- The Executive – Patch Notes [1.3.2] - 25 July 2025
📢 Dear Executives! We're rolling out a small patch before our summer break, addressing issues you've helpfully brought to our attention on Discord.🐞 BUGFIXESLocalization Key Issues: Resolved missing localization keys, particularly for new players experiencing telemetry-related text omissions.Missing CJK Characters: Fixed an issue where some Korean, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese characters were appearing as squares (🗌). All characters should now display correctly.General Localization Improvements: Corrected several poorly translated strings thanks to your detailed feedback, enhancing the overall in-game text quality.⚖️ BALANCING ADJUSTMENTSPremium Feature Affinities: A keen-eyed player noticed that the premium feature affinities for "Superhero" and "Supernatural" were accidentally swapped. This has been corrected, and their respective affinities are now as intended.🎥 See you on th…
- The Executive – Patch Notes [1.3.1] - 16 June 2025
📢 Dear Executives! We hope you’ve been enjoying the new features we rolled out over the weekend.Some of you reported a bug affecting film revenue calculations, introduced in the latest patch. This is a minor update, focused on addressing that issue as quickly as possible. 🐞 HOTFIXMovie Financials Bug: When playing with an uncapped framerate and a fast computer, film financials could behave incorrectly if the framerate was too high. While we couldn’t precisely pinpoint the root cause, the issue appears to stem from the in-game time management system, which struggles with certain calculations when frame durations are too short. As a quick fix, we’ve decided to remove the uncapped FPS option.Our sincere apologies if you were impacted by this bug!🎥 See you on the red carpet, — The Dev Team
- The Executive – Metasave, Sell IPs, BO rankings! – Patch Notes [1.3.0] - 15 June 2025
📢 Dear Executives! Thank you for your ongoing support, feedback, and brilliant suggestions. Patch 1.3.0 brings three of the most requested features from our Discord community — plus a round of key fixes and improvements. 🆕 NEW FEATURES🔍 Insights Metasave Your discovered insights are now saved in a metasave. When starting a new game, you can choose whether to carry over knowledge unlocked from previous playthroughs — or go in blind. 💰Sell Your IPs Need a cash injection? You can now sell intellectual properties you’ve created or acquired, opening up fresh strategies for making money. 🥇 Box Office Rankings To boost immersion and the competitive spirit, we’ve added a new screen where you can compare your movie’s box office against others released the same month. ➡ Note: This feature is partially backwards compatible. Older movies will show a regenerated competitor list since we weren’t…
- The Executive – Steam Workshop! – Patch Notes [1.2.1] - 14 May 2025
📢 Dear Executives! Thank you for your continued support and patience. We're excited to roll out the long-awaited Steam Workshop integration! This update also brings a handful of additional improvements—including the highly requested Sandbox Mode. 🆕 NEW CONTENT Sandbox mode: A new difficulty option has been added. Enjoy infinite money, all themes unlocked from the start, plenty of research points, and no objective to guide your progression. ⚖️ BALANCING CHANGES No more shiny candidate: Overpowered recruits showing up in low-tier recruiting campaigns were breaking the game’s progression. These have been removed. Updated IP Stats: Some IPs had genre and theme combinations with poor affinity. These have been adjusted to improve their viability. 🐞 BUG FIX AND IMPROVEMENTS Employee Assignment Reset Fix: Assignments were sometimes not properly reset when returning to the main menu and start…
- The Executive – Experimental Branch with Workshop Support - 6 May 2025
📢 Dear Executives! Thank you for your continued support and patience. We're excited to roll out an Experimental Branch, featuring the long-awaited Steam Workshop integration! This update also brings a handful of additional improvements—including the highly requested Sandbox Mode. How to access the Experimental Branch: Right-click The Executive in your Steam Library and select Properties Navigate to the Betas tab Choose Experimental from the beta participation dropdown menu To return to the main version, simply select None from the same dropdown 🆕 NEW CONTENT Sandbox mode: A new difficulty option has been added. Enjoy infinite money and all themes unlocked from the start. ⚖️ BALANCING CHANGES No more shiny candidate: Overpowered recruits showing up in low-tier recruiting campaigns were breaking the game’s progression. These have been removed. Updated IP Stats: Some IPs had genre and th…
