M.U.D. TV

M.U.D. TV
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$2.99
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19 April 2010
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Always wanted to see if you can hack the day-to-day life of a TV producer? Here's your chance! MUD TV is your ticket to the weird wild world of television. Once you take control of your own station it's up to you to determine the line-up, hire actors and directors, produce your own shows, series and movies and to grab those lucrative...

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M.U.D. TV system requirements

  • OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista/7
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Hard Drive: 2 GB of free space
  • Graphics: 128 MB, DirectX? 9.0c-compatible (Shader Model 3.0 support

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antrygr
antrygr

For all people who want to work through this in Linux, with Steam's Proton...

it has NEVER worked in Proton, for me.

I've been told that Steam ONLY supports Ubuntu, so I've gone and installed Ubuntu into a partition, not the LTS
( which I found to be broken: couldn't get Haskell installed properly in it, & the stock Ruby was no-longer-maintained upstream, and it was broken, but Ubuntu told me it wasn't their problem: I was to take the brokenness of Ruby up with Ruby, even though Ubuntu 22.04 LTS was using a no-longer-maintained version of it...

idiocy. )

Also, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS couldn't let me read ANY .html documentation under /usr ( the Snap version of FireFox was prohibited from displaying LibreOffice help files, e.g. )

So, while I never want to see Ubuntu again, I've got it in here,
specifically for my simulations...

There are some that work ( X-Plane 11 works, haven't tried X-Plane 12 yet: it's still downloading ), Poly Bridge 2, eSail, iirc ARMA 2 worked in Ubuntu...

This, however, has never worked for me.

I'd got it so I could learn/understand the issues that people need to balance, in doing that kind of work/life...

Learning is the only point of living, right?

To me it is, anyways...

So, this game never worked, I've tried for years to get it to work, and since a huge amount of Windows-compatible programs DO work in Steam's Proton, I'm guessing that either they coded it to break on Proton/Wine or they have some weird anti-piracy-system which tries to rootkit the system, but it isn't MS-Windows, it's Linux, so that gets prevented/broken...

There aren't many reasons why a *userland* Windows program wouldn't work in Wine/Proton for years, is there?

Whatever.

IF you live in Linux, THEN avoid this one, unless they fix it.

Burn
Burn

Crazy television company where you try to brainwash the unsuspecting population? Yes, fun idea and I love such simulation games, but this game is just not fun. There's no learning curve, but a learning cliff. I'm just glad to put it away and never think of it again. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2887044700 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2884550067

Charon
Charon

This title heavily suggests that there is multiplayer functionality. This is not the case. It also crashes on the second level in single player. Avoid like the plague.

Eos
Eos

I recommend this game because i saw everyone is recommending things on Steam and stuffs :B

WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT GAME xD

Porkchop
Porkchop

Looked promising. Couldn't be bothered working out the complex mechanics. Gods I'm lazy. Too lazy to play. WTF man?

ac19189
ac19189

This game will keep you busy for a few hours but it has some huge downfalls to it. One of the few reasons I recommend the game is because it gives you what it promises. I didn't go into this game expecting too much and it honestly doesn't have any replayablitiy at all but the few hours of play time you do get before finishing the game seem to past by without too much trouble. Never really got tired with the game before I finished it so thats a plus considering how small the game is.

If you are looking for a game that lets you run a T.V. channel and setup the broadcasting then this game will be what you want though as I said the game itself is not very complex and it doesnt have much in the way of replayablitiy which is sad because the gameplay wasnt all that bad. Just not much of a reason to replay it. The whole point of the game is just to try and score better ratings then before.

YosemiteTom
YosemiteTom

It would have been so nice, if they just put the old MAD TV, which is now an abandoned Dosbox game, and just set it up with all new graphics and movies and stuff like that.
But they decided to make it all new and invented some sort of quality value for everything which only can be improved by writing own movies and shows with a qualificated staff. So there is no possibilty to bring the epic one's like the godfather on prime time. But it was in the first game, which was fun.
And this one is defenitly different and boring (to me ).

