Critical Role’s ‘Rockbeasts’ Is a Trippy ’90s Band Sim Featuring Iggy Pop | Preview
Lichthund is developing Rockbeasts, a 1990s band-management role-playing game featuring anthropomorphic animals, with Critical Role as collaborator and co-publisher. An early preview praised its characters, dialogue, music and management mechanics, suggesting the game could stand out among narrative adventures.
Players manage a struggling four-piece band, balancing its members’ clashing personalities alongside music and promotion. The preview highlights a soundtrack by vgtbl.pl, voice performances from Critical Role members Matthew Mercer, Sam Riegel and Liam O’Brien, and Iggy Pop as radio DJ Iggy Pup. Rockbeasts is scheduled for release in January 2027 on Steam, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5.
- Rockbeasts is a 1990s band-management RPG starring animal characters.
- Critical Role is collaborating on and co-publishing the game.
- It is scheduled to launch across PC and consoles in January 2027.
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Rockbeasts is a role-playing game set in a fictional 1990s music scene, where the band members are animals. Players take charge of a struggling four-piece group, dealing with its members’ different personalities as well as its music and promotion.
The game is being made by Lichthund with Critical Role, a group known for tabletop role-playing and voice acting, as collaborator and co-publisher. Critical Role members Matthew Mercer, Sam Riegel and Liam O’Brien perform characters, while musician Iggy Pop voices a radio DJ called Iggy Pup.