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Showrunner
Create and run your own TV show! An isometric management game where you craft scripts, populate your world with characters and cast actors to play them. Hire and manage staff, develop your studio and gain a dedicated following.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Great stuff!”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Version 0.47
Hello, it's been a while! I've found some time to put together an update to Showrunner, adding the morale system into the game, the ability to give staff raises and bonses, plus a few UI and balancing
Showrunner 2025 Development Update
Hey Showrunner players! Wanted to give you an update on development for Showrunner in 2025. Development is continuing but this year updates will be slower/smaller than they were previously. The game h
Version 0.46
This update adds one of the most requested feature to the game, the ability to fire actors to either remove the character from a show or to recast them! Please note that due to structural changes requ
Version 0.45
A fairly small update that adds difficulty selection options when creating new games (casual, standard and challenge difficulties) and three new show themes - crime, super hero and post apocalyptic! T
0.4401 Hotfix Notes
- Fix for player's show not correctly being placed on the theme rankings - Fix for show theme and theme ranking being incorrectly displayed on the show overview screen - Fixed issues with interest tex
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Simulation · Strategy · Management · Singleplayer · Isometric · Resource Management · Economy · Funny · Modern · Indie · Early Access · Character Customization (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://www.inexplicablegames.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2 Ghz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 512 MB DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 200 MB available space