If you needed more reasons to look forward to Stage Tour, RedOctane Games just delivered them. On August 27, the studio confirmed another 20 officially licensed songs for the upcoming full-band rhythm game — pushing the game’s revealed tracklist well past 65 tracks ahead of its December 10, 2026 release.
Stage Tour was unveiled at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 as a full spiritual successor to Guitar Hero, built by Third Kind Games and published by a reborn RedOctane staffed with veterans of the original series. The latest confirms span six decades of rock, metal, pop-punk, and alternative — and honestly, the range is wild.
The 20 Newly Confirmed Tracks
- Billy Talent — Red Flag
- Black Eyed Peas — Pump It
- blink-182 — MORE THAN YOU KNOW
- Def Leppard — Photograph
- Duran Duran — Rio
- Fall Out Boy — Heartbreak Feels So Good
- Genesis — Land of Confusion
- Jeff Buckley — Grace
- Megadeth — Tornado of Souls
- Metallica — Lux Æterna
- Olivia Rodrigo — ballad of a homeschooled girl
- Spacehog — In the Meantime
- Tenacious D — …Baby One More Time
- The Clash — I Fought the Law
- The Darkness — I Believe in a Thing Called Love
- Walk the Moon — Shut Up and Dance
- Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag
- ZZ Top — Sharp Dressed Man
Those join a broader roster that already features Metallica, Radiohead, Paramore, Muse, Slipknot, Babymetal, Ghost, Mötley Crüe, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, and more — all fully licensed and playable on guitar, drums, or mic. The full confirmed song list is being updated regularly on stagetour.com.
Official Release Date Trailer
Stage Tour — Official Release Date Trailer, via IGN on YouTube.
Five Ways to Play
Stage Tour ships with five distinct modes, according to Game Informer:
- Quickplay — jump straight into any song
- Practice — slow-down and section looping for working through hard charts
- Judgement — scoring challenge mode
- Karaoke — vocal-forward mode
- Tour Mode — a roguelite-inspired campaign where you curate a setlist, grow your following, and push toward bigger venues
Up to four players can rock together locally — one each on guitar, drums, mic, and gamepad. The game also features over 180 collectible in-game guitars authenticated by Gibson, Epiphone, and Kramer, with RedOctane producing physical guitar and drum controllers available through hardware pre-order bundles.
Platforms and Pre-Orders
Stage Tour launches December 10, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store). Hardware bundles — including a guitar controller bundle and a full band kit — are available for pre-order now via stagetour.com. Players attending Gamescom in Cologne can also get hands-on time with the game on custom arcade machines at the show floor.
With the tracklist growing fast and the December date locked in, this one’s shaping up to be the rhythm game event of the year. We’ll keep tracking song confirms as they drop.