
Own the studio. Run the studio. Make the movies. Play Hollywood Mogul 4 and run your own Hollywood movie studio in a complex, immersive, business strategy simulation that is TEXT-BASED with NO GRAPHICS and MINIMAL SOUND.
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Hollywood Mogul 4 is a deep, complex TEXT-BASED strategy game. This business simulation puts you in charge of your own Hollywood movie studio. It is an immersive tycoon game about creating, producing, casting, and releasing movies and series around the world.
TEXT-BASED strategy business management simulation
NO GRAPHICS
MINIMAL SOUND
If you are new to the Hollywood Mogul games, please don't make a $300 million sci-fi epic the moment the game's installed. Hollywood Mogul 4 is a fairly complex business management simulation.
Make a few smaller movies first at Difficulty Level 1. Give yourself some time to understand the attribute rating nuances for Visual Effects and Story Scope, genre, and character development, pace, plot twists, sub-plots, and Set Design. Not to mention how those things will relate to the Director's ratings in Perfectionist and Script As Written, On-Budget, and Effects, as well as if it's better to cast the lead role with a talent that has a high Sex Appeal rating but a low Humility rating because their Screen Presence is a little lacking.
Also, the necessary Advertising Budget will bankrupt your studio.
So please don't make a $300 million sci-fi epic right off the bat.
o Choose from more than 100 genres.
o Include Additional Villains like weather, or fire, or insect infestations.
o Set advertising budgets.
o Make movies released in theaters around the world, or straight to a streaming service.
o Make Series up to 24 episodes with 30, 60, 90, or 120 minute running times.
o Choose projects from more than 10,000 source material records, or use your own ideas.
o Hire a Talent to act, and also as Director and/or Writer.
o Audition actors from more than 8,000 talent records.
o Follow talent with Stats that increase and decrease.
o Hire your favorite talent now, before a box office smash increases their salary.
o Identify Potential Conflicts between the director you hire and the talent you cast in Perfection rating and Script As Written rating. And deal with the Production Problem cost overruns if they don't get along. Because who knows, it might be lightning in a bottle.
o Look for that elusive green dollar sign ($) that tells you the $10 million dollar movie star loves your project so much they're willing to work for just $350,000. Plus a heap of points on the back end.
o Win Awards for movies and series
o Set character role attributes and add or delete roles.
o Set production budgets, add Stunts, and Visual Effects or Creature Effects, and shoot in one city or a dozen cities around the world.
o Sign contracts with manufacturers for project merchandise.
o Set your project in a Universe with other projects.
o Create Franchises.
o Create Cross-over projects from Franchises or Universes and mix and match roles and talent from every project you've already released.
o Create Traditional sequels, Spin Off sequels, and IP sequels.
o Using HM4 Talent or HM4 Source you can now merge databases. You no longer have to create a 10,000 record database all by yourself.
Play Hollywood Mogul 4 and run your own Hollywood movie studio.
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FANTASTIC and ADDICTIVE, but cannot see release dates under studio projects.
I did get it refunded. It is a good game but its very bare its not worth the regular price so get it on sale. But there have been a lot of improvements since the last game.
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I've been playing this series for a long time. This game is a testament to the series and has potential to take the game farther than it went in the past. Congratulations the the developer for creating a very good game.
Easily the best gd movie sim you will ever play. Period. Easy on the eyes? Heck no. Realistic? You bet your bottom dollar, sweetheart. It is definitely a "settle in and let's play" kind of game. You blink and you'll miss it when it comes to people cast. One thing this game has over its competitors? Developer dedication. Like 2000% more.
Excellent sequel to HM3. As a fan of 2, 2,5 and 3. i am highly satisfied with the improvements. Since I’m a veteran HM3 player, it was easy to dive in to this one! However, if you haven’t played any of the previous games, it might be a learning curve. But it shouldn’t take long to get in to it. And once you do! You’ll get lost. The reason my game time is low is because… THERE ARE EDITORS! For this game in your steam games (common) folder. Yes, you heard me correct. Anyone that wants to take the time, could use lets say the talent editor. You can use real actor/actress/director/screenwriters images and names and all that and compile your own database to make the game even more fun with real actors etc. And not only that; you can merge those databases with other databases and get an even larger database!… But WAIT! There is more: the editors doesn’t end there. Thera are editors for SCRIPTS as well and a couple other editors! If you’re curious, go and check it out! If the community work together. This gem can be something really special! It’s hard to find a more customizable friendly movie studio simulator! You can even create your own «Marvel Multiverse Universe» if you want. Time to run the numbers at the box office…. Just one more turn! (Keep it up HMdesigner 👍)
UI bad, game SO addictive
The new update brings the game closer to its predecessors and HM4's major update is a much better improvement than what it was. It's still missing some features I liked from previous games, but the update has brought the game back to life. Pure nostalgia.
I am enjoying this game so far. I have released a single movie, "Summer Story" based on a novel I wrote in 2011 for National Writing Month. It was a minor flop but not a disaster since I didn't give it a huge budget. Reviews were middling at best, but that was likely realistic because I put too much comedy in what was mainly a drama. I recommend this game for movie buffs but if you're not interested in becoming a screenwriter at all, it might not be your cup of tea [or can of soda]. 8/10 overall, I will keep playing and hopefully, someday, make a smash hit! Update: I've made a few smash hits. It's a great feeling seeing Box Office numbers roll in for a long time. Just as it's depressing to see it end quickly and have a bomb/
I've tried my very best to like this, I've waited for the new UI update and changes. But my patience has finally run out, the UI is far too archaic and cumbersome even with the updates. I am a lover of text based simulators but there's just not enough to the gameplay loop to hold my interest and allow me to look past the UI.
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