Last updated on November 25th, 2025 at 04:45 am
Superstar Band Manager – Music Game Review
Superstar Band Manager is a Music/Music game from Underground Creative Ltd, first launched in 13th October 2015.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 363+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Superstar Band Manager Stand Out
Create a world-famous band from scratch, starting with a bunch of enthusiastic teenagers and see if you can turn them into a stadium-filling act!
Get them writing songs, gigging and signed to a record label.
Release singles and albums and tour the UK, Europe and eventually the world!
However, it won’t always be a smooth ride – music trends change over time and that affects the buzz the band creates. Band members need to be looked after and kept happy to keep their mojo up!
Have you got what it takes to manage the next big thing?
This Music game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Superstar Band Manager is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 10th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Please note, if you're in the middle of a game, we'd advise saving your game to our servers before installing any update.
New Feature: Celebrity Status. Climb your way up from the Z-list all the way up to the A-list as your band becomes bigger and bigger! Buy lifestyle items to help you climb up the list quicker!
Added streaming and downloads for all released singles and albums.
Technical updates
Minor bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Superstar Band Manager is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Superstar Band Manager 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:
The game keep crashing if we want to make a video and some other thing it will just hang.
This game has a lot of potential but it falls flat in lots of places. The main one being is money. We recorded several records and the money barely is returned back to us. Youll basically be in debt no matter what. We also dont mind watching advertisements since we know thats how you bring in income. However, the ads dont work on our gameplay so we never get the chance to collect those awards. Other than that, the game seems pretty solid.
We feel like your game should be a bit more free ranged we feel trapped on a pre determined path when we play this game and it makes it so much less fun to sit around and play Ill get on for a few minutes then we feel like we cant do anything so we stop playing :/.
We love this game but it could be so much better we wish the developers would update it and add more complexity or more of a story aspect.
We love the game all we got to say.
We think We should able to tour how long and how short we want. What kind of venues we want. Arena tours or stadium tours. Residencies. Solo careers. More stuff to choose from.
You cant find a game like this, its so much fun and not too complicated for our little brain to handle. Highly recommend.
We do like the game, but we find that there is one flaw. If youre like us, and you dont have money to spend on a game, watching 50 or 60 advertisements just to get enough money to help your band along is really kind of silly. Could you maybe boost the video to thousand pounds? We really think it would make things a little bit easier for those who dont have the money to pay for in game money.
Your team has released many updates but nothing new. Is it just passive income at this point.
Update you guys game. Its been months yall should put more thought into your fans.
Us and our bestest friend in the whole wide world stayed up from 7pm to 6am playing this and would bust nuts simultaneously to the epic riffs.
Im soo happy right now we got a record deal.
This is a good game, but there need to be more music genres. We would love to see country music added to this.
We dont like how a couple weeks with no money ends the game other than that great.
Want to watch ads and be asked to pay money for upgrades with every click? Yeah..us neither.
Just cant play because cant close the ad. Get what you deserve.
Ive downloaded and deleted this game 3 times and every time the background music check pops up we click yes then it wont load.
You will watch ads most of the time.
Really cool idea for a mobile game. Really simple and fun to play, but we do wish there was more customization to the game. We would love to have more Music Venues, we would also love to actually customize the Tours you do maybe add where you can place Festivals in the tour and all that good stuff.
This game is so fun…but like other reviewers Im hoping that more features are coming. We were just thinking about how awesome it would be to schedule a residency for the band at MSG or in Vegas. Also, managing multiple bands at once would be sweet.
Please update. Pretty addictive.
We think that we should get some new types of music to do other than rock, indie and pop like we would like to see metal or country be added and we should get a way to rather kick out a person from the band or not and away we should get text of what the band members are fighting about so we know who side we choose than just picking.
Game is great in concept but gets stale very quickly due to the extreme repetitiveness and lack of options. Every album is 12 songs. Every concert is the same length (only an hour!?) Perhaps add the option to play a longer set but it tires the band our more? Meanwhile, there are no types of songs just songs. There need to be attributes of one song vs another that could make one better for an album or live. Sequencing on the album and the order of the set list should affect the quality based on those attributes (not opening with a ballad, etc.) Another example: the tours are the same venues every time and the venues are too small for everything but the World Tour option. You should be able to customize tour length and/or choose venues based on size. Finally but maybe less important: the economics are all messed up. Most bands make the vast majority of their money from touring. Album sales revenue tends to be small. With some expansion, this could be a great game.
