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M.U.D. TV
Developer Realmforge Studios
M.U.D. TV (Mad Ugly Dirty TV) is a Business simulation game developed by Realmforge Studios and published by Kalypso Media for Microsoft Windows released on February 23, 2010. The game is centered on running a multi-media broadcasting business. The game is meant as a parody of many modern news stations. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
98 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Mar 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
34
Rotten
33 positive · 65 negative
95% range 25–43%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
78 of 190 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 98 · most liked firstOne of the best simulation games I've played... until it crashes every time. Incredibly hard to get it running, it will only run on one of my 4 'modern' machines... and when it does run, it always crashes after a week or two in-game play... all indications are that there is a severe memory leak. Among other technical issues related to starting it up... Which is a shame because when I finally got it running, until the inevitable crash, each game was outstanding.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am not sure why it crashes for some people, I have 17 hours playing so far, the in game timer has reached day 8 in mission 2 and no problems. Only one time did it "crash" but I had alt-tab out of the game, then returned after an hour to play some more and it froze up. But other games will do this at times. Game play is more puzzle than anything, but you still have to get a strategy to finish each mission. The only downside is there is no free play. Once you complete a goal for a mission…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not much to say. Nice idea but the bugs and the way the company communicates is a no-go. not a single post in the forums just release this game to grab some extra money - even with the knowledge that there is a memory leak which will not be fixed in general no support will be given to the game - uncool to release a game on Steam then a bug occured that makes loading a game impossible - game crashes after opening the time table Again a nice idea wasted. Better take a look to the free open…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game if you save enough and can get past the crashes. If you are not the patient type you should forgoe this buy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →M.U.D. TV is an economic simulation game develped by Realmforge Studios and published by Kalypso Media. You play as the owner of a custom television network that is in competition with several other networks on viewership. Your network must beat the other network's using quality programs, which appeal to eight diverse fanbases, and gain higher advertising revenue. This game is an absolute buggy mess, but, I immensely enjoyed it. The campaign is an interesting concept. The campaign is very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A frustrating clone of MAD TV, which takes the original, gives it a 3D graphical facelift, and undermines enjoyment through long loading times and pointless frustrations. It keeps on coming close to the addictive brilliance of the original, but never quite gets there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting attempt at a Hospital Tycoon genre game. MUD TV gives the player an avatar, and makes them run around between rooms if they want to do things. In the real world, it means your attention isn't focused where you wish it was, and having a good strategy can lose to poor base-building organization. All in all this is what hurts the game most of all to me: In other games I can dwell on one window as much as I want while I'm doing other tasks. Here, if one thing needs my constant…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seriously Steam has to shut down such kind of games. This game could be fun and would gave us the same experince as MAD TV did. But no... Because developers did not even patch the game since it's released. Constant crashes and save problems make this game unplayable. If developer does not patch the game Steam has to shut it down, it's just a fraud if you spent a dime for this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crazy television company where you try to brainwash the unsuspecting population? Yes, fun idea and I love such simulation games, but this game is just not fun. There's no learning curve, but a learning cliff. I'm just glad to put it away and never think of it again. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2887044700 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2884550067
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It may not sound it... But "M.U.D TV" is a very fun tv broadcasting simulator! You can broadcast ads, shows, make shows, make your studio, check your stats, mess up other tv shows (kinda XD) and theres an npc called nuck chorris! 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a horrible game, I got it for preordering another horrible game. I didn't have any crashing problems at all. The game was very boring and there was not a lot of interesting things to do. I havn't played it in a long time but if I remember correctly you just purchased shows and put them on at different time slots trying to find what works. There is a base building element which is what interested me the most but it wasn't enough to save the game. I uninstalled a long time ago and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an adaptation of an older business tycoon game called MAD TV where you run a TV station and must achieve various goals to proceed through the campaign game (or you can just do sandbox play if you want). Instead of being presented with a god-view and a bunch of menus, you have to walk between rooms and then click on a tiny smartphone as your only real interface. The game concept isn't bad but the gameplay here is needlessly convoluted. Having the game menus appear on tiny little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →M.U.D TV is a game about creating your own TV channel.This is a good game without good graphics without good sounds and camera is so annoying...BUT the gameplay.I love genre named tycoon.I started up with Game dev tycoon and ended with piece of ♥♥♥♥ named Airline Tycoon 2.Gameplay tightens you very much and you play and play and play.Technology is simple-you buy shows and making your own program of TV shows.You look in what time hipsters are watching your channel and picking up shows for them…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1.5 stars. This is a good idea for a game that appears to be poorly delivered. Maybe it's just me but I found it fairly hard to learn and even harder to play. Basically I'd rather go back to playing old Theme Hospital than slogging through this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game takes all of the best aspects of tycoon games and throws them out the window, leaving simply the shell of a game. This game could have been so much better. 