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News Tycoon cover art

News Tycoon

Oreol · 2017-03-24

Steam

StrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 24, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

News Tycoon is a real-time tycoon game about newspaper management

36%
positive of 147 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
$6.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 12,679 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.7k–8.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 147 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.69 at Steam (2019-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220172026Week of 2017-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

13
achievements tracked
86.4%
earned "First Office"
23.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualEconomyBuildingPoliticsStrategyDifficultManagementCity BuilderEarly Access

Census log

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

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