Great Game, But…
This is easily one of the most addictive actor management sims out there. Blending real-life Hollywood icons with fictional talent makes building an agency and launching your own movie studio a blast. The core gameplay loop has kept me hooked for hours.
That said, once you reach the higher levels of the game, the immersion starts to break. Here are a few realistic tweaks that would take this from a great game to an absolute masterpiece:
1. Audition Logic & Age Accuracy
Unrealistic Competition: Right now, the casting algorithm ignores basic demographics. There is no reason a fictional teenage actor should be losing a teen role to a senior Tom Hanks. Both real-life and fictional actors need to recognize their own ages and only audition for roles that actually fit their age bracket.
Multitasking Projects: In real life, actors juggle multiple projects at once—filming a movie, doing voice work, and shooting a guest spot in the same year. Locking an actor into one single project at a time slows down the pacing unnecessarily. Allowing talent to film two or three projects simultaneously would make scheduling feel much more authentic.
2. Studio Mechanics & Movie Budgets
Broken Indie Budgets: Once your custom studio hits the highest tier, the game forces every single project into a massive blockbuster budget. What is the point of choosing "indie," "avant-garde," or "experimental" modes if the game still slaps a $300M+ budget on a quiet romance drama? A small drama cannot turn a profit with superhero movie overhead.
Budget Caps & Negotiations: Players need the freedom to set their own budget caps. When pitching to other studios, we should also be able to negotiate key terms like the final budget, release dates, and whether the studio will fund an awards campaign.
Salary Flexibility: A-list actors commanding $50M+ shouldn't automatically balloon a movie's budget. Just like in real Hollywood, top-tier actors should be willing to take massive pay cuts for passion projects and indies, or trade upfront fees for a percentage of first-dollar gross on blockbusters.
Franchise Release Gaps: If my studio is building a cinematic universe or a franchise, I need control over the timeline. We should be able to schedule proper release gaps—like dropping Movie A in Year 0 and locking Movie B for Year 3—instead of rushing sequels out.
3. Production Timelines & Broadway Realism
Bloated Filming Schedules: Some production timelines make zero sense. A standard crime drama should not take over two years to film, especially when there is a chance the studio will just shelve it afterward. Filming durations need to scale realistically based on the genre and budget.
Broadway Run Times: Right now, Broadway shows lock actors in for 400+ days. Note on real life: While a hit Broadway musical actually can run for years (and standard initial actor contracts are usually 6 to 12 months), limited-run plays usually only last 3 to 4 months. The game should separate limited plays from open-ended musicals so actors aren't trapped in theater for over a year every time.
4. Career Goals, Awards, & TV Networks
Out-of-Touch Actor Goals: The personal "goals" system needs serious tuning. It makes no sense for an A-list superstar making $20M+ a movie to suddenly demand a role in a low-budget web series that barely has a $1M total budget. Goals should scale with an actor's current fame and tier.
Awards Campaign Opt-Ins: Management and talent should have a say in awards season. We need the option to choose whether an actor actually wants to push for a major awards campaign or skip the press tour altogether.
Real TV Studios: Since the game already does a great job mixing real and fictional movie studios, it needs to do the same for television. Adding real-world prestige networks alongside fictional ones—like HBO, FX, or AMC—would make managing TV careers way more immersive.
The Verdict: Despite these late-game quirks, the foundation here is incredible. If the developers patch the budget scaling and fix the audition logic, this will easily be the ultimate Hollywood sim.
That said, once you reach the higher levels of the game, the immersion starts to break. Here are a few realistic tweaks that would take this from a great game to an absolute masterpiece:
1. Audition Logic & Age Accuracy
Unrealistic Competition: Right now, the casting algorithm ignores basic demographics. There is no reason a fictional teenage actor should be losing a teen role to a senior Tom Hanks. Both real-life and fictional actors need to recognize their own ages and only audition for roles that actually fit their age bracket.
Multitasking Projects: In real life, actors juggle multiple projects at once—filming a movie, doing voice work, and shooting a guest spot in the same year. Locking an actor into one single project at a time slows down the pacing unnecessarily. Allowing talent to film two or three projects simultaneously would make scheduling feel much more authentic.
