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ListenUp!

ListenUp! is a procedural, city-scale radio studio management and investigative thriller. You lease broadcast towers and studio spaces across diverse districts, renovate and outfit your studio, and design broadcast signal chains using a spectrum of equipment. Build schedules, monitor air quality and signal integrity, and tackle real-time issues like outages, interference, or censorship as you push your station to the top. Partner with advertisers and broadcast material providers, curate content, and frame information about city events to shape public opinion. You juggle regulatory demands and private contracts, balancing state legitimacy against questionable deals that could pull your station into controversy.

Beyond the airwaves, the game drops you into a layered mystery: reconstruct a tragedy step by step, sifting truth from deception. Analyze materials for hidden clues or key evidence, catalog inconsistencies, and contact witnesses or potential suspects to gather information. Recruit loyal listeners to serve as eyes and ears across the city, then coordinate their reports to uncover patterns. You can tune into encrypted channels to intercept police or private intel before it hits the media, expanding your reach but risking exposure and retaliation from powerful interests.

Cities in ListenUp! are procedurally generated and relentlessly alive. Every session is unique and unpredictable, with independent characters whose routines, goals, and social standings persist whether you appear or not. Master the craft of radio by researching, designing, and pushing limits—when off-the-shelf gear hits its ceiling, reinvent hardware or engineer original prototypes, from custom signal processors to experimental capsules. Manage audiences and advertisers while observing how stories you broadcast reshape civic sentiment and market dynamics.

Small stations may have modest reach, but they can move the needle. Airtime tilts the city’s economic scales, and those you leave in the red won’t go quietly, fighting back with PR blows, legal threats, or rival campaigns. Ratings and revenue keep the lights on, yet influence is a double-edged blade: bending the narrative can backfire. Cultivate social ties to gain external and internal support, including allies in government, industry, and among your listeners. Monitor the character’s psychological state and balance stimulants for temporary boosts against addiction and its consequences. Persist through death with modifications for your next run; death ends a campaign, but persistent progression reshapes odds and unlocks powerful modifiers for future attempts.

Immerse yourself in the world’s stories while respecting finite inner resources. A small station's reach is modest, but its voice can steer debates and alter outcomes. Build your studio, train staff, research new techniques, and push the limits of sound—co-create live events, podcasts, and experimental formats. The city is a living stage, and every decision carries a cost; your airtime becomes a lever, and the city reacts when you press it. ListenUp! invites risk, strategy, and deep replayability as you design your own radio empire from the ground up.