News Tower

Its a good game but I cannot recommend it, because for me it was just not fun. The short version would be that the quality of life is horrendous. Playing on the normal intended difficulty the game is not hard, its never hard. The positive is that you are making interesting decisions all the time that still makes you engaged and tickles your brain. Its a good balance between not being too hard while also not being boring, it goes in the direction of giving you several good options and its up to you to find the optimal one. The first issue that I noticed is that in regards to building your tower, you just never feel happy with what you've done. Not because of you, but because of the limits being put on you. I've played for 20 hours and I am far away from being able to make even a single floor I am happy with, it all looks like ♥♥♥♥ and the game won't let me do better. If you looked at the trailer or the pictures and thought "wow that looks nice" your tower won't look like that pre 40 hours, is fake marketing. You are short on resources and money constantly, your costs are running away (workers becoming seniors) and you pretty much have an urgent need to increase profitability all the time. Meaning you are pushed into investing your hard eared upgrades into things that gives you monetary value. All the other things, practical user friendly upgrades, things that looks nice and makes you workers happy, transport items and so on needs to be downprioritized. Even if you would buy the pretty things instead, you would be stuck with a small newspappers, or a big empty newspaper with not enough articles. Its a situation where you always feel you need 20 things now but only ever get to choose one or two for every hour of playing. I could play 20 more hours and unlock the nice things and maybe then it would be fun, feels like sucha a shame to me. Then we have the gameplay, a tutorial that bores you to death. Spies that invade your tower while you have to juggle different pages covering most of the screen all the time to get news. Comfort items not stacking even though it looks like they do. Adds system on a seperate screen that never shows you when your workers are iddle. I wished I had a pretty newstower, I wished the gameplay wasn't watching the map covering 70% of the screeen. Why cant I queuee my reporters to go to certain articles as soon as available, why wont my guard blow the whistle when a spy invades my tower. There are just so many user hostile design decisions, I was entertained in the beginning but I never really got the point of having fun with this game and its a shame because it feels like I should have.