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News Tower

Sparrow Night · Twin Sails Interactive · 2025-11-18

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 18, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 13, 2024 (Mac)

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!

News Tower is a Simulation, Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment (94% of 4584 reviews).

351
playing now
94%
positive of 4.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
95/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
67/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (82 downloads)
20h
to beat · rushed 10h · completionist 58h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

351 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

News Tower is a newspaper management simulation video game developed by Rotterdam-based indie studio Sparrow Night and published by Twin Sails Interactive. The game entered Steam Early Access on February 13, 2024, for PC and Mac platforms, and was fully released on November 18, 2025.

Trailer

News Tower trailer thumbnail

Staiy macht seine EIGENE ZEITUNG auf! | NEWS TOWER

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 351 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,179 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~147/week).
  • · Review velocity up 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 16,689 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 92k–208k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,617 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $14.34 at GreenManGaming (2026-09-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 81 of 115 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
69469420242026Week of 2024-02-01: 440 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 316 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 694 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 458 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

351632026-09-15 15:00 — 121 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 97 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 78 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 195 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 142 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 63 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 97 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 99 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 81 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 120 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 150 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 87 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 92 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 147 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 122 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 114 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 152 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 99 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 84 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 195 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 126 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 69 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 351 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.1k43Feb 2024Aug 2026Feb 2024 — avg 267 · peak 858Mar 2024 — avg 94 · peak 207Apr 2024 — avg 67 · peak 156May 2024 — avg 59 · peak 122Jun 2024 — avg 166 · peak 548Jul 2024 — avg 160 · peak 342Aug 2024 — avg 84 · peak 187Sep 2024 — avg 88 · peak 243Oct 2024 — avg 63 · peak 157Nov 2024 — avg 74 · peak 223Dec 2024 — avg 87 · peak 217Jan 2025 — avg 70 · peak 193Feb 2025 — avg 141 · peak 539Mar 2025 — avg 109 · peak 266Apr 2025 — avg 68 · peak 141May 2025 — avg 47 · peak 99Jun 2025 — avg 88 · peak 220Jul 2025 — avg 72 · peak 157Aug 2025 — avg 84 · peak 198Sep 2025 — avg 55 · peak 112Oct 2025 — avg 43 · peak 83Nov 2025 — avg 1,088 · peak 3,613Dec 2025 — avg 1,106 · peak 2,594Jan 2026 — avg 565 · peak 1,138Feb 2026 — avg 392 · peak 958Mar 2026 — avg 263 · peak 568Apr 2026 — avg 237 · peak 562May 2026 — avg 202 · peak 458Jun 2026 — avg 197 · peak 422Jul 2026 — avg 200 · peak 427Aug 2026 — avg 166 · peak 391
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$11.992024-02-132026-08-182024-02-13 — best price $17.992024-06-12 — best price $15.992024-07-22 — best price $15.992024-09-17 — best price $15.992024-11-18 — best price $14.992024-12-02 — best price $19.992025-02-17 — best price $14.992025-06-03 — best price $14.992025-07-17 — best price $14.992025-09-04 — best price $19.992025-10-23 — best price $14.992025-11-20 — best price $18.272025-11-29 — best price $24.992025-12-05 — best price $24.992025-12-17 — best price $19.992025-12-24 — best price $24.992026-01-02 — best price $24.992026-01-14 — best price $19.992026-01-24 — best price $24.992026-02-03 — best price $19.992026-02-14 — best price $18.312026-02-23 — best price $19.672026-03-01 — best price $19.882026-03-11 — best price $14.902026-03-24 — best price $19.672026-04-07 — best price $18.742026-04-13 — best price $15.492026-04-23 — best price $24.992026-05-06 — best price $18.742026-05-14 — best price $19.672026-05-21 — best price $24.992026-05-31 — best price $11.992026-06-11 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $17.492026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-07-19 — best price $14.742026-07-27 — best price $17.242026-08-03 — best price $14.492026-08-16 — best price $24.992026-08-18 — best price $14.87
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

9652026-05-20 — 14 pageviews2026-05-24 — 26 pageviews2026-05-28 — 21 pageviews2026-06-01 — 14 pageviews2026-06-05 — 17 pageviews2026-06-09 — 31 pageviews2026-06-13 — 23 pageviews2026-06-17 — 21 pageviews2026-06-21 — 11 pageviews2026-06-25 — 19 pageviews2026-06-29 — 19 pageviews2026-07-03 — 18 pageviews2026-07-07 — 23 pageviews2026-07-11 — 8 pageviews2026-07-15 — 10 pageviews2026-07-19 — 7 pageviews2026-07-23 — 17 pageviews2026-07-27 — 21 pageviews2026-07-31 — 24 pageviews2026-08-04 — 18 pageviews2026-08-08 — 20 pageviews2026-08-12 — 5 pageviews2026-08-16 — 16 pageviews2026-08-20 — 11 pageviews2026-08-24 — 16 pageviews2026-08-28 — 16 pageviews2026-09-01 — 19 pageviews2026-09-05 — 18 pageviews2026-09-09 — 18 pageviews2026-09-13 — 25 pageviews2026-09-17 — 12 pageviews2026-09-21 — 10 pageviews2026-09-25 — 11 pageviews2026-09-29 — 8 pageviews2026-10-03 — 42 pageviews2026-10-07 — 46 pageviews2026-10-11 — 75 pageviews2026-10-12 — 50 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2302026-10-14 11:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-14 12:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-14 13:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-14 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-14 18:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-14 19:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-14 21:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-14 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 23:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
37.5%
earned "Reckless"
0.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-02-13 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8730%46

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DIndieEconomySandboxBuildingCraftingStrategyTacticalCapitalismHistorical

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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