When the developers will complete the game, it will be a masterpiece.
Thumb up in advance.

There were significant issues on launch, but the developers are making fantastic strides towards getting them ironed out. While the issues themselves are questionable following two demos where many of the same issues were reported, they're being fixed quickly.

Otherwise, this is one of the most narratively interesting, engaging, and unique tycoon games I have ever played. I am very excited to see where they take this concept going forward, and I highly recommend trying it out.

Neutral rating, fun game for a while, but needs better balancing.

Got to 1937 or so, 60m in the bank.

By this point, most of my movies are above 9. I'm even using 4.0 scripts and they still end up above 8 at the end. I'm curious what happens later in the game. And what do the extra tech and research do, that it takes years to develop and I don't know if I have the patience to wait for.

Majority of scripts end up >9 even with my 6.8 scriptwriter. I'm happy, but wondering how do we avoid doing the same thing every year, it's too repetitive. And please don't add random challenges just make it harder, like the FSAA bans on genres etc. It's a bit lazy and not fun for a 2025 tycoon game.

Tech equipment doesn't seem to do much for the movies, besides costing more. Using lvl 1 tech or lvl 5 tech still gives me a 9 movie.

I've been bottlenecked by the amount of theaters for years at this point, just trying to squeeze the movies in the calendar and end up having 3 movies 8.8 running at the same time for 4k showings each. I can't buy more theaters, there aren't any. I can't build any either. Also, now that I have 60m, I'm half way through the tech tree but what's my incentive to play further?

Tech tree - some of it seems out of balance. By the time I get +50% exp for Directors etc, they are already maxed out. What's the point to research it? Same with scriptwriters, when they get exp from movie release - by that time WW2 happened and I have the Jewish scriptwriters. They are already more than able to put out 9.9 scripts all the time.

When you start, a cheap movie costs 200k, max around 500k to produce (without distribution or marketing). At around 1937, I have 9.9 movies costing 200k too, and I splurge on fancy costumes, fancy sets, all the extras money can buy. I get it, economies of scale, but I'm happy I started with Behemoth otherwise I can't get a movie to cost 1 mil for some reason. After some research the movies are very cheap to make.

We could also use:
- dashboard to show when contracts expire
- ability to extend contract before they expire, since I don't know why extending the contract until the end of the movie costs 1k, but if I wait a few days to extend the contract I can get 5 years out of that 1k.
- skip the pollux awards ceremony.
- if I dont like FSAA and I want out, I should be able to build my own awards and invite independent artists to submit.
- what are the competitors for - besides launching movies (minor or any impact on my ability to make movies or money from them), having some talent that you want, but by the time they are out of contract so you can get them, you have the 1935 crises and you can get plenty anyways. They don't seem to do anything, will we be able to destroy them, buy them etc?
- limitation of how many movies you have in the pipeline - I get it, there should be a limit I guess, but I have an abundance of staff that I don't know what to do with.
- animated movies, Disney stuff, with different staff
- ability to redeploy the same script formula as before. A writer knows that a script did good, he even got a Oscar from it and there's only 2-3 combos you can do of the same genre, so why doesn't he remember. Having to select the same stuff all the time is tedious.
- synopsis seems empty all the time
- script ideas need to pop up more. Using the workshop to do the same thing every time is tedious and time consuming.

Stardom - seems to happen very arbitrarily and not organically. An actor is either a rising talent, star etc, or he isn't. No matter how many 9 movies I put him in, he never becomes a star.