Idle Cinema Empire Reviews

This was a fun game and I enjoyed playing it for a bit. I spent money to upgrade and to bypass the ads. Very much worth it at first. I then got halfway through the second level. Have millions of coins, but there is no way to upgrade my power plant anymore. Everything is greyed out and, though I have enough money to buy more generators, the game just won’t allow it. When contacting the developers multiple times, I am asked (in a very poor translation) to be patient with them and then they go back to ignoring me.
Could be a fun game if they actually cared. Unfortunately, this game was just quickly developed to steal your money. Just like all these new games Chinese-developed that have flooded the market. Avoid this game.

I have never played a game like this before some things in the advertisement aren’t real like for example, I saw in the advertisement you could change the prices for the tickets for each film, which is not true . I would also like to see instead of the people leaving the building after they watch one movie you would think the customers would stay until they watched all the movies . Instead of moving to a new theater after you complete the first one they should have done a timeline where you start of in 1919 and continue on for 110 years.

As someone who typically pays attention to game tutorials to learn how to play, this one was incredibly annoying. I couldn’t do anything else on the game (like turn off the music and sounds) and I couldn’t skip the tutorial and come back to it later. The option to just turn off the music before going into the tutorial would make this game much higher on my play again list. Anytime I clicked on something the stupid tutorial would pop up, even after I had done the tutorial for the thing before hand. 10/10 would NOT recommend this game’s way of teaching the player how to play.

I've had a lot of fun with this game, today marks one week of playing it everyday.

However, I'm noticing that it does not do the things it's supposed to do. If I log back into the game after not playing for 2 hours, I'll typically have made 2.4 million dollars in the game. When I go to bed for the night and then check IdleCinemaEmpire when I wake up 8 hours later, I will have made 2.1 million dollars. Why does it cap how much you can make? This doesn't make sense.

Also, for some strange reason, it's like IdleCinemaEmpire knows when I'm home. You can watch ads in this game for different prizes, and for some reason, it won't let me watch ads when I'm home.
In the car? Sure. At work? Absolutely! At home? Not a chance. It just shows a loading animation anytime I've tried watching an ad while at home.

Also, at the end of everyday, you get a bonus for being at a certain place on the leaderboards. Well, the time you get the reward is at 2300 central time (when the leaderboard closes). However, if you're not awake and on IdleCinemaEmpire at that time, they don't give you the reward. You like going to sleep at a decent time? Tough luck, you're not going to benefit from the time you're putting into the game!

I've enjoyed this game a lot, like I said. However, if these things don't change I'll be deleting IdleCinemaEmpire soon because I've spent too much time on it for these little frustrating events to keep happening, it's making me not enjoy the game anymore.

I’ve owned this game for just a couple days, while the game play is very addicting and right up y alley as I love idle games, this game is Deff not very “idle” in the sense that other games use it,
For example, other games usually let you spend the currency you make in game on managers or things to give you boosts while your away this game on the other hand wants you to pay 6-11$ multiple time for certain boost, for example you can watch 6 ads on adventure capitalist and you get 24 hours worth of rewards boosting without having to spend any irl money, this game you watch 6 ads and only get 1 hour worth of boost, if you want a higher boost you have to spend irl dollars. Any boost you want your watching ad, which is pretty standard, but the amount of ads you have to watch since your boost are for such little, you end up watching way more ads then you would in most other idle games, 15$ to remove seems hefty, and personally way above what I would pay. Season pass is 6$ which again is far more then I would pay, but I’m not a season pass person. Final words would be addictive gameplay gets over shadowed by pay walls and ads every corner you turn. Maybe if the developer offers some sales down the line I would be inclined to pay something.

Loved playing and completing the first theater and after all my playing time I was excited to unlock another location. Unfortunately I was beyond disappointed. 1st the locations have no connection your money doesn’t cross over. 2 when your on one theater you don’t make any money from the other one. Super annoying and frustrated. There absolutely no crossover between the two and just seems like a lazy way to keep people playing. Hope this game makes the changes needed, and I would HAPPILY play again.

