If you like idol culture, management games or anime you will probably like this game. I had no knowledge of the idol industry before playing, but I ended up really liking it.

You can be a nice manager, give your idols room to breathe, befriend or even romance them, and help them achieve their dreams. Or you can be a strict manager, forbidding them from dating, working them to exhaustion and using blackmail to keep them in line. The choice is yours.

You earn money through business deals such as photo shoots or advertisements, releasing music and organising concerts. Survival is a real struggle in the early stages, and you will probably fail several times before you find a playstyle that suits you. Late in the game it is unfortunately far too easy to make money, I would have liked more of a struggle.

But remember, you have to keep your idols in line while all this is going on. Maybe a group of them will start bullying the new girl, maybe they will start secretly dating someone even though dating is forbidden, resulting in a huge scandal, or maybe they will post something stupid on social media, resulting in one of your advertising deals being cancelled.

There are a lot of different random events and there is also a main story to follow. The writing and art make it worth playing through at least once. The music is okay, but nothing groundbreaking, but then again, you don't expect that from a management game.

There is one thing you should know before you buy this game: There is a time freeze bug, where time stops advancing no matter what you do. To avoid this bug, NEVER destroy a room that has a trainer/manager on auto train/auto deal. If the time freeze still happens, as it did for me twice, you can uninstall and reinstall the game and it should work again. At least it did for me.

But that is the only bad thing I can say about the game. Other than that, I really enjoyed it and recommend it.

Abhorrently addictive if you enjoy management sims

My idols keep getting cancelled but the game is fun