LIFE LIKE A DJ is a career-management and life-simulation game about everything around the set — getting booked, travelling, managing money, releasing music, building reputation, handling pressure and performing when it matters.
I have been part of DJ culture for more than twenty years. I wanted to make a game about the whole journey — not only the few hours behind the decks.
Bookings, travel, money, music, pressure, people and the choices that slowly shape a career. That is the world LIFE LIKE A DJ is trying to simulate.
The set matters — but so do the booking, the flight, the hotel, the fee, the release, the reputation hit and what happens the morning after.
Start small and build a DJ career inside a connected simulation. Choices carry forward: where you play, how you perform, what you spend, who you work with and how your audience reacts all shape what comes next.
Compare fees, costs, travel and career value. Negotiate when the opportunity is worth pushing.
→Flights, distance, accommodation and timing are part of the job — not background decoration.
→Practice, choose music, manage energy and make decisions before you enter the booth.
→Waveforms, timing, transitions, beat matching and crowd response turn the booking into a performance.
→Money, reputation, fans, rankings, relationships and future offers react to what just happened.
Other DJs, markets and opportunities keep moving while your own career develops.
See who is online, follow other careers, send DJ messages, collaborate, compete in DJ Battles and climb global and hype rankings inside the same connected world.
Your last result influences what opens next.
Build a catalogue instead of collecting disconnected tracks.
A career has a cost — financial and personal.
Move through cities, routes and scenes as your reach expands.
Selected real-world venues and brands are entering LIFE LIKE A DJ with permission, grounding the simulation in the culture it is built around.
One of the first real-world venues officially represented inside LIFE LIKE A DJ.
A real Lisbon venue brought into the game world as LIFE LIKE A DJ expands its map of authentic locations.
An official in-game partner integrated into the wider career and backstage experience.
The story has moved beyond launch coverage: later features, podcast testing and gaming previews are widening the audience.
A detailed look at the full DJ-career simulation — bookings, travel costs, releases, Career HQ, real venues, performance mechanics, rankings, collaborations and the three-month free trial.
A dedicated feature explores LIFE LIKE A DJ from industry contacts and bookings to travel, performance pressure, studio work and long-term career progression.
MobIT covers the browser-based simulation as a patient climb from first gigs and travel to money, reputation and a growing fanbase.
Rated 8.4/10 — Great. The review calls LIFE LIKE A DJ a highly detailed browser simulation and describes it as the “Football Manager” of the DJ world.
Releasing early exposed broken assumptions, changed the performance system and turned real players into part of the development loop.
READ THE JOURNAL ↗LIFE LIKE A DJ is based on the part of DJ culture that games usually skip: negotiations, travel, money, pressure, releases, momentum and the long path between a first booking and a serious career.
VIEW ALL ARTICLES ↗YEAR ONE is live now with the first three in-game months available as a free browser trial. Player feedback is already changing the systems, interface and performance layer — and the game is being developed in public.
Gameplay clips, updates and development progress.