About the Game
The Executive is a sandbox business simulation game that lets you rewrite the history of Hollywood from the 1970s to today. As the founder of a scrappy production company, you’ll produce the movies you’ve always dreamed of, manage ambitious franchises, and build a studio that rivals the industry’s greatest. Navigate the challenges of the movie business, outmaneuver your competition, and decide whether to chase critical acclaim or box office domination.
PRODUCE YOUR DREAM MOVIES
Bring your cinematic visions to life. Choose themes, genres, and target ratings to shape your creations. Dive deep into screenplay development, cast the hottest stars (or discover hidden talent), and allocate your budget wisely to make each film shine. Every decision impacts your movie’s critical acclaim and box office potential, so craft your masterpieces with care.
BUILD AND MANAGE FRANCHISES
Turn your biggest hits into long-lasting franchises! Create sequels, prequels, reboots, and even spinoffs to capitalize on audience demand. But beware: too many installments can lead to franchise fatigue. Strike the perfect balance to keep your fans invested without burning them out.
MASTER THE ART OF DISTRIBUTION
Your movie’s journey doesn’t end at the final cut. Decide how to distribute your creation: self-publish, partner with a distributor. Each route comes with unique risks and rewards. Timing is everything—analyze the market, outmaneuver the competition, and secure the perfect release date for your blockbuster.
MONETIZE YOUR BACK CATALOG
Don’t let your past successes collect dust. Manage your studio’s library and maximize ancillary revenue with strategic home entertainment deals. Partner with distributors who are the best fit for your catalog, and invest in add-ons to boost sales. Your back catalog is a goldmine—make it work for you.
TACKLE MOVIE PRODUCTION INCIDENTS
Making movies isn’t all glamour and glory. Sometimes, production doesn’t go as planned, and you’ll have to face the unexpected. From budget overruns to on-set accidents, adapt to unforeseen challenges and turn setbacks into opportunities.
BUILD YOUR EMPIRE
Turn your small studio into a Hollywood powerhouse. Use your profits to upgrade your offices, hire and train top-tier talent, and research cutting-edge technologies to stay ahead of the curve. Attract A-list actors, expand your capabilities, and solidify your reputation as a major player in the industry.
FOLLOW YOUR OWN PATH
In The Executive, the road to success is yours to decide. Will you become a champion of the art world, winning critical acclaim and prestigious awards? Or will you build a blockbuster machine, raking in billions at the box office? The choice is yours in this ultimate Hollywood simulation.
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Official update history
📢 Dear Executives!
We're rolling out a small patch before our summer break, addressing issues you've helpfully brought to our attention on Discord.
🐞 BUGFIXES
Localization Key Issues: Resolved missing localization keys, particularly for new players experiencing telemetry-related text omissions.
Missing CJK Characters: Fixed an issue where some Korean, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese characters were appearing as squares (🗌). All characters should now display correctly.
General Localization Improvements: Corrected several poorly translated strings thanks to your detailed feedback, enhancing the overall in-game text quality.
⚖️ BALANCING ADJUSTMENTS
Premium Feature Affinities: A keen-eyed player noticed that the premium feature affinities for "Superhero" and "Supernatural" were accidentally swapped. This has been corrected, and their respective affinities are now as intended.
🎥 See you on the red carpet,
— The Dev Team
📢 Dear Executives!
We hope you’ve been enjoying the new features we rolled out over the weekend.
Some of you reported a bug affecting film revenue calculations, introduced in the latest patch. This is a minor update, focused on addressing that issue as quickly as possible.
🐞 HOTFIX
Movie Financials Bug: When playing with an uncapped framerate and a fast computer, film financials could behave incorrectly if the framerate was too high. While we couldn’t precisely pinpoint the root cause, the issue appears to stem from the in-game time management system, which struggles with certain calculations when frame durations are too short. As a quick fix, we’ve decided to remove the uncapped FPS option.
Our sincere apologies if you were impacted by this bug!
🎥 See you on the red carpet,
— The Dev Team
📢 Dear Executives!
Thank you for your ongoing support, feedback, and brilliant suggestions. Patch 1.3.0 brings three of the most requested features from our Discord community — plus a round of key fixes and improvements.
