# Box Office Sim 2 — user reviews > 125 indexed App Store user reviews of Box Office Sim 2 by John Jaco, rated 2.40/5 from 180 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/box-office-sim-2/id6443477185/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/box-office-sim-2/id6443477185.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 26 · 4★ 15 · 3★ 28 · 2★ 45 · 1★ 66 ## What do users think of Box Office Sim 2? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Great concept and improvements from first game - 👍 Interesting new features like locations and contracts - 💡 Potential for more features like TV shows and streaming **Cons** - 🐛 Extremely buggy and glitchy, causing crashes and loss of progress - 🔨 Confusing and cluttered UI, needs simplification - 👎 Worse than the first game in some aspects **Commonly reported bugs** - Buttons not working, screen splitting issues - Crashes when trying to save or advance weeks - Purchased features not working as intended **Most requested features** - Add auto-naming for movies and characters - Improve search and filtering for cast/crew - Implement audience reviews and box office news ## Newest reviews (16 of 125) ### 2/5 — Potential but a lot of glitches *2026-06-15, version 1.1.2* The game is fun and has a lot of potential but a glitch can make it lose so much data. For example, I signed directors and other cast but as soon as I clicked the back button on the game screen. Half a page loaded on my screen and refused to leave. I had to restart everything multiple times because of this happening again and again. ### 3/5 — good game but some things *2026-05-17, version 1.1.2* this is great b.o game but I wish they added like imdb and rotten tomato ratings so it could be more realistic while avoiding copyright. but overall a great boredom buster game. also, adding like tv series n stuff would be cool af. ### 2/5 — Fix the bugs *2026-04-05, version 1.1.2* This game has an amazing idea, but it takes so long to maneuver around. Also the bugs are so annoying! Please fix the bugs! ### 2/5 — So sad *2026-04-03, version 1.1.2* this was one of the best mobile games of all time , if only the developer kept updating it :( ### 4/5 — Wow *2026-01-28, version 1.1.2* I love this but i think we need a 3rd game and make it more in depth you know what i mean ### 2/5 — Fix the Bugs *2025-12-02, version 1.1.2* I rate two stars because the bugs make this game unplayable. After upwards of 5 attempts to actually create and release the first movie it worked, but then I could not make another one. The game itself would be fantastic and even better than the first one that I very much enjoyed. Unfortunately I realize these reviews are several years old and nothing is likely to change. I am extremely disappointed in how this game becomes UNPLAYABLE. ### 2/5 — Just play the first one atp *2025-07-27, version 1.1.2* This game has so much potential!!! It has tons of super cool features like people being able to act and direct just like in real life, and the script system being improved from the first game. However, it’s very buggy and almost unplayable. As it is, I’d rather just keep playing the first one. The 2 star rating it has is deserved until it’s fixed ### 2/5 — Not as good as Box Office Sim *2025-06-15, version 1.1.2* Gotta say, I played the original BOS when I was younger and downloaded this one, and it did not live up to the hype. There are too many bugs and glitches, and it’s really complex- I preferred the simplicity of the first game, even if it gets old after a while. Good concept, poor execution ### 3/5 — Update this *2025-05-20, version 1.1.2* It’s fun but can you PLEASE fix the bugs! ### 2/5 — Bugs *2025-02-23, version 1.1.2* Love this game so much just please fix all the bugs! Sometimes when I save the game my money says error and I can’t see any of my movies/marketing/location scouting tab and then I can’t keep moving forward in the game! Pls fix this! ### 3/5 — amazing game that deserves an update. *2025-01-29, version 1.1.2* i believe it runs a bit slow on newerphones ### 3/5 — Fun but has glitches *2024-12-20, version 1.1.2* The game is fun but I will freeze and crash. There are lots of bugs please fix it so I can continue to love this game ### 4/5 — Very good but 2 things I’m mad about *2024-09-25, version 1.1.2* Whenever I try making a sequel I press the button and it never works so I have to delete and re download the game and another thing is the split screen whenever I press one of my movies it splits my screen many times game is very good so it will get 4 stars ### 2/5 — Has potential, but vary convoluted *2024-08-27, version 1.1.2* I loved the previous game, and this game definitely try’s to build off of the last game. Also, the game is really buggy, I hired an actor and they took the money and ran, didn’t even act in it. If they add more features that differentiate itself from the previous game, remove the countless bugs, add in some cool and new features (ex: being able to buy other studios and their franchises), make the game a bit less repetitive, and makes itself worthy of a sequel. I really hope you continue to make this game, fix its bugs, and add new features, but for now I’m going to stick with the original. ### 3/5 — Good Game But has some bugs *2024-08-04, version 1.1.2* So 1 I love the game idea but yeah My first bug I’m gonna talk is the duplication bug ### 2/5 — Confusing *2024-06-29, version 