATURES and trying to identify them after someone makes noises", 80 pictures
	Muzundrum	J. S. Kingfisher	2009 rare	Theory-only. This game introduced the 12-sided Musician's Dice with pitch classes on the sides
	Cacophony		2008 sold	Noisy charades with physical constraints
	Images	Peter Brötzmann	2002 rare	Integrates with the game Signs (visual cues)
	Signs	Peter Brötzmann	2002 rare	Abstract inspire cards designed specifically for musical improvisation
	Dixit	Jean-Louis Roubira	2008 sold	This game, and extensions, is a huge set of inspire cards, rules focus on speaking but allow musical play
	Scott Joplin Melody Dicer		1974 rare	A take on Musikalisches Würfelspiel in the ragtime genre
	TrollFest	Bruno Faidutti Camille Mathieu	2022 sold	Theme-only, fantasy creatures in bands on festivals
	Ménestrels	Bruno Faidutti Sandra Petrini	2020 sold	Theme-only, medieval party with minstrels
	Maracas	Bruno Faidutti Hervé Marly	2020 sold	A listening game with percussion but minimum performance
	Hard to be the Bard	J.D. Mills Nate Trier et al.	2021 sold	A campaign for D&D with options of running it as a musical (and backing tracks)
	Our People's Song	Eleonor Estragon	2021 mix	"A sung TTRPG for creating epic tales", a ritual setting weaved with improvised music and token-based story negotiation.
	Scherzando	Amber Autumn vinegarviola	2020 sold	A role-playing game where you either act out a scene or provide the soundtrack.
	Musical Multiverse of Mayhem	Ross A Coulbeck	2021 mix	On an adventure between the worlds, find a proper tune for a given setting
	With Feeling!	Raymond Vermeulen	free	A role-played musical that uses a tarot deck for randomization.
	Space Rock Opera	Andrew J. Young	2022 free	In the role of Earthlings abducted into space (by accident) save the Earth with "name that tune" skills.

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