Rocksmith® 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY

The game itself isn't really good, and each song being 5 dollars is insane

so bad game if you're playing it vanilla

good game if you're using customs

I had this game for the PS3 and got it for PC as I really wanted to try out songs that aren't included with the official DLC. The Rocksmith community is pretty cool and seem to be keeping this game alive. It's helped me a lot with techniques which I was struggling with and it's motivated me with guitar playing.

The lessons are simple, if you get stuck with techniques then these are really good to get used to them. You can play the songs on their own or use the campaign mode which can be a lot of fun and seems to have a good selection that ramps up in difficulty as you play along.

I kinda suck at figuring out stuff by ear and I don't like just using tabs as they can be a bit iffy and sometimes I don't know what to choose. This game makes it easier by having it right in front of you. So I mostly play the songs on their own.

I know there are other ways to practice and play the guitar but this method/game works a lot for me.

Had a physical copy of this game back in the Xbox 360 days. I had the USB connection that worked perfectly with zero issue. Bought this game because I still had the cable.
Long story short to save any one any trouble do not waste your time purchasing this game.
Not what I was used to, not worth playing with it or logging online to get the full experience.
Ubisoft games are not worth spending any money on.

I really like Rocksmith the only problem is that I downloaded some songs that werent available from the store. Now I have issues on the rocksmith app. Please send help to fix the game.

Love(d) this game - but it's seems to be abandonware at this point and no longer launches on Macs.

DO NOT BUY THE GAME
This game I payed for doesn't work. I feel robbed by the company who released it.
I have Windows 11, and the specs,
DO NOT BUY THE GAME. YOU WONT BE ABLE TO PLAY IT!

Constant crashes, constant errors, and whenever I would finally fix issues, they would put out a tiny update that would break the whole game again. Not worth the time nor energy.

Its helping me learn eletric guitar by myself. Wish it had other musics or a way to buy it without the online service that they tried to create as substitute for this game but fail.

🔴 Do NOT Buy Rocksmith 2014 Remastered in 2025 - You Might Never Be Able to Play It
==> Ubisoft is still selling a broken product on Steam, and here's how it happened:

The Timeline of Failure:
- ~2021–2023: Ubisoft quietly disables new account activation for Rocksmith 2014 Remastered because their song licenses were expiring. This meant new players who bought the game couldn’t get past the main menu, as a Ubisoft account is required to proceed.
* Ubisoft provided no warning or disclaimer.
* Steam continued to sell the game during this time.
* Many new users (myself included) had to refund it, assuming it was just un-playable, and pending removal from store.
- Late 2023 / Early 2024: Ubisoft released a "Rocksmith+ Learn & Play" update, which added practice tools only (no licensed songs).
* This update was meant to re-enable new account creation and profile loading.
* Reviews at the time claimed it worked again, as long as you accepted the stripped-down functionality.
- 2025 (Now): Ubisoft still has not fixed this properly. Here's my case:
* Bought the game again on Steam in May 2025.
* Ubi Connect refuses to recognize the key.
* Steam account is correctly linked.
* Game is non-functional. Can't activate or use it.
* Reinstalling, nuking data, launching offline, etc. — none of it works. **Game hard crashes/stops responding when it cannot validate the key or connect to Ubisoft servers**.
* Ubisoft support is slow and unreliable.
* Meanwhile, they are STILL selling this game to new users, knowing damn well that:
- It won't work if you've previously refunded it.
- It won’t let you activate unless some obscure backend flag is toggled.
- There's no disclaimer at checkout or on the store page.

🚫 This Is Deceptive and Possibly Fraudulent
- If you bought it during the 2021–2023 period and refunded it, and then re-purchased it now (even after the supposed fix), you’re permanently locked out as of the time of my writing.
- Ubisoft's backend system does not restore your entitlement, and the activation key is considered “invalid” despite being sold through Steam — with zero recourse for fixing it on your own

And yes. I used ChatGPT to generate this after spending hours trying to troubleshoot and find a workaround, but I couldn't. They did a really good job at making this game unplayable in my case, even though I've tried buying it TWICE now.