🆕 NEW FEATURES
🔍 Insights Metasave
Your discovered insights are now saved in a metasave. When starting a new game, you can choose whether to carry over knowledge unlocked from previous playthroughs — or go in blind.💰Sell Your IPs
Need a cash injection? You can now sell intellectual properties you’ve created or acquired, opening up fresh strategies for making money.🥇 Box Office Rankings
To boost immersion and the competitive spirit, we’ve added a new screen where you can compare your movie’s box office against others released the same month.
➡ Note: This feature is partially backwards compatible. Older movies will show a regenerated competitor list since we weren’t previously saving that data. Rankings for these films may not reflect their original competitive landscape.
🐞 BUG FIX AND IMPROVEMENTS
Premium Feature Score: The bonus was correctly affecting box office numbers, but the letter grade in the performance screen was stuck on ‘C’. It now properly reflects your actual performance.
Framerate Time Bug: On uncapped framerates, time could behave erratically or even freeze. This has been fixed — time now ticks forward as it should.
Box Office Spoiler Fix: Previously, you could see final box office numbers too early via the My Movies section. That loophole is now closed.
Localization & UI: Minor localization updates and UI tweaks for a smoother experience.
🛠️ MODDING COMMUNITY SHOUTOUT
To our incredible modding community:
Thank you for the real logos, real talent names, real IPs, real posters (yes, even all 7,000 of them), new themes, genres, balancing tweaks, and more.🥳
You're absolute legends👏 We can't wait to see what you build next!
🎥 See you on the red carpet!
The Dev Team
Thank you for your continued support and patience. We're excited to roll out the long-awaited Steam Workshop integration! This update also brings a handful of additional improvements—including the highly requested Sandbox Mode.
🆕 NEW CONTENT
- Sandbox mode: A new difficulty option has been added. Enjoy infinite money, all themes unlocked from the start, plenty of research points, and no objective to guide your progression.
⚖️ BALANCING CHANGES
- No more shiny candidate: Overpowered recruits showing up in low-tier recruiting campaigns were breaking the game’s progression. These have been removed.
- Updated IP Stats: Some IPs had genre and theme combinations with poor affinity. These have been adjusted to improve their viability.
🐞 BUG FIX AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Employee Assignment Reset Fix: Assignments were sometimes not properly reset when returning to the main menu and starting/loading a game. This has been fixed.
- Improved Box Office Performance Feedback: Each category now receives a more granular score, ranging from F to A.
- Sandbox Mode Objective Fix: Previously, players were getting stuck on the “Unlock a new theme” objective while in Sandbox Mode on the experimental branch. Objectives have now been fully disabled in Sandbox Mode. Additionally, if you saved a Sandbox game prior to this fix, your progress will be automatically updated to clear the objective.
- IP Name Display in Adaptation: Fixed an issue where the name of an acquired IP was not displaying correctly when starting an adaptation. It now shows as intended.
- Various localization Fix
🛠️ MODDING SUPPORT
- Steam Workshop: Upload and subscribe to mods directly via the Steam Workshop.
- In Game Mod Selection: Enable or disable subscribed or custom mods directly in-game.
- Moddable Data: The game’s JSON files can now be edited. You can for example:
- Add new industries
- Update/add content (genres, themes, ratings, IPs, talents, awards, events, distributors, competing movies, etc.)
- Update gameplay calculations (Box Office, Audience and Critic reviews, etc.)
- Add new industries
- Moddable Visuals: We've externalized visual assets. You can:
- Update/add sprites for themes, genres, awards, and seasonal events
- Add posters to competing movies and IPs
- Add logos to distributors
- Update/add sprites for themes, genres, awards, and seasonal events
- Documentation: Readme files in the build, online documentation, and published example mods will help you get started
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Thanks again for your continued support. We can’t wait to see the amazing mods you create to help improve The Executive!
🎥 See you on the red carpet!
The Dev Team
Today’s update brings exciting new content and some small improvements! Let’s break it down:
🆕 NEW CONTENT
- 5 brand-new production incidents to spice up your decision-making.
