This game is amazing and seriously addicting — it really pulls you into the grind of trying to make it big in Hollywood. I love the detail and how much effort clearly went into building the star life journey. That said, it does take quite a while to become famous and land significant movie or TV roles. In my own playthrough, I didn’t get a show with a solid IMDb score (finally an 8.8!) until I was around 29. Before that, most of my projects had embarrassingly low scores (like 2.8), which made the climb to stardom feel extra slow. Another thing I’d like to see improved is the money system. Right now, even as an A-lister, I’m earning about $200k on average per project. In real life, top-tier actors pull in $10 million or more per film, so the payouts in the game don’t quite reflect the reality of what being a superstar means. Lastly, the overall difficulty feels like it’s locked on “hard mode.” It would be great if the devs added Easy, Medium, and Hard modes so players can choose how quickly (or slowly) they want their fame and fortune to build. Overall though, the game is really good and highly addictive. It just needs a few tweaks to balance the grind and rewards. Thanks for making this — looking forward to future updates!

Absolutely love this game. I’ve played it a couple times, but at a certain point it becomes so easy that there’s no point continuing. I have some ideas for tweaks and other things that could make it more fun. 1. When you start investing in films, there should be more busts than hits. Right now I always make money when I invest in a film, but that’s rare in the real world. 2. Same for when you have a movie studio and you produce your own tv series and then everyone bids on it. What if no one bids on it because they don’t want it? It could make everything riskier. 3. Directors. Can you add famous “name” directors to the game? So that when you’re an aspiring actor, it’s really hard to get cast in one of their films, but could also alter your career? I think about your publishing game and how hard it is to get published by one of the Big Five. What is there were 5 big directors you need to get cast by? Same when it comes to studios. What are the 5 big studios you want to get cast by? 4. News stories. Can you add a feature where you have news stories announcing films or tv projects? You have it with the reviews (which is awesome!), but I think you could build out the world a bit to make it more fun. Think about the website Deadline. It would be cool to have pop up news stories about the new film by one of the big 5 directors. Or a news story about which film was nominated for 11 Oscars.

Listen, I like this game. But I started over because I thought I had worked out how to improve my talents only to find that j was entirely wrong. The exponential increase to spending energy on talents, the energy cost of jobs, applying for auditions, and expending energy on improving your auditions/bookings only for it to make absolutely no difference in the end, and how frequently your energy decreases when you only start with a max of 100 in the first place, are frustrating. Oftentimes I’d find myself doing everything I could think of to increase my different talent scores only to see they haven’t budged, or there is at least no indication that they have budged. The tooltips and help aren’t very clear. I think it would greatly benefit this game if there were some tweaks to energy gained versus expended, max energy, and maybe making acting classes and auditioning/booking roles visibly improve talent scores instead of just experience. I wouldn’t mind an occasional option to watch an ad to boost something if I’m running out of time to boost performance on an audition or something, even.