This game is the goat for people who can't play solos in a deathcore band or don't own an amp to jam with your local dipshit stoner drug addicted friends with in their rich parents garage. JK, mostly. Honestly this game helped me learn the hard way the realities of being in a band before I ever tried being in a band, even when I played drums and guitar in a jazz band in highschool .All the perfectionism that singers and drummers expect from a guitarist or bassist is easily squared away if you can play this game well and read tabs after., granted with hundreds of hours of play. Toodles

Finally back on Steam! Great!

If you want to buy it because the "free edition" doesn't work for you, then keep in mind that this is just an old game, it may require some tweaking. If your game crashes on startup, go to Device Manager (Win + R > devmgmt.msc > Enter) and go one by one through devices listed in "Sound, video and game controllers". Try turning each one off and try running the game.

To make it work with your audio interface go to github and search for rs_asio, follow the listed steps carefully. If your game launches, but your input from the guitar isn't detected, then go to RS_ASIO.ini and start tweaking the settings. For me (Topping e2x2 interface) I had to set BufferSizeMode=custom and CustomBufferSize=48. Then you probably need to select the proper channel. Focus on a single Asio Input (you only need one, not all 3) and change Channel= to 0 then 1 then 2 then 3 and so on, relaunching the game inbetween. For me the proper channel was 1. Don't forget to save the file.

The tweaking is definitely worth the hussle, I don't think there is a better guitar game out there. There are not only tons of songs (in "free edition", pardon:), but also some arcade games to master your guitar technique. Even though I will not play this through Steam, I recommend buying this game if you want to become a better musician.

I've had this game since it came out. Loved it. Still do, but when I recently opened it, I noticed some things were off. Songs that I purchased from years ago are missing. Gone. Not even available DLC anymore. WTF did you do with my songs, man?! That's f*cking messed up! This was my escape. My f*cking mental health depends on playing these tunes I grew up with to ease my mind and you took that from me. Ubisoft can kicks rocks. You're the absolute devil and I wish nothing but fowl things unto you.

Game used to run flawlessly on my M1 Mac and would usually work on my Windows 11 machine. Now I can't get it to work on either. Ubisoft still sells the game, at least for Windows, but doesn't seem to be fixing issues with MacOS 15.4 and later or high core count CPUs with Windows.

Perfect way to start learning songs in a gamified way. The tuning and recognition of notes is surprisingly accurate. Would recommend to anyone wanting to hammer out any electric songs.

Couldn't get the game to even work just one problem after another. Never got past the login to profile screen.

Rocksmith 2014 > Rocksmith+. EA... please just license some songs for this and/or make now-expired DLCs re-eligible for purchase, and you can have my money.

best way to learn guitar, as long as you have some self-discipline to teach yourself the techniques properly along the way. just watch some youtube and do some exercises, and you can spend most of your time on this game

Been playing guitar for most of my life, and this is by far one of my favorite ways to learn new songs. Originally bought this to play on the PS4 before before switching over to the PC years later, but it's been an overall great experience on both platforms.

helps with the basics of guitar. I would still recommend learning to read tab or proper sheet music, but you can get good at the technique by playing this game. If you ACCIDENTALY downloaded a cracked, pirated version of the game with all the DLC, you could ACCIDENTALY move the DLC folder from that version to the DLC folder of this version and HYPOTHETICALLY not have to pay for any of the DLC.

Easily one of the best ways to learn guitar ever. Any reviews complaining of continued support issues are missing the point of the game. I started this prior to having real guitar lessons, and it gave me incredible ability to play riffs or entire songs before taking any real lessons. I am now an incredibly capable guitarist, able to learn most songs simply with a tab based on the strength and skill I have built from this game.

That said: DO NOT use this as your only means of practicing. My guitar lessons are the only reason I am able to work with other musicians for jamming or playing songs. Rocksmith simply doesn't look at music theory enough. Use this to learn how to play the fundamentals, not to become a master of the instrument. It's useful and fun for learning songs even while you are taking lessons though.

Overall this is an easy 10/10 game. It makes practicing fun and makes it very easy to quickly learn songs. My only complaint is that it doesn't adequately examine some of the technicalities and music theory of guitar.