ApeLikeJay
ApeLikeJay

One of the best simulation games I've played... until it crashes every time. Incredibly hard to get it running, it will only run on one of my 4 'modern' machines... and when it does run, it always crashes after a week or two in-game play... all indications are that there is a severe memory leak. Among other technical issues related to starting it up...

Which is a shame because when I finally got it running, until the inevitable crash, each game was outstanding.

Cthonyxa
Cthonyxa

Interesting concept, poorly executed. Still, I would recommend this game EXCEPT it always crashes in the middle of a game. I would not buy another game from this developer.

oznightshade
oznightshade

1.5 stars. This is a good idea for a game that appears to be poorly delivered. Maybe it's just me but I found it fairly hard to learn and even harder to play. Basically I'd rather go back to playing old Theme Hospital than slogging through this game.

Nutrodamus
Nutrodamus

Great game if you save enough and can get past the crashes. If you are not the patient type you should forgoe this buy.

Darth Trog
Darth Trog

I am not sure why it crashes for some people, I have 17 hours playing so far, the in game timer has reached day 8 in mission 2 and no problems.

Only one time did it "crash" but I had alt-tab out of the game, then returned after an hour to play some more and it froze up. But other games will do this at times.

Game play is more puzzle than anything, but you still have to get a strategy to finish each mission.

The only downside is there is no free play. Once you complete a goal for a mission it moves to the next goal and you have to start all over building again.-- No free play after you finish a mission---

There is free play in the custom game.

- "Create your own character and guide them through your own hard-earned television empire"

You do not get to create your own character in game, you get to play the story presented as Matt. There is a seperate exe that lets you make a custom character

Overall, a fun game that is worth one go around, but does not seem to have much replay value. I was glad I picked this one up.

FroggiePuffs
FroggiePuffs

Rarely ever works. Even after getting a new desktop, it doesn't want to launch or crashes. Then once you're in the game, tutorial doesn't make sense.

eakugler
eakugler

What should be a fairly straightforward sim game is a convoluted mess, with a terrible interface and bad one-off jokes.

Nivteron
Nivteron

I loved MadTV. But this game is just bad. The actual gameplay seems to be more complicated than it should be, combined with pretty confusing menus, makes it terrible to play. And it crashes,... a lot....

Demon
Demon

This is a horrible game, I got it for preordering another horrible game. I didn't have any crashing problems at all. The game was very boring and there was not a lot of interesting things to do. I havn't played it in a long time but if I remember correctly you just purchased shows and put them on at different time slots trying to find what works. There is a base building element which is what interested me the most but it wasn't enough to save the game. I uninstalled a long time ago and will never reinstall.

Zygos
Zygos

Its a game a deperately wanted to like. I didn't have the crashing problem others have said, no it was that the game was so very difficult, and so not forgiving that eventually I had to just give up.

The first scenario has you buying advertising for pre-created shows, which is so hard that you'll be lucky to get through it. The second has what I wanted, to be able to create your own shows, however there is this horrible arbitary thing where you have to pay back a loan in 10 days, and I missed the deadline probably 4 or 5 times, and eventually gave up.

I wanted to like the game, I love these sorts where you can create things, and sell them. But in the end it was just not fun.

CoyoteTraveller
CoyoteTraveller

Interesting attempt at a Hospital Tycoon genre game. MUD TV gives the player an avatar, and makes them run around between rooms if they want to do things. In the real world, it means your attention isn't focused where you wish it was, and having a good strategy can lose to poor base-building organization. All in all this is what hurts the game most of all to me: In other games I can dwell on one window as much as I want while I'm doing other tasks. Here, if one thing needs my constant attention, it stops me from doing anything else until I'm done.

Actor-wrangling has a pretty fun stat system, absolutely every person is interchangable in every role from acting to directing to postproduction, but stats that improve performance in some roles are actually a downside in others. There is no meaningful one-player mode: Your station is always competing with other (usually CPU-controlled) stations for viewers. Program production isn't *deep*, but it's better designed than a lot of stand-alone "make a movie" games that I've seen.

