K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut

不好，完全半成品，为什么出道就结束了？一周目只用了三个小时，游戏价格完全对不上游戏质量。很多bug，不要买

I love this game, it was very fun and enjoyable but I wish that I could more more songs and continue the journey even more. I really didn't like how it ended, I thought would be a simulator.

I initally wasn't that convinced especially reading some less than favorable reviews, but I tried the demo, the game quickly grew on me, and I genuinely had a good time playing through the full version. It's certainly not perfect, but definitely has a lot of love put into it, and the devs deserve praise for creating something like this and especially not using AI. I absolutely love the art style. However I also am someone who understands that this kind of hand-drawn art for an entire game of this scope, again NOT using any AI, is a huge workload on a small indie team. Yes there are only 8 trainees and limited animations and interactions visually, but I do get why and can't knock them for that. There are scenes with incidents where each of your trainees are drawn into the scene, which seem kind of short, but think about how that means having to draw those scenes dozens of times for all the possible combinations of characters present. The weekly gameplay loop is more engaging than I would have thought at first. It's actually pretty neat to balance your group's stats and activities while also trying to keep it somewhat realistic. I would have thought it would wear thin after a while, but it remained genuinely enjoyable doing all the schedule balancing while trying to keep them happy and also remaining financially reasonable (a skill many people could use practice/training with nowadays). The outcomes of the activities are essentially randomized, but rather bizzare in that sometimes you get text that implies a positive outcome but with a "too bad" label, or vice versa. I basically stopped even reading them after a while, and much rather look at the ADORABLE chibi animations of your trainees doing whatever task it is with matching backgrounds. I still can't get over how cute those frames are!! Can't say the same for the social points part of the loop however. It's a memory game at best, or just cheesing it by telling everyone jokes at worst. Some characters have backstory while some you only hear from once and never again, some trainees have personal drama that will arise during your journey while some others just do their job. What is there is actually well written and coherent, but there just isn't much of it. It isn't a game you should play with the expectation of getting that emotionally attached/invested in particular characters. The minigames are fine, but could use with some balancing as to how often they appear. Despite lots of dance and vocal practices, I only ever got the vocal minigame one other time outside of the tutorial, and never once got the dance minigame. In comparison, the drinking and BBQ minigames appear almost every other time you try to chat up someone. I didn't hate the ending. Although it made the game feel a bit short and the finale abrupt, it was as advertised. There isn't much in the way of replayability, but it does however leave a lot of potential for a future sequel, especially one which would be able to take your existing save data and let you continue on your journey with the same team, with more bonding and adventures after debut. I would love to see and support a sequel like that! It's the first game I bought full price in quite some time, and although it has its shortcomings, I certainly don't regret it. The soundtrack is solid, and I did not encounter really any bugs at all during my playthrough (which is very impressive for a Unity game these days). For a small team pouring themselves into something they're genuinely passionate about, it's a super cute and charming time-killer that is worth skipping one meal at McDonald's for.

This is so frustrating that we can't even play more after releasing our first single... I though we would have to opportunity do to all three of them... And there is a lot of jobs and things we can't do because they're locked until you reach a certain week, but with that fast ending, we can't even do them ? I really lost money there? Sooo disappointing !

一堆bug 内容单调 质量与价格完全不匹 选来选去一共就那固定8个人 练习生个人剧情我一个也触发不了 走科幻风最后又给我莫名其妙改回可爱风 半成品 宣传的三条线完全是诈骗 实在没游戏玩可以来试试

两个多小时练习生成功出道就通关了，我以为还会有出道后的玩法啥的，结果你告诉我出道就完结了。抛开这个还好，就是普通的爱豆培养模拟，习惯玩这个的应该都喜欢，反正我是乐在其中，只是感觉内容量还不够，希望后续官方能更更多玩法和角色，以及出道后能有其他剧情。不然太枯燥了，对不起这个价格

Super fun, but feels a biiiit restrictive with the freedom of choices! like, theres a very limited amount of trainees, and we cant cast the other competing trainees once you beat them in evaluations, which would make sense since were under the same company, rigth?? Also, kinda bummed that you cant just keep playing after debut :( the game just ends there....

What a nothingburger

I'm not quite sure how to rate this game, honestly. On one side I really enjoyed the playstyle. However, I was very confused that the game ended so abruptly (and in about 5 hours as others have said) when I was 99% positive that I had actually seen many more opportunities get unlocked in the game's overview right before the award show happened. It sort of seems to me like the game wasn't finished and was supposed to be longer originally or sort of be played endlessly. Well, in the current state, that's obviously not possible. Which is genuinely a pity. In the current state you should definitely buy it on sale. I am really hoping they're going to add the rest of the content for us to enjoy...