- The Executive – Patch Notes [1.1.2] - 21 March 2025
📢 Dear Executives! Today’s update brings exciting new content and some small improvements! Let’s break it down: 🆕 NEW CONTENT 5 brand-new production incidents to spice up your decision-making. 5 fresh themes added to the creative mix: 🎨 Artist, 💔 Breakup, 👨👩👧 Family Relationships, ✝️ Religion, 🗺️ Treasure Hunt. 69 new IPs available for licensing — expand your empire with fresh ideas! IP Description Update — Many IP description were updated to remove copyrighted content. ⚖️ BALANCING CHANGES Franchise Fatigue Decay Rate has been increased. Some of you noticed that the balancing was off and you had to wait way too long between 2 sequels — this tweak should help you get back into franchise-building sooner without overwhelming your audience. 🐞 BUG FIX AND IMPROVEMENTS Minor UI fix in Self Marketing window: 100% reach background color fixed Box Office Performance Marketing Score:…
- The Executive – Patch Notes [1.1.1] - 14 March 2025
📢 Dear Executives! We hope you're having a fantastic time licensing your favorite IPs and turning them into blockbuster films! Today's update is a small but important hotfix to smooth out a few issues before the weekend. 🔧 BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS: Book Value Stuck at 0 – A previous patch unintentionally caused studio book values to remain at 0. We've fixed this issue, and book values will now be calculated correctly. This means you can take on larger loans when necessary, and your final scoring will properly reflect your studio's financial worth. Localization Improvements – Various text fixes and refinements for a better experience across all supported languages. Thank you for your continued support—your feedback means everything to us! Keep sharing your thoughts, and we’ll keep improving The Executive! 🎬✨ The Dev Team
- The Executive – IP Marketplace! – Patch Notes [1.1.0] - 13 March 2025
📢 Attention, Executives! Today's update is a big one! We’re introducing the IP Marketplace, a brand-new feature that expands your creative empire. Plus, we’ve fixed several key bugs and improved overall gameplay. Let's dive in! 🆕 NEW FEATURE: IP MARKETPLACE Building your own franchise is thrilling, but now, you can take it a step further! With the IP Marketplace, you can acquire the rights to iconic (spoofed) novels, TV shows, video games, and more—transforming them into blockbuster movie franchises. Discover 700+ spoofed IPs inspired by renowned cultural franchises. Explore 6 different media sources: Cartoons, Graphic Novels, Manga/Anime, Novels, TV Shows, and Video Games. Invest in powerful new IPs – with a catch! The most valuable IPs come with tough conditions. Fail three times, and you lose the IP. 🐞 BUG FIXES Movies Stuck in 'Wait for Release': Last week, we fixed an issue wher…
- The Executive – Patch Notes [1.0.9] - 8 March 2025
📢 Dear Executives! Today’s update is smaller than planned, as one of our team members was under the weather this week. Unfortunately, this means we have to postpone the IP Marketplace release to next week. We truly wanted to launch it in time for the weekend, but we feel it still needs some quality-of-life improvements to be fully ready. We appreciate your patience and promise it’ll be worth the wait! 🔧 BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS: Resuming a movie distribution could lock another movie: Previously, resuming a movie’s distribution while another movie was in production could prevent you from finishing the latter. This issue has now been fixed. Disappearing movies: If you opened a window during the exact same frame that another movie production window appeared automatically, closing the first window would close both—leaving the movie in limbo. We fixed it! Firing employees mid-task: It was…
- The Executive – Postpone Distribution! – Patch Notes [1.0.8] - 27 February 2025
📢 Attention, Executives! Today’s update brings in a much demanded quality-of-life improvement! 🎥 QUALITY OF LIFE ENHANCEMENTS Postpone distribution type selection: many of you were frustrated you had to settle for a downgraded distribution type if the required staff for your preferred option wasn’t available. Now, you can postpone this decision, giving you the flexibility to wait until your ideal team members are ready to contribute to your cinematic masterpiece! ⚖️ BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS Incident Localization fix: the description and options of one of the production incidents were KO. We fixed it. Save File Optimization: We’ve improved how accounting line items are saved, significantly reducing save file sizes and ensuring smoother performance in extra-long Endless Mode games. This update is fully compatible with existing saves. 🛣️ SHORT-TERM ROADMAP Here is an update on our short…