Unless you are playing as a public-supported station, the funding model is /weird/ to play. You gain no money directly from airing programs--instead, you buy contracts with advertisers for things like "within 48 hours, run this ad in 8 slots that have at least 2 million geek viewers". It's a cool idea, but the avatar control means you need to leave your station and run down to the ad station, and then you have to scramble to get the good ads before the other players do. It also means that making money is very boolean; you either hit your contracts and do well, or you whiff them and get screwed hard.

MUD TV innovates a lot and breaks a lot of genre conventions. If its changes worked, the execution is good enough that it would be genre-defining like Hospital Tycoon. However its experiments just don't seem to work for me. If you want a jump-in-and-enjoy genre game, maybe look elsewhere. If you're willing to experiment a lot, and explore the edges of the genre, give it a shot.

nephilimnexus
nephilimnexus

Despite all the haters who've done their thing, I actually enjoyed this under-rated little toy. Is it the best game around? Of course not, but on a Steam sale for less than $5, I've certainly got more than my money's worth on this one.

While it seems complex at first, those who are familiar with tycoon and business simulations will find it surprisingly easy to understand. It has not so much a learning curve as a sharp hump at the start but it's all smooth sailing from there. It can get very challenging, especially when trying to manage multiple shows at once, along with staff, advertising contracts, budget, and so forth - but with greater challenge comes a greater sense of victory from overcoming them.

The graphics are cheesy and dated, but if you're more into content than glitz, this is actually a fairly decent game at a shovelware price. Having been burned on some $50+ titles that left me with nothing but regrets, I'd say this game is a pretty good value for it's price.

Also I've heard a lot about crashing but frankly I just don't see the problem. I've only had it crash once, and that might have been my own fault (luckily it autosaves). It's certainly more stable than anything Bethesda has released in the last decade, and system requirements are low enough to fit on your average modern cell phone (note: you can't actually do that, I'm just making a point).

All in all you're looking at about a 2.5 to 3 star game at a 1 star game price. The customization is a nice bonus. My only real complaint is that the pdf manual included only seems to come in German. Luckily it only takes about ten seconds on Google to download the English version.

Dirty
Dirty

Fun game for the first 5-7 hours, after that it is very repetitive.

It has a very steep learning curve.
Lack of differant things to do.

Overall, would not recomend for the price, if its on sale then it might be worth it.

Iantos
Iantos

Incredibly basic, with little to no actual control over content of the show itself. You pander to some very strangely defined audiences with shows you buy. The tutorial itself was confusing. I suggest trying to find M.A.D TV instead - the game this is essentially based off.

DancingOnMyOwn
DancingOnMyOwn

M.U.D TV is a game about creating your own TV channel.This is a good game without good graphics without good sounds and camera is so annoying...BUT the gameplay.I love genre named tycoon.I started up with Game dev tycoon and ended with piece of shit named Airline Tycoon 2.Gameplay tightens you very much and you play and play and play.Technology is simple-you buy shows and making your own program of TV shows.You look in what time hipsters are watching your channel and picking up shows for them there also goths,bodybuilders etc.You can create your own show write down scenario and shoot it.You can employ workers.And how are you making money on it???It's advertising.OMG how it's hard to make money on advertisement bc the guys who give you it lay down conditions like we will give u money only if 400 000 goths will see our advertisement.And it's so hard to pick time where goths watching your channel.Unough talking i can talk forever.7/10

macsrigg
macsrigg

Well, the game lives upto it's own name. It's Mud.

M.U.D. TV has a great idea that is so crash-happy, boring, and convoluted that I don't recommend this for anyone

When you get it started, you begin with a small space on a random floor of an office building that can be expanded, to an extent, by building more rooms for different purposes, like a sound stage. You also have to hire the right people to get the job done. After that it just falls apart. You cannot spend too long on one item because the game won't pause while you're viewing screens. You can train people, but it becomes easier, but more expensive, to fire them and hire more competent people rather than wait for the original's training to complete. And God help you if you've built up your studio floor in a way that can't fit everything you want. It would have made more sense for everything to be in a pre-build layout and pay to have rooms unlocked/built.

