After almost 2 years of early access, News Tower launches today, November 18!!
Step into 1930s New York and build a newspaper empire from the ground floor up: shape your editorial line, lead a bustling newsroom, and chase the scoops that make tomorrow’s front page.
This is a proper tycoon: develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul. Construct and manage your Tower from printer to toilet, keep your operation humming, and make the calls that turn raw leads into banner headlines.
Recruit, assign, and mentor a full staff reporters, editors, photographers, typesetters and more. With over twenty staff roles to fill and unique traits to juggle, every layout and deadline becomes a strategic puzzle only a cool-headed editor-in-chief can solve.
Sift a news feed with 1,000+ news items, send journalists to investigate, then lay out your pages with photos, charts, illustrations and ads to match your readership. Your editorial “perception” informational, moderate, or sensational shapes who you reach and how they react.
Don't get it wrong, you are the underdog here. 2 other newspaper are already established, with their faithful readers. It will take strategy and care for their interest to get them to switch their subscriptions to you. But this will be the way to unlock better customization tool for your news room and boost your staff's expertise.
Power players from the ruling elite to back alley dealers, offer quests that bring influence, valuable rewards and complicated choices. Pick allies wisely; a helping hand today can become tomorrow’s scandal. This city never sleeps.
Build your Tower (printer to toilet): design departments, balance comfort, productivity, and costs.
Hire and manage your newsroom: assign tasks, juggle traits and stress, hit print day on schedule.
Overcome competitors: race to claim stories and expand your readership across districts.
Set your editorial line: tune perception, page design, and ads to your audience.
Decide the headline: choose what leads the edition, and watch the city react.
All of this from 1930 until the end of 1939 across the US & Europe
We are running a Launch contest from today until January 1st. Climb to the top and stay there to earn both glory and real rewards!
Finally, if you liked the game, we would like to invite you to leave Steam reviews. As News Tower has been in development for the past 6 years, it would be a tremendous help to share the word around.
The game is on discount (-20%) until December 2nd, so grab it now and start printing!
P.S: A special shout-out to everyone who followed us on the road to 1.0, your feedback sharpened every system and screen, and paved the way of the last year and a half.
As a quick reminder, your old save will not be compatible with this final 1.0 build, due to all the polish and extra features added, you will need to start fresh.
– The News Tower Team