Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 01:52 pm
StageStar – Simulation Game Review
StageStar is a Simulation/Music/Music game from Edmond Szabo, first launched in 25th June 2025.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 15+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes StageStar Stand Out
Step into the world of music fame in StageStar, the ultimate artist simulator packed with charm, drama, and innovation.
• Create your dream artist and live in your fantasy
• Write & release hits with our Automated Albums system
• Interact with fans, drop spicy tweets, and go viral like never before via our AI-generated posts system
• Build your fanbase and gain fans, deal with haters, and handle crazy industry moments.
• Compete & collab and outperform rival artists or team up for chart-topping collabs
• Go on tour
With StageStar, you’re not just playing a music simulator, you’re living the full experience, with more personality and surprises than the competition.
Are you ready to go from bedroom artist to global superstar? Your stage is waiting!
This app uses Apple's standard EULA, available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, StageStar is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Region system:
• 8 (+Global) regions are now added to the game.
• Each region has their own chart, certification system.
• You can now release certain remixes to appeal to different regions.
• You can release merch, albums, singles and deluxes in certain regions specifically.
• A new certification screen, where you can manage every region’s certifications.
• New popularity system, you can build your popularity in 8 more regions.
• New region breakdown in the song details screen.
Online S system:
• You can now post on our brand new online S, which you can find in the S app.
• Album & Single announcements
• You can now announce your albums and singles before it’s release date, watch the fans react.
• Album colors
• You can now pick or set a custom album color, that will reflect on the Projects & Album details section.
Search for album cover:
• You can now search in-game for album covers on the web.
Charting albums section:
• Achievements got replaced with a ‘Charting albums’ section on the home screen.
New character creation:
• Now you can create cute characters, or set your own default picture.
Tour improvement:
• You can now set how many shows you want to do a week, affecting your inspiration on a weekly basis.
• You can now change your tour set list.
Notifications:
• You can now filter through notifications more easily with buttons.
• New scrolling animation for efficiency.
Christmas singles:
• You can now release Christmas songs, which will slowly enter a classic state based on the quality, and re-enter the charts.
StarMusic charts:
• 8 (+Global) region charts are now added to the game.
• Your fans will update on your chart placement including the movement on S.
Miscellaneous:
• When creating a remix, details are automatically pre-filled.
• You can now search in-game for album covers on the web.
• Awards moved to the top of the Apps screen
• New “Pull from Radio” option on Song details
• Default Projects view can be set to Albums
• Project certifications can show Global or Home Country sales
• Streams & units adjusted for better realism.
• Album & single bars, for comparing sales, or chart runs.
Bugfixes:
• Animated covers now display everywhere
• Fixed disappearing album covers
• Award show genre categories & duplicate submission issues
• Singles now properly add to projects
• Automated Albums select the correct genre
• Fixed notification selection, 100%+ popularity, old singles in Playlists/Radio
• Deluxe album issue (new saves only)
Download & Availability
StageStar is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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 CHARTING SYSTEM ANGERS ME! Why is it so hard to chart on singles charts? Our album does so good but our songs are NOT charting or if they do, they flop. This makes no sense. Our pop. And our rep are both 100% but we are still not charting how we should be. But yall have artist staying at #1 for 225 weeks. What is this chart system? Please fix this. Also we need the singes and features to be more organized. It makes the game soooo laggy! But this great has so much potential. Please fix this!!!!! Thank you.
Pls keep updating and improving. This genuinely is our happy medicine.
Ive been playing this game for months now and our guy has been the most successful artist ever. With this update our guys career was ruined.
Love the game but everything is just so unrealistic.
Theres this error with the remixes. It wont let us create the remix even though we have every required box filled. Other than that, this game is fantastic.
Please can you guys optimize the game because its very laggy and we have to close and re open the app constantly if we wanna see feature requests, interviews, etc.
The game is alright and we play it from time to time, but every update this game has something gets reset and its annoying as hell. The updates are fine, not amazing but fine, and would be better if it doesnt reset stuff every time.
It lags everytime , we have to restart the game everytime ! Needs alot of fixing.
This is a really fun game but theres a bug where whenever we make a piece of merch, then the next week if we make a piece of merch, the merch from before disappears. And can you pls add Festivals that you can make like an OVO Fest type thing.
This games amazing. Its the best music sim ive ever played. You just get lost in it. You should add more ways to spend money! Like investments in properties and cars.. It would be fun to do side things to get passive income.