The set-up isn't intuitive, making it heard to learn how to play... or even learn what the goal is.

Hard to learn. Hard to play. Hard to bother keeping up with it inbetween crashes.

BloodyThorn
BloodyThorn

Not really sure what I am doing wrong on this one. I can't seem to consistently do well at it. Which makes me think despite my best efforts that there is too much random element in your success. I may just be bad at the game. Seems overly frustrating games have been my bane lately. This one I have tried over and over and finally, I'm writing the 'I'm done with it' review. If I play two games I may do excellent on one, horrible on another. I don't think I'll be reinstalling it.

Adryan
Adryan

I really like the concept of M.U.D. TV - running your own television station - but I really don't like this game.

The AI is over-powered and will steamroller casual players.

The difficulty of ad contracts (how you make money) is determined by how many days have gone by in game (surprise! the AI is always ready for the difficulty increase), so if you lag behind you will find no contracts you can fulfill to catch up. At which point you can either quit and restart or wait to go bankrupt.

Crashing to desktop is not an uncommon experience.

Hardcore players may like the AI challenge, and multiplayer fans may enjoy playing each other. However, I do not recommend this game at any price because I do not believe the majority of gamers will enjoy M.U.D. TV.

asi.mov
asi.mov

I simply love this game, and I don't know why, but I have NEVER gotten any crash that everybody is complaining about. This game is a sequel to Mad TV, and for me it's a really good one. The only bad thing is that almost nobody is on multiplayer everyday, It's completley empty.

ThE_MarD
ThE_MarD

Heyyo, a fun little strategy game about running your own TV station and trying to beat the competition.

Oliwally
Oliwally

It may not sound it... But "M.U.D TV" is a very fun tv broadcasting simulator! You can broadcast ads, shows, make shows, make your studio, check your stats, mess up other tv shows (kinda XD) and theres an npc called nuck chorris! 7/10

DefinitelyDalton
DefinitelyDalton

This game has everything you would want in a tycoon game, humor, a storyline, good graphics and humor. This game puts you in charge by letting you create shows that you think would be best. You start out low and it is pretty hard to get money. I don't play it much anymore, but it is still sitting in the back of my mind! (1-5 stars 5 being good) 2.5 stars!

POLYBIUS
POLYBIUS

way too complicated for a worker sim game just got bogged down in the tutorial and decided it was not for me

BlueOrange
BlueOrange

A frustrating clone of MAD TV, which takes the original, gives it a 3D graphical facelift, and undermines enjoyment through long loading times and pointless frustrations. It keeps on coming close to the addictive brilliance of the original, but never quite gets there.

Orion Shadow 1
Orion Shadow 1

This game is both frustrating and addictive. For the last week Level 6 has tormented me with it's difficult to satisfy requirements and the lack of hints or workarounds that might assist in beating the level and progressing.

In spite of this there are many aspects of the game that are amusing. The pairing of groups who are interested in romantic or singing content is unexpected. Some of the titles of the shows may cause a wry smile, but there remains a certain amount of inflexibility in the game which could quite easily make a player throw the keyboard out the window or at the screen when what should have worked does not work.

This game is recommended but be aware of the frustation and the tutorial's complete lack of assistance. There is a very good guide which will help you through the first few levels on the Steam community, but aside from that, there is a dearth of help available.

DCrosby
DCrosby

This game landed in my "Junk" category of unplayable, or un-enjoyable games after the 5 hours I played (no Wrestled with it).

la merde
la merde

Not much to say. Nice idea but the bugs and the way the company communicates is a no-go.

    • not a single post in the forums
    • just release this game to grab some extra money - even with the knowledge that there is a memory leak which will not be fixed
    • in general no support will be given to the game - uncool to release a game on Steam then
    • a bug occured that makes loading a game impossible - game crashes after opening the time table

Again a nice idea wasted. Better take a look to the free open source game TVTower
--> http://www.tvgigant.de/en/index

Astrolox
Astrolox

I really like this game, because it's a cool management sim concept and is a lot of fun to play. However it is very buggy and I have become so frustrated with the constant crashes that I can't honestly recommend it. This is such a shame to say because it's such a good concept, with well thought out game play.

