Empire TV Tycoon
Skip · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$9.99Skip
On its price record
$3.03Fair
- Cost per hour▼
- $9.08/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 902
- Genre rank
- Top 34% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.03 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.1h
- Achievements
- 43
Price and sales
- Sales
- 49 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 October 2018
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 74% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
88% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 27, 05:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 49 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 34 percent. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Cookie Clicker ($4.99, scores 98) and Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon ($14.99, scores 77) both outscore it.
More about Empire TV Tycoon
Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I love this little game, and there are a lot of cool add ons out there. The game play is simple yet the replay value is huge.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's truly unique, like... literally, I haven't come across anything like it on Steam. The gameplay is super addictive and perfectly captures how a TV tycoon should feel. I also really appreciate the Steam Workshop support and the fact that Russian is available right out of the box (even if its not completed). I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Empire TV Tycoon continued growth
The game tried to expand on MAD TV but it just made it worse. You have to cater to specific viewers and you only see a few hours ahead. *On top of that the ads are targeted at specific groups and there's a chance you will fail a campaign just because the next day you won't get specific viewers or the news to reel them in. *And the interface is lacking, previous production disappear from the list so if you make a new...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Empire TV Tycoon scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/377900/empire-tv-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 Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.