Idol Tycoon: Be the Agency CEO

Three trainees and one small office. What does your idol agency look like ten years from now?

Form a group from the members you picked, plan a comeback, and chase #1 on the charts. The choices you make along the way come back at the year-seven contract renewal and in your ending.

From debut to comeback Train your trainees and form a group. Pick a concept and a producer, decide the music video budget, and the comeback begins. Money alone never buys a #1. Every producer has concepts they are good at, and when you fall short of expectations the headline reads "all that money for that rank?".

The moment your group takes the stage The members you picked dance to the song you produced. Change the concept and the set and choreography change too. On the night the chart drops, shake your iPhone like a light stick. The harder you shake, the louder the crowd. When the point choreography goes viral, the views and comments pile up in front of you.

Will this week go quietly? The week you are nominated for a music show win, a rival announces a comeback on the same day. A member falls during a live broadcast. Each time you choose how to respond, and a short duel of dice, rock-paper-scissors, tapping or timing decides the outcome. There are 160 of these events. The first two years are survival. Miss the promise to your investor (a Top 15 or 20,000 fans by the deadline) and you hand over part of the company.

Year seven, when your choices come back Twelve member archetypes each carry a three-act story. One supports a family back home, one is the youngest of a chaebol family, one was cut from another agency, one came back from burnout. What you hear in one-on-one talks and what you decide in a crisis builds loyalty, and that comes back at the contract renewal table in year seven. A member who only does variety shows may leave as a TV personality, and a neglected foreign member may go home. Leave a member on their personal channel during a break and a vlog or a cover live might hit the algorithm.

Ten years on, your agency As the fandom grows the stage widens, from small theaters to a dome and from Tokyo to New York. Book a dome too early and the headline is about empty seats. At the year-end awards you open the envelope yourself. Thirty rival groups share the chart and new ones debut every year. You might be remembered as a legend, or end as a one-hit wonder or a closing press conference. Twenty endings stay in your collection and become the legacy of your next run.

No ads and no in-app purchases. No account, offline, with Game Center leaderboards only. 16-bit pixel art with 76 portraits and 24 full-body sprites, a chiptune soundtrack with seven concept hooks, haptics on chart night, and a two-pane layout on foldable iPhones. Korean and English.