Home / Games / News Tower
News Tower
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
65 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I’m sitting at 289 hours in this game, so this isn’t a first impression. Overall, I think News Tower is outstanding. It feels like a game where a lot of attention was paid to the details, both in how it plays and how it…”
“A fantastic management sim with a great gameplay loop. Big props to the music composer. 80-90% of the news stories in the game seem to be real. I’m sure I’m one of the few people who have spent the time looking some of…”
“What I really like about this game besides the satisfying tower building and optimizing is that it utilizes real life news stories. It puts in perspective just how crazy the 1930s were month to month, leading up to…”
13 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I like it so far. The music and animations are tight and the gameplay is interesting enough. I do wish it was a little more freeform. I restarted several times trying to get a good Crime/Politics paper going and was…”
“This is one of my favorite games of all time. It's relaxing yet engaging. The art/aesthetic is top-notch, and the concept is so creative. There are lots of opportunities for expansion (maybe news from other geographical…”
“Fun little game - but it needs quite some improvements. Positive: The setting is cool, nice music, factions are an interesting addition to this kind of game. Getting started is easy, good learning curve, until your…”
13 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“You get 10 years of real news headlines and tons of customization. The pacing would be better with one opposing newspaper instead of two, but overall a solid game.”
“I have owned this game for just under 8 weeks, and have played it for more than 160 hours. I've been trying to analyze why I have been so obsessed with this game since I bought it: a big part of it is definitely the…”
“I had a few issues with the pathfinding and decision-making back end of the game, but the release version has rectified all my concerns. Thanks to the devs. This game is a deep and excellent management sim, and whether…”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“this game is super fun and makes you think. your decisions can change outcomes and the money management is challenging enough to make you actually think about your upgrades. very cool game”
“I had a few issues with the pathfinding and decision-making back end of the game, but the release version has rectified all my concerns. Thanks to the devs. This game is a deep and excellent management sim, and whether…”
“Fun little game - but it needs quite some improvements. Positive: The setting is cool, nice music, factions are an interesting addition to this kind of game. Getting started is easy, good learning curve, until your…”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Really fun tycoon game with an interesting concept! Gameplay-wise, it's very simple to understand and takes a bit of tinkering to master. It can get frustrating at times with the risk-events or when you can't seem to…”
“this game is super fun and makes you think. your decisions can change outcomes and the money management is challenging enough to make you actually think about your upgrades. very cool game”
“I’ve played longer than the stats show. This is truly a great game that has kept me interested for many Mondays—my usual gaming day. It’s not necessarily the kind of game you play for hours and hours, day after day.…”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“Good game overall, but way too repetitive. You have basically seen everything after 6 hours of gameplay. The only difference in the endgame is small additions, but you’ve already seen everything the core game has to…”
“I liked the settings and many of the smaller mechanics. But I think the game lacks those satisfying moments when you look at what you have created, and get impressed, even slightly, with your work. I don't get it from…”
“I enjoyed the first ~30h because I was regularly unlocking new mechanics, decorations, or equipment. Story events were also fairly regular. After that however the game slows down significantly, and I simply found the…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“ui is a bit clumsy but great game overall !”