This game is insanely good but we want some features to be added. We should be able to delete post, and follow people, also add audio to the songs like make it to where we can add an actual song from spotify on to the ingame song. Also add highlights to the instagram.
Its a good game but its very buggy snd our songs dissapears randomly and stuff.
Update made our save disapper cant get it back.
Instead of having an Insparation bar you should have an energy bar we think thats kinda cool but either is fine.
It would be so cool if you made a version with acting instead of singing.
We love this game so much its all Ive been looking for.
The game is really dope, but its lacking in some areas. Firstly all our skills are 100 and still we make average or poor songs more than Good or perfect thats not nice fr. There are other things but Ill say the mentioned problems is really pissing us off we came back to update we just finished making 20 songs and all were average! Common please do something.
We have thoroughly enjoyed this app among all the other simulators like it. Below are some improvements that we believe will make playing it even smoother! Double-check that the saves save! Updates should not delete any progress weve made. Its crucial that memory/progress is stored in the game; otherwise, making in-app purchases feels risky or not worthwhile to users. (Currently, there are 10 save slots, but we fear deleting the app to test that they truly save.) Be able to edit or delete Instagram posts !!! Be able to delete tweets !!! Twitter profile pictures: Twitter profile pictures dont sync properly once you change them. For example, the profile picture only updates once youve tweeted with the new photo, but previous tweets still show the old one. This seems to be a glitch. This is a tiny detail, but being able to pin tweets would be fun. We should also have links in our Twitter bios like we do on Stagegram. Startube: We should be able to delete videos, and maybe even change thumbnails the same way we can change album cover art. Albums: Once a single is released from an album, it gets deleted from the album tracklist. It also doesnt appear when viewing it on the music apps. This is definitely an error because even if its released as a single, it should still appear in the tracklist if it was originally part of the album. Ill see the tracklist skip from 4 to 6, for example, because track 5 was the single and its simply not there, lol. There should be interlinking. Its great that it shows up as a single; however, it being removed from the album tracklist shouldnt be a thing unless it was only released as a standalone single. Something weird happened where we released a deluxe version of an album, and it created another blank copy of it that we cant get rid ofthere are zero songs in it. One version of the deluxe showed up properly with all the songs. However, we dont think anything should be able to release unless theres music included, to prevent blank copies of albums from appearing in our music library. The Wiki app glitches completely if you click on Discography. Cover art for merchandise like CDs becomes blank after some time. Currently, we only have one CD with a visible image. SMZ News: Make SMZ News have actual merit to our stars. If we choose to be wholesome, why are we getting reports about liking shady tweets when we havent interacted on Twitter at all? We love the concept of SMZ, but it would be great if it were a tinge more realistic. Right now, it throws out the same headlines regardless of personality type or star behavior. Even with music releases, if we havent released anything or if we did release something successful – press about tanking numbers still comes out. Its hilarious, but it doesnt match whats happening in the game. Theres a test tour review stuck in the news: Week 1, January 2024? Magazine interviews: We should be able to access our magazine interviews. Also, if we just started our career, we shouldnt get questions about looking back at our career yet. There should be some level of progression with the interview questions. We know theyre likely AI-based, but they can at least match where we are career-wise. Overall, the app is not very glitchy and is extremely fun to play. Its the best one Ive come across for emulating a musician! These minor bug fixes will make it even better.
The monthly listener count feels kinda off we had around 200k monthly but our songs only had about 20k total streams, so the numbers didnt really line up. Also, every time we try to do an interview, the game crashes. Would be great if those two things could get fixed or balanced better.
Really buggy but fun when its not, you guys should add a feature where theres constantly up and coming artist to keep the challenges fresh or add in an artist every other year in game.
Good game but can we get carpet events,met galas,acting careers too,and can we please date celebrate,paparazzis and can we spend our money on clothes and stuff please,and can we get toxic record labels this will really put the game popular pleaseeee.
Honestly this game is one of the best games ive played in such a long time. However, it is EXTREMELY laggy. After every action everything takes a few seconds to load. As well as you having to pay a yearly (or monthly) subscription to unlock premium features. Thats honestly one of the worst things ever, especially considering some of the premium features are basic ones in other games.
We deleted the game and downloaded it again and attempted to create a new artist but now the game is softlocked we try to boot it up and it says Trying to retrieve data before crashing.
We love this game its fun to play and its also addicting to play but we have our own record label in this game and we maxed the artist marketing but some reason Im not getting any artists pitched to our label Im basically the only artist on our label please fix this bug thank you great game.