- 5 fresh themes added to the creative mix: 🎨 Artist, 💔 Breakup, 👨👩👧 Family Relationships, ✝️ Religion, 🗺️ Treasure Hunt.
- 69 new IPs available for licensing — expand your empire with fresh ideas!
- IP Description Update — Many IP description were updated to remove copyrighted content.
⚖️ BALANCING CHANGES
- Franchise Fatigue Decay Rate has been increased.
Some of you noticed that the balancing was off and you had to wait way too long between 2 sequels — this tweak should help you get back into franchise-building sooner without overwhelming your audience.
🐞 BUG FIX AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Minor UI fix in Self Marketing window: 100% reach background color fixed
- Box Office Performance Marketing Score: the letter showed for marketing was not properly reflective of the quality of the player’s marketing efforts. We fixed it.
🛣️ SHORT-TERM ROADMAP UPDATE
- ✅ Distribution Postpone — Complete
- ✅ IP Marketplace — Complete
- ✅ More Incidents — Complete
- 🔄 Modding Support — In Progress
Thank you for your continued support—your feedback means everything to us! Keep sharing your thoughts, and we’ll keep improving The Executive! 🎬✨
The Dev Team
We hope you're having a fantastic time licensing your favorite IPs and turning them into blockbuster films! Today's update is a small but important hotfix to smooth out a few issues before the weekend.
🔧 BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS:
- Book Value Stuck at 0 – A previous patch unintentionally caused studio book values to remain at 0. We've fixed this issue, and book values will now be calculated correctly. This means you can take on larger loans when necessary, and your final scoring will properly reflect your studio's financial worth.
- Localization Improvements – Various text fixes and refinements for a better experience across all supported languages.
Thank you for your continued support—your feedback means everything to us! Keep sharing your thoughts, and we’ll keep improving The Executive! 🎬✨
The Dev Team
Today's update is a big one! We’re introducing the IP Marketplace, a brand-new feature that expands your creative empire. Plus, we’ve fixed several key bugs and improved overall gameplay. Let's dive in!
🆕 NEW FEATURE: IP MARKETPLACE
Building your own franchise is thrilling, but now, you can take it a step further! With the IP Marketplace, you can acquire the rights to iconic (spoofed) novels, TV shows, video games, and more—transforming them into blockbuster movie franchises.
- Discover 700+ spoofed IPs inspired by renowned cultural franchises.
- Explore 6 different media sources: Cartoons, Graphic Novels, Manga/Anime, Novels, TV Shows, and Video Games.
- Invest in powerful new IPs – with a catch! The most valuable IPs come with tough conditions. Fail three times, and you lose the IP.
🐞 BUG FIXES
- Movies Stuck in 'Wait for Release': Last week, we fixed an issue where distribution postponements could prevent you from completing movies or cause them to disappear. However some players still had corrupted movies in their save from before the previous patch. This update repairs affected save files, allowing you to resume distribution.
- Achievement Unlock Fix: Some players experienced issues unlocking achievements due to a sync problem between save files and the Steam achievement system. Now, every time you load a game, we’ll automatically check and sync your achievements to ensure nothing is missed.
- Home Entertainment Deal List UI: The UI displaying available deals was truncated—this has been fixed for better clarity.
- Video Game Theme Affinities: Fixed an issue where genre-theme affinities were not working correctly for the Video Game theme.
- Financials Date Fix: No more starting your financial records in 1969 while the journey begins in 1970.
🔧 QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS
- Slimmer Task UI to reduce scrolling when you have multiple movie productions at once.
- Clearer feedback on franchise movie size restrictions in pre-production.
🛣️ SHORT-TERM ROADMAP
- Distribution Postpone: Done ✅
- IP Marketplace: Done ✅
- More incidents: Localization in progress
- Modding Support: In progress
Thank you for your continued support! Your feedback is invaluable, and we’re committed to making The Executive even better. Keep sharing your thoughts, and we’ll keep improving!
