Hairdresser Simulator: Long Hair

My instinct with any management sim is to check how many distinct decision points exist at the late game. Hairdresser Simulator gives you a surprisingly layered premise on paper: you run a first-person hairdressing operation, physically performing cuts, dyes, perms, and balayages on clients, then flip those earnings into salon renovations and staff hires to snowball toward a chain of nine locations. That loop is conceptually solid, and for the first couple of hours it genuinely holds attention. The hands-on hairdressing side is where the game earns its most honest praise. Working through the full service order matters: you wet the hair, shampoo, rinse, dry, then pick up the scissors or curling iron. A small heat-map indicator tracks which sections of a client's head you have actually covered, which is a smarter UX choice than it sounds. Sixteen-plus tools are in the kit, from clippers and straighteners to a curling iron, and each technique (thinning, ombre dyeing, straightening, brushing) requires its own gesture input. None of it is demanding, but the tactile feedback loop is light fun for the first few salons. The character creator, which lets you upload a real portrait photo and test hairstyles on it, is the most genuinely distinctive feature in the package and works better than similar tools in comparable sims. The business side is where the depth hits its ceiling early and hard. The progression path is a straight line: serve clients, collect money, hire staff from a small pool, buy the next salon location (repurposed spaces like a basement pub or a library, which is a nice detail), repeat. Once you have employees handling the chair work passively, the income loop becomes near-automatic, and the decisions dry up completely. There is no pricing strategy to tune, no meaningful reputation system with branching consequences, and no competitive AI pressuring you. For a strategy player looking for the kind of mid-game pivot that defines good management titles, that plateau arrives painfully fast. Technical state is a real concern and cannot be glossed over. Steam user sentiment sits at roughly 46% positive across hundreds of reviews, and the complaints cluster around crashes, save corruption, and bugs introduced by patches. Hair rendering glitches, particularly with ombre coloring, have been noted in multiple reviews. The developer has been responsive in discussion threads, but community frustration over unstable updates is persistent. A Long Hair DLC arrived in December 2024, and a sandbox update followed in early 2025, so the game is not completely abandoned, but post-launch patching has been uneven. If stability matters to you more than novelty, check the recent Steam review tab before committing. This is realistically a title for players who want a low-pressure, tactile crafting experience with a light business wrapper, not for anyone expecting the systemic depth of a proper salon tycoon. The photo-import character creator and the physical step-by-step service flow are the two reasons to look twice. Everything else is surface.

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