K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut

I have been following the games development for over 2 years. I really wanted to love this game. It isn't BAD, so If I could give a more mixed, I would. If you can get it on sale and maybe they can fix some issues then for sure pick it up. I just found myself disappointed and more frustrated than actually having fun playing the game. Other reviews have mentioned most of the issues: no load save feature to go back within a save, some iffy story parts, UI bugs and finickiness, etc. The album cover editing is horrible, borderline unusable half the time. I had to just leave and come back to it several times and half the elements change colors when you go back in. There is also only 8 girls to choose from so your choices feel slim. The outfit choices are cute but no real creativity in your groups "theme" to make it feel like it matters. (also most of them just not even an option for covers?) The story is frustrating most of the time. I understand there are issues with real life trainees but some of the story ended with me just wanting to close the game all together. I want to avoid spoilers but I have to say spending hours of time to build a group for the story to take out members or completely fail to debut all together with no real apparent thread in how you messed up is frustrating. And if you do fail or something else happens, you cannot go back to even try to fix whatever you did wrong. Realism sure, but what it ended up doing was making me feel like I'd just wasted time building something to have to start all over again and not really even know what I did wrong. I don't even have an urge to try again, starting all over from square one just makes me want to less. The game itself IS fun. The minigames are cute, the art is great and you can tell there is a lot of love that went into it. However several things from UI to the story choices itself make it too frustrating to fully enjoy. I may also be more bias since I have been so excited for this game and I have followed for so long.

very fun and engaging management sim !! the gameplay gets spiced up with the minigames here and there, and theres storylines to follow everywhere, depending on your choices and how nice or strict you are as a manager. there is way more going on than just the management game, all the idols and npcs have something unique to tell you and give you! i really only have two gripes, and the first one i have is not even with the game itself but with the final cutscene - that being that it is VERY obvious that you are intended to have eight members. i had five, so there was a ton of empty space and the girls were never centered, because, again, eight is the intended number. the second is that i wish the post final-evaluation and post-debut segments lasted longer. it was really the only part of the game where i had an abundance of money and could mess around. otherwise, very fun game !! there could def be some improvements to rng, the battle system and i especially hated the offline recruitment minigame, ugh, the timing felt so weird. but that didn't make the like the game any less !!

别人买的是游戏时长，你卖的是什么这么贵

会莫名其妙卡周，46周突然所有按键都没有了，退出重新进也不行，玩得那么辛苦一无所有

Overall, I really enjoy this game, especially the visuals compared too some of the other idol manager games here on steam. I also really do like the music is this game and complements the visuals really well. I would say if you liked idol manager you will like this game though its definitely not as hard. Now some things that would be really cool to have is this game would be the ability to customize the manager, have more outfits or color ways to pick from, be able to dye hair or change hairstyles for each of the idols. I also think it would be good when doing training to see how it effects each girl individually and how some may have bigger increases than others to their stats. Another idea would be maybe adding in the possibility to have different schedules for different girls which would add more ways to play and the user to come up with more strategies. I would also like to see more character story options which I think would create better immersion and make the game more replayable. Though even without these things added I would still recommend people to play and it is worth the price.

Played for 6h and completed the game... It's not worth the price at all. Yeah it was cute and enjoyable but too short, I feel like I wasted my money. For now, I don't recommend. Would be better if after the ceremony, the game would continue with new objectives. Sooooo disappointed....

Absolutely love this game, it has been scratching an itch that I needed to be scratched for a while. I hope the developers keep updating so it can be an even more involved and extended game but I feel I've definitely gotten my money's worth out of this game and I plan on replaying until I 100% the achievements. This having mixed reviews confused me until I remembered that mostly (if not solely) k-pop fans are playing this, and they are the hardest people to please. I look forward to more of the developer's work!!!

Игра мне понравилась с первых секунд — милая, яркая, мини-игры, симпатичные персонажи. Не хватает русского языка, но текст в целом несложный, всё же надеюсь, что добавят)

Jeux sympathique, les musique sont bien, le concept est bien mais j'aurais aimé plus de personnalisation ( tenue, coiffure dialogues, groupe, recrue). Pour le mini-jeu ( casting hors ligne) le projecteurs est trop rapide. La traduction est approximative. Je trouve que le prix du jeux est élevé, car je l'ai finie en 4h. J'espère qu'il y aura une mise à jour.