Satinelle
Satinelle

I didn't enjoy this. The idea is great but the interface is messy, the game is not enjoyable, gets quite complex unnecessarily.

sirhc80_ch
sirhc80_ch

would be a nice game if it wouldn't crash continously after day 8-14.
Please visit kalypso-forums, you'll see nearly nobody ever was able to play more than 14 in-game-days.
its nearly fraudy to publish a product which doesn't work at all...

Mizipzor
Mizipzor

A decent but uninteresting management game. Due to shallow and simple mechanics it failed to ramp up into a proper challenge. Only recommended if you've played all your other tycoon games and it's on sale.

SuperNerdBros
SuperNerdBros

MUD TV is a tycoon style game in which you run a television studio. You decide the programing, select advertisers, and even produce shows. The game tries to be a spiritual sucessor to the 1999 classic MAD TV, just without its addictive nature or its fun.

Failed Humor

MUD TV tries extremly hard to be funny, and you can tell the develpers thought they were hilarious. However all this humor falls flat. The descriptions of the different veiwership groups come off as stereotyped rather than funny, the discriptions of different TV shows comes off as Cynical rather than clever, and the story of a Mad scientest trying to take over the world through television sounds like it was written by a third grader.

Gameplay

However the humor and story would not matter if the gameplay was good. Sadly it is not. Gameplay centers around either filiming or buying TV shows and stragically adding them to the schedule. That is about it. Espionage and resarch form very minor parts of the gameplay. They system for producing show is incredibly simple and it is very easy to regularly produce five star productions. The gameplay just feels repetitive and boring. The competition aspect almost does not matter and unlike many other tycoon games, nothing will come up to stand in your way. There is no challenge so the game becomes somewhat boring.

HOWEVER,

this game is strangly addicting despite it's bad qualities. It can be an interesting puzzle to fit the shows into your schedule, and the game, though repetitive can be fun for hours. In reality, if I could give this a rating of neither yes or no but somewhere in between I would, becuase I was actually pulled in and enjoyed the game, but that may simply be becuase I have not spent much time with it If you are interested try to find the demo online, and see if this apeals to you. Also keep in mind that a similar game is being relased on the 20th of October 2015, called Empire TV Tycoon which looks very promising. I would recomend you consider that before you purchase MUD TV

6/10

*Note: I have spent another 5 hours or so playing the demo, which is very similar to the actual game.

Gilbals!?
Gilbals!?

Not exactly a complex Simulation Game, but at the same time a little too muddy (Pun not intended) It has a charm to it, but just a little too boring and annoying to navigate.

RayCoco
RayCoco

No support, No active updates. But the most important issue is thta the game won't start anymore and no one is answering my requests.

Good potential, pathetic execution and support team!

jademartindale
jademartindale

This is one of the hardest tycoon style games I've ever played, and I've been playing them my whole life. I really enjoy how hard it is to conquer some of the missions, unlike some other games where you can kind of just set it and forget it. This one keeps you on your toes.
As far as the crashes go, I haven't had this happen to me. I'm running on new dell laptop and on windows 10, though it ran on windows 8 fine for me as well. Although I haven't had crashes, I am having an issue where I can't drag certain actors or certain ads when I want them, but I can remedy this by restarting the game and it doesn't happen often enough to be a deal breaker for me.
I would definitely love to see more games like this one.

Antwog
Antwog

M.U.D. TV is an economic simulation game develped by Realmforge Studios and published by Kalypso Media. You play as the owner of a custom television network that is in competition with several other networks on viewership. Your network must beat the other network's using quality programs, which appeal to eight diverse fanbases, and gain higher advertising revenue. This game is an absolute buggy mess, but, I immensely enjoyed it.