“fun but tutorial sucks so you have to figure it out on your own lol”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I liked the settings and many of the smaller mechanics. But I think the game lacks those satisfying moments when you look at what you have created, and get impressed, even slightly, with your work. I don't get it from…”
“I enjoyed the first ~30h because I was regularly unlocking new mechanics, decorations, or equipment. Story events were also fairly regular. After that however the game slows down significantly, and I simply found the…”
“Great! Progression of the late part of the game still need some work imo.”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“I liked the settings and many of the smaller mechanics. But I think the game lacks those satisfying moments when you look at what you have created, and get impressed, even slightly, with your work. I don't get it from…”
“The specific thing that triggered this positive review was that I haven't played this game for a few weeks and saw that it had an update, read the update - and the update fixed one of the most annoying bugs in my…”
“Really fun tycoon game with an interesting concept! Gameplay-wise, it's very simple to understand and takes a bit of tinkering to master. It can get frustrating at times with the risk-events or when you can't seem to…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Good game overall, but way too repetitive. You have basically seen everything after 6 hours of gameplay. The only difference in the endgame is small additions, but you’ve already seen everything the core game has to…”
“This is one of my favorite games of all time. It's relaxing yet engaging. The art/aesthetic is top-notch, and the concept is so creative. There are lots of opportunities for expansion (maybe news from other geographical…”
“This a near perfect execution of the management genre with a great, seldom used scenario and well done art style. Like almost all these games, it peters out some time after 20-30 hours (for players that are not…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 94.0% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“This game is pure relaxation for me. It's engaging but never hectic, it has challenges but no great moments of pressure. Once you've figured it out, everything falls into place and yet the game never gets boring, not least because of all the (historically real) news items and…”
— a player, Steam review · 118 hrs played“I'm sure there are more than a few of us who are playing this because we are or were in the newspaper business at one time. I spent pretty much the first half of my professional career in newspapers as a copy editor (parts of typesetter, assembler, and photo engraver were all in…”
— a player, Steam review · 107 hrs played“Great game! Captivated me at the demo stage, so I had to buy it. It has a great variety of game systems so you will not get bored for quite some time, without getting too numbers-driven. ALSO the game has a great UX! I can't imagine how much effort and time went into polishing…”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-04). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
SimFest & "Setting The Record Straight" Update
DEAR NEWSBEARERS! three major announcements for News Tower! First of all, News Tower is joining SimFest 2026 ! For the occasion the game will be at a -30% discount ! Great timing to grab it for yourse
Roadmap Post-1.0 & Leaderboard Contest Wrap-up
DEAR NEWSBEARERS!In the last few weeks, we addressed the current state of the game by releasing updates and fixes, but we’ve also been looking toward the future of News Tower. Today, we'd like to show
The Press Rolls On Update Goes Live!
DEAR NEWSBEARERS!Today, we’re happy to share The Press Rolls On Update with you all.The test period has come to an end, we want to thank everyone who took part. Your feedback, player data and bug repo
Difficulty Setting: Community Test
GREEETINGS NEWSBEARERS! Dear Newsbearers,With News Tower now officially in 1.0 for some months now, we wanted to take a moment to talk about what comes next.A full release is a huge milestone, but for
More print! More sales! More fixes!
GREETINGS NEWSBEARERS! The smell of spring is in the air, trees are gathering their strength, preparing for a coming bloom... But we do not care much about that! What we want is more print! More sales
Games like News Tower
From our knowledge graph — ranked by shared traits, not a black box. Each card says why it's here.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
89.6% · 625 reviews
shares Capitalism, Economy, Resource Management, Crafting
Startup Company
80.7% · 3,087 reviews
shares Capitalism, Economy, Resource Management, Crafting
Plutocracy
79.2% · 803 reviews
shares Capitalism, Time Management, Economy, Historical
My Child Lebensborn
94.8% · 560 reviews
shares Time Management, Historical, Resource Management, Crafting
SAELIG
87.9% · 925 reviews
shares Economy, Historical, Crafting, Building
Foundation
86.2% · 11,512 reviews
shares Economy, Resource Management, Building, Management
Railway Empire
79.4% · 4,732 reviews
shares America, Economy, Historical, Resource Management
Railway Empire 2
73.1% · 1,281 reviews
shares America, Economy, Historical, Resource Management
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Management · Simulation · Strategy · Sandbox · Indie · 2D · Resource Management · Economy · Building · Time Management · Capitalism · Tactical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese |
| Achievements | 41 |
| Official site | https://sparrownight.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i3 6100 or AMD FX-4350 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Discrete GPU 1GB VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space Sound Card: any