A Hydrogen-Overdrive game · Distributed by Hydrogen-Overdrive
Sonoria
Cities built on feeling
Your music. Your world. Your story.
The pitch
Sonoria is a city-building adventure where music decides what rises. Play a track and the world answers — streets, skylines and weather shaped by the feeling in the sound. Then step off the map and walk what you made.
Fourteen hand-built cities, each tuned to its own genre. Forty-two people to be. Seven ways to live there. No two worlds come out the same, because no two playlists are the same.
“Your music. Your world. Your story.”
The trailer
Three minutes in Sonoria
The world · fourteen cities
Every genre has a skyline
Grunge rains on a harbour town. Punk stacks colour up a hillside. Ambient floats pavilions above the clouds. Each city carries its own architecture, light and soundscape — and every one can be your starting point.
Rainy Harbor
Wet stone quays, cranes and a lit hillside town.
Rebel Terraces
Stacked colour, bunting and a stage plaza.
Obsidian Heights
Basalt fortress across a misty gorge.
Garden of Echoes
Ivory colonnades and terraced lake gardens.
Cloud Sanctuary
Stilted pavilions above a sea of cloud.
Sunset Boulevard
Palm boulevard, neon theatre and sea stacks.
Neon Skyline
Night river, glass towers and light ribbons.
Infernal Citadel
Black spires over rivers of lava.
Golden Spires
Gilded palace on cliffs and waterfalls.
Synthwave Bay
Retro sun, neon grid and a glass bay.
Lantern Lake
Tiled eaves, lantern lanes and lakeside tea houses.
Jade Canals
Canal terraces, moon bridges and pagodas.
Riverstone
Stone squares, arcades and riverside cafés.
Willow Creek
Brick main street, covered bridge and a steepled church.
The people
Forty-two people to be
Men, women and young travellers, each designed around one of the fourteen cities — and free to go anywhere. Every character shares the same full animation set, so whoever you choose walks, runs and lives the whole game.
The roles
Who do you want to be?
Appearance and story are separate. Any character can take any role; the role decides the story you follow.
Agent
Investigate mysteries and follow stealth stories.
Artist
Create performances and meaningful spaces.
Explorer
Discover hidden places, memories and routes.
Keeper
Care for gardens, wildlife and retreats.
Mender
Restore places and help communities reconnect.
Resident
Build a home, relationships and a daily life.
Wanderer
Follow music freely and choose a story later.
Distribution
Built and distributed by Hydrogen-Overdrive
Sonoria is in active development for Windows PC, with keyboard, mouse and controller support. Publishers, press, streamers and partners: the build, trailer and stills are ready to share.