Following their 2018 release of visual novel Shining Song Starnova, Sekai Project and developer Love in Space will this week be moving forward and publishing the spin-off simulation game Shining Song Starnova: Idol Empire on the Windows PC via Steam.
Billed as a business strategy title, you will manage the careers of the seven girls of Starnova, with the ambition of turning them into national idols. You will build out your offices with new facilities, train them in different stats, sign business deals and record new songs.
For those wishing to expand their experience, bonus downloadable content will be available for purchase. Titled Sunrider Girls, this pack features five new idols to hire. Each of these girls will have their strengths, weaknesses and ultimate techniques to take advantage of while building their careers.
Shining Song Starnova: Idol Empire and its paid downloadable content Sunrider Girls! will be available exclusively through the Steam digital download platform from 20 February 2020. You can learn more about the game, its promoted features and idols below:
About Shining Song Starnova: Idol Empire
The girls of Starnova are back in a new business simulation game! Due to the underhanded machinations of the evil Golden Calf Productions, the girls’ live has been cancelled, and what’s worse, their talent agency has had to relocate to a new office!
This time, it’ll fall upon Producer-san to turn this dire predicament around! As the girls’ manager, you’ll have to build your office, re-hire the girls, and of course, get the money flowing back by putting on the greatest lives in the nation! Do you have the management skills to once again accomplish everyone’s dreams? Now, you must take the reins as Producer-san and save the day!
Promoted Features
- Real time business simulation
Work against time to turn your small idol business into an empire! This time, it’s all about building your office, managing your talents, and MAKING MONEY! - The girls are back
Make the seven girls of Starnova into national icons by managing their careers! Train the girls to increase their skills and unlock special abilities. Who knows, maybe if you do a good job, other girls might join Starnova too! - Build your office
Build new rooms to train your idols! Not only that, but you can record songs, impress business partners, and even help the girls relax after a tough day of work, all by constructing your own state of the art talent office! - Train your talents
Increase your idols’ skills by building training facilities for them! Unleash the girls’ ultimate techniques to blast away the competition! Pick your center and unlock her hidden abilities! - Sign business deals
All this training isn’t for nothing! Get the girls signed up for product endorsements, television appearances, live events, and everything else in an idol’s life. But you must balance the needs of the girls and their jobs at the same time! This is where your skills really shine, Producer-san! - Record hit songs.
Do you have what it takes to make the next classic idol song? Hire composers, record your girls, and even shoot a PV! And most importantly, make your songs sell! - Keep your talents happy.
It’s your duty to protect their smiles! If you mismanage your talents, they might develop weird illnesses and be no longer able to perform! You don’t want any more bad ends! - The Battle of the Idols.
Get payback on Kamijou and Golden Calf Productions by fielding the best of the best at in the Story Mode! But better watch out! The girls of Quasar are back, and they’re willing to do anything to win! - Free Play Mode
Play the game without having to worry about fulfilling story objectives. - Custom Map Mode
Create your own maps to play on free play mode! - Generations Mode
Want an additional challenge? Play this special mode where the girls gradually lose their appeal as they get older! Graduate idols like a real idol producer and see how many generations of idols you can create!
About the Idols
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