I've had this game for about 10 years. It taught me everything I know. If I had bought it through steam Id likely have a couple thousand hours at this point. This is hands down the best way to learn to play an instrument. Get the CDLC tool off of ignition forge and play any song you can think of, the minigames are awesome. This is a perfect game, and unfortunately Ubisoft owns it so all future releases are bad. Buy it!

I remember my dad getting this for me as a gift back in 2014 when I first picked up a guitar. I didn't really take advantage of the full capabilities it had, but now with a fresh perspective it has been a game changer. I've been playing guitar for roughly 14yrs now and this game really sobered me up to my skill level. I am definetely not as good as I thought I was, but I am getting better! The first hour I almost put the game down, but as I am improving my sight reading it's getting a lot more fun. The only thing I don't like is having to download cdlc, I wish the game had built in songs like it used to, but I knew what I was purchasing. For $10USD YOU CAN'T GO WRONG

This game rules. Do your research beforehand though, it can take a lot to get running perfectly, but it's worth.

The game couldn't hear half the notes I was playing. It prompted me to detune my guitar to a soft stringed mess with no discernible similarity between what it wanted me to tune to and what it wanted me to play.

The removed all the base songs and added a bunch of lesson crap. Basically you have to pay for every actual song that you want to play now. Knew it was to good to be true when I saw they put it back on steam. Ubisoft sucks as usual.

just do it and find out the beauty and wonder of the title and what it has to offer

Amazing tool to practice and keep sharp. I personally love having a bunch of songs I don't have to pay for done by a community at custom forge. Amazing community.

It seems that the time has come. The game does not work anymore, there are no more patches, and I lost all the money I've spent on DLC. Good bye Rocksmith, we had some good time together.

I'd really only recommend it if you plan on using custom songs alongside this, but, to be fair there is still a good amount of dlc available even considering the re-release. As far as actual guitar playing goes, I'd use it to more understand techniques and learn new ones over straight up using it to fully learn guitar. All in all, I still think it's worth the $10.

Hey UbiSOFT STOP REMOVING SONGS ALL OF MY AVENGED SEVENFOLD IS GONE. The only reason i play this is for stuff that i was able to buy. You guys are ruining this game keep all of your DLC this is Ridiculous. Thanks for ruining my favorite way to play. congrats i will never buy another game or dlc from you guys again.

Not having a great start to this program, Wont let me use my USB interface for my electric guitar and instead wants me to go buy a Rocksmith branded usb to guitar cable, I tried to download voice meter to use it as a Microphone option and run my interface through voice meter, but Rocksmith would either not launch or launch and instantly close before even getting to any screens, after uninstalling voice meter it launched normally again.

unable to calibrate my electric guitar using my desktop microphone as it keeps saying its too quiet despite being right up next to the mic
and a bunch of features are disabled with the disconnected option

I fking hate it. It is frustrating and not fun at all. Better off with Yousician. Now I got a trauma of the song Blitzkrieg Bop. Everytime I hear that song, it reminds me of the terror's of Rocksmith. Everyone is talking about how amazing it is, but it sucks balls. Waste of money on cable and on game

thumbs up

highly reccomend getting dlc packs if you're ever getting the game. helps you learn a lot, both in lessons and songs. comes with pre-made exercises and a few classical songs to test your skill with. fire game. you WILL need to calibrate manually (sound recieving).

[This is a review for the learn & play edition]

Rocksmith is NOT "The Fastest Way to Learn Guitar". It's not even a good way to learn guitar. Sorry Ubisoft. However, it is a fun and engaging practice tool, and serviceable as a rhythm game.

This review assumes you are playing the game with mods and CDLC enabled. The quality of the official DLC is very good in my experience, but the unofficial content is seriously where it's at. Modding also helps to alleviate some of the numerous technical issues and limitations inherited from the console versions (which i've played extensively), such as the long ass unskippable intro, and lack of third party audio interface support.

