Full Release

Theatre Franchising

• Open and manage multiple branches across eight distinct markets

• Each market features unique customers, demand, competition, operating costs, opportunities, and risks

• Scout connected markets and choose between leasing, converting, or purchasing new locations

• Hire branch managers and configure automated scheduling, staffing, maintenance, pricing, and spending

• Renovate, rebrand, sell, or launch turnaround plans for struggling branches

• Added market-share tracking, profit forecasts, return-on-investment estimates, alerts, and chain-wide reports

• Rival theatres and other players now exert meaningful competitive pressure within shared markets

Live Entertainment

• Open Cinemas, Playhouses, and Musical Theatres as part of the same theatre chain

• Build stages, hire stage crews, schedule performances, and maintain live-production equipment

• Sign plays and musicals with unique licensing fees, royalties, requirements, and minimum runs

• Studios can unlock a Live Entertainment Division and develop original plays, musicals, and film adaptations

• Rehearse productions with contracted talent before licensing them to compatible venues

• Live entertainment is supported in Solo and Multiplayer games

Studio Filming Locations

• Choose from eight filming locations with unique costs, talent pools, facilities, incentives, risks, and genre strengths

• Productions now receive individual location requirements and clearer comparisons between available choices

• Build regional facilities and improve local relationships to expand production opportunities

• Added location capacity, availability forecasts, logistics options, insurance choices, filming incidents, and incentive audits

• Other studios and players can create congestion and competition for popular filming locations

Custom Data Editor

• Added an in-game editor for creating reusable custom data packs

• Customize staff, actors, directors, writers, studios, agencies, movie titles, live-production titles, and business names

• Custom data remains consistent across saves, reconnects, rehosts, and Multiplayer games

Interface Improvements

• Added more breathing room and stronger visual emphasis for important controls and information

• Themed scrollbars, dropdowns, and selection menus to match the rest of the game

• Removed pricing verdicts that revealed whether prices were fair, overpriced, or a bargain without the appropriate research

• Tooltips now respect the current role, game mode, unlocked research, and feature availability

• Continue now opens the save selection screen instead of automatically choosing a save

• The game has been localized in Portuguese

Tutorials, Guides & Information

• Removed guidance for Studio features that are not currently available

• Corrected misleading information about production, post-production, soundstages, staffing, awards, finances, concessions, bankruptcy, and weekly reports

• Tutorials and guides now change appropriately between Theatre, Studio, Solo, and Multiplayer games

• Concepts remain hidden until they are relevant and available to the player

• Filled missing tooltip and tutorial information across all 14 existing languages

• Added tooltips and tutorial chapters for franchising, live venues, filming locations, production logistics, and studio live entertainment

Achievements

• Fixed a major issue that prevented several achievements from being checked

• One broken achievement can no longer prevent later achievements from unlocking

• Existing saves are rechecked for qualifying progress when sufficient history is available

• Restored Steam achievement support for Linux builds

Studio Mode Fixes

• Fixed Studio games becoming stuck when attempting to advance the week

• Starter movies now appear in Distribution where players expect to find them

• Updated the opening tutorial to match the starter-movie experience

• Test-screened movies can now be returned to post-production

• Post-production changes remain consistent after saving, loading, reconnecting, or rehosting

• Counteroffers now remain available for a full game week

• Fixed Distribution becoming unusable after the opening-week achievement appeared

• Research Expansion now provides the intended additional researcher capacity

Multiplayer & Save Improvements

• Reconnecting players are more reliably returned to their original company, role, and saved slot

• Improved recovery when players share similar names or join with Steam accounts

• Rehosting now restores franchises, filming activity, live productions, AI readiness, and player statistics more reliably

• Improved synchronization after temporary connection interruptions and host changes

• Simultaneous filming-location reservations now resolve consistently

• Players cannot mark themselves ready before required location information has synchronized

• Incompatible Multiplayer versions are hidden and prevented from joining one another

• Improved private-lobby password protection

• Fixed leaderboard statistics failing to repopulate after loading a saved game

Simulation & Accounting Fixes

• Membership visits, free tickets, discounted tickets, revenue, costs, and lifetime results now use actual attendance

• Fixed membership calculations changing after subscriber gains or cancellations

• Reusable 3D glasses now respect daily availability while tracking weekly wear correctly

• Corrected final tax installments, missed-payment penalties, audit charges, and payment-plan affordability

• Automatic maintenance now records expenses correctly and respects one shared chain-wide budget

• Weekly changes are now fully recorded before autosaving

• Closed or unavailable auditoriums no longer distort satisfaction results

• Staff hiring limits are now enforced when quantities are typed manually

• Equipment replacement previews now reflect the condition of the new equipment

• Maintenance timing now uses the correct auditorium and attendance information

Additional Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cinema games inheriting Studio screens and information after returning to the main menu

• Fixed End Engagement actions sometimes doing nothing

• Wage editing now uses the player’s selected currency

• Fixed Settings scrolling snapping back near Display Resolution

• Fixed restored AI players incorrectly appearing unready

• Fixed player statistics disappearing from multiplayer leaderboards

• Improved Solo and Multiplayer notifications so they describe the correct mode and available actions

• Updated all newly added systems and fixes across the game’s 14 existing languages