Moviehouse

For those hoping that ‘Moviehouse‘ is like The Movies, it is nothing like The Movies so that will turn some people off the game and to be honest it seems that everybody who has tried to make a game copying The Movies has failed to reach the finish line though one or two may make it to completion in 2024.

If you zoom out in the game, the setting looks like miniature city map in one of the recent Call of Duty games (Vanguard?) which is pretty cool.

This game is more like those game company making games only you run a movie studio from humble beginnings to the big time, you don’t put buildings on the map or send your actors/actresses off to rehab or surgery, this game I suppose is less hands on and more pencil pushing than The Movies that everybody wants a modern day version of.

There’s lots of good features like research (don’t ignore research) and movie festivals, investments, level ups (improves your studio lot), location scouts, set construction and more, research is important for growth and the investments allow you to rake in some cash especially early on.

You can also level up your actors so they can eventually get to A+ status, it is important not to overlook this.

When starting early, don’t take a distribution percentage, take the full lot as you’ll need every cent early on and keep the movies flowing so basically have your writer pump out the movies and your director producing them.

It has been advised that it is worth spending the 25k for a film distributor to be found for you if no studios are interested in your movies, this will ensure that your movies will find a profit so you can keep going, it is OK to go into debt doing this as it will likely pull you out of it.

If you’re looking for a game in the style of Game Dev Tycoon then this is the game for you, if you’re looking for a game like The Movies, you may have to wait a while for a game like that.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Tiggy.