2. Studio Mechanics & Movie Budgets
Broken Indie Budgets: Once your custom studio hits the highest tier, the game forces every single project into a massive blockbuster budget. What is the point of choosing "indie," "avant-garde," or "experimental" modes if the game still slaps a $300M+ budget on a quiet romance drama? A small drama cannot turn a profit with superhero movie overhead.
Budget Caps & Negotiations: Players need the freedom to set their own budget caps. When pitching to other studios, we should also be able to negotiate key terms like the final budget, release dates, and whether the studio will fund an awards campaign.
Salary Flexibility: A-list actors commanding $50M+ shouldn't automatically balloon a movie's budget. Just like in real Hollywood, top-tier actors should be willing to take massive pay cuts for passion projects and indies, or trade upfront fees for a percentage of first-dollar gross on blockbusters.
Franchise Release Gaps: If my studio is building a cinematic universe or a franchise, I need control over the timeline. We should be able to schedule proper release gaps—like dropping Movie A in Year 0 and locking Movie B for Year 3—instead of rushing sequels out.
3. Production Timelines & Broadway Realism
Bloated Filming Schedules: Some production timelines make zero sense. A standard crime drama should not take over two years to film, especially when there is a chance the studio will just shelve it afterward. Filming durations need to scale realistically based on the genre and budget.
Broadway Run Times: Right now, Broadway shows lock actors in for 400+ days. Note on real life: While a hit Broadway musical actually can run for years (and standard initial actor contracts are usually 6 to 12 months), limited-run plays usually only last 3 to 4 months. The game should separate limited plays from open-ended musicals so actors aren't trapped in theater for over a year every time.
4. Career Goals, Awards, & TV Networks
Out-of-Touch Actor Goals: The personal "goals" system needs serious tuning. It makes no sense for an A-list superstar making $20M+ a movie to suddenly demand a role in a low-budget web series that barely has a $1M total budget. Goals should scale with an actor's current fame and tier.
Awards Campaign Opt-Ins: Management and talent should have a say in awards season. We need the option to choose whether an actor actually wants to push for a major awards campaign or skip the press tour altogether.
Real TV Studios: Since the game already does a great job mixing real and fictional movie studios, it needs to do the same for television. Adding real-world prestige networks alongside fictional ones—like HBO, FX, or AMC—would make managing TV careers way more immersive.
The Verdict: Despite these late-game quirks, the foundation here is incredible. If the developers patch the budget scaling and fix the audition logic, this will easily be the ultimate Hollywood sim.
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Love the game, but needs some fixes
I really love this game, but it needs several big fixes. In order of importance:
1) Font change. Even with my glasses on, the font is so hard to read. A Z, an S, a 2, and a 5 should be easy to tell apart. This font tried to invent a single symbol to cover all of them. Fixing the font should be the easiest thing and would be the biggest help.
2) Sequel guarantees aren’t paying. I made $2.1M on season one of a show. Guarantee to be in season 2. Season 2 happens and I says it will give me 2.3M thanks to the guarantee…but their actual offer is 300k.
3) The game is too easy even on regular mode. Unknown getting starring roles in blockbusters for millions of dollars. I love that you’ve got web series and off off broadway, but they aren’t needed when nobody has to work their way up. Nobody has to pay their dues as Guy At Party.
4)Give the NPC actors their ages. I lost a teen role to Tom Hanks. Haha.
5) Career history needs to show pay history. Especially for actors who demand 4 jobs have consistently higher pay.
1) Font change. Even with my glasses on, the font is so hard to read. A Z, an S, a 2, and a 5 should be easy to tell apart. This font tried to invent a single symbol to cover all of them. Fixing the font should be the easiest thing and would be the biggest help.
2) Sequel guarantees aren’t paying. I made $2.1M on season one of a show. Guarantee to be in season 2. Season 2 happens and I says it will give me 2.3M thanks to the guarantee…but their actual offer is 300k.
3) The game is too easy even on regular mode. Unknown getting starring roles in blockbusters for millions of dollars. I love that you’ve got web series and off off broadway, but they aren’t needed when nobody has to work their way up. Nobody has to pay their dues as Guy At Party.
