Press kit
A tradition that comes home transformed.
Last updated: September 21, 2026
Libera Concordia
Granada, Spain
2026 — the core team met at Granada Jam 2026
PC (Steam) · Windows and macOS
Demo — January 2027 (Steam)
Steam Next Fest — February 2027
Full release — TBA
Rhythm / narrative adventure
Unity · FMOD
Spanish, English and Japanese
TBA
Trovador is a rhythm and narrative adventure game for PC and Mac, set in the Spain of the 16th century. You play a musician from the near future who, after an accident, wakes up in the Castilian Golden Age with the only thing he still owns: a futuristic four-string guitar that works as a portable DAW. To find his way home he must do what trovadores have always done — listen, compose, perform. Gather the verses of real traditional romances from the people around you, build each song stem by stem, and bring a broken oral tradition back to life.
A musician from the near future wakes up in 16th-century Castile after an accident. All he has left is his instrument: a futuristic four-string guitar that works as a portable DAW, with melody, bass, rhythm and harmony at his fingertips. In a world of inns, muleteers and candlelight, his way forward is the oldest trade of all — that of the trovador.
The game is built on a three-phase loop that mirrors how oral tradition really works. In Descubrir (Discover) you explore a historical setting from an isometric view and collect the verses of a real romance by talking to the people who remember it. In Recrear (Compose) — the rhythm core of the game — you build the song stem by stem: your left hand plucks four strings on A·S·D·F while the arrow keys choose which voice sounds at every moment, with interchangeable instruments for each layer. In Transmitir (Perform), the composed romance comes to life in a narrative performance that weaves together music, verse and action, with the player driving the performance.
The songs are real: romances from the Castilian romancero, arranged for the game and implemented as adaptive FMOD music that grows as you play. Wrapped in hand-drawn 2D art that crosses Spanish Golden Age imagery with neon, Trovador turns the oldest form of Spanish popular poetry into something you don't just hear — you discover it, you recreate it, you transmit it.
The heart of Trovador is a loop of three phases that embodies oral transmission itself. Every romance in the game passes through all three.
Exploration phase
Explore a 16th-century Castilian inn from an isometric perspective and gather the verses of a romance from its people. At the Mesón del Olivo, every conversation with muleteers and regulars adds a stanza, a clue or a nuance to your notebook: the story reveals itself by listening.
Composition phase
The rhythm core of the game: you don't replay the music, you compose it by playing it. Your left hand plucks four strings (A·S·D·F); with the right, the arrow keys choose which voice sounds at every moment — melody, bass, rhythm or harmony. Each layer accepts different instruments, swappable like gear in an RPG, so the romance ends up sounding your way.
Performance phase
The composed romance comes to life: music, text and action in a single performance. As you play, an illustrated scroll unfolds and stages the story while the lyrics advance beneath a staff. What you discovered and recreated is passed on — the romance sounds again, now told by you.
For centuries the romances survived from voice to voice; over the last hundred years that oral chain has all but broken. Trovador hands these songs to a digital-native audience not as museum pieces but as a lived experience — you find them, you rebuild them, you pass them on. The space where the old romancero meets electronic music is essentially unclaimed territory.
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All of Trovador's music — the original score and the arrangements of the romances alike — is the work of Toni Jiménez, a Granada musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist trained in classical guitar at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música Victoria Eugenia. He was Niños Mutantes' keyboardist from 2019 until the band's farewell in 2024 and has been Lori Meyers' guitarist since 2020. He has led Nievla since 2018, co-founded Madame Popova in 2014 with his sister Ana Jiménez and Andrés Galán, and plays guitar in Unidad y Armonía. He has worked as a musician, arranger and producer on numerous recordings for projects across Spain.
Andrés Galán joins as performer and arranger. A Granada musician, he graduated in classical guitar performance from the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música Victoria Eugenia and in Music History and Sciences from the Universidad de Granada. He works across the Granada music scene as a guitarist in bands such as Nievla and D. Latorre, and as bassist for Paulina del Carmen and Unidad y Armonía.
Recording and mixing of the music are handled by Nacho López at Producciones Peligrosas. A pianist with a professional music diploma and a higher degree in sound, he plays keyboards in Nievla and El Hombre Garabato, with whom he has worked alongside national figures such as Miguel Ríos.
The game will also be voiced by professional actors, recorded at that same studio. Their production, editing and mixing are handled by EHProducciones, a Granada audiovisual company whose specialities include sound post-production, and with whom Nacho López also works.
Producciones Peligrosas is one of Andalusia's most storied rooms: working out of Peligros, on the edge of Granada, since 1989, it was the first studio in Spain designed by British acoustician Philip Newell, and records by Enrique Morente, Lagartija Nick, 091, Los Planetas, Lori Meyers, Miguel Ríos and Vicente Amigo have been made there.
Art Direction · Illustration
Born in Bolivia, a digital design and animation engineer specialized in 2D illustration, with credits on Paper Klay, Tani Nani (WhyKev) and Bring it On! (Axol Studios). She leads Trovador's art direction and illustration.
Creative & Executive Direction · Game Design · Writing
Born in Granada, he studied mechanical engineering at NYU and worked as an investment-banking analyst in New York before moving into games. A Granada Jam award winner, he leads Trovador's creative and executive vision.
Technical & Programming Direction · Mechanics Design · 3D Art
A Unity and 3D specialist with previous work on educational simulators and several game-jam awards. He leads the game's technical direction, programming and mechanics.
Libera Concordia is an independent game studio based in Granada, Spain. More than a closed team, it works as a free association of professionals who gather around each project under a common direction. The studio makes interactive experiences with cultural depth and narrative richness, rooted in literary and musical tradition. The core of the team met at Granada Jam 2026.