Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson
Ritual Studios · 2025 · Cute, Indie, Music, Rhythm, Fantasy
PC
Overwhelmingly Positive98% · 1,369
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About Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson
Play as Rob, a friendly musician trying to restore harmony in an off-tuned world where wacky villains are corrupting music.
Rick Riffson, boss of the evil Super Metal Records company, is using the Battle of the Bands contest to extend his hold on every last note, chord, and song by trapping the best musicians with deceptive soul-binding contracts.
Embark on an adventure with Rob and his zany rock-loving friend to end SMR's plans. Stay alert during your journey: Riffson’s devilish goons, monster-instrument hybrids, and legendary musical animals will try to get in your way!
Explore this musical land to add sick riffs to your deck, and wield your mighty guitar to unleash powerful crescendo attacks in epic music battles!
Carefully composed by Ritual Studios, Fretless is a pixel-art adventure set in Rob Scallon and his friends' diverse musical rock world.
GAME FEATURES
- Explore a musical world: discover whimsical biomes where flowers jingle, rocks really rock and beach waves have their own melody. Watch out for the percushrooms: they'll beat you up.
- Engage in musical turn-based combat: orchestrate melodies of mighty musical riffs to bit crush your foes. Plug your instrument, stay on the beat, and unleash powerful crescendo attacks!
- Fine-tune your strategy: Collect mighty riffs, add them to your deck, and compose the perfect bars to create unbeatable solos. Follow the beat of your own drum, whether it is high damage build, devastating musical effects, life-stealing combos, or even random chaos!
- Spice up your musical abilities with physical add-ons: Are you a metal-rock shredder or an indie-folk lover? Choose the best instrument and add bridges, strings, and more to match your own play styles.
- Band together for a wholesome ballad: embark on a story full of musical puns, zany characters, and Rob Scallon's coterie of music-loving friends
- Enjoy a hand-crafted Pixel Art symphony: progress through a visually enchanting world filled with gorgeous punchy animations and alluring scenery.
- Music is for everyone: from "simple" music enthusiasts to guitar gods, everyone can hit the right note at the right time! Whether you are already a fan of Rob or just looking for a fun lighthearted adventure, this game is made for you.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
awesome
Loved the music and the story
This is a fun game. My only complaint is that it isn't way way way way longer. I wish I could sink my teeth into a crazy jrpg-sized version of it. I thought the writing was really good and funny, and the sound design and music never got old. Looking forward to a 100 hour dlc or sequel someday.
hearing my favorite guitar YouTubers make boss battle music was amazing. Rob, Rabea, Ola, Yvette, Davie504, and others I can't remember right now. The game itself was good too, it felt like when I played the old gameboy Pokemon games for the first time. Not a lot of replayability for me, but still a great game.
Loved the rhythm based rpg gameplay! The music itself was also really good. Rob has very goofy expressions that made me lol during battle. Only gripes were some random bugs (hitting x sometimes didn't display the next objective, an outline didn't appear over text when making a choice, annoying for certain questlines like the trading game) and there was surprisingly a lot of loading in between areas. Otherwise it was a short and sweet rpg experience that i'd recommend to anyone into guitar based music, rhythm games and turned based combat.
Fantastic time! Finished the game in ~7hrs with warmth inside and a stupid smile on my face :D
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