Drawaoke: Sing, Scribble, Showdown!

What's a draw-along song?

In Japan, kids grow up with ekaki-uta, or "draw-along songs." You sing along, and each line tells you what to draw: a circle here, a couple of lines there. Keep going to the end, and your scribbles turn into a picture.

Kids usually know the song, and the answer, by heart. In Drawaoke, every song is brand new, the subject stays hidden until the very last line, and everyone draws at the same time. It stops being a kids' game. It becomes a puzzle.

The song won't tell you where, or what (not until the last line)

Everyone hears the same draw-along song and draws at the same time. But the song won't name the subject until its very last line.

The song won't say "now draw the hand." All you get are lines like these:

♪ One perfectly round cookie comes rolling in, one on its own—

♪ A big bag swells out sideways from behind the cookie, round and full.

The cookie is easy enough. Put it in the middle. But the bag? Which side? How much of it hides behind the cookie? And how big is "big"?

Every line splits the room a little further, and by the end, everyone has drawn something completely different.

The reveal: every drawing, replayed to the song

When the song ends, everyone's drawings line up next to the answer, drawn by Coach Sketch, the game's resident art teacher.

Then the song plays back and every drawing is redrawn at once, stroke by stroke, in time with the music.

Which line was it? Who drifted off, and which way?

Every fork in the road you couldn't see while drawing is right there on screen.

As the replay rolls, vote "Nailed it" for drawings that impress you, and "Chaos" for the ones that leave you asking how on earth that happened.

At the results, the drawing with the most "Nailed it" votes wins Masterpiece, and the one with the most "Chaos" votes takes the Chaos Award.

Nail it or wreck it. Either way, you're the star.

The more you play, the better you read the songs

A few songs in, you'll catch yourself thinking, "That phrase came up twice. Hands, maybe? Or feet?"

It's less a test of drawing skill and more a puzzle to crack.

Three modes

Classic

Everyone hears the same song and draws together.

Whatsit

The answer is hidden in the song and sung as "you-know-what." Once you're done drawing, guess what you actually drew.

Guess-Off

One player is the guesser, watching everyone else draw and trying to name the subject. The faster the guess, the more points.

Give a "Thanks!" to the drawing that gave the best clue. Everyone takes a turn as the guesser.

Set the pace and the difficulty

Two ways to move through a song: Echo, with an instrumental break after every line so you have time to draw, and Live, which never stops.

Two musical styles: Nursery, the classic sing-song style, and Synth, a punchier electronic style. Different tempos mean different difficulty.

In the room settings, choose how tough the songs get: Easy, Normal, Hard, or Merciless. You can pick more than one to mix them up.

Songs that are almost impossible to draw on a first listen carry a "SUPER HARD!" sticker.

Getting together

Invite friends with a room code.

Pick "Play with someone" to jump straight into a game with other players.

Short on people? Bots join in to keep the party going.

Every round, kept and ready to share

Draw-Along Collection

Every song you come across gets added here. You can practice on your own with Coach Sketch's drawing as your guide.

Songs you haven't met yet come up first, so there's always something new.

Album

Rounds are saved with full replays (the last 10 automatically, plus any you choose to keep).

Watch the reveal again, or export it as a video (MP4), GIF, or image (PNG).

Gallery

Pin your favorites to the cork board.

Every song, written and sung in English

Almost every child in Japan grows up singing draw-along songs.

Chances are you've never heard of one. There isn't even a standard English name for them.

So we didn't just translate the menus. Every song was written in English and sung in English.

Even in Japan, we couldn't find another game that turns draw-along songs into a contest where several people draw at once and go head to head in the reveal.

Change "Where to look for rooms" in the settings, and you might even end up in a room with players from Japan. Each of you hears the songs in your own language.

What's in Early Access (at launch)

• 50 draw-along songs (70 as of v1.2.0, 75 as of v1.3.0, with more coming during Early Access)
• 2 musical styles (Nursery, Synth)
• 3 modes (Classic, Whatsit, Guess-Off)
• Draw-Along Collection, Album (save and export replays), Gallery
• Online play for 2–4 players
• English and Japanese (Simplified Chinese added in v1.3.1, Korean in v1.3.2). On-screen text and songs follow your Steam language setting
• Play with a mouse or pen tablet (controllers are not supported)

Streaming and videos

Stream it, make videos of it, monetize them. It's all fine.

No need to contact us or ask permission first.

For details, see "Streaming and reuse" in the game's settings.

If you're up for it, we'd appreciate it if you:

• put the game's name in your video or stream title
• add a link to the Steam store page in the description

Credits

Singing voices: VOICEVOX: Shikoku Metan / VOICEVOX: Namine Ritsu / Synthesizer V (Sheena 2) / Synthesizer V (Cong Zheng 2) / Synthesizer V (Shimon Topaz)