BAND MATES is Rock Band meets Garage Band. Create your band. Create your music. Grab your friends. Be awesome together.
Music takes years of lessons, expensive instruments and hours of practice. Band Mates takes all of that away.
Band Mates is what you get when you combine music-making grooveboxes, video games, and friends.
Anyone can play music.
Feel the joy of jamming with your band. In BAND MATES you can never be off-key or out of time — so enjoy the process and see where it takes you.
Record what you play into a 16-step sequencer you can keep extending, then edit it note by note. Up to five tracks per instrument — bass, drums, guitar and synth, all melodic apart from the drums, obviously. And don’t worry — you can undo almost anything.
Every track gets its own filter and effects. Tweak them by hand, or randomise them and land somewhere you would never have picked — then solo the instrument to hear exactly what changed.
Multiplayer isn’t a mode bolted on afterwards — the game was built around it. Three ways to rope your friends in.
Jam locally with up to three friends, one per band member — one machine, a controller each.
Friends-only lobbies, up to four players. Everyone’s game makes its own sound, so you hear each other play as it happens rather than watching a stream of someone else’s game.
Running into a bit of writer’s block? Send your tune over to a friend as a collab and see what they come up with. Or go the other way — take a tune a friend has shared and remix it into something they’d never have made.
"I've never been able to play instruments, and this game makes me feel like I am."
— Playtester, GDC
The free demo is the whole game — no cut-down build, no locked features. A Nintendo Switch version is planned after launch. English only for now. Around 3.4 GB installed.
The demo is free, and it’s the entire game.
It’s very easy to make music that sounds good in BAND MATES. The magic is that you feel like you did that — not that the game did it for you.