Lots of bugs like deleting notifications & deleting label also getting requests from artists to join label & if you create one it never goes away and never lets u sign or create to a different label.
You should make it way to have a boyfriend or girlfriend in game and have a avatar but otherwise its great.
How do we sign artists after we make a record label, im kind of having a hard time trying to figure it out. Other than that, we really love the game keep up the great work.
Yes it has some bugs, but overall a pretty great game with NO ADS. Id give it a 9/10 which translates to 5 stars (when rounding). Sink some time into this one, you wont regret it.
We dont know how many people play this game but if its only us then just keep updating for us and everyone else dont give up this game is truly one of the best games maybe the best one just keep updating it. Also suggestion maybe you can add so that we have a in game character that we can customize.
Amazing music sim, very revolutionary and has what alot of these other games lack, hwoever, along with the new update comes this bug where after a while of playing, it kicks you out and everytime you open the app it closes it self, its very annoying since we love this game and want to play, but now we cant even get into the app, please fix this.
Ive been playing StageStar for a while now and its a great game but the smaller bugs are the most irritating, after an interview the game crashed completely; interviews were already an issue and now Im seeing that features would pop up and disappear after opening the game for the first time in about an hour or so. There are also smaller things such as updating your songs statues we.e gold, silver, platinum. Please update soon Ive been itching to play.
Honestly such a good and fun game but after doing an interview our game crashed and now is preventing us from opening it. Ive restarted our phone and offloaded and redownloaded the game and yet it still hasnt let us open it. The same issue happened to our friend and instead of offloading it he deleted it which deleted his progress when he downloaded it back. We ourselves would rather not start over and am still wondering if theres a way to fix it. So until they fix it DONT DO INTERVIEWS.
We will say, this game really does have potential and Im loving it so far. But we just cant seem to fully enjoy the game with its glitches. Im stuck in a situation of us trying to open the game but it glitches and kicks us out of it.
The game is crashing on our iPhone 16 plus since the new update. The game is awesome though.
It good and all but everytime we go to do an interview and finish it, it completely kicks us out the game and we cant get back in, idk if its a bug or our device but we cannot do interviews in the game.
Its a good game but when we did a interview it threw us out and would not let us back in the game.
This is one of the best star simulation games ive played. But theres a bug where our game continuously crashes after we do a second magazine interview. Its still crashing and we havent been able to play it since. Please fix that.
Overall the game was good copy add more things to buy with your money and more investments and the new update makes the game crash not playable please fix.
It immediately crashes upon opening. Its was a ok game before the problem but now it doesnt open.
We honestly have been having a good time with this game. But we do understand why its only 4 stars, its buggy.
The game is super fun but theres a little lag and the in-game abilities tend to take awhile to loud. We still love the game though.
We really love this game-it's incredibly fun and pulls us right in, especially when we're creating our favorite artist while still doing things our own way. It's such a blast, but after a while it can start to feel repetitive. We've already built a billion-dollar empire with our record label, achieved a net worth surpassing Taylor Swift's, and more-but we often find ourselves wishing we could actually do something with all that success. It would be amazing to see more life-sim elements added, like attending university, having deeper and more interactive jobs, and building meaningful relationships (this one is huge). Owning property, dealing with fans or stalkers, investing in assets, and managing real-world challenges would take it to another level. Honestly, we think this game could evolve into something like BitLife-but better. With Al integration, it has all the potential to become a truly next-level simulation experience.
We will say, this game really does have potential and Im loving it so far. But we just cant seem to fully enjoy the game with its glitches. We have to keep closing and opening the game just to be able to accept or decline interviews. Then when our albums would finally release, if we were to tap on it, the game closes entirely. But other than that, we dont seem to have any issues.
You should add a feature in game that is like an archive where you can view all of your past attempts or lives.
Its way too easy to blow up and you dont even have to level up your skills to get famous quick. But very fun and im anticipating future updates.
The game overall we see where its going but at this time needs major work on glitches especially in the label area our artist will not release even with an scheduled date lol please fix.
Its a good game but it needs work.
No matter what we do our popularity will not increase. Never had this problem before the update.
So far so good! We would get the premium but we wouldnt pay 6.99 a month for an app. Thats the only problem with the game is the subscription model.
We like this game alot but u can make a bottom tier track and it will do 1million streams first week as your first ever song making there be no emersion what so ever.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.0
- Size: 175.05 MB
- iOS: 15.1 or later
- Languages: CS, EN, FR, DE, HU, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Edmond Szabo
Last updated: 22nd December 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Music | Developer: Edmond Szabo