If you take note of trade layoffs, you will know the information media – media generally, actually – is in a nasty spot proper now. I am unable to keep in mind the final time it wasn’t in a nasty spot. Perhaps within the 1930’s, which is the setting for News Tower, a newspaper administration sim during which you try to assemble your empire in New York from 1929 onwards.
News Tower | The Wolf of Brooklyn TrailerThe identify is descriptive in that you just’re step by step increasing and refining your newspaper operation inside a single constructing, including new rooms, new tools, and new workers – and adorning and pampering the workers to maintain them pleased. These video games come alive within the theme-specific particulars, although, and right here you are additionally sending reporters throughout the nation to cowl occasions, and piecing collectively frontpages from the clippings they produce.
There’s a News Tower demo out there now from its Steam web page. It’s technically been out there since early January and was seemingly meant to vanish on January fifteenth, nevertheless it’s nonetheless there now, maybe alongside subsequent week’s Steam Next Fest demo onslaught.
Should it disappear, you will not have lengthy to attend to play extra, as News Tower is because of launch in Early Access on February thirteenth. Your progress from the demo will not carry throughout and its developer says they hope to keepe it in early entry for a yr. The preliminary launch will embody a marketing campaign that runs up till the yr 1932, with 1933-1939 updates coming post-launch.
Next Fest hasn’t began but however Steam is already full of latest demos, together with these for Final Factory, Tales Of Kenzera: Zau, Children Of The Sun, Abiotic Factor, Pepper Grinder and Lightyear Frontier. Blimey.
