Last updated on November 19th, 2025 at 07:47 pm
Groove Journey – Music Game Review
Groove Journey is a Music/Simulation game from Somtochukwu Mbala, first launched in 1st November 2024.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 399+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Groove Journey Stand Out
Step into the life of a rising musician in Groove Journey, the ultimate musician simulator! Experience the highs and lows of the music industry as you sign record deals, release chart-topping hits, and perform on the biggest stages. Book festivals, appear on talk shows, host sold-out tours, and even make smart investments to build your empire. Own luxurious homes, manage your wealth, and aim for the top to win prestigious awards. Can you rise to the ranks of music legends? Your journey to fame starts here!
Album Review Platform (Stitch Fork)
Social media (PicDoc and more)
News article (The Morning News)
Restrict music from streaming platforms
Record labels
Music Promotion Companies
Management Agencies
Tax Simulation
Deluxe albums
Daily Jobs and more
Hoodie Merch Designed by Freepik
This app uses Apple's standard EULA, available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
This Music game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Groove Journey is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Status Bar: An accumulation of all your wealth and possessions
Properties and Luxury Items
House and home services: butler, nanny and maid services
Security services and protection: pay for financial, property and internet security now that you are A list celebrity
EP
Changes made to announce projects
Remember to read the “how to play” guide for updated info
PLUS MEMEBERS – Own up to 18 properties and items
GOD MODE MEMEBERS – Own up to 18 properties and items
Download & Availability
Groove Journey is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Groove Journey on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We need a type of deal contract like label deal label services distribution and all that let artist own rights to record earnings when they left the signed label depending on the deal.
It be great to have to our own record company!! And create a character.
We need more current rappers and also it needs to be possible to hit 100 million views on a YouTube video without having 5 million + subscribers.
This game is phenomenal but it would be soooo much better if we could just see the song quality before we publish the songs/albums.
Can you please add a way feature to have friends and relationships. Basically, a social life. This would make the game more enjoyable and add more realism. The game is good overall especially after buying the god mode.
We love this simulator, its very entertaining and detailed. Cannot wait for labels to be updated.
We have played and loved this game for so long however could you please fix the merch to where the shirts can be more customized and the Viynl records can upload jacket images and labels. We would love a customizable popular section where we can choose which songs go in the top ten. We would also like touring to be less expensive but also the time from booking to start way shorter! Im going to keep playing either way. Great game.
Been a minute since a Great (almost perfect) music career simulation had been out.
Fix the random critic board ratings because we're getting 36's and 43's for at high studio sessions.
But with all this money theres nothing to buy with it.
Im about to write a somewhat lengthy Review. First off taxes 20% is way too high, its already hard enough to make money but now you gotta worry about taxes? It shouldnt exist to begin with its just gonna make players go away. Second is this doesnt feel like a simulator theres no real way to make your songs better, from upgrading stats and promoting doesnt do anything from what Ive seen. You basically putting time to upgrade stats just for it to not matter it looks like rng. The game has potential but self afflicted wounds makes it not very enjoyable.
Let us please create our own massive record labels with incredible detail. Also, could you give us more ways to spend our wealth. Things like buying cars, property, companies, sport teams, etc This game has sooo much potential.
Amazing game honestly but a couple problems. One the glitch with the 64% thing ik that youll fix it tho and 2. Idk how youll find out weather its just us but its so much harder to make a good album than it should be.
Add the option to create our own record label, and to create our own npc artists in the game.
We Love the game but you need to add make a avatar. It has all options like Head,Body,Shirt,Pants,Muscles and etc. Also You Can Add Dents To Your Head Bosy Or Anything and also add tattoos. You can edit avatar all times. If you can respond we appreciate.
Hey can you add white avatars we dont want our character icon to be black im not black.
Its a great game kindly add features to buy cars, houses, chain, properties and maybe own label n sign artists. Label can also sign with distributors. Overall its a good game.
Great game but for us personally we have a problem with the tax is too much still good tho hope more features can be added also thanks.
We used to really love Groove Journey until the did the new update with ads.
Ive been playing it for months now but we need another streaming platform like YouTube and music videos chatting, and awards for music videos too We need more rappers The new ads update spoils the game Breaking each others record will be cool the monthly listeners make it okay like real Spotify.
First, we play this game for so long since it has been in their beginning stages. The one thing they promoted was that they had no ads but now they do. Like at random times. Also we never cared about the wifi part but when u realize it doesnt really need it, its kinda funny. The new realism idea, the character itself has been at the same numbers with no real growth even tho we update the practice mode with professional, big promo, and big budgets. Love the new ideas that comes up with the new features tho and being one of the first to do IG and the rest of the streaming platforms. And having investments with movies and stuff, very cool and creative. So yes the game has its ups and downs which is why its three stars.
We love this game but you guys should add a dating app for the characters to be able to date other celebrities and start families.
