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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Edited on: August 20, 2025
Posted on: February 18, 2025
angelblue
Verified ownerGames: 2632 Reviews: 41
Great Game/Un bon jeu =)
EN: An enjoyable game, as is often the case with Goblinz. FR: Un jeu agréable, comme c'est souvent le cas avec Goblinz. ❤️
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Posted on: March 10, 2025
Grinkk
Verified ownerGames: 33 Reviews: 1
Finally a good tycoon
13 years since the release of Game Dev Tycoon, the game that understood very early how to merge fun, management and good progression. There is a bit of GDT in this game, as I have 100+ hours on it, and The Executive pushes it a bit forward. It's like a Game Dev Tycoon that understood its own mistakes, everything that was frustrating in GDT is fixed here. Definitely a go-to for newcomers in this genre.
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Posted on: March 3, 2025
Myrth1
Games: 140 Reviews: 20
GameDev Tycoon 2: Electric Boogaloo
It's a painstaking recreation of GameDev Tycoon, a game that kick-started the subgenre of small tycoon games about "from shoemaker to millionaire" entertainment enterprises. Except this time, the end result is (finally) great and worth playing. The choices to make and work out are intuitive, but there is still some fine-tuning; the genres combine nicely, and even the steep research costs eventually stop being an issue once you figure out the basic gameplay loop. Fantastic experience If I have any complaint - it's the absurdly high requirements for a game this size and (not really) complex. Precisely because of how close it is to GDT. That game could easily run on Win XP machine from 2008. Meanwhile, this game requires at the very least 8 GB RAM. What for? What kind of super-math is the algorithm doing that it takes actually 12 GB to make this game work smoothly? And both content- and display-wise, it is pretty much identical to GDT, so I have no idea why something so simple has such high specs and is so poorly optimised. Still, well worth playing and having a bargain price for this sort of game.
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Posted on: March 24, 2025
spoonduck
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 5
Lots of fun!
A bit of a steep learning curve, but once you get it, there is a ton of fun here. Not a 1,000 hour game, but this is an amazing rainy weekend game. It could keep you going for a couple weeks, too.
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Posted on: April 30, 2025
Wathohuk
Verified ownerGames: 8 Reviews: 1
Great Tycoon Game
Its a blast honestly. You should just play it if you like tycoon or kairosoft type games at all. It's basically a very polished kairosoft game.
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