2025 · Management · Sandbox · Building
How long isNews Tower?
by Sparrow Night
13 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 6 hours and 27 hours
Well loved: 95% recommend it past the refund window, better reviewed than 364 of 429 management games here.
80% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
94% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
93% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
96% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
95% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
96% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
Does News Tower hold up?
Holds steady
At least 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 100 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of News Tower tell you?
In the first two hours80%recommend it
After that95%recommend it
16 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 4 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 13 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6 hours and 27 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 4,660 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 93% and 96% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
6% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 80% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 81% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 8.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
13days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 13 hours on Tuesday, November 3.
Half of its reviewers had played between 6 and 27 hours: Oct 27 to Nov 17 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is News Tower worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
News Tower
- Steam list price, US
- $24.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 13 h
- management game rate
- $1.67/h
- 13 h at that rate
- $22
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is News Tower worth it? Yes.
Fair price
About what a typical management game charges: $1.92 an hour
Loved
95% recommend it after the refund windowmost management games: 87%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $24.99, the typical player's 13 hours come to $1.92 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of News Tower costs about what the typical one of 429 management games here charges $1.67.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (management games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Would you like News Tower?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like News Tower, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long News Tower would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
Games like News Tower
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from News Tower: a kind of game it is that News Tower is not, a feature its tags carry that News Tower's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.