They’ll also each have at least one passive personality attribute that could either be positive like someone who doesn’t take as long to recover from an injury or negative like someone who loses more stats when a scandal occurs. Each one will have different stats across physical appearances (cute, sexy, etc.) as well as for dance and vocal performance. You are given 5 potential idols and you can take as many of them as you want. However, it is all a gacha at the end of the day. There are three different levels of audition (local, regional, national ) and each one costs more and more the wider the range although you do get more talented individuals as a reward. You can hold auditions at any time to get new idols. This means that you are perpetually in a downward spiral from the start with no way out.Īnother area to talk about are the idols. Eventually, you can launch TV, radio, and internet shows that can be used for income, but even then they don’t get you very much at the start. So, even releasing a single does nothing but lose you money. Oh, and then it costs a lot of money to release the single you just wrote and unless you can sell a metric ton of those CDs, you lose a ton of money every time you release a single. At least one thing is needed from each of the core staff members minus the manager to write the song, but if you want any kind of marketing (aka actually selling the song), then you need a manager to have developed at least one of the marketing campaigns. Once they’ve accumulated enough research points, you can spend them to start unlocking things you need to write and promote songs.
When you first get started, you must have each of your staff members do research (an action they perform automatically). Your other forms of income aren’t available for a good while. You have a simple action where you can have your idol group perform and get you a little bit of money that most likely will maybe barely cover the rent for that one space. Surely, there are good ways of making money though, right? Not really. That immediately puts you in trouble as you now have to pay the salaries of all your new employees including idols, but you also have to pay rent for at least one space. So far this isn’t too bad except this costs quite a bit of money (you do have a large sum to start with) and you have to build one of these on a floor that requires rent. Each of these rooms also requires a staff member to work them. You then have to build two offices (one for you and one for another manager), a recording studio, and a dance studio as your core. He helps you get started with the process of starting up your offices by giving you one floor of his building to use rent free. Then, you meet the man who is serving as your financial investor who welcomes you and is very friendly and generous. The start of the story for Idol Manager has you meeting a shadowy figure who warns you of a man you’re set to go into business with. I’ll do my best to better break things down now.
What I mean by that is that the dark comedy is that you realize you cannot be successful in this game. Sadly, based on some reviews I’ve read on the Steam store combined with my experience, Idol Manager is either poorly done or extremely meta. In my hours playing this game, I did find the premise to be fun and I can definitely see it being a little addictive for people. I do enjoy a fair number of these games though and it was billed as a “dark comedy business sim”. Reviewing these management games can be really tricky as it can be hard to tell if it’s designed poorly or if I’m just bad at it.
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