Your guitar is your weapon.
Dissonance is creeping across the land. Hear each creature's note, find it on the fretboard, and play it back to set the world right. A fantasy tower-defense adventure that trains your ear, one note at a time.
Free beta testing now open on TestFlight.
How it plays
Creatures of Dissonance march down a winding path toward you. Every group carries a note. Hit the right one and the whole group bursts into light.
Your target glows gold and sings its note. No sheet music, no note names: just your ears.
The battlefield is a guitar neck. Tap the string and fret that matches what you heard.
Answer fast to blast every matching creature at once. Build streaks, cast spells, and call in sprite allies.
Real musicianship
Every battle is ear training in disguise. The fretboard is laid out exactly like a real guitar's, so what you learn here is what your hands will reach for on the real thing.
The journey
Travel from a quiet farm to the heart of the Dissonance. Each land teaches a new musical skill, and each one is harder to win back.
Act IWhere it begins: hear a single note and find it.
Notes
Act IICreatures that carry tunes. Play their melodies back.
Melodies
Act IIITrees that call and answer across the distance between two notes.
Intervals
Act IVAncient pillars that remember the scales.
Scales
Act VThree notes ringing at once. Untangle the chord.
Chords
Act VIThe source of it all. Everything you've learned, at once.
Mastery
A hand-painted world
Explore painted maps, unlock new levels, and earn up to three stars on each one. Replay favourites on a harder difficulty to chase a personal best.
Spells & sprites
Hit notes in a row to earn spells. The longer your streak, the more powerful the spell: from chain lightning at three in a row to a world-shaking crescendo at nine.
Place sprites along the path to guard it while you play.
WindGusts that push back
IceSlows everything nearby
LightningBolts down the line
FireFireballs that burst
StoneStuns the toughest
LightEmpowers its friendsThe story
It started with one wrong note in a quiet field. Now the forests have gone silent and the towns too perfect. Leave home, follow the music, and find out what's waking in the Wilds.
Questions
No. You play on the on-screen fretboard, laid out exactly like a real guitar's, so everything you learn carries straight over when you pick one up.
Not at all. The game teaches by ear, step by step, starting with single notes on the open strings. Theory comes along naturally as you go.
Pick Hard: the full fretboard, faster pacing, and the later regions test intervals, scales and chords by ear, which challenges experienced players too.
Chords of Awakening is in beta on iPhone right now. Join the beta below to play early and help shape the game.
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