- The Executive – Patch Notes [1.0.7] - 21 February 2025
📢 Attention, Executives! Today’s update focuses on bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements to enhance your experience with our short term plans at the end of the patch note. 🔧 BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS: Endless Mode Talent Pool: Previously, the available talent pool remained static, making selections feel repetitive. It now reshuffles regularly, keeping things fresh. Incident Windows: Incident windows could be skipped during their opening animation, causing players to miss crucial details if they clicked on HUD buttons at the wrong time. This has been fixed. Endgame Scoring Fix: Cult and classic movies are now correctly factored into the final score calculation. Minor Animation Adjustments ✨ QUALITY OF LIFE ENHANCEMENTS: Cult & Classic Movies: Previously, players were only notified when a film achieved cult or classic status via a standard notification—too easy to miss! To give thes…
- The Executive – Patch Notes [1.0.6] - 20 February 2025
📢 Dear Executives! Today’s update focuses on mainly bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and balancing tweaks based on your feedback. Let’s dive in! 🔧 BUG FIX: Potential Softlock Fix – Resolved an issue where opening multiple UI screens in the same frame could cause a softlock, preventing interaction. Starting Loan Repayment – Paying off your loan early? Now, you’ll only be debited the remaining balance instead of the full loan amount. Premium Features Accounting Error – Premium features selected during production planning step were mistakenly charged twice—this has been fixed. Provisional Budget Estimate – Premium features are now accurately included in the film’s provisional budget at every production step. Box Office Performance Screen Fix – The clapperboard display now correctly includes premium feature costs in the final budget. Third-Party Distributor Duplication – Fixed a r…
- The Executive – Autosave! – Patch Notes [1.0.5] - 18 February 2025
📢 Dear Executives! We hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday. On our end, we’ve been hard at work and are excited to bring you a much-requested feature. 📜 Today's Update: 💾 AUTOSAVE! You asked, we listened! Auto-save is now available. At the end of each in-game year, your progress will be automatically saved, alternating between two dedicated slots to ensure extra security. No more lost progress—just smooth, uninterrupted decision-making! ⚖️ BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS Resolved an issue where 3 themes (Aliens, Teenagers, Slasher) were not properly configured, affecting talent affinity calculations. Now, you can cast the perfect talent lineup to bring your slasher horror vision to life! 🚀 COMING SOON We’ve got some exciting updates on the horizon. Cough cough—did someone say Steam Workshop support? Stay tuned for more details soon! Thank you for your continued support—we love hearing yo…
- One Week Post-Launch: Thank You! - 18 February 2025
Hi all! Today marks one week since the launch of The Executive, and we wanted to say a big thank you to all our players! As you may know, we’ve taken your feedback into account. In addition to fixing bugs you may have encountered and making improvements, we’ve released Endless Mode, allowing you to continue your journey as a Hollywood mogul for as long as you want. We’re currently working hard on implementing autosave and are always on the lookout for more feedback from you! Here are some of our favorite videos since the release: Latest news from Goblinz: We just released our futuristic automation game, Microtopia. In Microtopia, you'll manage a colony of robot ants, design a network of transport trails, explore unique environments, and expand your settlement. Out now with a 10% launch discount! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2750000/Microtopia/?utm_source=theexec_steam_post&utm_cam…
- The Executive - Patch notes [1.0.4] - 17 February 2025
