Press kit — A-List: Pop Star RPG

Fact sheet

Title	A-List: Pop Star RPG
Subtitle	Music Career & Life Simulator
Studio	hychetech, an independent game studio
Platform	iPhone, iOS 18 or later
Release	October 22, 2026 (U.S. App Store)
Price	$0.99 U.S., paid upfront
Business model	No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Plays offline.
Age rating	9+
Language	English
App Store	apps.apple.com/app/id6821184103
Contact	enthych@gmail.com

In one line

A 22-year pop career where every hit has a bill attached.

Short description

A-List is a pop-star career RPG for iPhone. You get 22 years, a day job and $2,000. Every week you choose between the studio and the rent, while a rival steals your release week and three tabloids review your every move. No ads, no in-app purchases. Just you, the charts and the bill.

Long description

In A-List, you guide a rising artist through 22 years of studio sessions, chart fights, award nights and rent that's always due, where every choice prints a headline and every hit has a bill attached. Built natively in Swift 6 with no ads or in-app purchases, it turns the glamour and pettiness of the music industry into a deep, honest career game.

The fiction

Everything inside A-List is invented: the artists, labels, outlets, charts and awards.

The Starlight 100 is the game's chart. The Starlights and the Constellation Honors are its awards.
The Hollywood Ledger (the trade), Pop Pulse (the stan feed) and The Daily Dirt (the tabloid) report on every choice the player makes.
Ava Darlin, “The Algorithmic Queen,” and Drake Burgess, “The Midnight Auteur,” are the player's rivals. Neither is based on a real artist.

Downloads

The app icon and the App Store screenshots, full size. Every screenshot is the real game, unaltered.

Screenshots 01, 03 and 06 come from an advanced save (a later career, or a bigger bankroll than the $2,000 start). Please don't present them as a first week.

Gameplay video is coming. If you need something that isn't here, email enthych@gmail.com.