Music Festival Tycoon
Casey Olayos Games iPhoneiPad
Music Festival Tycoon is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Casey Olayos. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated September 3, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 161 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Sep 3
- 2026 · v1.1
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About Music Festival Tycoon
Start with a field, a generator and nerve. Book the acts, build the bars, hire the crew, and turn a backyard show into a festival people drive across the country for. Lay out your site the way you want it — cluster the food stalls into a proper food court, put the toilets where the queues won't ruin anyone's night, and light the whole thing up. Grouped stalls run better than scattered ones, so a well-planned festival genuinely outperforms a messy one. Then run the show. Watch the crowd pour in, spot the trouble before it spreads, send a medic to the front rail, and see whether the headliner was worth the fee. Six ranks from Backyard Show to Legendary Nineteen acts, from open mic to arena headliner Upgrade stalls into Large and Mega blocks instead of sprawling Zones, decor, staff, incidents and a night that plays out in real time No timers, no energy bars, no losing your festival
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated September 3, 2026
1.1 makes every night different, and adds something to chase once you've maxed out. Before you book, check the forecast on the hub — nights now roll their own conditions. A heat wave spikes thirst, rain and cold snaps drag on mood, a genre craze makes those acts draw far bigger, and payday means fans arrive ready to spend. Shelter decor cancels the rough ones: Mist Sprayers for heat, Shade Sails for rain, Fire Pits for cold. Does the forecast read clearly enough to plan around, or does it feel like something that just happens to you? Book the same genre a few nights running and you'll build a "scene" — those acts draw better, and switching genres hands it over to the new one. Look for the SCENE badge on the booking rows. From around your fifth show, promoters start offering paid contracts — hit a target within three shows for cash and reputation. The offer sits on the hub between shows. New to build: Ice Cream and Chai Stand, Taco Truck, Mist Sprayers, Disco Ball and Fountain, plus fourteen new goals. Deeper in there's a 7th rank, World Famous — and at Legendary you can take the festival on a World Tour: pack up and rebuild in a new city, keeping your artist relationships and a permanent bonus. Both take a long game to reach.
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