K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut

I've been waiting for this game to come out but kind of disappointed by how fast the game ended and there's only 8 character to choose from(sorry if I'm wrong). I terminated 2 of them and then try to do another casting hoping there will another character to choose, but nope, still the same girls showed up. Also I can't increase relationship with the guy at the bar (i forgot his name). Is it worth the $15.99 (got it on sale)? Idk. It's too late to refund now. :( Other than that, I love this game.

I spent a long time thinking about what rating to give this game. In the end, I decided to leave a negative review, despite the fact that there are quite a few things it does well. There were two main reasons for this: The save system. Why can't you go back several weeks? If the game uses autosaves, why not keep saves from the past few weeks and let the player choose which one to return to? The lack of proper visual novel segments. The game seems to have plenty of events, and each girl has her own story arcs, but what's the point if every event appears and gets resolved in two or three sentences? [spoiler] A girl finds out that her father has died. This could have been an emotional scene and an important moment in her character arc. Instead, she simply says in one sentence that she's lost her motivation, and you get a debuff. [/spoiler] This is where I can't help but think of Idol Manager. That game had its own problems, but at least it had a story you could follow. It was short, sure, but the story actually developed over time. On the positive side, the visuals are excellent and fit the theme of the game perfectly. The sprites, CGs, and backgrounds are all colorful and pleasant to look at. The music is also quite enjoyable, and the single tracks turned out pretty good as well. Overall, the game captures a lot of aspects of K-pop culture, which is a huge plus. Anyway, I don't regret spending the money, and I had a good time with the game, but when it comes to the story, it completely failed to live up to my expectations.

*Sigh* This game is mediocre at BEST. It's so half-baked it's practically raw. Which is a shame because it has the advantage of not having a lot of competition on the market and having a genuinely good concept. The art direction I think is very good and so are the final songs, wich makes it even more a shame. It's most glaring flaws are these: - Very two dimentional characters that might have been interesting to get to know if only the game actually allowed you to instead of very randomly and very rarely triggering chances to actually interact with any of them. To the point that even if you do somehow begin a character's sidestory you'll most likely not see the end of it. -Zero stakes: You finish money? No problem, barely an inconvenience, they will just give you more endlessly. You decide to side with one character instead of another (especially glaring in one of the final choises) no actual consequences, maybe you lose a few relationship points but that's it. The Execs give you an ultimatum to do something you don't want to do? Either ignore them or comply and then go back on your original choise and act as if nothing happened. You manage to reach a hard achivement? They give you worthless pennies for it when you're making millions on the daily! -Absolutely pointless mini-games, broken or very unclear game meccanics: For starters the game asks you to choose a management style to develop during the game without telling you what you should do to fullfill it. By the end, trying a lot of different choises and possibilities I only managed to reach like 35% completion. Some of the minigames are down-right demented, like the vending machine one. One of the meccanics that could have been among the most interesting, the idol band competition, is barely half-formed. One of the most absurd ones though: is the GIGANTIC and impossibly confusing skill-tree, there are just too many things there and half of them remain locked even when you unlock them. -BUT WHAT IS THE MOST DAMNING OF ALL: you reach the final challenge and will most likely have to toss your game-file without seeing the ending because of a rediculous, practically unescapable pithole with no possibility to rewind back a week or two to try and adjust that.

I was extremely excited for this game to come out and while i love the gameplay i would not tell anyone to buy this with how little content we get, the game just ending without us being able to do what idol manage did and continue the groups career feels off and like the game isnt finished, I'm not sure if they plan to add that later but it feels like its lacking in gameplay if all you do is debut a group, yes there are different endings but thats not a lot of content still, even forming relationships feels pointless unless your going for a specific ending, while i enjoyed the gameplay i hope theres more content to be added in the future like other kpop games have done.

found this game a year ago as a demo version and liked it before the official release! now it's more perfect than i expected. the plot, the consequences of all choices you do is making game more interesting and involve you in the whole managment system. kinda ruined my first save by losing the release date but it didn't upset me kkk i'll just start again since i understand how it works all now. wish for future costume/shop items updates to see new content (i hope it will happen). thanks for the game~it worth the waiting

The demo was very promising, however the choices were confusing and the ending was unsatisfying, as well as some of the game mechanics being clunky. There's some merit here, but I would only personally recommend it if it goes on sale; don't be like me, somebody who is annoyed that they didn't know Steam's refund policy changed and now can't get their $19.99 back from disappointment.

i was looking forward to this after playing the demo, but the full game is very disappointing. the mechanics lack depth and the repetitiveness kills all the fun you might have. sadly, a let down.

Thank you for not using AI and respecting art. I really appreciate it. I love the character designs and outfits. I love the music, especially my chosen debut song Bow Down (need that on Spotify yesterday) However, I cannot recommend this game. It's pretty raw. - It is cut way too short. I could've played the same run still, I had a lot of things I didn't get to do. I could start again but everything is too repetitive - which is OK for me in most simulation games, but prevents replayability for me here. - Story and our interactions with characters don't align, they're very separated. I argued with one guy but I could still socialize with him like nothing happened. And, story itself is a bit... awkward? Definitely needs improvement. This would've been a very fun browser-based game, not quite worth $8.79 I'm sorry to say.

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