I saw a review that literally negged this game on account of you sign sponsors and bands and that's "too much work" and I had to make a review.

I'm sorry what? This is festival tycoon.

You manage a festival, right now it's just music festivals unsure if more types are coming, but I'm more than happy to keep it just music festivals. You sign bands and sponsors. It's your job. Like setting prices in Roller Coaster Tycoon and designing rides. It's a management game. The ebb and flow of the world economy affects your sponsor and band decisions. Band performed high last show? Probably not very popular. Company invested in new crypto and tanked? Probably not a great sponsor.

These are challenges you have to face in a business management game and they are not difficult.

That said, the micro does get tedious on staff (especially janitors) and the grounds get littered too much/too quickly to keep up even with a janitor army so you will always lose some on 'festival is dirty'.

The dev has said he's working on this aspect and that would be a marked improvement.

Otherwise for early access this is a great game so I'll leave pros and cons here and try to be sure to update during development -

Pros:
Great Aesthetic
Optimized Performance
Fairly well designed and intuitive UI
Functional tutorial explains the game coherently enough
Excellent concept
Band and Sponsor systems alike are already (fairly) well implemented
Already a few great genre choices with some reasonably (for EA) varied music samples

Cons:
Crowd engagement is poor and without SFX making the game outside of the music very bland and unatmospheric
Existing maps quite small
Single square of road bus stop spawn area is a little confusing and weird at first
You need to run the game into departure day before festival end popup allows you to skip - should be midnight of final day
Trash micro is presently way too overwhelming, the rest of the micro is now fine by me with latest patch
Have only seen bands with 1h time slots, would like to see bands with increased set times or settable set times
The naming algorithm while humorous is...very odd at times, although "A Chicken" has become my favourite metal band

I saw a review that literally negged this game on account of you sign sponsors and bands and that's "too much work" and I had to make a review. I'm sorry what? This is festival tycoon. You manage a festival, right now it's just music festivals unsure if more types are coming, but I'm more than happy to keep it just music festivals. You sign bands and sponsors. It's your job. Like setting prices in Roller Coaster Tycoon and designing rides. It's a management game. The ebb and flow of the world economy affects your sponsor and band decisions. Band performed high last show? Probably not very popular. Company invested in new crypto and tanked? Probably not a great sponsor. These are challenges you have to face in a business management game and they are not difficult. That said, the micro does get tedious on staff (especially janitors) and the grounds get littered too much/too quickly to keep up even with a janitor army so you will always lose some on 'festival is dirty'. The dev has said he's working on this aspect and that would be a marked improvement. Otherwise for early access this is a great game so I'll leave pros and cons here and try to be sure to update during development - Pros: Great Aesthetic Optimized Performance Fairly well designed and intuitive UI Functional tutorial explains the game coherently enough Excellent concept Band and Sponsor systems alike are already (fairly) well implemented Already a few great genre choices with some reasonably (for EA) varied music samples Cons: Crowd engagement is poor and without SFX making the game outside of the music very bland and unatmospheric Existing maps quite small Single square of road bus stop spawn area is a little confusing and weird at first You need to run the game into departure day before festival end popup allows you to skip - should be midnight of final day Trash micro is presently way too overwhelming, the rest of the micro is now fine by me with latest patch Have only seen bands with 1h time slots, would like to see bands with increased set times or settable set times The naming algorithm while humorous is...very odd at times, although "A Chicken" has become my favourite metal band