News Tower
BANGER · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $17.49.
- Length
- 10h
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Discrete GPU 1GB VRAM, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in November 2024. It has been discounted 21 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $17.49 at 30 percent off still sits 17 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Transport INC ($11.99, scores 24) and Prison Architect ($29.99, scores 81), are both worse buys on this math.
$55.20 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $17.49.
Of the 557 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 242 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10 hours; clearing it takes 58, which is 5.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
38% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
News Tower scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1649950/news-towerReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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