I say the game has a limited interface, but it's adequate to the task of sitting around in your flat or house or in a bar or being at a gig: everything is in its place and for a game which I'm pretty sure was written by a non-native English-speaker, it's pretty well-written and apart from the occasional ambiguity, it's all easy to understand.

Superstar is a well-thought-out game that sums up the whole process of putting together a pop career. You can tackle everything yourself and die from the stress – you can die from stress in this game, you can also die from staying awake for three days solid practicing; sure, it could do with a better warning system, but if you're in the habit of making your aspiring star stay up for sixty-hour jamming sessions, you soon learn to remember to watch your exhaustion-meter – or you can put together a band and get a manager and put everyone's talents to best use and live with the consequences of relying on other people.

You'll be gigging in clubs, writing songs, touring, performing on albums and in videos and dealing with stress and depression in whatever way you can – the game gives you plenty of options, from drugs, to drinking, to communing with nature. All these methods have their advantages and disadvantages but there are currently some balancing issues there such as the fact that you can sit in a bar drinking vodka shots for as long as the money holds out and (a) not die, (b) not have your internal organs rupture from the gallons of vodka you've drunk and (c) not have it affect your driving.

It's the balance issues that are currently preventing me from really recommending this game because it's literally not in a completely finished state at the moment. It's very close and it's mainly only balancing and maths errors that pop up when you start to pay attention. I had some issues with certain things not being right after I loaded games for example.

I say "had" because the PC games industry works in a very similar way to the "FANatic" level system in the game; knowing this, one e-mail and a bit of waiting later, and I was kindly given a link to a freshly patched version. If the author can keep up these standards of handling bug reports, the game should be in a complete and finished state within a couple of days of dedicated playtime by enthusiastic wannabe-Superstars like myself.

So, while I can't say to you that this is a finished game, I can tell you it's a good one, it's a satisfying one, it's also a pleasingly long one which you won't be finished with in a couple of hours and, if there's any sort of response at all to this review, it will be a completely finished one soon and I'll be able to amend this review. So if you think you've got what it takes to make a rocker out of yourself, give this a whirl and you won't be disappointed and you'll also be helping an aspiring programmer out on what is a very detailed, well-crafted and above-all fun game.