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ORDA · Published by ORDA
Mixed — 57% positive (14 reviews)
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Get in charge of your own TV Show Company in this text-based tycoon game! Have you ever thought of your own TV Show? Design your dream shows down to the small details. Release your shows and witness your audience comment on your design choices! Make money and release more shows and seasons!
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4 Sept 2026Lowest: £2.49 · Highest: £2.497 Oct 2026
Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Casual · 2024 · More under £5 games
Dive into the world of TV production as you create and run your own shows from concept to airtime. Witness real-time reactions from viewers and grow your network with each successful release, all under ORDA’s expert guidance.
About this game
Become the Boss of Your Own TV Studio - Create the Shows of Your Dreams!
TV Show Tycoon is a text-based tycoon game where you can live out your TV mogul fantasies. In the game, you will run your very own TV studio - craft exciting new shows from the ground up, then strategically release them across various platforms to grow your fanbase. Navigate through the industry and make your choices for the events you will face!
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Detailed Creator
TV Show Tycoon's robust show creator lets you shape your productions with a ton of creative freedom. Mix and match countless elements to truly make each series reflect your unique vision. Customize every aspect of your productions, from broad genres to specific stylistic flourishes. Specifically adjust the prominence of elements such as fight scenes!
Responsive Game
Your creative decisions won't exist in a bubble - the game will closely monitor how your audiences and critics respond. With nearly 8250 unique review pieces, TV Show Tycoon was tailored to respond to your design choices! Earn praise for smart decisions, and adapt when the feedback calls for it. Be careful as the audience might not be so polite about it sometimes!
Strategic Gameplay
Your choices will often affect how your show will do once it is released. Be careful about the nuances of your target audiences, your show and of course your network. Is it a TV Channel or an Online Platform? What is their episode strategy? How much do they charge for subscription? Ensure your content finds its perfect home. The platform with the most crowded audience might not always be the best option!
Simple Management
Expand your operations by building your own production and effects facilities. Wisely hire talented directors, writers, and other industry professionals to elevate the quality of your content.
Random Events
As you play, you'll sometimes encounter random events and event chains that may present tough choices. Make alliances with powerful networks, or get your hands dirty with some industry backroom deals - the decisions are yours.
Database Editor
You can create your own databases with the game's database editor! Create your own characters, networks, topics, themes and pick which databases you want in-effect in the game! Or install databases made by other people!
TV Show Tycoon is a text-based tycoon game where you can live out your TV mogul fantasies. In the game, you will run your very own TV studio - craft exciting new shows from the ground up, then strategically release them across various platforms to grow your fanbase. Navigate through the industry and make your choices for the events you will face!
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Detailed Creator
TV Show Tycoon's robust show creator lets you shape your productions with a ton of creative freedom. Mix and match countless elements to truly make each series reflect your unique vision. Customize every aspect of your productions, from broad genres to specific stylistic flourishes. Specifically adjust the prominence of elements such as fight scenes!
Responsive Game
Your creative decisions won't exist in a bubble - the game will closely monitor how your audiences and critics respond. With nearly 8250 unique review pieces, TV Show Tycoon was tailored to respond to your design choices! Earn praise for smart decisions, and adapt when the feedback calls for it. Be careful as the audience might not be so polite about it sometimes!
Strategic Gameplay
Your choices will often affect how your show will do once it is released. Be careful about the nuances of your target audiences, your show and of course your network. Is it a TV Channel or an Online Platform? What is their episode strategy? How much do they charge for subscription? Ensure your content finds its perfect home. The platform with the most crowded audience might not always be the best option!
Simple Management
Expand your operations by building your own production and effects facilities. Wisely hire talented directors, writers, and other industry professionals to elevate the quality of your content.
Random Events
As you play, you'll sometimes encounter random events and event chains that may present tough choices. Make alliances with powerful networks, or get your hands dirty with some industry backroom deals - the decisions are yours.
Database Editor
You can create your own databases with the game's database editor! Create your own characters, networks, topics, themes and pick which databases you want in-effect in the game! Or install databases made by other people!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: x86_32 CPU with SSE2 instructions, or any x86_64 CPU
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated graphics with full Vulkan 1.0 support
- Storage: 250 MB available space
Supported Languages
English
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
TV Show Tycoon is Transitioning to Free to Play.
