Headliner: NoviNews on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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.

Headliner: NoviNews is a political sim, interactive fiction and visual novel game developed and published by Unbound Creations.
Released on October 23rd 2018 is available on Windows and MacOS in 5 languages: English, French, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 763 reviews of which 682 were positive and 81 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 13.79€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 8 (64bit)
  • Processor: Inte i3+
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 9 Compatible card
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 600 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, 64bit
  • Processor: 2Ghz+
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Storage: 600 MB available space

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April 2025
Very fun game, and I very much like this concept. Would definitely recommend it!
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July 2024
This is a fantastic game. Some people may not like that there's no way to make all the characters happy, and the country is always going to descend into chaos, but if you're good with heavier topics, the game is great. The game has very high replay value because a ton of different things can happen depending on your choices. It's interesting to play around with it and watch how the consequences build different worlds. You can go extreme to one side, you can stay more in the middle, you can incoherently post articles that are all over the place, you can have completely different opinions personally and professionally... the game is very free in that sense. The game is obviously quite exaggerated in many ways, and the articles tend to be very black-and-white, but I think the devs did an excellent job of making a highly political game that doesn't push any sort of agenda. I think it would quickly lose its value if it were clearly analogous to real-life political events, but with everything entirely fictional, I would imagine the game would be enjoyable for people all over the political spectrum, save for perhaps hardcore extremists. It's about media literacy and society more than politics anyway. Also, you can adopt a dog. All in all, a masterpiece.
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July 2024
Used this in my Social Studies classes to examine concepts such as media bias and digital literacy. Served as a great introduction to the importance of document analysis
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July 2024
very similar experience to Death & Taxes where your choices literally change the state of the world. This game can be a little stressful but in a good way, like you're stressed out because the game is good. the game also make it very hard for you to play an evil run where you make bad choices on purpose, like its very good at making you feel guilty for being evil
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June 2024
I played this game pre-covid and just a few days ago again post covid, and it's eerie how it kind of called a few IRL similarities before they even happened of a "gentic virus outbreak" with conspiracies of being man made. NoviNews has always been an impactful, fun, intriguing and story-rich game. It has multiple endings, each one a reaction to what you choose to do throughout the game. i've come back to this game on and off over four years so far, [trying to get those achievements :] ], and it's been fun every time. If it's ever on sale I recommend getting it, I don't think it gets updates anymore but would be cool to see if devs added something.
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Headliner: NoviNews
8.4
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Developer
Unbound Creations
Publisher
Unbound Creations
Release 23 Oct 2018
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