Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 05:24 am
Box Office Sim – Casual Game Review
Box Office Sim is a Casual/Simulation game from John Jaco, first launched in 17th April 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 387+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Box Office Sim Stand Out
Box Office Sim is a business sim game in which you manage your own movie studio.
Start as a small independent film studio and see if you have what it takes to rise through the ranks and become one of the few Major film studios.
Create your own scripts, or buy existing spec scripts off the market, then cast and negotiate cast contracts. Set opportune release dates and run marketing campaigns, for the best possible opening weekend.
Make the best quality movies that you can and see if you can earn the top prize at yearly award shows.
Bid on and win completed movies, ready for distribution, at bi-annual film festivals.
See if you have what it takes to move up the ranks, starting from making low budget indie films, to making multi-movie franchises and blockbusters.
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Box Office Sim is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th June 2023
Recent improvements include:
Added link to new College Football 2 Sim
Download & Availability
Box Office Sim is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Box Office Sim on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is the game you should be putting all of your attention and focus into!!! Boxofficesim 2 features with this game base model would be immaculate.
We got this app yesterday and then played it for 7 and a half hours straight. It was really fun, but we would love for some of these 4 things to be added. 1. Being able to watch the movie you made 2. Being able to hire multiple writers or directors for a movie 3. Being able to make tv shows 4. Being able to buy other companies not just there franchises.
Plz create a Tv Show sim version of box office sim.
We love this game and get stuck playing it often. One small suggestion would be to show which actors, directors, and writers are retiring. Maybe sometime during award season.
We love this game, its by far the best movie making sim. We dont play 2 because its animals not humans so PLEASE make a 3 with people not animals. We would pay money for a newer version of this game.
By far one of mi absolute favorite games.
We Love This but we would LOVEEEE YOU if you made one for tv shows.
With the most recent update nobody wins the Popcorn Cinema Award. FYI, Ive been playing this game for about 2 years now, and this wouldnt happen before.
We like this game a lot hopefully they will update it with a type category. For Animation or Live Action As well as animation style 2d and 3D.
In the Box Office Sim 2 the movies are not always nominated for Best Supporting Actor/Actress but in this game when it flops its only nominated for 4 Best Supporting Actors. Pls fix.
Game was great. Needed more content though. Latest update only added constant advertisements every time you simulate a week. This has made the game all but unplayable in our mind. Instantly uninstalled. Shame.
Been playing this for a while, An Update is must needed and will put this game over the top of many as it is already. Just let us sign Actors to our Studio and bring those who retired out of Retirement please.
We absolutely love this game you should really make one but its tv shows instead you can create the episodes just like this one. We would love that and hope you see this.
This game is so good. Im addicted to it. Is there any chance you can make one with TV shows.
We love this game! Ive spent hours playing it and its a great game, Ive created whole universes with different actors and directors and its all very fun(Ive amassed a whopping $30b). The interface is easy and the game is fun and as challenging as you want it to be. Our only small suggestions would be things like customizing actors, writers and directors, and maybe actor contracts or something so we dont have to wait 8 weeks for an actor to become available to make a sequel to a movie.
We just love this game and we cant stop playing it.
Is it possible to throw out a film you no longer want to make? More movies get thrown out than finished irl, so it works on that level. If not, will this ever be planned in the future.
We absolutely love this game and it is a great time killer but we have 3 requests. 1. Our first and most important request is that the developers make us able to sign actors onto multi-movie contracts for series because we hate recasting actors when Im making a franchise 2. Our second request is that the developers make us able to add more than one genre to our movie 3. Our third and final request is that the developers make us able to make our own Cinematic Universes where we can sign actors to a multi-movie contract/deal.
Hello, we just wanted to review and say that your game is a very good time killer! It keeps us and our friends busy and we love it! You dont have to listen to this of course but Id love if there was an edit button on characters so we could make it seem like real people were in the game!! We also think it would be pretty cool if you could create a game where you run a record label, same kind of stuff as this game! Just different features and stuff, we think itd be pretty sweet and Id play it a lot too.
We absolutely love this game! Our only issue with it is that actors and actresses can only sign on for 2 movies. We would love for this to be removed in the future, so we could create our own cinematic universe with the same actors and actresses.
We feel like this a great blueprint for a movie sim game. He could totally add so much more like movie contracts, interviews, reviews of movies, cinematic universes, streaming services and more. We hope there are features that are added in the future. PS You should totally make a TV Studio and Game Studio Sim.
Can you guys make a music label game please we love all of your games.
A game that does a great job at keeping the realism and the fun in a box office game but their are somethings we would love to be added into the game. 1.) we think the ratings for a movie in this game should be similar to how IMDB does their ratings on a film were you have the critic score but you also have the ratings of the audience. Just because you have a high critic score doesnt mean the people is going to love the movie, it makes it even more challenging. 2.) we dont like how you can overuse characters, how can a director make 8 films in one year. We think their should be scheduling for the characters were they might only want to make 2 or 3 films a year. 3.) Their should be a mode were the game adds the top actors and directors in cinema today as playable characters for your studio, instead of custom. 4.) Allow directors to write the script.
Good game but here are some suggestions 1. International screenings we like to see how would your film well do in other countries! So you can earn more popularity and money 2. More award shows Add more international award shows! Some movies in real life won awards in other countries! 3. Kid actors Some movies has kids as the main character. It would make sense to happen in this game as well! 4. Contracts on TV studios Some movies gets transformed into a television show for TV channel! This could make sense to keep the fan base going and probably get more money! 5. Mailbox Not really important but probably useful as one of the letters you will get will contain reviews from popular movie critics and contracts too! That all our ideas! Hope you do one of our ideas.