This game is an incredibly in depth simulation into the Music Industry. Its still fairly young, so its only getting better with each update (and its constantly updating). Check the How To Play tab and give it a read before actually starting, and make sure to join the discord for the real scoop on whats coming, or even send in your feedback/bugs/ideas. It does tend to get repetitive for a while, but theres a hidden science to this game. So download it, make your songs, make an album, go diamond, number 1 on all charts, talk trash to people online, hype yourself up, play the Super Bowl, etc. We tend to download a game, play it once or twice, then never touch it again or just delete it. Not this game. Its easy to pick up and put down at will, and Ive been playing for months now. (Btw developer, you have no idea how badly we wanted to rate three stars and give you a stitchfork review about how it was an amazing attempt at something that needed more emotional connection or that it just lacked that flow. The album's energy remains consistent, yet it sometimes lacks the depth needed to truly resonate.) Get the game. Buy plus(not a necessity). Have fun.
Great game one of the best simulator games out there honestly love the detail. We do think that with more fine-tuning and updates this game could chart a number one also would be dope if there was an acting/movie star game.
The dev puts out updates consistently.
When this game had God mode, we were so happy to buy it. When we had that, it got us to become the best rapper of all time.
Please make it so that when you make a new album, those songs dont immediately take over and replace other songs your popular songs list on groovify, even though they dont have as much streams as the ones they replace.
We genuinely love this so much we have been looking for music sims and out of all of them this is the best one!! Super realistic we love ittt.
GREAT JOB ALL YOU GOTTA DO NOW IS ADD TIKTOK AND ETC TO PROMOTE SONGS.
Better Than All The Current Rap Games Ngl Goat Developer.
So we really love this game, but theres two pieces that would make the game great. 1. Features. Future, Tyler the Creator, 070 Shake, JID, Charli xcx, Ty Dolla $ign, Andre 3000, Lil Uzi Vert, Kid Cudi, Don Toliver, Kali Uchis, Lil Wayne, Members of Wu-Tang Clan (Ghostface Killah, ODB, Method Man etc.), Summer Walker, Charlie Wilson & etc. Would be PERFECT features in the game. 2. Consistency Being consistent is good. Like by consistent, we mean having updates every week and if you are not finished with the update, it could be a smaller update like patches and stuff.
Should add the ability to start our own labels.
Doing some artists is lowkey torturous.
For the next update can you make it possible to negotiate our contracts. For the record label and make it JUST A LITTLE BIT easier to fulfill our contracts.
There are issues going on with the touring nobody is showing up to the tours even if you are popular and also can yall make it where the tours dont start so late.
Firstly, whats the point of signing in with google or apple if our saves are just gonna disappear regardless? Im tired of signing in and having to start over because our saves disappeared. We spend a lot of time building up just to have to start over. Secondly, the percentage on the taxes needs to be lowered and the amount to collaborate with others needs to be lower. Management should be lower as well.
Fun game but how does the superbowl halftime show work??? We never see anything about it show up.
Even after update its not showing replay ceremony for awards.
Trust us Im not one of those bots bro this game is heat we just hope they continue to update it and dont give up on this game even if it never blows up best game Ive ever played on a phone easily.
This game is absolutely amazing, absolutely cinema!! We have had no troubles with the game and its better than most music career games as you dont need to do much but practice and build a fan base for yourself so your songs can become popular. But, if you created an acting career game with this aesthetic, tone, and way of becoming good at music and becoming popular that game would be awesome. Overall, this game is really good and we hope it improves and becomes more popular as a game.
Its a few tips and tricks you gotta learn but overall best game.
Kindly add life relationships to the game where assets can be owned families can be built and a new features of award shows and more festivals The game is really amazing.
We really love this game its extremely detailed, our only requests are for the studio prices to be lowered and for us to be able to have a family and purchase reality/vehicles maybe even a chance at some magazine covers but overall this is by far THEE BEST MUSIC SIMULATOR OUT.
Yall need to do something about the whole touring ish. How can an artist with an average popularity of 99/100 no be able to sell out conventional centers for concerts not to talk of arenas and stadiums and also there should be other ways to promote your albums and songs. Overall its a good and competitive game just needs some more adjustments.
Hey we dont know if Youll see this but this game is really amazing ngl! Its realistic and we heard it was just one person who created it. One thing we would like its that the contracts offer more money! 55 mil and 59 mil is good but based on popularity we feel the offers should keep increasing the more you play. We would love a 100 mil offer for the republics because of course its the best label based off of promotion and talent on the label.
Can you make where we load the wheat faster when we have a lot of songs and can you add house and relationships and children and endorsements we need that as well we feel like the game will be even better.
The best music sim out of all them for sure.
Yeah, we dont understand. Im literally up obsessed.
We love this game dont get us wrong but why is it that we make a character, make songs, release them, release an album, its good and it gets good reviews but when we get better quality with a better studio the song streams become worse and when we drop an album the ratings drop down. Isnt it supposed to have the opposite effect and also we have 40 million monthly listeners with only 600k followers on instagram and 200k on twitter that looks a lil unrealistic if you ask us.
This is a very good game. Can you guys maybe just make it more realistic, and maybe rivals not like gang rivals, but like michael jackson vs prince type rivalry. Also how come we keep getting low sales even though we got high fame, maxed attributes, we even hired a person to write songs for us thats 100, and we pay 6M for a song, and have famous ppl like ariana and bellie ellish on 1 song but still am getting low sales. We dont get it. The game is fire tho, u and the ppl who made music wars and essential popstar should collab. That will be the best game ever.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 6.4.0
- Size: 204.52 MB
- iOS: 15.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Somtochukwu Mbala
Last updated: 2nd October 2025 | Genre: Music, Simulation | Developer: Somtochukwu Mbala