The gameplay.
So this game has some resemblance to popular rhythm games. Colour coded notes come down a lane towards you and you hit them at the right time. It works surprisingly well, however, it has some problems. To make reading the fretboard at all possible, the devs made the tradeoff of making the rhythms incredibly hard to read. To compensate for this, they made the timing so lenient you can sometimes be off by more than a beat and still hit the damn note. Yeah. Since the game has to analyse the audio of your guitar in real time, they made the note detection incredibly lenient as well. It mostly counts as a hit when you hit the right note, but sometimes also when you don't. The game is also very sloppy when it comes to detecting techniques like palm mutes and bends. And it doesn't try to represent the ends of notes at all, which makes some charts feel empty and lacking detail.

What this means is you will have to listen to your own playing and correct your own mistakes. With that said, if you can do that, it is pretty fun to learn a song using the automatic difficulty scaling and the "riff repeater" mode. But if you are a beginner this can be a trap, as the game doesn't emphasize the importance of rhythm enough, and doesn't provide any real constructive feedback.

In the end, i still recommend this game. How could i not, when it's this fun? But i want you to be aware of it's flaws. Most important of all, don't use Rocksmith as a substitute for guitar lessons, and don't use it as a substitute for real practice. It's a fun game, but it's just a game. That's all.

Necessary for an all rounded guitar player or bass guitar player,if you have the disc version you can now transfer it to digital. also there's tons of DLC for it too, not as much as there used to be but still a good selection due to the fact that the rights to some of the songs were revoked. This is the game that taught me how to play

Addicted to this. So much fun. Have mastered one song and am close with a couple more. My musical ear is a bit lacking so I am not sure that all the notes in the game are perfect but they seem pretty close. The visuals definitely help me when my musical ear is lacking. But I think it is improving bit by bit by practicing with Rocksmith.

Do I have almost 700 hours in this game? Yes I do. Can I play leads? No I can't! But that's not the games fault, I just suck at it.

But boy has this game made me fall in love with guitar. For context, I have tried a million times over the course of my life to get into it. I always wanted to, because I always liked guitarists the most when growing up, jumping around playing air guitar over Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Nirvana and Metallica. ONLY when I discovered this game, have I started to get into it.

I hate tabs, I can't read them. This game makes it easy to understand what you're supposed to play. I do recommend to set it on the highest difficulty though, because I struggled with this "less notes" approach. You then later on need to relearn the song with all notes basically. Just go with the full thing and learn in your own tempo. You will hit the notes eventually.

Do I recommend this game! Yes, i really do. Do I recommend Ubisoft? No, I don't. I've had high hopes for the successor of this game, but it's just a SaaS scam at this point. Also, did I mention the customforge? It would take too long to explain everything, but it's basically modding, so you can play community created songs (versions of songs not in the catalogues)

hell yaah. learned a simple song in 2 days. im a slow learner but this helped. my only complaint is there's no songs that come with the game anymore. its sad that theres only DLC lesson songs or something. i haven't tried them out.

overall great game. better than rocksmith+ imo

Don't even waste your energy. TLDR; Song library too small, buggy mess, unknown crashes (cant even get it to open anymore). Fun when it works w/ mods

The game is fun w/ mods IF you can get it to work. BIGGG IF... I cant even get the game to stay open anymore, even after trying hours of trouble shooting...but on top of it crashing for virtually any reason under the sun, you'll need an ancient proprietary "real tone cable" to play... Furthermore, getting it to work requires going into files deleting/editing files and installing drivers. If you can get the mods working you can use an audio interface instead, but even that is finicky. Ultimately another game with potential abandoned by this sorry company.

If the game gets fixed I'll edit my review but lets be real...

My experience just trying to play the game was so bad....here is what happened... I had to refund this game and buy rocksmith + instead. It immediately recognized the cable and bass. No it wasn't a realtone cable either. My frustration is that if someone buys rocksmith 2014 nowadays, it doesn't come with a realtone cable. I bought a bunch of songs, plugged in and I was suppose to set it to "microphone", select the input, attach it to an audio interface, download "asio" drivers of some sort, install them somewhere and fix an ini file nd hope for the best? Wayyyyyy too complicated for someone like me. I am bummed out I have to pay a subscription now to rocksmith + but....I can just deactivate it when I get bored I guess. Is there a way to tell the devs to set up Rocksmith 2014 to work like Rocksmith + as far as using any cable adapter? Or.... Make the drivers included with the game and mail a realtone cable to the customer...? I just don't know...My review is a thumbs down for the 2014 version because of how complicated the set up was without a realtone cable.

