In UteroWhat do you get when you mix Beavis and Butthead, Daria, and Bojack Horseman? It turns out, it's an MTV-style rock-band management sim called RockbeastsReminisce over the 90s and try not to go off the rails in a world of excess and hedonism in Rockbeasts, from Team17.Image credit: Team17 Article by Kelsey Raynor Guides Writer Published on March 7, 2025 Think back to the 90s. I wasnt alive during it, but Ive listened to enough Nirvana and played enough of the Nintendo 64 without a mobile phone in sight to imagine what it mightve been like. I do know that this era of excess and plenty was the time that video games exploded in popularity and made obscene technological advancements, when dressing up in neon colours and bad haircuts were deemed a hell of a lot more fashionable than it is now, and when the music was great. 90s nostalgia is real, and even today the love for its music, in particular, lives on.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Think Weezer, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Beastie Boys. Metallica, Motley Crue. Pavement, Sonic Youth. The 90s saw Oasis release Wonderwall, for Gods sake. The song that will quite literally never die, no matter how many of us are tired of hearing it played at any bar across the north of England each weekend. God forbid someone breaks out a guitar at a party.Rockbeasts which I was briefly shown during Team17s Showcase last in late February 2025 is an upcoming game developed by Lichthund that harkens back to the era of alternative music and bad haircuts, tasking you with becoming the manager of an upcoming rock-and-roll band and helping them skyrocket to fame. Or aiding them with becoming complete sellouts. Your call.As a management simulator, you can expect to have to manage the band's time; when (and if) they eat, rehearse, perform publicly, and so forth. But you can also expect to get to know your band, and all of the other 100+ wacky characters they will run into on their journey to the top (or bottom), on a much deeper level. Everyone knows this is what the 90s looked like, right? | Image credit: Team17This cast, which consists of all kinds of anthropomorphic animals that any Bojack Horseman fan will drool over (including a bass-playing sea bass, of course), boasts an appearance from The Stooges Iggy Pop, as well as a range of voice actors from Baldurs Gate 3, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Alan Wake 2.The game doesnt look to shy away from the dark underbelly of rock 'n' roll stardom in the 90s, either - with cutthroat, comedic dialogue that doesnt dial down the swearing. Much like its visual style, dialogue takes inspiration from adult cartoons such as Beavis and Butthead, Daria, Bobs Burgers, and even Family Guy. So you can imagine the type of humour that the game is going for.While we didnt get much of a look at it during our time with the game, Lichthund did allude to life as a rock band manager not being all sunshine and roses. It seems as though theres more to Rockbeasts that simply keeping your band in line and landing them bigger shows; therell no doubt be conflict and controversy perhaps within the band itself, as well as from exterior forces to manage in the raging capitalist society of the 90s, all part of your bands ascent to fame.I certainly expect my band to get booed off stage more than once, thats for sure, and I suspect thats not even the beginning of things that could go wrong for a rock band manager in RockbeastsRockbeasts is expected to release in 2025.