Headliner: NoviNews
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.79. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.3h 11.4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.26/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 817 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.70 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9 Compatible card, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
56 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $9.79 at 30 percent off still sits 75 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beholder 2 ($17.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Beholder 3 ($17.99, scores 12).
More about Headliner: NoviNews
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 370 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
2.3 hours to finish it, 11 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
96% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 15:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Thank you developers for making this game, it is fun and I enjoyed every path I went down/
2 more reviews
The story kept me hooked from start to finish. It's definitely worth a few playthrough.
Fantastic. no notes. edit: ok so i wasnt imagining giant piles of cash in my room right? edit2: played twice now, love this game so much!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Headliner: NoviNews scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/918820/headliner-novinewsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.