We love this game! Playing it everyday and enjoying it! If we had a couple suggestions maybe be able to add up to 10 people in the cast? And maybe even have the option to sign a actor for multiple movies.
Its honestly our favorite mobile game atm.
We love this game the first time Id seen it is when our brother played it, anyways we would really hope that one day you make editors to have your movie have special effects and more popularly. Also please make a game to make a video game add an artist, programmer, etc just like box office.
This game is awesome its already great but after so long it gets to easy if there was anyway u could add late Game features or implement some of the other reviews ideas its a definite 5 star game.
Its a really fun game Ive been playing the past few days but like we seen another suggestion say there should be Multi-Film contracts so its easier to do multiple movies with actors.
This game is very addictive, which is really good. A few recommendations though, like add movie editors and stuff, more genres, plots, arcs, genres, more roles, vfx people, a review tab where people can write movie reviews, and music for movies. Other than that we really love the game.
Very fun game but we see it hasnt been updated in 8 months. Its not like Im gonna stop using the game but we would like some new or improved content.
We just started grinding out the game today and we love it!!! Im doing so well but every time nominations come up we check to see if Im nominated and then question if you even can be nominated. So can you be nominated for a movie award? Also we wish you could not have to make your movies a franchise! Theres so much more idea we could give but other than that its so fun.
Awesome game but needs an update.
This game is fun and not too complicated. Great time killer and you can get creative. It needs more story arcs and plot choices. Child actors would be cool too and an option for Super Hero and Animated movies.
We love the game its very entertaining and can keep us entertained for hours there are a few recommendations for your game. 1) AI Reviews for movies – we think it would be cool to see what people think on your movie 2) To make a TV series- we think that would also be really cool in the game.
For a new game that we think would be better is instead of being the box office sim and having our own studio. We could be the actors and work our way up and win awards and make money, or we could be writers or directors and win awards and make money. We think that would be awesome and so cool.
We love the game. We wish that we could create custom people to fill the roles in the game. Or at least edit existing people.
Only thing we request that would easily make it 5 stars is if you got to change the names of the actors, directors, etc. So users could use their own favorite actors.
Please update your game!! Add more features and details to your existing ones. CANT except us to do the same thing over and over again cause it is repetitive and to easy to play.
Problem 1:Being able to pick 2 or more genres example: sifi western Problem 2:Contracts Problem 3:Buying other companies.
Great game with fun mechanics. We think 2 things need to be added for this to be near perfect. 1) not everything has to be a franchise. We would like singular movies with the option of no franchise so when we actually want to go through our franchise we dont have to go through 50 of them. 2) the ability to search people and sort them by skill. If Im making a comedy movie we would love the ability to sort actors and actresses by comedic talent so it would be much easier to find the best talent to fit your movie. Overall its an addictive game and Im having a lot of fun.
The game is very good but the pop up your game successfully auto saved is Annoying.
There is so much potential for this game. They could a social media where there are reviews for the movies. They could make the option for sequels.
This game was an excellent time waster and we loved it a lot, until the dev stopped updating it and it fell completely apart, some bugs restart progress from your last manual save and some saves get corrupted, and without more updates, its not as fun with the same old features.
Look, admittedly, this is a fun little game to help live out your movie producer fantasies. Its just complex enough to feel authentic. HOWEVER. Its pretty poorly balanced and way too easy to get on top. By the end of our second year we had multiple films that had grossed over a billion dollars and had eclipsed Disney as the highest most profitable film company of all time we shouldnt be able to do that. We went to Cannes, bought an R-rated 3 hour adventure film and when we released it 2 weeks later to the public it became the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time. It was just way too easy.
So Ive been playing this game for about a week now, its a lot of fun seeing your franchises grow and winning awards, but theres a huge problem. The game is WAY too easy, all you have to do is get enough money to buy every marketing option then the money will likely make at least a billion if its high quality and the genre alines with the trends. This means youll easily make your money back and after a while of doing this money doesnt even become a concern, we got nearly 100 billion with ease. Also this means that other studios dont even compete, when looking at the movies page, all of the movies our studio made up like the first ten pages because our movies were making so much, the only reason why we continue to play is to see if we can beat our max box office.
Some 4 year olds or even up to 8 year olds cant read at all.
They dont really care about this game anymore. Havent made an update in months and dont respond to any of the reviews except one which was talking about bugs that never really happen. Needs contracts where certain actors have a contract with you, for example like 4 movies where they cannot be in any other movie until the contract is done. The game is very fun but also very easy. Maybe make it just a little bit harder.
We would really appreciate an option in the game to configure the default studios, perhaps change studio logos and names to incorporate in real life studios. The game is beautifully simplistic and a good fun on the go. Pick up and play anytime, anywhere! Several different ways to play the game and its very easy to incorporate your own rules into the game to make it more fun for yourself.
We really enjoy this game and we think its a very good sim game but there are some options that could make it a lot better. 1) Customizable People: You should be able to customize the stats, name, and the ages of actors, directors, or writers. 2) More Genres: Animation, War, Documentary just to name a few. 3) Story Events: After a few years of playing there isnt much to do because you can make 95-100 movies every time. Add some story events to make stuff interesting and make there a reason to play. Just some suggestions, overall a great game though.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.1
- Size: 93.10 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: John Jaco
Last updated: 25th June 2023 | Genre: Casual, Simulation | Developer: John Jaco