The Executive - Movie Industry Tycoon
Fair · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $8.99, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 35%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $1.11/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($9.74)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($8.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Discrete GPU 1GB VRAM, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Shape the history of the Hollywood movie industry in this sandbox business simulation game. Create the movies you've always wanted to see, hire the best team, research cutting-edge technologies, and dominate the Box Office. Can you rise from a small studio to a Hollywood giant?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in April 2026. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 15 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $8.99 at 40 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 47 at list, 53 today.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins ($19.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Production Line : Car factory simulation ($24.99, scores 38).
12 of the 505 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 523 have a larger share. In its first 30 days on sale, 6 of 106 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
96% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
23 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 03:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game has a decent gameplay loop, but it still feels incomplete and in need of additional polish. I had fun at first, but once you make your first billion in-game, there's no real goal left aside from achievement hunting - and some of those are a serious grind. As of this review, the last patch or update was released on July 25, 2025.
Wonderful concept, and I can see the devs wanted to make something cool, but can't recommend this to a tycoon fan. The depth is minimal, and the skill cap is low. It doesn't try to deviate from the mad games tycoon/game dev tycoon formula much.
It's a fun enough game. It isn't super deep and you tend to run out of things to futz with after a certain point, but it is fairly fun for what it is. It's a lot like Game Dev Tycoon but the research system doesn't feel too grating. The fact you can work on multiple movies at once is a massive step up from others of the Tycoon genre where you have to do things one at a time. The ancilliary market also propping up my...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Executive - Movie Industry Tycoon scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2315430/the-executive-movie-industry-tycoonReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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