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Festival Tycoon 🎪

Festival Tycoon 🎪

A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.

Released May 4, 2022 Developer Johannes Gäbler Publisher Future Friends Games, Johannes Gäbler Platforms Windows BuildingResource ManagementLife SimTime ManagementCity Builder
View on Steam ↗ $12.99 (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.

76.5%positive230 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Thumbs up only to help an indie dev. If this was a label, I would give a thumbs down, here is why: The game concept is actually pretty cool. The problem is that it's buggy and implementation is a bit boring. You have two modes, the planning mode and the execution mode. In the…”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Abandoned by dev and not very fleshed out. Who's paying £2000 for a one day ticket to a festival???”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Abandonware, Don't buy”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.

59achievements
0.6%median completion
0.2%rarest: Woodstock
47.1% of players 45.4% of players 42.4% of players 42.0% of players 27.1% of players 22.8% of players 21.7% of players 21.1% of players 16.1% of players 14.4% of players 13.3% of players 12.8% of players 10.1% of players 8.7% of players 6.8% of players 5.7% of players 3.6% of players 3.4% of players 3.0% of players 3.0% of players 2.8% of players 2.8% of players 2.6% of players 1.9% of players 1.7% of players 1.2% of players 0.8% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 47.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
47.1%Bloody beginner — Complete your first festival.
45.4%How was Stonehenge even built? — Complete a festival on the Cylch Cerrig map.
42.4%Highly appreciated by the dev! — Complete the tutorial.
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Woodstock — Have a total of 100.000 visitors throughout all festivals.
0.2%Working Class Hero — Gain 25.000.000$ through sponsor deals.
0.2%I don't give a duck — Hidden achievement

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$12.99current · sampled 2026-09-25 21:36 UTC
$6.49lowest since tracking began2026-09-08
US12.99 USD
EU12.79 EUR
UK10.99 GBP
Australia18.95 AUD
Canada16.99 CAD
Japan1,500 JPY
Brazil41.99 BRL
China52.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$7.7 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$15

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 08-12 08-21 08-30 09-08 09-16 09-25

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Mar 22, 2023
550€ donated to Viva con Agua

Hey! This is a little update on the Water for All-DLC ! Thanks to all of you who got the latest DLC for Festival Tycoon, I was able to donate 550€ to Viva con Agua today! (I added a little bit of my o

Dec 22, 2022
Content Update: Greece

December 2022 Content Update If you live in a cold winter like me right now, I might have something for you! If you don't, you might enjoy that as well of course! As promised and teased before, Festiv

Nov 22, 2022
New "Water for All!"-DLC out now!

Hi everybody! Long time no see. I hope you’re all going great <3 I’m popping in today with some exciting news - Festival Tycoon has a brand new charity DLC! After the 1.0 launch last summer, I celebra

May 31, 2022
Patch 1.0.0.4

Hey! In this seemingly tiny update, I packed some big game play fixes! This is the changelog: New: Inaccessible worker squads and patrol route points are now highlighted. Fixed: A bug which would prev

May 17, 2022
Patch 1.0.0.3

Hello lovely Festivalists! =) This is a little bit of a bigger patch, bringing fixes/optimization (whatever you want to call it) to the AI and also a couple of new, community-suggested features! Chang

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.

GenresIndie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsBuilding · Resource Management · Life Sim · Time Management · City Builder · Strategy · Singleplayer · Sandbox · Capitalism · Management · Economy · Base-Building (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Stats · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , German, Spanish - Spain, French *
Achievements59
Official sitehttps://festivaltycoon.dreihausstudio.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 8 Processor: Intel Core i3 or similar Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1 GB VRAM / (non-onboard) GPU from at least around 2015 Storage: 4 GB available space Additional Notes: 1600x900 monitor resolution