We really like this game so far it all seems very smooth and fun! Our only complaint is that we cant get past level 3 because the money goes way too quickly. Ive tried using as minimal money as possible and we still couldnt do it. We tried doing 2 star things to see if Id be more successful and nothing. This either needs to be fixed or there needs to be more direction to get people started.
This game is fun but really inaccurate. The money system is terrible. You go through it way to quick. We spend more time watching ads to get free money then anything else in the game. When youre unsigned you dont get a salary. And you pay for everything. Recording, transportation, food, hotels, etc. When you get signed then you start making money for yourself. Plus the label pays for all of that. Also do away with the bottle system. It promotes drinking. There are far better ways to be an inspired musician than drinking or drugs. And our biggest critique. Let players save the game on their device like a normal game. Not on your servers. Come on thats just phishing for personal information so you can sell it to others and spam the hell out of your players. However, the game is fun and a good time killer.
This game can be really fun if youre playing it for the first time. But it becomes extremely repetitive, and more tedious than fun as you go on. There are so many little things that could be added to the game to make it more fun, there is no need for a massive overhaul to make it a better game. Somehow that makes it even more frustrating. Its clear the developers dont care too much as we last played this game in 2017 and not a single thing has changed or improved. Shame.
The game is designed to artificially lower cash, stats, or equipment in order to allow a pop up asking for real world cash in order to continue playing once youre in the red. Theres no real connection between skill, gear, or band perk increases in relation to generating a net positive currency. Its RNG to get you paying money out of your pocket. Pass on this.
Can you have multiple slots or you just have one.
We love this game! We play it all the time and it is amazing! However, we believe it could be improved slightly. 1) You should be able to put out multiple singles per album if it does well or even moderately good. 2) You should be able to record songs at seperate studios at seperate times for albums. 3) There should be more studios and producers. 4) The touring aspect of the game should be expanded on, with a US tour, a european tour, a asian tour, etc. 5) Current bands could be a thing and could compete with your band and maybe even rilvaries. 6) More genres should be added (like rap, hip hop, heavy metal, country, alternative rock etc) 7) The chart system should be reworked, instead of sales being based on the chart spot, it should be the other way around. That is all we could think of. It is a great game an we love it but it could be better.
We love this game but after a while it gets kinda boring. We wanna make suggestions that we think would really make the game interesting. However, we fear that our suggestions will do nothing considering that the updates to this game have NOT been very big changes. In fact the game hardly changed in the past few years at all…. But we would love to see some of the following things; – More textual context and dilemmas, maybe some serious choices that have to be made Regarding the band and its future. – Band mates getting in fights and having to chose on rather or not to kick them out of the band. – DISPUTES WITH OTHER CELEBS!! Choosing to respond or keep quiet and having your choice heavily impact your buzz and mojo – Meet and Greets + Festivals + Tours should be an option. You shouldnt have to write an album every time you want to tour and festivals shouldnt be random pop ups. This could help boost mojo, buzz, fans, sales and help you get to the number one spot. We WOULD PAY FOR THIS GAME IF YOU ADDED THESE FEATURES! Because THIS GAME SHOWS SO SO MUCH POTENTIAL AND IS SO FUN BUT IT GETS BORING AFTER A WHILE AND we FEEL LIKE IT NEEDS MORE. Please PLEASE read this review and make some changes!!!!!! We would love more than anything to see that happen.
By far our favorite game but the album sales arent realistic. It takes 300k sales to go platinum when really its 3 million and that makes it impossible to make any progress on the top 100 list because theyre on real album sales instead of the lowered number that this game is on. Other than that just little things could be added to give you more stuff to do.
Hey we really love the game, however there is a few pretty important things left out of the game. Like stats on how many people bought the records or viewed the songs maybe even some charts to compare growth of fans and views maybe money too of other pop stars that would make this game a five start please leave a comment if you read this let us know maybe.
