Entertainment Simulator

Entertainment Simulator is a management game about running a small TV station in the vast kingdom of Dazhou. As its new director, you compete with other stations by scheduling programmes, raising ratings, producing variety shows, selling first-broadcast rights and making news programmes that attract high-value advertising sponsorships. You can also scout for emerging performers and build them into stars.

Audience and ratings

The game models viewing habits through 17 representative audience groups. Each group contains hundreds to thousands of intelligent sample households, with their own routines, viewing habits and preferences. Programme schedules can make the difference between a hit and a failure: the right choices can rescue your station, while a small mistake can sink a flagship show.

Produce your programmes

To make a variety show, you assemble a production team, plan each segment and choose the performers. Your choices shape the finished programme: a director’s preferences affect its style, the segments’ appeal influences performers’ willingness to take part, and performers’ personalities affect how popular the show becomes. You balance these factors against limited budgets and time. You can also produce news programmes and sell the first-broadcast rights to your shows.

Develop your performers

You can pay to recruit stars from other stations or send talent scouts to find promising newcomers. Sign them and develop their careers through appearances on programmes, location shoots, interviews and other opportunities, helping them rise to prominence across Dazhou.

Build and manage the station

Design and build the station grounds, including studios, recording halls and variety-show stages. Employees move through the spaces you create as they work and go about their daily operations. You also handle the station’s everyday management, including staff meetings, morale and programme adjustments, and can develop employees’ stats to build a capable team.

Expand your network

Your goal is to reach viewers throughout the kingdom and build a media empire. Audiences in each region have different preferences and viewing times, so you adjust your strategy to secure television signal coverage across the country.