The campaign is an interesting concept. The campaign is very specific that you complete missions that work towards your higher objective. Alternatively, the campaign allows for a slow build to a bigger climax. For instance, you have to earn a million viewers within one week in order to beat another network, which will advance the story. The campaign has cutscenes at the beginning that uses excellent comicbook-esque artwork that is simple and nice. The campaign has the potential to be excellent on paper, but the execution fails miserably. I will expand on why it fails miserably in the issues paragraph below, but, the main issue with the campaign is that it is too difficult. Many members on the forums could not pass level 3, even if they followed a guide. I personally could not pass level four, due to the sheer difficulty. While challenge is a good thing, this is frustrating rather than challenging. While I commend the potential exciting story in the campaign, the majority of players likely gave up on the campaign due to the difficulty rather than try to complete it, which I know I did.

The gameplay is phenomenal. I love these sort of economic simulation games, especially in a television network so I loved playing this game. The process of the game is you buy shows or movies and you add them to your daily network schedule. You buy advertising contracts that match to the shows you air and your network competes with others and the higher viewership generates higher revenues. You can hire a team to make TV shows through an elegant process through the writing team, production team and the post-processing team. Making shows or movies take longer, but have higher quality that potentially can garner higher viewership. The research area is an important tool that assists your network in having more outreach to audiences or even producing quality shows swiftly. The rooms in this game nicely complement other processes, for instance, research and producing a tv show, with the overarching objective to gain viewership. The artwork in this game is neat and bold and fits into the light-hearted tone of the game. I do commend the developers for incorporating satire and humour into the game, as I felt it fit in with the context of the artwork and game style. Like I said, I loved this, as I found competing with other networks to be extremely fun, even if it was unbalanced in how fast a network can buy quality shows. The gameplay was the highlight of the game for me.

The soundtrack is decent. It has some catchy songs, but nothing to write home about.

However, the game's negatives destroyed professional reviewers ratings and my rating. This game, quite frankly, is a buggy and glitchy mess. The developers released seven patches that improved the game and balanced it, but the overall game is unbalanced in the TV side of things but also on the performence side. There were occasional crashes, but the lack of support from the developers hurt this game. For instance, I assume due to under-performence in sales, the developers and publishers gave up any support they had on the game within three months. A quick three months. When they gave up support, they turned off the multiplayer servers, which I unfortunately could not play, and they left the game in a horrible state. The only real decent mode to play this game is customs mode, as its the only mode where players can play and have fun and not just uninstall the game.

Overall, if you are heavily into economic simulation games and are interested in this, by all means, buy it at full price and test the game out. You can get up to about 100 hours with the difficult campaign and the very fun custom mode. In contrast, if you are interested in this and unsure due to the bad publicity, I would not recommend it. The majority likely fit into this category, so I would have to not recommend the game. While the campaign has potential, the artwork and soundtrack are neat and the gameplay is phenomenal, the negatives tremendously hurt this game. The game has limited replayability because there is only a custom mode, where you can grasp the full experience, as the campaign is disappointing in its current state and the MP servers are off. This game had massive potential. But, I still enjoy it.

Scorecard:
Campaign: 3.5/10
Gameplay: 9.5/10
Sound: 5/10
Enormous amount of issues.
Overall: 5.25/10

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schwhatever
schwhatever

Interesting station management game with an odd quirkyness. Fun to play and presents a good challenge.

servvsumbrarum
servvsumbrarum

Greetings Everyone! Okay, next I have…M.U.D. TV? Sorry, I had to look up the name of the game. It won’t be any surprise I did not like this game. The premise is that you run a TV Channel and your goal is to get people to watch your programs and earn money through advertisers but you’re secretly…EVIL! Plot twist! Meh…

Evil Story: So you’re evil…for reasons and you want to take over the world after your professors through you out of college? Huh, I’m all for whacky stories but this is a bit much and after reviewing Impire you’d think I’d be closer to goal but nope. The story is not even forgettable, it’s so bad that it sticks in my mind and I’m annoyed that I even played the game. Really, would it have been so bad to change the story into your just a manager who wants to put good content on the TV. The story also seems to have a hint of politics involved, making corporations out to be super evil entities that don’t really even want your money they just want to destroy your lives for…reasons?