4)Give the NPC actors their ages. I lost a teen role to Tom Hanks. Haha.
5) Career history needs to show pay history. Especially for actors who demand 4 jobs have consistently higher pay.
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Great
Genuinely one of the best app games I’ve played. Reminds me a bit like the original Hollywood Mogul, but unique enough with it being running an agency. The contract negotiations work really well and it’s fun being able to rework a contract to push for a bit more perks.
Awesome game Updates fixed a lot of the bugs
I really enjoy the game. I’ve Been playing it for a while now. But you getting rid of the force button prices a bunch of actors out of jobs. A lot of of the actors demand are too high for most of the jobs. Also, I feel like while the production company update has a lot potential, there needs to be an interface for your actual production company where there’s hiring staff writers hiring directors for your company and stuff like that. Again The game is great and the update did make everything look cleaner, especially with the faces. There is a lot of potential, but by tweaking a few thinks it’ll make the game a lot more enjoyable. (Updated a lot of the bugs were tweaked in the update, the game is very enjoyable and I know as more updates come out more bugs will be fixed)
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Accessibility
I really enjoy playing this game, it’s so good. The one issue I have is that I would like for the option of a bigger font. I don’t have good eyesight so it put a strain on on my eyes because of the small font.
Updates Good but broken
I really enjoy the game. I’ve Been playing it for a while now. But you getting rid of the force button prices a bunch of actors out of jobs. A lot of of the actors demand are too high for most of the jobs. Also, I feel like while the production company update has a lot potential, there needs to be an interface for your actual production company where there’s hiring staff writers hiring directors for your company and stuff like that. Again The game is great and the update did make everything look cleaner, especially with the faces. There is a lot of potential, but by tweaking a few thinks it’ll make the game a lot more enjoyable.
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Great game! Been addicted to this
Probably the best in its niche.
Response from developer
Thank you so much!
Fun game but glitchy
This is a fun game, however there are glitches. After a few plays, it glitches to the main screen and then whatever assignments I done for my clients - have to do it all over again. When you get to year three, the showings for franchise films is no longer available to be seen. I had purchased 200 political power, closed out of the game and when I went to return - the political power was gone. This has a lot of potential but too many glitches
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Great Game!
The game is amazing, but as you reach higher agency levels, it becomes really hard to manage your actors because they are constantly unhappy, and it seems like you just can’t please them. There are some things that need tweaking, like when I signed someone to my agency and got them an audition, but then they took a creative break. Also, it would be helpful to know more about what the actor wants to do in terms of roles instead of assuming. More movies, shows, or theater projects would be nice. Additionally, when an actor is brought back for a show, it says you can negotiate for a higher role, but I don’t see that option. I also haven’t gotten a Broadway transfer yet, even though I opt in for that on contracts.
Edits: I love what you've added to the game, especially the franchises and stuff, but I honestly haven’t been playing as much because I really preferred the old layout since it was much easier to navigate. I don’t mind that the game is now harder; I just really miss that old layout because it was so beautiful and bright.
Edits: I love what you've added to the game, especially the franchises and stuff, but I honestly haven’t been playing as much because I really preferred the old layout since it was much easier to navigate. I don’t mind that the game is now harder; I just really miss that old layout because it was so beautiful and bright.
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Response from developer
Broadway transfers don’t happen often. They’re rare. I’ll work on the tuning of this. Be sure to check out the new update
Amazing
Incredible game. I’m so locked in. I wish there was a way we could see the actor’s genre preferences after they’ve already been signed
Really good, but..
I enjoy this game a lot, and this review could be a 5 star if not for a persistent bug, when tapping multiple times on the screen, it becomes zoomed in, this also happens when typing ages when looking for talent, only way to fix is to restart the app which sometimes loses progress
Needs work
See title
A new game or update maybe?
