Which game is the seventh main installment and reboot of the Guitar Hero series?

Guitar Hero Live is the seventh main installment and reboot of the Guitar Hero series. It was released in October 2015 after a five-year break following Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

Developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision, the game rebuilt the series around a new six-button guitar controller. Instead of five colored fret buttons in one row, the controller used two rows of three buttons, designed to resemble real guitar fingering more closely.

Its main career mode, GH Live, used first-person concert footage that showed the player performing onstage while the crowd and band reacted to the performance. A separate mode, GHTV, presented playable songs alongside music videos and streamed programming.

The title is sometimes confused with Guitar Hero 7, a separate planned project that was cancelled during the franchise’s earlier hiatus. Guitar Hero Live was the completed revival: the seventh main game, but the twelfth overall release when spin-offs and related entries are counted.