Convulsions within Convulsions: The premise of the gameplay is that you will buy or produce TV content, agree to advertisement contracts and then air your content when it is best to get the most eyeballs on it. You build rooms and research stuff. You’ve seen this all before but the way they implement it all is through menus with drag and drop mechanics with poor labeling and even poorer direction. This game is the definition of a spreadsheet simulator hidden behind silly toon style graphics. The tutorial doesn’t help either, walls of text and explain the game in a way that expects you to already know how to play it and even when you do learn how to play it…it’s just boring.

I always stick to three points: So, I don’t really have much to say about this game, but I always make three points with an intro and a conclusion. I will say that I had an odd graphical bug where everything vanished but unlike the majority of reviews on steam I didn’t haven’t any technical issues with this game other than that. This is a game, implementation isn’t terrible, graphics are okay for what they are trying but I don’t think anyone sat down tried to enjoy themselves.

Ultimately, I got this game for free when I bought Dungeons (another boring game) and to be honest, I’d rather play Dungeons. I think the main issue is a lack of direction, transparency and no one asking: “Where is the fun”. Maybe if I sat down and spent a few hours figuring out everything and talking to the other players (do they even still exist this game is 7 years old) I might find the game. But games in today’s world need to grab you immediately. I’d pass if I were you unless you are heavily into simulation / tycoon style games.

ChopperDan
ChopperDan

Didn't crae for it. Maybe it's because I was bad at the game... but Once I stopped playing it, I never looked back.
Would not play again. Looking into WinRAR.

slevelneves
slevelneves

This game takes all of the best aspects of tycoon games and throws them out the window, leaving simply the shell of a game. This game could have been so much better. 4/10

lordhellion
lordhellion

I don't mind repetitive simulations, but this one in no way prepares you for the game. There's a tutorial alright, but it consists largely of "look and this screen--now move on and look at the next". It took a lot of trial and error to figure out what some of these figures actually meant to gameplay. And there's enough hidden math going on behind the scenes that it's impossible to strategize ahead of time. You may think that the predicted 600K viewers your show is going to get is enough to satisfy the 300K viewer requirement the advertiser set on your show, only to have the system decide that you didn't perform well enough on yesterday's marketshare, so you're only going to get 100K viewers instead. You're forced into playing strategies last minute, and burning through your cash because you're prevented from thinking ahead.

MadCharlie
MadCharlie

i just don't get this game.....

2/10

Paddlehog
Paddlehog

I love the concept of this game. I put over 30 hours in, but found that i had to use my imagination to fill in all of the gaps this game left. I recommend playing this even if it only rekindles some interest in the concept here. Wait for a sale though. I wouldn't pay more than $5.00 for this particular game. It's old, buggy and lacking in so many ways.Keep an open mind and imagine what it could be!

I really wish someone would re-imagine this. Maybe a cross between this and "The Movies"? That was a great management simulation! Ahead of it's time if you ask me. Ultimately, There is a seriously neglected niche here; that needs to be scratched ; )

Obey the Fist!
Obey the Fist!

This is an adaptation of an older business tycoon game called MAD TV where you run a TV station and must achieve various goals to proceed through the campaign game (or you can just do sandbox play if you want). Instead of being presented with a god-view and a bunch of menus, you have to walk between rooms and then click on a tiny smartphone as your only real interface.

The game concept isn't bad but the gameplay here is needlessly convoluted. Having the game menus appear on tiny little smartphone devices (as you can see in the screenshots) is painful, especially if you have a high resolution monitor. These guys did not learn about UI scaling when they were in community college.

Given the game is a full 10 years old now and still riddled with bugs and an unwieldy and unfun interface, there's no excuse for them to charge $10 USD for this one. I'd give this one a miss, plenty of other tycoon games on Steam represent much better value for money.

OmniGundam777
OmniGundam777

I got this game years ago and I've barely touched it. It was really not good.

Lako
Lako

The game has appeal, it could be good; the real problem is the ubiquitous game-breaking bugs. It is literally unplayable.