4/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i remember when i was a little ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot and bought this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the concept of this game. I put over 30 hours in, but found that i had to use my imagination to fill in all of the gaps this game left. I recommend playing this even if it only rekindles some interest in the concept here. Wait for a sale though. I wouldn't pay more than $5.00 for this particular game. It's old, buggy and lacking in so many ways.Keep an open mind and imagine what it could be! I really wish someone would re-imagine this. Maybe a cross between this and "The Movies"? That…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No crashes for me, I really enjoy simulation games and this one is one of the hardest to master. I feel the simulation genre has really taken off lately and MUD was one of the first in the new generation. It's too bad it had so many bugs for some people I think it would have done much better otherwise. I would recommend it for $5 or less if you like these types of games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This Games is just pure awesomeness can't wait for a new one
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It would have been so nice, if they just put the old MAD TV, which is now an abandoned Dosbox game, and just set it up with all new graphics and movies and stuff like that. But they decided to make it all new and invented some sort of quality value for everything which only can be improved by writing own movies and shows with a qualificated staff. So there is no possibilty to bring the epic one's like the godfather on prime time. But it was in the first game, which was fun. And this one is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would rather buy winrar
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game but I can't play it for more than twenty minutes before it crashes for no reason. If your going to play it, remember to save every two minutes, or you will have to play the same day over and over again. Please fix the crash issue.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite all the haters who've done their thing, I actually enjoyed this under-rated little toy. Is it the best game around? Of course not, but on a Steam sale for less than $5, I've certainly got more than my money's worth on this one. While it seems complex at first, those who are familiar with tycoon and business simulations will find it surprisingly easy to understand. It has not so much a learning curve as a sharp hump at the start but it's all smooth sailing from there. It can get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS GREAT
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This title heavily suggests that there is multiplayer functionality. This is not the case. It also crashes on the second level in single player. Avoid like the plague.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all: I did buy this game but for something like 99 cents, just to let you know I didn't buy it for full price of 9,99 euros. So, this game is not that bad, if you know what you're doing. There is not a lot of games like this and I didn't play anything like this before, so it's one of a kind....... kind of. Don't pay attention to all there other reviews that are saying that this game is bad and hard, no one said that this game is easy and you really need to play the tutorial multiple…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really dont understand why people have problems with crashes and stuff.. this game works great, it feels great, and it plays great. The concept is well executed and if you think like buying it then go ahead! dont listen to the negative reviews.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the hardest tycoon style games I've ever played, and I've been playing them my whole life. I really enjoy how hard it is to conquer some of the missions, unlike some other games where you can kind of just set it and forget it. This one keeps you on your toes. As far as the crashes go, I haven't had this happen to me. I'm running on new dell laptop and on windows 10, though it ran on windows 8 fine for me as well. Although I haven't had crashes, I am having an issue where I can't…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible, Horrible, horrible, My game will not start up, plays the first scene(Before main menu)Then when it's done, BANG it closes and i am e=left where i started, on windows homescreen. FIX OR I WILL KILL MYSELF
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ITS HORRIBLE AND HAS NO REDEEMING QUALITIES. I got this for free and I regret it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What should be a fairly straightforward sim game is a convoluted mess, with a terrible interface and bad one-off jokes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I remember this game being good back in the day, but sadly this version crashes whenever you try loading a saved game. Another loss to software obsolesence.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found this game at a thrift store in 2017 and the Steam CD key that was in the box still worked so that's a hell ye
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i just don't get this game..... 2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't mind repetitive simulations, but this one in no way prepares you for the game. There's a tutorial alright, but it consists largely of "look and this screen--now move on and look at the next". It took a lot of trial and error to figure out what some of these figures actually meant to gameplay. And there's enough hidden math going on behind the scenes that it's impossible to strategize ahead of time. You may think that the predicted 600K viewers your show is going to get is enough to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Soo boring. Reminded me of MAD TV back for the DOS, but geez this was painful. The amount of time I spent just waiting for something to get done made it feel like a mobile app game. Half expected a window to pop up and ask me if I want to spend money to speed things up. Is there a fast-forward button? Couldn't find one, game might be playable if it had one. Didn't play enough to run into any bugs. Performance was smooth and no problem, but again very short play session. It just doesn't keep…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tags: Tycoon&Simulator&Sim&City Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Procedural generation content. Nonsensical setting. Movie Studio Tycoon might fare better http://store.steampowered.com/app/630440/Movie_Studio_Tycoon/ Why is my movie studio on top of a building. Why are there pipes everywhere preventing me from constructing anything?Why is the UI full of buttons with empty tabs? This game feels like a 4:3 game thats been streched out. The typical