1.1.2* Good but it’s hard to figure out anything and whenever you try going down it just doesn’t work ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — genuinely unplayable at time *2026-06-04, version 1.1.2* this game is fun and far better in terms of details and control over things when being compared to the first game, however, there are countless bugs, one of the most frustrating bugs is when you’re creating a pitch for a movie and the screen glitches. Half the screen is stuck between creating the pitch and the other half is stuck on a very compressed version of the overview of the studio/week. ### 1/5 — Glitches *2026-01-13, version 1.1.2* Just so many glitches with it. Sometimes for some reason the screen will duplicate when I try and make a movie. Sim box office 1 was the best ### 1/5 — Bugs *2025-12-13, version 1.1.2* Has potential but the glitches and lost data etc drops the value ### 1/5 — Crashing/Unplayable *2025-11-20, version 1.1.2* Are you able to make the dam game stop crashing constantly? ### 1/5 — So buggy *2025-04-23, version 1.1.2* I know I’m late to the party as this game came out over 2 years ago but I’ve only just started playing and I am really enjoying it but that fact the game is so buggy is ruining it I’m about 4 years into my save and no tasks are showing up when they should sometime I have to reload the game because I can’t swipe from page to page and when I click on people or my company the whole thing just goes to one side of my screen and won’t let me click anything please update your game to fix these bugs then I may think about paying that 2.99 that you want ### 1/5 — Bad *2025-01-20, version 1.1.2* Gets kicked off after every movie I made then I have to start over again ### 1/5 — Too many bugs and glitches *2024-10-23, version 1.1.2* It’s a fun experience and you’re probably not going to fix any of the problems with this game but it would be much appreciated if you can fix the freezing and random glitches while switching menus. ### 1/5 — Bugs *2024-07-30, version 1.1.2* Loved the added features that the first game was missing. Unfortunately, I cannot start the first movie as it bugs out and splits my screen so I have to close the game which then doesn’t save. ### 1/5 — So many bugs *2024-07-27, version 1.1.2* It seems great on the surface and the concept is great but there are so many bugs once you start getting into the game. Buttons missing, genes and ratings change from when you choose a movie to releasing one, the awards will show up on the main menu but when you click on it there isn’t even an award show for it. Looks like the developer hasn’t updated in over a year. I guess he got his money and ran. ### 1/5 — Needs to fix bugs *2024-06-25, version 1.1.2* This is a very good game in my opinion but please fix the bugs ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — just trying to help *2026-02-13, version 1.1.2* bring back the simpleness of the first game but have like realer franchises & not 80 movies in 1 , have like syndication to actually show just how popular 1 of your movies are even years after dropping , and please take the pay down on the actors got no credit actors getting Denzel money + like if u make a big enough franchise a lil royalty deal on like a theme park or merch wouldn’t hurt ### 5/5 — Please just update it *2025-10-11, version 1.1.2* One thing you have to do is to make sure to not make the game not save your work even when it is automatically saved and it makes just a new studio please do. Thanks. ### 5/5 — The reason it is only 4 stars *2025-05-29, version 1.1.2* The game is amazing but whenever I skip some weeks, it changes to a default for no reason Please can you fix this! ### 5/5 — Amazing Game, Such Potential *2025-02-03, version 1.1.2* This game has such potential and I really love playing it ### 5/5 — Derrick *2023-06-29, version 1.1.2* Can you make a music label version ### 5/5 — I wish we can do short films and 7 hour films *2023-04-12, version 1.1.2* I love this game but I want to make short films on it and really long ones but can’t any way love it ### 5/5 — Need updates *2023-03-13, version 1.1.2* A lot of stuff that could be done with this game but also some bug that need to be fixed ### 5/5 — Update the game please! *2023-01-04, version 1.1.2* Fix this game. Its so buggy. Really looked forward to this one as a sequel. PLEASE. ### 5/5 — Great game beside the bugs *2023-01-03, version 1.1.2* It’s definitely a fun game but it has a few bugs that start to become irritating as you play you’ll probably get threw 7 to 12 turns before the bugs start to interfere with you’re gameplay but overall I definitely love the game 10/10 ### 5/5 — Great concept, bad execution. *2022-12-25, version 1.1.2* The original version of this game is GREAT no bugs no nothing- while this one is great and fun to play the bugs become annoying. You have to play with auto save on or you could and will lose everything within 10 weeks, some times the interfaces only take up have the screen prohibiting you from being able to exit out of it, and after 3 years I wasn’t able to make any more movies as when ever I created a pitch it just didn’t show up. This game while is fun, becomes infuriating. I’m giving it 5 stars because the developer of the game knows what to do, and I believe they will make this game even better than the original but the bugs are a pain. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-20.*