Thank you for your continued support and patience. We're excited to roll out the long-awaited Steam Workshop integration! This update also brings a handful of additional improvements—including the highly requested Sandbox Mode.
🆕 NEW CONTENT
- Sandbox mode: A new difficulty option has been added. Enjoy infinite money, all themes unlocked from the start, plenty of research points, and no objective to guide your progression.
⚖️ BALANCING CHANGES
- No more shiny candidate: Overpowered recruits showing up in low-tier recruiting campaigns were breaking the game’s progression. These have been removed.
- Updated IP Stats: Some IPs had genre and theme combinations with poor affinity. These have been adjusted to improve their viability.
🐞 BUG FIX AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Employee Assignment Reset Fix: Assignments were sometimes not properly reset when returning to the main menu and starting/loading a game. This has been fixed.
- Improved Box Office Performance Feedback: Each category now receives a more granular score, ranging from F to A.
- Sandbox Mode Objective Fix: Previously, players were getting stuck on the “Unlock a new theme” objective while in Sandbox Mode on the experimental branch. Objectives have now been fully disabled in Sandbox Mode. Additionally, if you saved a Sandbox game prior to this fix, your progress will be automatically updated to clear the objective.
- IP Name Display in Adaptation: Fixed an issue where the name of an acquired IP was not displaying correctly when starting an adaptation. It now shows as intended.
- Various localization Fix
🛠️ MODDING SUPPORT
- Steam Workshop: Upload and subscribe to mods directly via the Steam Workshop.
- In Game Mod Selection: Enable or disable subscribed or custom mods directly in-game.
- Moddable Data: The game’s JSON files can now be edited. You can for example:
- Add new industries
- Update/add content (genres, themes, ratings, IPs, talents, awards, events, distributors, competing movies, etc.)
- Update gameplay calculations (Box Office, Audience and Critic reviews, etc.)
- Add new industries
- Moddable Visuals: We've externalized visual assets. You can:
- Update/add sprites for themes, genres, awards, and seasonal events
- Add posters to competing movies and IPs
- Add logos to distributors
- Update/add sprites for themes, genres, awards, and seasonal events
- Documentation: Readme files in the build, online documentation, and published example mods will help you get started
Thanks again for your continued support. We can’t wait to see the amazing mods you create to help improve The Executive!
🎥 See you on the red carpet!
The Dev Team