Only things i really have problems with are the fact that it takes SO long to get the ampunts of gold coins they want for upgrades, i understand not wanting it to be easy, but 700 coins just to open a new theater? Thats like days of just watching the coin making businesses and grabbing them, not even to mention if you dont have the microtransations to let you grab the things on its own (which is what it should do normally). Also this isnt as much of a deal since ive now finished the first city, but you can only get idle profits in one theater at a time (the one you closed the game on) effectively getting rid of the whole “idle” experience. If anything the only thing i feel like needs changing is the insane incentives towards watching ads (i get that it makes you money but come on the whole screen is littered with pop ups about things to buy) and possibly the amounts of gold coins you can gather, or stop making the upgrades get to the point of needing thousands of coins just to upgrade your karaoke area. (EDIT) I just bought one of the dumb microtransations thats supposed to “automatically collect your gold coins” but guess what, it doesnt even do it while youre offline, so it’s essentially useless. Very cool!

So, I got this game about 2 months ago. It sits in a carousel of games I charcoal nightly before bed.
It’s a fairly typical idle game with a WAY overblown game economy and a short life span.
I’ve gotten to the end of the 2nd area, which is the last one. The map has said “Coming Soon” for the next area since I started. Apparently the word “soon” has lost all its meaning to app developers. Or, they have no intention of updating it and just collect whatever money you spend on it. DON’T SPEND MONEY ON THIS GAME. It’s not big enough or long enough to spend the RIDICULOUS prices for in-app purchases. I have almost every movie you can collect, I’ve maxed out on money, no tasks left and no where to go.
It’s fun, but not for long, unless the devs want to do something with it.
Willing to change my review rating if they add on, or at least temper the level of pricing they’ve set. Seriously, does anyone, who’s not a launderer, spend $60 and up for crappy temporary boosts in a game that barely lasts 3 weeks if you play it right?
Thanks for reading, I hope this helps, both consumers and devs alike.

I’ve been playing for about a month or so and lol in all I do actually like the game, but to say you have limited ways to get gold coins but you need them for mostly all of the transactions makes it difficult and unappealing. It’s like once you get past the first round, it slows down and makes it uninteresting. Even if you were a person who just wanted to pay to boost, the gold coins needed are not even in any kind of reasonable quantity bundle to do so. It would be nice if you could trade cash for coins or buy coins like you do the cash. Also my Luck spin constantly crashes, so I haven’t been playing it much since I have to wait days for the businesses to accrue enough gold coins. I feel it would be a great game of it was atleast fair in that sense. I would say the best part of this would be the cute movie titles and art. All in all, I would at-least play the first round/ city then find something else to do.

I have played this game a lot, ever since the newest update I can’t play ads to ear stuff. This is frustrating because I enjoy the ads to make it solely pay to advance. I like doing it for movies or the little hammers to unlock new things, or even quests when you can watch an add to do them/get more. But ever since the most recent update I cannot watch ads. I tried to uninstall it and redownload it DO NOT TRY THAT. I lost all progress. Which makes not being able to see the ads more frustrating. Still can’t watch ads even after redownload. I’m not sure what the error is but if fixed I would give this game 5 stars.

It’s cool reason only 3 stars is that it doesn’t refresh the game in the background (I left IdleCinemaEmpire in the background last night then when I opened IdleCinemaEmpire this morning it just basically unpaused and didn’t give me any offline rewards) then to top it all off the rewards from yesterday’s leaderboards didn’t go into my account per se it showed the notification/popup of delivering the reward but when I go to the store page to use the gold ticket to get a new movie the ticket wasn’t there. Please fix thank you (I was first in yesterday’s leaderboard)

I started out loving this game. Completely addicted. I was playing this game for hours every day. But suddenly it began glitching and won’t let my buy more power for my cinema. So now I can’t complete tasks or level anything out because it maxed out the power. I have the money for it in the game and it basically put my game at a stand still. It flashes low power at me IN THE POWER STATION instead of letting my upgrade the power station to fix the situation. I’m really just not sure what to do after investing so much time in such a fun game.

