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
Thank you for your continued support and patience. We're excited to roll out an Experimental Branch, featuring the long-awaited Steam Workshop integration! This update also brings a handful of additional improvements—including the highly requested Sandbox Mode.
How to access the Experimental Branch:
- Right-click The Executive in your Steam Library and select Properties
- Navigate to the Betas tab
- Choose Experimental from the beta participation dropdown menu
- To return to the main version, simply select None from the same dropdown
🆕 NEW CONTENT
- Sandbox mode: A new difficulty option has been added. Enjoy infinite money and all themes unlocked from the start.
⚖️ 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.
🛠️ 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
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 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 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
Today’s update focuses on mainly bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and balancing tweaks based on your feedback. Let’s dive in!
🔧 BUG FIX:
- Potential Softlock Fix – Resolved an issue where opening multiple UI screens in the same frame could cause a softlock, preventing interaction.
- Starting Loan Repayment – Paying off your loan early? Now, you’ll only be debited the remaining balance instead of the full loan amount.
- Premium Features Accounting Error – Premium features selected during production planning step were mistakenly charged twice—this has been fixed.
- Provisional Budget Estimate – Premium features are now accurately included in the film’s provisional budget at every production step.
- Box Office Performance Screen Fix – The clapperboard display now correctly includes premium feature costs in the final budget.
- Third-Party Distributor Duplication – Fixed a rare issue where players could receive duplicate deals from the same distributor.
- Achievement Fixes – Three achievements (Hit Film, Big Budget, and Marketing Guru) were previously unobtainable—they should now unlock correctly.
✨ QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS:
- Box Office Results UI – We understand that seeing post-theatrical losses highlighted in bright red was frustrating, especially since relying on ancillary revenue for profitability is standard once you're past the early game. To provide clearer feedback on your film’s performance and ensure you don’t feel discouraged, we've added more granularity to the visuals. The color coding now aligns with other parts of the game, showing how much of your total spending (movie budget + marketing) still needs to be recouped. We hope this more positive presentation helps you better assess your Box Office performance!
⚖️ BALANCING:
- A Twilight fan pointed out that Romance + Vampire was incorrectly considered a bad combo. They were right—this has been adjusted to reflect a more accurate synergy. 🧛❤️
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Thank you for your continued support—we love hearing your feedback! 🎬✨
The Dev Team
After a short break this weekend, we're back at it—working hard to improve The Executive!
Here is today’s patch content:
🔧 BUG FIX:
✨ QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS:
⚖️ BALANCING:
🚀 COMING SOON:
Thanks to your feedback, Autosave is actively in development and will be arriving very soon!
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
Thanks again to everyone who submitted bug reports on our Discord and shared their logs and saves with us. It helped us tremendously.
Here is today’s patch content:
Bug Fixes
- Bug with proposed release date:
In some rare occasions, players were able to select a release date before the end of the post production, which would leave the movie in a non released state forever. The issue has been fixed - Bug with Self Marketing sometimes corrupting the game:
The issue was due to an overflow error corrupting the game and saves made after the error occurred. The issues has been fixed - Experimental corrupted save fix:
We’ve implemented a fix to repair saves corrupted by the bug mentioned above. Please note that the movie which triggered the corruption will not earn any revenue. If the repair is successful, pressing play will display all the box office screens in a row for the movies that were affected by the corruption.
Balancing
- Tweeked the shiny premium 3rd party distributors config.
It should be more obvious now that they are the best choice.
PS: The endless mode still needs a bit more cooking but rest assured that we are committed to deliver it to you as soon as possible
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
First and foremost, we want to extend a heartfelt apology to everyone who experienced issues with cloud saves. We are gamers ourselves, so we fully understand how frustrating and disheartening it can be to lose progress after investing hours into the game. We have taken this issue very seriously, and after extensive investigation, we can now confidently say that the cloud save issue should be resolved.
This launch has been rougher than expected, and we deeply appreciate your patience and support as we worked to address these issues. Your time and dedication to The Executive mean the world to us, and we’re committed to ensuring the best experience possible moving forward.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Cloud Save – Cloud saves are now working properly, preventing loss of progress.
- Cash Display – Fixed a bug that caused cash values to be missing on non-standard resolutions.
- Large Office Unlock – Resolved an issue that prevented the large office from being unlocked.
- Endgame Reel – Resolved the issue that locked the timeline when a player had too many highlights within a year
- Endgame Reel – Fixed a bug that prevented the classic and cult movies icons from being properly displayed in the timeline
- Endgame Reel – Improved the timeline flow for a smoother experience.
- Staff "Ecstatic" icon – Fixed a bug that prevented the icon from being properly displayed
- Asian Fonts – The texts should now be properly displayed in the research window when running the game in Korean, Chinese or Japanese
- Ancillaries – Avocado and soda scores were swapped in ancillary movie items
Balancing
- Training RP Cost per month: Some players missed that training employee drains RP every month and were struggling to gain RP. Until we improve the UX to make it clearer, we significantly reduced the training RP costs.
- Loans: 2 loans options are now available during bankruptcy at every difficulty levels.
Visual Tweaks
- Billions abbreviation updated to G instead of B
- Fixed the couple genre icon missing in competitors movies
- ... And more to come!
Quality-of-Life
- Added a warning to notify players when the game is nearing its conclusion... (Good news: we're hard at work on the highly requested Endless Mode. Stay tuned—it’s coming soon!)
Endless Mode – We Hear You!
We’ve also heard loud and clear the overwhelming demand for an Endless Mode—and we’re excited to say that we’re all hands on deck to make it happen as soon as possible! Stay tuned for updates, as we can’t wait to bring this much-requested feature to life.
Thank you for being part of The Executive. Your passion and feedback drive us forward, and we’re excited for what’s ahead!
The Development Team
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Uploaded Mar 23, 2026
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