Fest Grounds

Your festival. Your legacy.

Fest Grounds is a festival management sim where every decision has a tradeoff.  Start with an empty field and a dream — end with a permanent landmark and a 50-year story.

Every season, 19 decisions shape your fate:

• Book the lineup — filter and sort acts by genre, fee, draw, and reliability, from local openers to national headliners
• Pick your ground — four ownership paths: buy land and build permanent grounds, renovate a city warehouse or theater, lease-to-own a music hall, or partner with the city on parks and plazas
• Court sponsors — start with local businesses and earn your way to regional and national deals, each with their own demands, crises, and clawbacks
• Survive the season — weather, crowd moods, live moments, and a crowd that remembers how you treated them

Features:

• Full 50-year career mode across five regions
• Four distinct venue ownership tracks with real tradeoffs
• Gated sponsor progression: local → regional → national
• Lineup tools: filter by genre and tier, sort by fee, draw, reliability
• Live festival moments and persistent crowd memory
• 3 save slots with autosave, plus downloadable backup saves you can import anytime

A note on saves: this browser version only keeps saves for your current session — hit export to download a backup before closing, and import it when you return.

Made with care in Wisconsin by Southside Studios.