Look this is a great idea with good elements, though there could be a little more variety with things to do beside random encounters. But the real problem is you burn through money like crazy. Obviously money is hard to come by as an artist in real life . Its difficult to make money so we appreciate that in a sim, in a vacuum anyway. But even using low level tech and producers it costs far more money to pay for everything than what you get in return. So to play this game you have two choices. You either need to spend quite a bit of money to keep up demands on bottles and recording or literally watch hundreds or thousands of ads Now we appreciate the ads not being forced on us , and that if we need cash we can turn to them. We like that. However, we have to watch endless adds to get enough money to do gigs, and record. Look Im sure we should have spent .99 cents to begin with to get 5 high level songs . That might be the cheapest way to go if that more quickly leads to a record contract . Currently we are level 3 trying to figure out How to get more fans without watching a couple dozen adds . Promoting is also expensive with meager returns. Its just a grind guys. UPDATE:: Ok we were a little harsh though we do not take back what we said . Our points of criticism were valid but a little patience and things get a lot better . We are suddenly at level 12 in just a few hours with 2 albums and 2 tours and making solid money. Yes its a grind early on, and we bet its a grind in the late game too, but be patient and it pays off UPDATE2: Now level 23 with tons of albums and songs but now there is nothing to do besides make 20 or 30 more albums and tours to try to break into the top 20. There is nothing left of value at this point . Game needs more options including the ability to retire when you want.
Please make it where you can tour without making a new album. Im a heavy metal fan and so we chose rock since its the closes to metal out of the options you give us. But please make it where you can tour without releasing and album cause many bands like slipknot didnt release a new album for like 5 years but toured every year. Maybe also even add metal as a genre to be in the game, none the less really fun game 5 stars recommend downloading it.
We love this game but we think you guys should extend it and just expand the game.
Save servers no longer fried, for now.
This game isnt the easiest game but it is addicting.
Great fun with a sense of humor and customizable.
Pretty cool game just needs more features and depth. After second album game becomes super shallow and repetitive with no real reward.
This game is very good, but can you make more band options, like a single person band, thats all and thank you.
First off, this game is one of the best music industry simulators Ive ever come across. As someone who works in the music industry, we find ourselves overly critical of these games sometimes, but this one is a blast. The basics are there. Its fun, easy to figure out, and does a pretty good job of drawing you in. The only thing we hate is the constant pay to win moments. There are literally some parts of the game that you cannot do great at unless you make a $0.99 purchase, specifically with hiring PR. 99 cents wouldnt be bad, but there are many times in one game that you get asked to do this, and it adds up quick. With some minor adjustments, this could be an absolutely perfect game, but still fun as is.
Its a great free app and the in app purchases are reasonable yet not necessary making it fun and free.
Its a great game, very fun to play in free time. One flaw Ive found is when you try to put an apostrophe in a song title, it says Song titles can only include letters, numbers, spaces and apostrophes. Please fix this.
Fun game and we like how you can watch ads to earn more money rather than pressured to spend money. The "Top Selling Artist" list is ridiculously inaccurate and irrelevant. There's no point of having it since it's not real, anyway. Instead: How about having a top 10 chart of fictitious bands in the game that you compete with…or 100 selling artist list of other players.
The game is good and fun but we feel like they force you to spend money. At least give us a chance to be great without spending all this money.
We know yall havent paid attention to this game at all, but yall have a lot of improvements to make. First off, the trends dont make sense. Every time we pick a genre for our band, its never trending. It ends up being the least popular genre. Another thing we would like for this game to have even though yall arent gonna do anything. We want to have a solo artist option. This game used to be fun, but it has no potential.
Fun game takes a little bit of practice before you can make it to stardom but definitely a good game overall just wish the menu was better laid out and just needs way our more features and more user friendly decision making.
Maybe we're doing something wrong but no matter what we do (and there are not many options), the band runs out of money at about level 3. Whether we buy equipment or not, whether we rehearse or not, whether we do gigs or not — the result is the same: little to no sales and no money. We tried this game like five or six times and it seems just plain broken.
Loses all fun after your band becomes a top 100 artist. Some suggestions would be to spend money on the stage, presentations, lights, pyrotechnics etc. Also, making it more difficult to get 5 stars on songs and gig performance. PR stunts, more and severe band conflicts, drug problems, higher level equipment, more things to buy. Double feature albums, remaster older songs, release albums in different genres, more genres, and more randomization in terms of album and song titles.
Fun at first but very short lived. If you can get to your and 2nd album on your first record contract, you have pretty much exhausted all the challenge and the story elements in this game. There are no more upgrades available. You win every award. You have to choose sides in fights in the band but it doesnt matter because the mojo recovers next week anyway. So its just write songs, tour, write songs, etc. As you climb up the charts. We havent changed our set list for 30 years of game time. There is no relation between touring and sales performance of your latest record (not that it matters because you quickly hit the point where all your songs are 5 stars and your album comes out at #1). Its a tedious grind with no payoff.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.9.3
- Size: 43.32 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Underground Creative Ltd
Last updated: 10th September 2025 | Genre: Music, Music | Developer: Underground Creative Ltd