Pop Star Life 2
3/14 phases shippedNow Steam store page & announcement · Sep–Oct 2026
Next Closed playtests · Oct–Nov 2026
Full roadmap
Now in production · Pop Star Life 2 · Early Access Dec 2026
We build worlds you live in.
Rakun Interactive is an independent studio making deep simulation games: long careers, living systems, and decisions that follow you. We build them in the open, with a production roadmap for every game.
Our games
Five games. One obsession.
Different worlds, same design philosophy: systems that feed each other, progression that lasts, and the pull of one more decision.
In productionEarly Access · Dec 2026
Pop Star Life 2
A 3D open-city music career sim. Leave your village with a guitar, perform your way through a living harbour city, and chase the stadium.
Explore the production
Active development
Pop Star Life
The text-based music career sandbox that started it all. Busk, write, tour and climb from nobody to icon.
Explore
Active development
My Scout Life
Lead a football club's scouting department: scout the world, build the academy and live every season one decision at a time.
Explore
In developmentEarly Access target · Q3 2027
Midnight Bloom Simulator
Take over your uncle's flower shop by day, and inherit the debt he paid off by night. A hands-on florist sim with a double life after dark, in a coastal town you learn by heart.
Explore the town
In developmentEarly Access target · Q1 2028
HelloBnb Simulator
Restore your family's run-down rental on a Cycladic island, furnish it, photograph it and list it, then grow into beach businesses, yacht tours and a villa on the headland.
Explore the island
Production spotlight
Pop Star Life 2 is thirteen weeks from Early Access.
Build 0.9.0 already has the full open city: 45 walk-in venues, 12 playable jobs, transit, driving, homes and live rhythm shows. Now we're going public and finishing the music career loop.
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Countdown to launch
- Sep 2026
Steam app & store page
- Early Oct
Coming Soon page + announcement trailer
- Mid Oct
Early Access scope lock
- Late Oct
Playtest wave 1
- Mid Nov
Playtest wave 2
- Late Nov
Release candidate & Steam review
- Early Dec
Launch trailer & creator keys
- Dec 2026
Early Access launch
How we build
A production pipeline you can see.
Small team, serious process. Every feature is designed on paper, proven by automated tests, played by bots in the real game, and reviewed frame by frame before a player ever touches it.
Design doc & binding contract
Every feature starts as a written design with concrete numbers: formulas, example values, where it happens in the world and which animation plays. Big features get several specialist design passes merged into one binding contract before code is written.
Ownership & hook requests
Systems are built in parallel with strict ownership. When one system needs a change in another, it files a hook request and ships a working fallback, so nothing blocks.
In-engine prototype
Small, data-driven modules that run outside the full game, so the same code the player uses can be exercised in seconds. Measured, never guessed: hit frames, prop sizes, floor heights.
Automated headless tests
Each system ships with a test that must report zero problems. The full verify pass runs in about 35 seconds and never touches a real save.
Bot play-throughs
Scripts drive the real game with real key presses: a bot plays show notes, pays at the till, hails a taxi, works a shift, and writes a frame-by-frame report.
Visual capture review
Capture tools render named camera angles, HUD states and screens at fixed resolutions, and every image is reviewed by a person.
Performance budget
Heavy scenes are measured against the 16.7 ms frame budget at their worst moment, fixed, and re-measured with the same tool.
Playtest
Internal play, then invite-only waves built around one question each. Findings go back into the design docs.
Ship
Builds go out with save migrations, Steam cloud saves and patch notes, and the public roadmap is updated with every major update.
Studio roadmap
Where every game is, right now.
We publish a phase-by-phase roadmap for each game and update it as production moves.
Pop Star Life
1/7 phases shippedNow Balance & daily-loop polish · Q3–Q4 2026
Next Industry depth · H1 2027
Full roadmapMy Scout Life
1/7 phases shippedNow Stability & balance · Q3–Q4 2026
Next More leagues & regions · H1 2027
Full roadmapMidnight Bloom Simulator
2/14 phases shippedNow Stabilisation & story tuning · Q4 2026
Next Alpha & Early Access scope lock · Q1 2027
Full roadmapHelloBnb Simulator
2/15 phases shippedNow Stabilisation & quest wiring · Q4 2026 – Q1 2027
Next Production & localisation · Q1–Q2 2027
Full roadmap
Mailing list
Updates, playtests and launch dates first.
No spam. Just production news from the studio, and invites when we need players.