Hollywood Animal
Skip · Strategy · 2025 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $13.39.
- Length
- 11h
- Value
- $1.22/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 33% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 33% ($13.39)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel UHD 620, GeForce GT 930MX, AMD R7 240 or equivalent. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Make movies, even if someone has to die. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $13.39, set in December 2025. 9 discounts in the 1 year on record. They run about 27 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today's $13.39 at 33 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 28 at list, 31 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 46 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Foundation ($34.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Endzone 2 ($29.99, scores 13).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 228 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% start to <1% 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
59 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 02:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
fantastic film studio management game, my very favorite, hope to see more with act 2.
Some of the most fun I've had playing video games in years. My boys at Weappy never let me down (check out their other games). The way every single animation, design feature and sound effect is lovingly handcrafted is insane. I've missed appointments, canceled meetings and faked an illness to continue playing this game. Even though this is "Early Access", there is literally >100 hours of playtime and content, and...
I can't get the game through the tutorial, won't stop crashing and freezing. Tried playing without the tutorial and got a bit further before it kept freezing at the same point over and over. Changed settings, compatibility etc to no avail. Very disappointed as I've been super excited to play
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Hollywood Animal scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2680550/hollywood-animalReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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