🎥 See you on the red carpet! ✨
The Dev Team
Today’s update is smaller than planned, as one of our team members was under the weather this week. Unfortunately, this means we have to postpone the IP Marketplace release to next week. We truly wanted to launch it in time for the weekend, but we feel it still needs some quality-of-life improvements to be fully ready. We appreciate your patience and promise it’ll be worth the wait!
🔧 BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS:
- Resuming a movie distribution could lock another movie: Previously, resuming a movie’s distribution while another movie was in production could prevent you from finishing the latter. This issue has now been fixed.
- Disappearing movies: If you opened a window during the exact same frame that another movie production window appeared automatically, closing the first window would close both—leaving the movie in limbo. We fixed it!
- Firing employees mid-task: It was possible to fire an employee while they were actively working on a task. This is no longer allowed. Now, employees can only be fired if they are idling or working on a passive task.
- Achievements triggering too early: Achievements tied to box office milestones were unlocking too soon, spoiling the surprise. This has been fixed!
- Missing Movie Titles: a dozen of movie titles were missing in the competitors’ movies database. They are now present.
🛣️ SHORT-TERM ROADMAP UPDATE
- Coming Next Week (For Sure This Time!)
✅ More Production Incidents
✅ IP Marketplace - In Progress
🛠 Modding Support
Thank you for your continued support—your feedback means everything to us! Keep sharing your thoughts, and we’ll keep improving The Executive! 🎬✨
The Dev Team
Today’s update brings in a much demanded quality-of-life improvement!
🎥 QUALITY OF LIFE ENHANCEMENTS
- Postpone distribution type selection: many of you were frustrated you had to settle for a downgraded distribution type if the required staff for your preferred option wasn’t available. Now, you can postpone this decision, giving you the flexibility to wait until your ideal team members are ready to contribute to your cinematic masterpiece!
⚖️ BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Incident Localization fix: the description and options of one of the production incidents were KO. We fixed it.
- Save File Optimization: We’ve improved how accounting line items are saved, significantly reducing save file sizes and ensuring smoother performance in extra-long Endless Mode games. This update is fully compatible with existing saves.
🛣️ SHORT-TERM ROADMAP
Here is an update on our short-term roadmap:
- Postpone Distribution Choice: DONE ✅
- More Production Incidents: Coming Next Week!
- IP Marketplace: Coming Next Week!
- Modding Support: In progress
Thank you for your ongoing support—we love hearing your feedback! 🎬✨
The Dev Team
Today’s update focuses on bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements to enhance your experience with our short term plans at the end of the patch note.
🔧 BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS:
- Endless Mode Talent Pool: Previously, the available talent pool remained static, making selections feel repetitive. It now reshuffles regularly, keeping things fresh.
- Incident Windows: Incident windows could be skipped during their opening animation, causing players to miss crucial details if they clicked on HUD buttons at the wrong time. This has been fixed.
- Endgame Scoring Fix: Cult and classic movies are now correctly factored into the final score calculation.
- Minor Animation Adjustments
✨ QUALITY OF LIFE ENHANCEMENTS:
- Cult & Classic Movies: Previously, players were only notified when a film achieved cult or classic status via a standard notification—too easy to miss! To give these moments the celebration they deserve, we now display a special window (with a fun cultural nod included).
🛣️ SHORT-TERM ROADMAP
With (hopefully) the biggest bugs behind us, we’re now shifting our focus to major gameplay and content updates:
- Delayed Distribution Choice – You’ll soon be able to postpone selecting your film’s distribution type, giving you the flexibility to wait for the right employees to become available.
- More Production Incidents – We’re adding new incidents to ensure each playthrough feels unique and fresh.
- IP Marketplace – Building your own franchise is exciting, but what if you could acquire rights to your favorite books, video games, or mangas and turn them into blockbuster movie franchises?
🛠️ MODDING SUPPORT
From the very beginning, we aimed to make the game fully moddable, and we’re now ready to bring that vision to life.
- Our first step will be enabling support for multiple mods from a dedicated folder.
- Followed by externalizing more game data and assets.
- Ultimately, we plan full Steam Workshop integration with easy-to-use modding tools.
Thank you again for your patience and your support, while we work hard to give you the great experience you deserve playing The Executive.
The Dev Team
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