Publisher: 404 Games
What I Paid: $1.99
Verdict: Not Shovelware. Made with Unity Logo.
What I Say:
The premise sounds interesting: you have just taken over running a newspaper in a fictitious Eastern European country with a despotic ruler at the helm.
You choose what stories to publish to either please or anger the leader and your readers.
Micromanagement hell soon ensues as you rapidly also become responsible for the exact distribution of the newspaper, the exact layout of the newspaper and the hiring of staff. A clunky mouse-adapted interface with non-intuitive places to “click” rapidly makes this game an arduous chore rather than having any semblance of gameplay.
I’m not going to declare this one shovelware, but it’s just…not fun.
What They Say:
You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. First, you have to make a choice. Will you support the government or will you go against it? Supporting the government can result in bankruptcy since there are a lot of newspapers doing just that already. Or you can take a stand against it and confront a president with questionable integrity, who is rushing towards dictatorship, without drawing too much attention.
Be an editor to a newspaper
Decide on what news – lines – headline go through, assign it to one of your journalists. Manage your employees; or get new ones.
Design your paper’ pages with the news you choose to publish, pick a commercial to print.
Organize paper route; decide where and how your newspaper will be distributed
Go home and take care of your family, manage economics.
Reach for the different endings, depending on your management.
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