Headliner vs Second Unit

Turn a garage band into stadium legends in Headliner — a music career game where every week is a decision that can make or break you. Build your lineup, write songs, book venues, and take the stage in live rhythm shows. Between gigs you’ll grind the studio, launch PR campaigns, answer magazine, radio, and TV interviews, and manage egos before drama blows the band apart. Climb the charts. Clash with rivals. Survive side gigs when cash is thin. Chase festivals, label deals, and the moments that become career highlights. HOW YOU PLAY • Plan each week — tour, record, rehearse, promote, rest, or hustle a side gig • Perform live with a highway rhythm show that rewards timing and streaks • Shape releases, setlists, and sound with studio sessions that matter • Handle interviews, risk weeks, opportunities, and member meltdowns • Grow fans, cash, chemistry, and fame from open mic to arenas START FREE Play your first 10 weeks free and feel the full grind — then unlock unlimited weeks and careers for a one-time purchase. Your band. Your headlines. Your shot at becoming a Headliner.

Second Unit is a single-player film studio management simulation. You start with a rented office, a modest credit line, and nobody returning your calls — and you have five in-game years to turn that into something. When the run ends, you're a major, absorbed by one, or in liquidation. THE PARALLEL PIPELINE Run two to five pictures through a seven-stage production pipeline at once — development, greenlight, pre-production, shooting, post, marketing, release. Slate capacity and cash runway are the only limits. There's no energy bar to wait out. TWO SCORES, NO BLACK BOX Every finished picture gets a critic score and an audience score, and the Post-Release Report itemizes exactly what earned each point. Nothing about how a film's quality is decided is hidden from you. THE RELEASE CALENDAR Six rival studios each hunt a different season, and they've been claiming the good weeks for years before you got there. Every release date is a decision made against a board that's already half full. PRESTIGE VS. CLOUT Chasing critical prestige costs you commercial clout, and vice versa — where the two land after five years decides which of six possible endings your studio reaches. FRANCHISES, TALENT, AND INSTITUTIONS Build a franchise off a hit and manage the upkeep and audience fatigue that come with it. Cast real talent with real availability windows. Keep the trades, the guilds, and the exhibitor circuit on your side — or don't. FULLY OFFLINE Second Unit runs entirely on your device. No account, no server, and no internet connection required to play. Idle progress is computed honestly from real elapsed time, never a background timer. Every studio, film, talent, and award depicted is entirely fictional, generated by the game. Any resemblance to real people, studios, or works is coincidental. Optional one-time purchases in the Front Office add content packs and a full unlock — never anything that makes your studio better at making pictures.