Big Bang Empire Review

The premise is the industry. You make a character, you build them into a star, and then — in the site's own phrasing — you open your own studio or join an existing one, competing with other players rather than against the game. Guilds are studios, rivals are other performers, and progress is measured in fame. It is a management role-playing game that has taken the trade it depicts and used it as the scoreboard, which is a tidier idea than most browser titles in this bracket manage.

Everything about the presentation is old-school European browser gaming. Free to play is the headline; the pitch is four short blocks about creating a hero, competing with other starlets and getting the thing onto a phone; a forum sits in the menu as the community layer; and the mobile route includes a direct download beside the stores. An Imprint runs in the footer, which is a German legal convention and the nearest the page comes to saying who operates it.

What the page does not do is demonstrate the game. It is a pitch rather than a showing: no figures, no account of where the erotic material actually sits within the play, and nothing on how free-to-play pays for itself — which in this genre usually matters more than anything on the marketing page. Finding out means registering, which is presumably why the page is this short.