📖 How to Play

🎯 Goal

Reach $2.00B in total revenue as fast as possible. Click to sell tickets, buy venues for passive income, hire staff to boost your empire, and purchase upgrades to accelerate growth.

🎥 Venues

🎥

Single Screen Venue

One screen, sticky floors, pure charm.

$15.00

0.1/s

🍿

Concessions Stand

Popcorn margins are absolutely criminal.

$100.00

0.5/s

🥂

VIP Lounge Screen

Reclining seats, table service, cocktails at the credits.

$500.00

2/s

🖥️

IMAX Experience

70mm of pure, face-melting cinema.

$2.0K

8/s

🎳

Family Entertainment Center

Bowling, arcades, and birthday parties that never end.

$10.0K

30/s

🌟

Premiere Events

Red carpets, press walls, and stars who are shorter than you'd expect.

$50.0K

100/s

🤝

Acquire Indie Cinema

Buy the arthouse down the road. Keep the vintage posters.

$750.0K

500/s

🏦

Acquire Multiplex

12 screens, a food court, and a car park the size of Dallas.

$10.00M

3000/s

👥 Staff

Staff reduce churn risk and multiply your revenue or click value. Each additional hire has diminishing returns (75% of previous).

🔦

Usher

Torch in hand, knows every row by heart.

$200.00

🎞️

Projectionist

Can fix a misaligned frame at forty paces.

$1.5K

📋

Floor Manager

Keeps the screens running and the teens quiet.

$8.0K

👔

Operations Director

Runs the empire so you can watch the films.

$25.0K

🎬

Film Booker

Knows the P&L of every screen, every showtime.

$50.0K

📢

Chief Marketing Officer

Their whole job: bums on seats.

$200.0K

⬆️ Upgrades

💡

Digital Projectors

No more rewinding reels at 2am.

$500.00

🖥️

Online Booking System

People can actually reserve seats now. Revolutionary.

$5.0K

📱

Loyalty App

Unlimited monthly screenings. They'll never cancel.

$20.0K

🤖

Guest Services Agent

AI deals with grumpy guests and manages refunds.

$100.0K

⚡

Implement Hijinx ⭐

Parties, group events, digital everything. Absolute game changer.

$250.0K

📣

Local Ad Campaign

Flyers, bus stops, and the local paper. Old school works.

$3.0K

📲

Social Media Blitz

#CinemaLife #NowShowing — your reels are everywhere.

$10.0K

🏆

Campaigns and Rewards

Watch 10, get one free. They'll chase that stamp card like it's gold.

$30.0K

📰

PR Agency

They get you in TimeOut. Worth every penny.

$150.0K

🪑

Luxury Recliners

Goodbye plastic flip-seats, hello leather luxury.

$500.00

🍻

Craft Brewery

Pints before the picture. Average spend just tripled.

$15.0K

🌆

Flagship Venue

The one everyone knows by name.

$200.0K

🏛️

Studio HQ

Your name in lights. Literally.

$2.00M

🎲 Random Events

🚀 Blockbuster Opening Weekend! (30s)

Ticket sales ×3 for 30s — sell, sell, sell!

📈 TikTok Goes Viral! (25s)

Ticket sales ×2.5 for 25s — ride the wave.

🌊 Group Booking Wave! (20s)

Passive revenue ×1.5 for 20s — sit back and enjoy.

🎉 Major Studio Premiere! (30s)

Passive revenue doubled for 30s — your best passive boost.

😱 Projector Breaks Mid-Film! (30s)

Lose a venue, plus higher churn for 30s.

💔 Star Staff Walk Out! (45s)

Lose 3 venues, plus highest churn risk for 45s.

⚠️ POS Crash! (20s)

Passive revenue halved for 20s — sell tickets manually.

😬 Terrible Audience Review! (15s)

Churn risk +10% for 15s — short but stings.

📉 New Streaming Service Launches! (40s)

Revenue ×0.7 AND churn +10% for 40s — double trouble.

📈 Tiers

📽️ Pop-Up ScreenStart

🎬 Indie Cinema$5.0K

🍿 Local Favourite$50.0K

🏙️ Regional Chain$500.0K

⭐ Multiplex Group$8.00M

🌟 National Circuit$120.00M

👑 Cinema Empire$2.00B

🏅 Achievements

⚡

Speed Demon

Win in under 30 minutes

💎

Solo Operator

Win without hiring any staff

🧠

Tech Mogul

Buy every upgrade

🏆

Hall of Famer

Finish in the top 10

🌱

Organic Growth

Win without any acquisitions

🎬

Full Programme

Own every type of venue