Music Timeliner

Music Timeliner is a free web game from Steady Koalas, the small Swedish studio that also makes Movie Timeliner. It takes the idea of party card games that sort songs by release date and turns it into a shared daily set. The meta keywords even name Hitster.

Each day brings eight songs, numbered from the restart of the daily in late September 2026. The first card is already on the line with its year showing. A blurred cover with a play button holds the next song. Press it to hear a short Deezer preview, then drag the card to the spot on the timeline where you think it belongs. A correct guess turns green. A wrong one slides to its real place and turns red, so the line always stays in true order and every card you have seen becomes a landmark for the next.

On 26 October 2026 the set ran from Frank Sinatra's Mam'selle (1947) to Olivia Rodrigo's lacy (2023), with blink-182, Queen, Morrissey, Rammstein, Cascada and 21 Savage in between. The spread across decades and genres is the point: you date records by their sound, the drum production, the vocal style, the mix, without needing to name them.

You get one skip per game for a song you cannot place. Hard mode, switched on before you start, keeps the years of placed cards hidden until the end. Your stats and streak are kept in the browser, with a transfer code to move them to another device.

Beyond the daily there is an archive of every past day, an Endless mode where you keep placing songs until you lose three lives, and a builder for custom timelines that you can share by code. The site carries no ads and needs no account.