Idol Manager

Idol Manager launched on Steam on July 26, 2021, as a complete, fully-featured business simulation game. After launch, the developer released several patches through September 2021 addressing bugs and minor gameplay improvements. There are no paid DLC or expansions — the game shipped as a self-contained product. The most significant post-launch development was a console port (Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5) that released on August 25, 2022. In the news post announcing that port (September 1, 2022), the developer teased that something new was in the works with the words "this is not just another update" and encouraged players to stay tuned. However, that teaser was published on September 1, 2022, and as of today (June 27, 2026) — nearly four years later — no follow-up announcement or content release has materialized. With no developer communication since that September 2022 post, no unreleased DLC on the store, and no roadmap or follow-up statement, the teaser appears to have either been quietly shelved or never resulted in a shippable product. Given that the game launched as a complete package, received only maintenance patches afterward, and has no listed unshipped content, it is best understood as a finished game. The 2022 teaser, unresolved as it is, does not represent a concrete content commitment — it was a vague "stay tuned" with no specifics and no subsequent developer communication in almost four years.