📢 Dear Executives! After a short break this weekend, we're back at it—working hard to improve The Executive! Here is today’s patch content: 🔧 BUG FIX: Ambient sounds will no longer stop after a while. ✨ QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS: New "View Trends" Button added to both the 3rd-party distributor selection screen and the self-distribution calendar for easier access. Improved Visual Feedback for the Premium Feature mechanic in the budget allocation screen. We realized this mechanic wasn’t as clear as it should be—this update brings it in the right direction, though there’s still more room for improvement. Franchise Creation Clarity: Updated tooltips to better explain the difference between IP and Franchise. ⚖️ BALANCING: Increased RP gain for Small and Medium movies, making it easier to spend a bit early on if you’re eager to jump into bigger productions. Reduced Employee Quit Rate and…
- The Executive – Endless Mode! – Patch Notes [1.0.3] - 14 February 2025
Thanks again for everyone’s support and patience, we worked around the clock this past 3 days to fix as many bugs as possible and cook The Endless Mode for you! Here is today’s patch content: Endless Mode! Once you reach the end of the main story line, you can now choose to keep playing for as long as you like! Please note that in this mode, historical news updates are disabled, competitor movies are now procedurally generated rather than based on real events, and although the talent pool for your casts won't evolve over time, it still offers thousands of options. Bug Fixes Endgame Timeline Various bugs were resolved. And added a way to skip the timeline just in case. Competition bugs Some rival movies could be shown as having a similar genre as yours when they did not. The issue was fixed. Balancing Reduced the small office price to 20M We noticed that some of you were stuck in the tin…
- The Executive - Patch notes [1.0.2] - 13 February 2025
Dear Movie Executives, Thanks again to everyone who submitted bug reports on our Discord and shared their logs and saves with us. It helped us tremendously. Here is today’s patch content: Bug Fixes Bug with proposed release date: In some rare occasions, players were able to select a release date before the end of the post production, which would leave the movie in a non released state forever. The issue has been fixed Bug with Self Marketing sometimes corrupting the game: The issue was due to an overflow error corrupting the game and saves made after the error occurred. The issues has been fixed Experimental corrupted save fix: We’ve implemented a fix to repair saves corrupted by the bug mentioned above. Please note that the movie which triggered the corruption will not earn any revenue. If the repair is successful, pressing play will display all the box office screens in a row for the…
- The Executive – Patch Notes [1.0.1] - 12 February 2025
Dear Players, First and foremost, we want to extend a heartfelt apology to everyone who experienced issues with cloud saves. We are gamers ourselves, so we fully understand how frustrating and disheartening it can be to lose progress after investing hours into the game. We have taken this issue very seriously, and after extensive investigation, we can now confidently say that the cloud save issue should be resolved. This launch has been rougher than expected, and we deeply appreciate your patience and support as we worked to address these issues. Your time and dedication to The Executive mean the world to us, and we’re committed to ensuring the best experience possible moving forward. Bug Fixes & Improvements Cloud Save – Cloud saves are now working properly, preventing loss of progress. Cash Display – Fixed a bug that caused cash values to be missing on non-standard resolutions. Large…
- Post-release follow up - 12 February 2025
Hello everyone! Thomas here, we'd like to communicate with you about the launch itself, and more importantly what's to expect from now on! Firstly, we of course want to thank you all about your interest in the game. You've been a lot of people making your own movies and hitting the top of the charts! You've been a lot to leave kind words about the game and it is really heartwarming, so thank you again Now, we also know that there's been things that are bothering you, or that you would want to be added to the game, and I wanted to update you on this. Note that this is about short term, and that we'll communicate later on further things that will come for The Executive. So here we go! Broken saves Some of you have reported broken saves. This is now fixed and should not require you to update the game. Just to be sure, if you opened Steam before 1pm CET, you can reboot Steam. As the fix was…
- 🎬 The Executive Out Now! - 11 February 2025
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