Game was fun up until halfway through their last city. It was cool seeing the different locations however you cop out at “1000m” and i was hoping the new world would come soon. I think maybe being able to organize the room how you want or purchase certain decorations as skins for in came currency would be cool. also maybe arcade could have a mini game that earns diamonds or coins which can be rip
offs of popular games. adding better rewards or making people earn things instead of having everything be adds would be much more appealing and attractive to the player. personalization are key to winning people over today. also having mini upgrades could be cool as well. making cash earning more integral to the game by having the burger shop or diner have to be upgraded not only by the desk but by certain meals or something. i don’t know maybe im just yearning for a good game.

I really like that you can play this game offline and that you’re not forced to watch ads if you don’t want to. The graphics are fun and colors bright. Fun concept for a game. My biggest complaint is that if I’m spending gems or even real money to get a movie for my theater, it should be guaranteed to be one I don’t already have. I get lots of repeated movies, no matter how I select them, which wouldn’t be as big of a deal if I could just put it in one of my other theaters, but this game doesn’t even give you the selection if it’s a duplicate. You end up wasting your gems or tickets. So, my tip would be to not spend real cash for gems or tickets. Otherwise, great game! Only a couple minor manageable glitches.

Once you unlock the second location you can only earn income from each location at a time. I understand why the currency shouldn't mix because you would have too much acquired from the beach and building the city cinema would be too easy. BUT you should still earn the passive income from the beach location while you are selected, and working, on the new location. Also, when you close IdleCinemaEmpire you only earn income from the location you were last on which makes it impossible to upgrade both.

As a cinephile and as someone who used to work at a theater, I was super happy when I saw this game come up.

Positive thoughts:

It’s super addicting. I love getting new movies and upgrading older movies. I love the knock off titles for films, cracks me up. But, unfortunately that’s where the positive thoughts end.

Negative thoughts:

I don’t mind ad supported games, at all, but this game is one that takes it to a new level. And it gets in the way of the, actually really fun game that’s been made. Also, not enough movie titles pop up quick enough to fill up your auditoriums. I recognize it’s part of the game, but with all the REAL movies that are out. I think there is a better system.

Right now it seems like you’re working with. C and up titles. I think there should be D titles as well that are filler films basically. Films that don’t duplicate as much which makes it harder go upgraxde, but you can fill your theaters up without having empty time slots anc I think it would help the progression of the game.

Everything else is great it just needs 1 more lower tier of films and more titles in general. Fix that, and maybe revise the ad structure a bit, and you have a perfect game. A perfect game for film fans. All in all, even with my issues I’m addicted and can’t wait to see how far I can get my theater.

I’ve only had this game for 2 days and it’s pretty good so far. The only thing that is really really annoying is the arrow at the bottom of the screen pointing at the +50% button that has you watch a add. It pops up every 2 to 3 seconds. It is extremely annoying. I don’t understand why the developers found it so necessary to put it in the game.

I love everything about the game the controls are pretty simple it isn’t complicated I do feel like the money flow is not that fast even with a lot of upgrades another thing is the ads do get really annoying but it really does help if you get the no ads purchase because you get instant reward which is really nice but so far it’s a really nice, relaxing n time consuming game.

If you like to pay to upgrade things it’s very expensive.

They have two maps out - and that’s it. Hoping to see more soon, but I finished the maps weeks ago -while I can daily log on to get my away money, and download more movies, there’s little else to do.

Developer- do your job and add more maps!

normally i don’t leave reviews whether i dislike or like the game, but this game scratches a special part of my brain. other games make me feel like i have to purchase something at some point in order to make the game more enjoyable but i don’t feel the same with this one even when i watch ads. my only suggestion is a way to collect all the stars simultaneously as it’s a bit finicky and slow when you have to click each one to collect.