News Tower
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (20%); after 10h it's almost 1 in 20 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- At least 8% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 38% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 4,673 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 19.3h for positive, 19h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (38.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Signed In Family Blood Complete the Mafia storyline ≥8% −92
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (46)
story milestone ending side
- Reckless Trigger at least 10 Risks 100%
- Making Enemies Become Hated by any faction 69%
- Combo Kingpin Print a newspaper with at least 12 combos 47%
- Extra! Extra! Print a newspaper with at least 500k sales 33%
- The Spitting Image Build all base graphics desks 30%
- Staff Of Distinction Have at least 25 prestigious employees 23%
- Doomsday Prepper Stockpile at least 1000 Food 17%
- What A Year! Ace 12 districts in a row 17%
- Policing At Its Finest Rack up a total of at least 10k in Police Fines 16%
- Reclaim The Empire Defeat The Empire Observer 16%
- D.O.P.E. Fire at least 15 employees 14%
- Full Press Power Print a newspaper with the maximum amount of pages 14%
- Honk! Honk! Order resources at least 250 times 13%
- Bon Appétit Cook at least 50 meals 12%
- Extinguish The Beacon Defeat The Jersey Beacon 12%
- Ink Through The Decade Play for a full decade 9.1%
- Botanist Fill your tower with at least 50 plants 8.6%
- Signed In Family Blood Complete the Mafia storyline 7.6%
- Keys To City Hall Complete the Mayor storyline 5.7%
- It's Getting Hot In Here Print a newspaper with at least 10 Flame Tags 5.2%
- Around The Globe Spin the globe with incredible speed 5.0%
- Silk Gloves, Iron Plans Complete the High Society storyline 4.4%
- Early Bird Print before 8AM on Sundays at least 12 times 3.9%
- Long March To Victory Complete the Military General storyline 3.4%
- Advertorial Print at least 50 ads 3.1%
- Copycat Print a newspaper called "The New York Times" 2.6%
- Quality Control Print a fully filled newspaper where each news item has 3 Quality Stars 2.6%
- King Of Queens Fully own all districts in Queens 1.8%
- Reseller Sell at least 10 news items to the I.P.A. in one week 1.8%
- Dismissive Manually dismiss all news items within a single week 1.6%
- Generous Fully overpay at least 20 employees for a week 1.3%
- Taking Supplements Build all Supplementary Desks 1.3%
- Eternal Student Train a single employee at least 5 times 1.0%
- Found In Translation Print a newspaper with only foreign news 1.0%
- Greedy Fully underpay at least 20 employees for a week 1.0%
- One Million Papers Reach at least one million sales with a single edition 1.0%
- Paper Trail Get sued at least 30 times 1.0%
- Stinker Have 6 dirty toilets at the same time 0.8%
- Brain Drain Hold the rush button for at least 10 seconds even though all employees are bottomed out 0.5%
- Corporate Lapdog Print a newspaper containing only ads with at least 3 pages 0.5%
- Sky's The Limit Build the tallest possible tower 0.5%
- All Press No Brakes Play for a full decade on Hard Mode 0.3%
- Art Collector Hang all obtainable paintings in your tower 0.3%
- Master Of Time And Space Complete the game without ever pausing using the time controls 0.3%
- Mobster Madness Have the Mafia rough up your business at least 30 times 0.3%
- Where Is Everybody? All employees are away on assignments, training or injury 0.3%