Hello everyone, We want to inform our community that TV Show Tycoon will be a Free-to-Play game soon. If you are currently planning to buy the game, we strongly recommend waiting until the transition so you can access it at no cost.For players who have purchased the game recently, please feel free to submit a refund request through Steam’s support system. A huge thank you to all the player who have tried our game and we hope it's been able to provide you fun moments and that it will keep doing so.Read full article on Community Announcements (orda.offic)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 1.5.7 - Big Update - Multiple Seasons Contract, Money Balancing...
Hello everyone! We are here with a bigger update today! What Changed? Income and expenses are balanced. Characters usually ask for lower prices. Shows generate less money each turn. Everything gains much less Fanbase from shows. Characters don't start asking for absurd amounts of money in new seasons of successful shows now. Now you can sign multiple seasons contract with characters. When you make an offer to a character, click "Negotiate" and select how many seasons you want to sign for. This is the amount, so 'For 3 Seasons' means the contract will last for the 3 seasons the character works in the show. E.g Season 3 to Season 6. While making a new season, importing previous settings will automatically place the signed characters into their positions and pay their negotiated salary. You can view the characters you currently have a contract with at right click context menu. List panel now has markers that show important stats while hiring characters. (Hover on Column Name to get information. Column Name e.g: 'Athletism'). You can also hide it if you wish. Characters become unavailable four times less frequently. 'Looks' stat is a lot less likely to be 1 or 10 now. You can now negotiate contract with characters who have 1 more Reputation than you. (e.g if you have 3 Reputation, you can negotiate with 4 Reputation characters.) While negotiating price with a character, max tries is now 10 instead of 3. (Includes seasonal raise tries.) On save game load, if you had a work in progress show and already hired a composer, the composer and ost quality showed as empty. This is fixed now. Right Click Context Menu font changed. A game-breaking bug that occurred after selling a universe was fixed. A game-breaking bug that occurred after terminating a contract through canceling a show was fixed. After selling a universe, the shows that belonged to the universe but were not released used to remain. This is now fixed. We hope you enjoy the update and have a great day!Read full article on Community Announcements (Zenesy)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 1.5.6 - CharacterCreation UI Fix, Network Bankruptcy Setting, Update Logs
Hello everyone! We are here with a small update. What Changed? You can now disable networks from going bankrupt on the Settings. The game now will notify you on the main menu when there is a new update and you can read the Update Logs in-game. Show Character Creation’s Broken UI is fixed. When there are more than 10 characters, the characters list used to be seen behind the creation panel, which is fixed now. When there are more than 12 characters, the list overflowed the panel. We now added a scroll. “Add Character” used to bring in the character without saying its role like "(1) Main Character)” and instead said “(1) Character)” unless the list was refreshed. This is fixed now. Next in the plan is balancing the income and the character prices, as well as hiring characters for multiple seasons. Thank you for playing our game and we hope you enjoy the update. Have a great day!Read full article on Community Announcements (Zenesy)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 1.5.5
Hello everyone! We are here with an hotfix. What Changed? After loading a save game, a show's network could return to "None" if the last contract made for that show is at a season rather than the base show. This is now fixed. Money is displayed in short form (1B instead of 1,000,000,000) on the top panel when it surpasses 1 billion now. Company Fanbase is displayed in short form (1B instead of 1,000,000,000) on the top panel when it surpasses 1 billion now. We hope you enjoy the game and have a great day!Read full article on Community Announcements (Zenesy)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 1.5.4
Hello everyone! We are here with a bug fix update. What Changed? “Contract loaded before the show” bug fixed. Sometimes new seasons of the show demanded you make a contract with a Network even though you already had. This is fixed now. Clicking Seasons on a show’s panel used to show seasons for all shows instead of the specifically clicked one. This is fixed now. Terminating a contract while the contract’s show is being aired used to break the game. This is fixed now. If you have a contract on a season, canceling the season will terminate the contract now. Our previous update on fixing Company Logo not appearing problem seemed to have not worked. This one should fix it now. Sorry again! We hope you enjoy the game and have a great day!Read full article on Community Announcements (Zenesy)