1,000,000 times better than Rocksmith + in every way shape and form. Buy the cable on ebay, download this game, and master guitar and bass in a 10th of the time that it would take getting lessons from an old guy at a guitar shop.

there's over 1500 songs and having buy each one? and most of the songs are removed due to licensing? time to put on the captain jack sparrow outfit gamers

I honesty am lost for words. Never has there been, since this game, a teaching tool that's as well developed as this game was. and at $10 base price, it's an absolute steal. What could potentially cost you hundreds of dollars in lessons, is all packaged in this this game. (and if you're lucky, you could find it on sale for under $5)

To put things simply, this game basically takes the concept of titles like Guitar Hero or Rock Band, and tweaks it to work with an actual guitar, and brilliantly so.

With that said, it's not easy and will require practice, so you're probably going to have to play the tutorials first before jumping into anything else. And you're going to have to practice and master each lesson. Luckily these tutorials are very well presented. They are simple, easy to understand, and interactive. You're not just watching videos. You're also going to be tested by mimicking what you are taught. They cover everything from how to hold you pick, to advanced techniques like hammer ons, and finger tapping.

There's also something called "Guitarcade". This is a collection of minigames designed to help you practice certain techniques. For example, one where you have to shoot ducks by playing on the correct frett. These games are a fun change of pace from the main gameplay and helps make things feel a little less mundane.

When it comes to playing actual music, the base game does leave a little to be desired. There are only a few songs. none of which are anything anyone wants to play. However, there are hundreds of DLC tracks, with tons of well known classics. And then there's the CDLC mod (Custom DLC). It's a very easy mod to impliment, and once you do, it opens up a whole new world of completely free community created charts that you can download and play. You'll find pretty much everything there. although since it's community driven, the quality can be hit or miss, but that's a small caveat in the grand scheme of things.

The game doesn't come without a few small issues. The note recognition can be a bit iffy at times. It sometimes registers a correct note even though I clearly hit the wrong note It's not a huge issue but it is one to note. The game can be played with both a microphone, or the required cable. I've used both, and while the cable is better, it still has this issue.

Regardless If you're interested in playing guitar, or you're already a master, this game is an easy buy. It's a great fun way to practice and learn. Don't even play Guitar Hero. Just play this and learn an actual skill.

Turned on game. using proper controller. notes don't register half of the time when i hit the note. I INTONATED THIS GUITAR LIKE 2 TIMES TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS ACCEPTABLE. EVEN CONSULTED SOMEONE MORE EXPERIENCED THAN I. GUY MAKES A LIVING PLAYING GUITAR. WHAT IS WRONG, AM I OFF TEMPO, OFF TUNE? TURNS OUT NO. game sucks. songs sound bad. you can just barely hear you guitar with default settings.
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great now game doesn't even turn on at all and it disappeared from my library somehow.
now once again. money gone. review is still being checked by some automated content check system.
if this message gets to you guys. learn from my mistakes. decide what is best for you.

great game for learning guitar and playing pretty much any song you want

This used to be good, but now they have stripped it bare trying to turn RS into a subscription service.

ive learned many songs by watching you tube but 99 percent of the songs on this platform are not anything im remotely interested in playing . im a classic rock guitarist think lynerd skynerd era being the latest id be interested in and chuck berry the oldest bob segar etc new music of today mostly sucks imho. had i known this was such a lame product i would never have bought it plus its stuck on loading page takes forever hardly worth it

Managed to get this working with my digital mixer and steam deck, which took some time - but didn't have to get any additional equipment like the usb-cable. Decent game to keep you occupied with your instruments. Free downloadable songs also work, so sure worth the 3€ I paid for it.

i used to love the game but not the game wont start up it just crashes unless this problem is fixed i cant recommend the game. the game worked fine till it was uodated not it just crashes