tycoon…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Greetings Everyone! Okay, next I have…M.U.D. TV? Sorry, I had to look up the name of the game. It won’t be any surprise I did not like this game. The premise is that you run a TV Channel and your goal is to get people to watch your programs and earn money through advertisers but you’re secretly…EVIL! Plot twist! Meh… Evil Story: So you’re evil…for reasons and you want to take over the world after your professors through you out of college? Huh, I’m all for whacky stories but this is a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like the concept of M.U.D. TV - running your own television station - but I really don't like this game. The AI is over-powered and will steamroller casual players. The difficulty of ad contracts (how you make money) is determined by how many days have gone by in game (surprise! the AI is always ready for the difficulty increase), so if you lag behind you will find no contracts you can fulfill to catch up. At which point you can either quit and restart or wait to go bankrupt.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not really sure what I am doing wrong on this one. I can't seem to consistently do well at it. Which makes me think despite my best efforts that there is too much random element in your success. I may just be bad at the game. Seems overly frustrating games have been my bane lately. This one I have tried over and over and finally, I'm writing the 'I'm done with it' review. If I play two games I may do excellent on one, horrible on another. I don't think I'll be reinstalling it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, the game lives upto it's own name. It's Mud. M.U.D. TV has a great idea that is so crash-happy, boring, and convoluted that I don't recommend this for anyone When you get it started, you begin with a small space on a random floor of an office building that can be expanded, to an extent, by building more rooms for different purposes, like a sound stage. You also have to hire the right people to get the job done. After that it just falls apart. You cannot spend too long on one item…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a game a deperately wanted to like. I didn't have the crashing problem others have said, no it was that the game was so very difficult, and so not forgiving that eventually I had to just give up. The first scenario has you buying advertising for pre-created shows, which is so hard that you'll be lucky to get through it. The second has what I wanted, to be able to create your own shows, however there is this horrible arbitary thing where you have to pay back a loan in 10 days, and I missed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting concept, poorly executed. Still, I would recommend this game EXCEPT it always crashes in the middle of a game. I would not buy another game from this developer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a Pile of Pooo, stay away
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unlike the other people in the reviews I didn't had any issues running this game, no crashes, no nothing. So why am I giving It a negative review? Because the game is so boring that I can't play It for more than 20 minutes without falling asleep.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was terrible. A waste of my time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting station management game with an odd quirkyness. Fun to play and presents a good challenge.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After trying to play this game many times and for alot of hours (more than actually shown) I can only say It's a nice game but with to many bugs and major crash issues once you reach about mid-way through the game. Plus there is no longer any game support or patches (if there ever were any). I can only recommend the game if it is given away for free or maybe $2.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love the game. It's a tycoon game where you can build a lot. It takes time and pacience to do it but it's so much fun! I would buy it because i love it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →way too complicated for a worker sim game just got bogged down in the tutorial and decided it was not for me
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Borring game, nothing else to say, too complicated and slow to be fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredibly basic, with little to no actual control over content of the show itself. You pander to some very strangely defined audiences with shows you buy. The tutorial itself was confusing. I suggest trying to find M.A.D TV instead - the game this is essentially based off.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rarely ever works. Even after getting a new desktop, it doesn't want to launch or crashes. Then once you're in the game, tutorial doesn't make sense.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DISCLAIMER: This is a first impressions review, and NOT a full review, if you want a full review, then please read better reviews then mine A Very Funny Game to play, but Kalypso Media/Realmforge Studios could have added more stuff to it NOT RECOMMENDED :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →would be pissed if i didnt get it for free
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Trying to run a TV station feels like a director who forgot the script. Moderation is frustrating and viewers increasingly resemble my neighbors who keep interfering. I need a remote break!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hi! Crash. That sums up the game, unfortunately. There are a few good things in the middle, but always typically end with the first sentence.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A sim where you run a TV station. It's similar to the other TV station sims I've played which all seemed to be based on a game I've never played named MAD TV, but this one is showing its age. The interface is clunky and organizing your broadcasts is painful and involves running your little guy all over a building. And a lot of information that would be helpful requires clicking across multiple screens, like trying to figure out when the best time is to broadcast for specific target audiences.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is worse than one of those eggy farts you when you have not eaten eggs. 6 eggs down
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For all people who want to work through this in Linux, with Steam's Proton... it has NEVER worked in Proton, for me. I've been told that Steam ONLY supports Ubuntu, so I've gone and installed Ubuntu into a partition, not the LTS ( which I found to be broken: couldn't get Haskell installed properly in it, & the stock Ruby was no-longer-maintained upstream, and it was broken, but Ubuntu told me it wasn't their problem: I was to take the brokenness of Ruby up with Ruby, even though Ubuntu 22.04…
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