I absolutely love this game but I’ve been thinking just about how much more fun it would be if we could our own acting careers and become a goat actor and work for multiple franchises and get sequels and new seasons like that would be fun
Masterpiece
This is truly the best, most in depth movie game out there right now. It’s hard, fun, complex and has a lot of replayability. The newest update fixed so many problems, it’s such a big improvement. This is the game flying under the radar at the moment. I have just two recs for the developer that I think would make the game all that much better. First, you recycle the titles of movies and tv shows over and over again, and it makes it hard to track what my actors are actually doing. Like, it’s fun to see an actor get their first hit movie in “A Small Fire”. But then there’s like two other “A Small Fires” on the submissions board and one more in the festival circuit and another appearing a year later. Imagine if every year there were two “One Battle After Another’s” and two more on TV. Please just add like 300 more titles or something. And the second rec is please change the actor portraits. They’re terrifying. They also don’t match the new game aesthetic or look.
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Response from developer
Hahaha thank you so much for the kind words. Many, if not all, of your concerns have been adjusted in the 2.0 update!
Hmm
The game is deliberately made difficult to succeed without spending real money. Whenever you have an actor that makes your agency a decent amount of money, the conveniently decide to retire or take a career break. The game constantly crashes/returns to the main screen every few in game days (so every other real time minute). When you somehow make it further into the game, and fire actors, their old casting emails still reappear despite constantly deleting emails. I would not recommend this game at all and there are so many better alternatives that actually work (for free)
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Graphics
I love the game I like the first layout before the update honestly but it’s still a good game and also I like the previous layout because you can see how many pc you had before you even took a audition
Response from developer
Thank you for playing! You can still see your PC if you tap the top left bar the shows you how much money you have! Just tap it and it’ll expand and show you your political capital as well as the amount of money you have :)
Amazing Game: Added a few recommendations from my end
Hi, I really like your game but just have a few recommendations. This new UI patch looks cool and really interesting but it has brought a few quality of life changes that makes the game a little difficult. Firstly, for hiring new talent, the earlier process was really nice where you could filter by attributes to find people but now that is gone. It makes it very tedious to go through the entire database. The previous version made the game feel more customizable because you could choose what kind of talent you wanted to work with. Also, if you could get a message of who have scouted or a tab for scouted talent, what would make things alot more easier.
Lastly, the game takes critical reviews to seriously. I think Box office results shouldnt be that determined on it and popularity should play a bigger factor on performance rather then just critical reviews and would be really nice to go througg the filmography and see performance in terms of views and money earned rather then just critical reviews
But yeah, overall love the game and prob the best of its type in the genre. Just make the changes in a more incremental mannwe because complete UI overhaul makes the expeirence for someone who has been playing it very alien.
Lastly, the game takes critical reviews to seriously. I think Box office results shouldnt be that determined on it and popularity should play a bigger factor on performance rather then just critical reviews and would be really nice to go througg the filmography and see performance in terms of views and money earned rather then just critical reviews
But yeah, overall love the game and prob the best of its type in the genre. Just make the changes in a more incremental mannwe because complete UI overhaul makes the expeirence for someone who has been playing it very alien.
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Response from developer
Thank you for this breadth of suggestions!
Great game!
love the details! definitely has potential to keep expanding!
Response from developer
Thank you!
Great Game!
The game is amazing, but as you reach higher agency levels, it becomes really hard to manage your actors because they are constantly unhappy, and it seems like you just can’t please them. There are some things that need tweaking, like when I signed someone to my agency and got them an audition, but then they took a creative break. Also, it would be helpful to know more about what the actor wants to do in terms of roles instead of assuming. More movies, shows, or theater projects would be nice. Additionally, when an actor is brought back for a show, it says you can negotiate for a higher role, but I don’t see that option. I also haven’t gotten a Broadway transfer yet, even though I opt in for that on contracts.
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Response from developer
Broadway transfers don’t happen often. They’re rare. I’ll work on the tuning of this. Be sure to check out the new update
Things to fix !
It’s a wonderful game but some things need to be fix first we don’t make enough money to be having to pay every month for the agency I also think that every actor should have a social media account and gain followers you know I also feel like we should be able to give the actors gigs like covers on magazines and stuff and I also think we should customize the actors and stuff and see they net worth and how much they gain from each film/show other and can they be able to do 2 or more at the same time
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Response from developer
Thank you for the ideas! Make sure early game you’re going for more of the big budget projects (although they are more competitive). They’ll offer bigger payouts!
