News Tower

I enjoyed the first ~30h because I was regularly unlocking new mechanics, decorations, or equipment. Story events were also fairly regular. After that however the game slows down significantly, and I simply found the 2nd half of my playthrough completely uncompelling on a narrative level, and passable on a gameplay level. Every week is simply more of the same - assign your reporters to X story and wait until they get back and the rest of your staff processes the reports. At first it was interesting to optimize the process and figure out how many workers to employ, where to put them, etc and I love the strategy and basebuilding genres so that was fun. But you reach a certain point where there's not much more to optimize, and in my opinion News Tower reaches that point way too early relative to the length of a full playthrough. In ~6 years I completed the High Society storyline, 75% of the Mayor storyline, defeated both rival newspapers, and completed all districts once. For the next 2-3 years it was just a slog to conquer all the districts again with literally 0 variation in the gameplay. There just wasn't enough to keep it interesting. The problem is less about the variety or depth of upgrades but more about the length of a playthrough. The last few sessions I played were unnecessarily slow and frankly boring. I can't see any reason that you need to complete like 40 weeks of printing that play out almost identically just to complete 1 storyline. The storylines could be condensed into about half of their current length and it would accomplish the same, if not better, narrative impact because I could actually remember what was happening lol At this point I'm only playing to finish out the achievements, but I won't be returning. No disrespect to anyone who enjoyed it though, I understand the appeal of the News Tower theme and if you enjoyed it, that's great. This just wasn't it for me